Business Intelligence Battle Royale 2 – Web Dashboards

A Comparison of BI Tools by Kingsley Hau (Continued…)

In the first installment of Business Intelligence Battle Royale I made some simple comparisons between four different BI platforms to determine their strengths and weaknesses and to find out if there was any factor which made them stand out from the others. The comparison was between MicroStrategy, SQL Server Reporting Services, Tableau, and QlikView. As the article was well received and continued to gain popularity I decided to extend my research into further platforms and will be sharing my findings. The platforms I have looked into for BI-BR II are as follows:

• IBM Cognos Express
• Jaspersoft
• Pentaho
• Tibco Spotfire

When I initially announced BI-BR II I mentioned including a few other platforms such as Oracle BI and SAP Business Objects. However as they are both quite complex platforms it has taken me longer than expected to analyse them properly. Therefore i’ve decided to publish them in a third and final installment of Battle Royale which will also include the full fledged version of IBM Cognoss BI (Three heavyweights in the realm of Business Intelligence).

The It’s On Portal – Providing Data Intelligence into youth activities around Southwark

As we come closer to the launch date for the It’s On portal, I thought I would share with you guys some of the progress we have made since my initial article on the project.

Many of the reports which were made in SSRS have been tested and refined so that they display all the required data to tell users information about the different youth activities available in Southwark. These reports have also been integrated into a website created by my colleague so they are easily accessible and intuitive to users. The easiest way to demonstrate the progress is a tour of the website itself; since the website isn’t fully complete yet i’ll just keep the tour to the main pages with content. I will be writing an article in future when the website is fully operational and will be giving a full tour 🙂

Business Intelligence Battle Royale II Update

Welcome all to this very brief update on the state of play of BI:BR2.

Firstly, just wanted to point out the change of theme (if you didn’t notice already…) – Hopefully this isn’t going to cause any problems for people who enjoyed the old theme but I wanted to attach the Aiimi logo to this blog and it didn’t quite fit with the darkish style of piano black 😦

Announcement of Business Intelligence Battle Royale II

Just under 2 weeks ago I published an article where I did a comparison of BI tools: Business Intelligence Battle Royale – Web Dashboards. The article became popular quite quickly and generated much more interest than I initially expected!

Because of this I have decided to extend my comparisons to other platforms and publish a part 2 article with the results of my research. This list of platforms contains the following (Subject to change):

It’s On – A Week of Work Experience with Aiimi

A few weeks ago I published an article talking about the It’s On project. As previously mentioned Aiimi is collaborating with Southwark Council and four schools in the borough to create an online portal called It’s On. It’s On will provide intelligence and analysis regarding the local activities young people are involved in. Since that time, the website portal which we are developing has progressed greatly. We also had two students, Bobbi and Dana from the It’s On project, working with us last week as part of a student placement programme. Over the course of that week we asked them to help us in developing, testing, and fine-tuning our reports and website. On their last day I asked the two girls to write a short blog for me so that I could share with you guys some of the amazing work they did.