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).

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):

Business Intelligence Battle Royale – Web Dashboards

A Comparison of BI Tools by Kingsley Hau

Recently I have been introduced to a few business intelligence platforms which I haven’t worked with before and it was suggested that a comparison between them would be an interesting topic for an article. As I have already written articles about MicroStrategy and SQL Server Reporting Services, I thought it was quite a cool idea and set about creating a few quick and simple dashboards. There are 4 different technologies in play here which are MicroStrategy, SSRS, Tableau Public, and QlikView.