Open Source Tools for Business Intelligence

 10 Best Open-source Business Intelligence Tools In 2022

Business intelligence is strategically designed to help businesses make better decisions. And also, it’s a pillar for digital transformation. Any business looking to stay relevant and meet modern business demands must employ business intelligence practices, methodologies, processes, and tools for relevant data collection, storage, analysis, and decision-making.

At Svitla Systems we meet new businesses every day and know how valuable are benefits driven by various BI tools. While some of them are commercial there is still quite a list of open source tools that also can be successfully and effectively implemented in daily operations. You are most welcome to learn more about them or turn to Svitla Systems consultants for more information. 

Apache Superset

A modern, enterprise-ready web application for business intelligence. Known as one of the best BI tools open source, this BI software is fast, lightweight, intuitive, and packed with capabilities that allow users of all skill levels to easily explore and visualize their data, from simple pie charts to highly detailed geospatial maps.

Features/advantages: 

  • An easy-to-use interface for displaying data and creating interactive dashboards.
  • Stunning visuals to highlight your data.
  • A code-free visualization creator for extracting and presenting datasets.
  • A world-class SQL IDE with a metadata browser for preparing data for visualization.

Freeware availability/price: Although Apache Superset is free for all users, there are some installation charges. Setting up and accessing complicated queries in this platform requires the assistance of SQL-savvy experts.

Examples of use in large companies: Many businesses are currently using Superset on a large basis. For example, Superset runs in Airbnb’s production environment inside Kubernetes and serves 600+ daily active users viewing over 100K charts per day.

BIRT 

Stands for Business Intelligence Reporting Tool. BIRT is one of the best BI tools for reporting that can collect and aggregate data from a variety of data sources (databases, files, Java, Javascript, online services, etc.) and use it for textual reporting and graphing (visual). 

Features/advantages:

  • Easily customize dashboards and visualizations.
  • Combine information from various sources into a single source.
  • Discover insights and patterns by organizing, filtering, and grouping specific data sets.
  • Use visualization techniques to prepare reports. Insert tables, charts, explanatory text, and other visual aids.
  • Freeware availability/price: BIRT is an open-source software project that is free to download on the website.

Examples of use in large companies: IBM uses BIRT as its reporting tool. 

ChartMogul

A real-time reporting and analytics solution for subscription businesses that use Stripe, PayPal, Chargify, Braintree, or Recurly as their payment gateway. 

Features/advantages:

  • Key S/price: 14-day free trial, no credit card required. The launch is our freemium plan and caters to businesses with less than $10K MRR.

Examples of use in large companies: Instapage leverages ChartMogul to track the health of the business, plan for the future, and experiment with optimizations.

 

Databox 

A cloud-based business analytics solution that enables users to build custom analytics dashboards that incorporate data from numerous sources and can be accessed from any device. 

Features/advantages: 

  • Custom metrics, data, events, and goals can be imported and added to dashboards from numerous cloud services.
  • Advanced data modeling capabilities to change currencies and formats, compare various metrics on the same graph, pick between average and total values, switch between hourly and daily graphs, and more.
  • Datawall designer to create personalized datawalls without writing any code.
  • Freeware availability/price: Free plan and free trial available. Subscription-based pricing.

Examples of use in large companies: Smartbug Media, HubSpot’s top agency partner use Databox to automate reporting.

 

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