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Business Intelligence (BI) is known to make smart decisions in various fields. BI proves beneficial for better-visualising of data through reports, charts, ad-hoc queries, dashboards, and benchmarks. Choosing the appropriate BI tools for an organisation may result in higher profit margins. BI tools are usually self-efficient and have a wide scope for data analysis. Furthermore, BI tools can also be used to aid results and monitor business aspects over a long period. This paper reviews fifteen open-source BI tools and analyzes comparisons of these tools based on user reviews while keeping track of the features offered specifically to each BI Tool. The results give an empirical study of BI tools in the hope to better assist users when faced with having to make decisions on which tools are superior as well as giving reasons behind such choices.

摘要

众所周知，商业智能 (BI) 可以在各个领域做出明智的决策。BI 证明有利于通过报告、图表、即席查询、仪表板和基准来更好地可视化数据。为组织选择合适的 BI 工具可能会带来更高的利润率。BI 工具通常是高效的，并且具有广泛的数据分析范围。此外，BI 工具还可用于帮助结果并长期监控业务方面。本文回顾了 15 个开源 BI 工具，并根据用户评论分析了这些工具的比较，同时跟踪了专门为每个 BI 工具提供的功能。结果对 BI 工具进行了实证研究，希望能够更好地帮助用户在面临必须决定哪些工具更好以及给出这些选择背后的原因时。