Business Intelligence: A List of 238 Firms

November 30, 2017

Need a list of “fermium” business intelligence tools. That’s no typo. That is the word on page 2 of Top Business intelligence Solutions. Looking past the misspelling, the write up from Predictive Analytics Today presents a listing in no particular order of more than 200 business intelligence tools. The text is accompanied by little boxes with scores in them like this:

The list was a lot of work. The names of companies are collected in these major categories:

Free cloud business intelligence solutions
Free open source business intelligence tools
Free proprietary business intelligence tools
Open source commercial business intelligence tools
Top business intelligence companies
Free extract, transform and load software
Top extract, transform and load software
Cloud SaaS on demand business intelligence solutions
Freemium cloud business intelligence solutions
Open source balanced scorecard software
Top balanced scorecard software
Open source and free dashboard software
Top dashboard software
Embedded business software
Open source and free unified modeling language tools
Open source and free business process management tools

What I found interesting about the list was:

For fee vendors appear in “free” categories; for example, IBM Watson and Microsoft
Many of the vendors have versions of their software for the intelligence and law enforcement community. Most of these versions of the companies with specialized tools are not free
None of the specialist firms which I track appear on the list; for example, BAE Systems, a company whose tools rival those of many of the other firms on the list.
The vendor Attivio was left out. This surprised me because Attivio pitches itself as a business intelligence solution and it has a tie up with Tibco, a product dependent in part on software created by the founders of Recorded Future, a company which I track because it has robust intelligence capabilities embodied in its products and services.
There are curious omissions. One important one is Palantir, whose Gotham product powers a number of commercial business intelligence applications like those from Thomson Reuters’ financial product line.
Many vendors appear in multiple categories. This left me confused. For major vendors it would have been helpful to provide the company name “IBM” with a summary of what the company offers as free, freemium, open source, proprietary, etc.

Nevertheless, the listing is interesting for those wanting to track some of the vendors pursuing the business intelligence sector. To learn about companies not on the Predictive Analytics’ list, follow DarkCyber, my weekly video program. Each week, I profile intelligence companies which are often off the radar of some commercial procurement teams. That’s unfortunate because the firms I follow are indeed cutting edge when it comes to real life intelligence analysis. Most of these products, in my experience, cost money either for engineering, training, support, or add ons.

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Stephen E Arnold, November 30, 2017

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Business intelligence, DarkCyber, News

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.