Top 5 BI Reporting Tools and their Features

Welcome, to yet another blog on BI tool as it plays a very crucial role in automating reports in businesses irrespective of their type and size. Here are 5 such BI reporting tools discussed in detail.

1. Tableau

A tableau is a US-based software and the most popular and leading BI tool at present. It has one of the best visualization capabilities with a perfect front-end graphical UI. It also has some inbuilt analytics modules that are directly accessible by the user on their data. It also provides its users with the ability to develop app-based objects, customize dynamic visuals, and distribute reports and documents to other users via the web.

Here are some advantages listed for the Tableau BI tool;

Advantages:

1. The BI tool has remarkable Visual Image Capabilities and is Mobile Friendly
2. It is known for its high performance and has Multiple Information Supply Connections
3. It is even compatible with a robust cloud platform like Azure, AWS, etc.
4. Tableau provides fully integrated support for R and Python
5. It can connect to any data repository, ranging from MS Excel to Hadoop clusters

2. Power BI

Power BI is cloud-based business analytics (BA) and data visualization tool of Microsoft that delivers insights, which enable fast and informed decisions. This tool can transform data into eye-catching visuals and share with the management and all other stakeholders of the organization. It offers its end users with a single view of the organizations’ most critical business data with customized dashboards, interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with a simple interface.

Power BI of Microsoft has some unique functionality.

1. It helps in either printing of the dashboards or exporting report data to Excel and create personalized data dashboards
2. Power BI integration possibilities assist in the Embedding of Power BI reports and are best compatible with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft cloud environment
3. Microsoft’s Power BI has a wide range of customized and well-known visualizations, like Pie, Line, and Bar charts to present the end-users with report templates the way they like to view.

3. QlikView

QlikView is the business intelligence and visualization software of Qlik Company and titled as the ‘coolest’ vendor in BI. QlikView facilitates self-service business intelligence for its users in an organization and simplifies the data analysis for everyone. It can turn out to be a big assistance in analyzing data and use the data to support decision making in the organization. It enables companies to get more information from the data they have, enabling them to take better and innovative decisions.

Some of its unique characteristics and benefits are;

1. It is competent of manipulating large database instantly with accuracy
2. It is a business discovery platform with fast and powerful visualization capabilities and can convert the data into graphical analytics as it makes possible to interpret data quickly with visual and dynamic dashboards, apps and statistics
3. QlikView uses an in-memory data model where one single application provides access to various types of data, is quite simple to implement, highly flexible, and requires little maintenance time.
4. Even, automated data integration is possible with QlikView
5. QlikView makes it possible to interpret data quickly with visual and dynamic dashboards, apps and statistics with users having access, anytime and anywhere, to dashboards.

4. Qlik Sense

Qlik Sense is smart and user-friendly business analytics (BA) tools that can generate customized reports and drill down very detailed dashboards instantly. Qlik Sense is used by those businesses that look for a way to explore massive amounts of data and retrieve useful high-quality insights. This tool is also perfect for small to huge organizations. Even professionals who work individually use Qlik Sense as it helps users make sense of their data and get more opportunities and insights so that users can personalize their decision-making process.

Some of the features and benefits of Qlik Sense are as follows;

1. The tool has a Smart Search feature with Drag-and-drop visualizations
2. It provides fast and reliable connections to multiple data sources and Access to real-time analytics anytime, anywhere
3. In addition, it allows Managed Data Connections, Powerful Open and Standard APIs and even Multi-source data integration including big data

5. EasyReports

EasyReports is an MIS and Reporting Automation application, which can connect to ERP like Tally.ERP 9, SAP, B1, NAV and simplify users reporting needs with its dynamic dashboards with support drag and drop feature functionality of report generation is one of its kind and personalized as per the requirement of the users.

EasyReports is one such tool where features like Report Scheduler uses automated reporting and alerts. Additionally, the user has a variety of templates at his disposal that helps him to design reports as per his requirements, using Report Designer features.

EasyReports business intelligence fetches data directly from the Tally database and provides its users with accurate reports that will provide a better picture of your organization and even assist in setting realistic and achievable goals.

EasyReports comes with sample templates and ready layouts of reports that highlight the possibilities for your business and can be even saved as well as retrieved for later use. With quick customization and deployment, EasyReports can help in generating as well as automating your reports on the go.

EasyReports provides its users with daily, weekly and even monthly sales reports. Additionally, users can schedule their reports and their frequency based on their preferences and convenience.

Conclusion

Out of the many other business intelligence tools available in the market, these above 4 widely used and at present dominating the BI tools in the current business environment.

At the same time, BI tool EasyReports is a step ahead of the rest of the BI tools discussed here. It comes with a feature called “Tally Connector” wherein data can be pulled and analyzed, after which customized reports can be prepared.