Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

A Business Intelligence (BI) Platform is an analytics platform that facilitates the creation of BI systems (to solve BI tasks).

• Context:
  • It can range from being an Internet-based BI Platform to being an On-Premise BI Platform.
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• Example(s):
  • Tableau BI Platform (by Tableau Software).
  • Looker BI Platform (by Looker, Inc.).
  • MicroStrategy BI Platform (by Microstrategy, Inc.).
  • Pentaho BI Platform (by Pentaho).
  • Cognos BI Platform (by Cognos).
  • Qlik BI Platform.
  • Domo BI PLatform.
  • Metabase Platform.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Static Reporting System.
  • a Data Warehouse Management System.
  • a Data Exploration Platform, such as a Superset platform.
  • a Big Data Platform.
  • an ML Platform.
• See: BI Application, BI Service, BI SaaS, Data Mart, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse.

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References

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/business_intelligence_tools Retrieved:2015-7-27.
  • Business intelligence tools are a type of application software designed to retrieve, analyze, transform and report data for business intelligence. The tools generally read data that have been previously stored, often, though not necessarily, in a data warehouse or data mart.

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