10 Best Business Intelligence Tools (BI Tools) Of 2022

In this review, I want to help you find the best business intelligence tools and other reporting software.

In order to help you pick what reporting software you need, I’ll share the business intelligence applications to include on your analytical tools shortlist and explain what web based reporting tools are. I’ll go over what to look for in a comprehensive business intelligence dashboard and answer some basic FAQs about business intelligence solutions.

Quickly Compare & Evaluate The Best Reporting Software

You may rely on business intelligence reporting tools for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to gaining insight into consumer behavior, turning data into actionable information, efficiency improvements, increase sales through better marketing intelligence, and a number of other business-growth-oriented motivations. You’ll find software to undertake data discovery, make interactive reports, and drill down into your marketing analytics — there’s a tool for everything under the sun.

It comes down to this question: what do you need to ensure that your team succeeds in every aspect of their day-to-day workflow? Chances are, the right data reporting software can help you hone in on your company’s strengths and weaknesses and make a plan to improve.

Business Intelligence Tools Comparison Criteria

1. User Interface (UI): How well-designed is it? Does it offer clear displays and intuitive navigation?

2. Usability: Is this easy to learn and master? Are there tutorials and training? Especially for enterprise reporting tools, the should offer various types of tech and user support to help onboard various members of your org.

3. Features & Functionality: How many of the key management reporting tools features and functions does it provide, and how powerful are they? Specifically, I looked for:

• Customizable Dashboards: the best BI solutions offer a single screen display with multiple visualizations, along with the ability to interconnect the visualizations (so any filters or selections will affect all the visualizations) or maintain each one as independent. It should reflect changes in real-time and allow you to create customized displays of key data.
• Drill Down and Data Filters: includes features such as drop-down menus, search filters and slicers, as well as the ability to drill down into the details and back up to data summaries.
• Web-based Interface For Clients: it’s simplest if reporting solutions that are client-facing offer web-based client interfaces, as it’s more efficient and easier to administer than desktop-based client interfaces.
• Scheduled and Automated Reports: the tool should help you easily monitor progress. This includes the ability to schedule automatic updates to be sent out to teams, send out automatic reports to clients, and set up automatic notifications to be made aware of key dates or thresholds.
• High Quality Diagramming: basic tools include bar, line, pie, area and radar chart types, and more advanced diagrams include heat maps, scatter plots, bubble charts, histograms, and geospatial maps. The best reporting tools let you mix and match to create diagrams that use a combination of these visualizations.

4. Integrations: Is it easy to connect with other tools? Business analytics tools should offer many pre-built integrations in order to make use of project data from your various tools, along with seamless import and export capabilities.

5. Value for $: How appropriate is the price for its features, capabilities, and use case? Is pricing clear, transparent and flexible?

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Originally published at www.thedigitalprojectmanager.com on June 24, 2019.