Best Open Source Business Intelligence Tools

Jaspersoft

Jaspersoft is an open-source software vendor main focused on business intelligence, reporting, and analytic, including data visualization also. By using Jaspersoft you can interact with report charts, filtering, and formatting of column values and headers, tables including on-the-fly sorting. It comes with a comprehensive dashboard and it also provides the collection of interactive reports, charts, and external web content on a single screen. Jaspersoft BI Suite is beneficial for both business and IT audiences. It supported all sizes of organizations small to large-sized. It provides the flexible web-based architecture you can embed inside your application according to your needs. It provides the features of secure access to reports and analytic down, compliance and performance metrics, Audit and monitoring services.

Pentaho

Pentaho is an open-source Business Intelligence and data integration solution. Pentaho comes in two editions, Enterprise, and Community edition. It also provides other excellent features like OLAP services, reporting, dashboarding, data mining, and ETL capabilities. Combination of business analytics with data integration provides business user number of features like to create robust data models, make information-driven decisions, scalable platform and provide secure IT administration. By using the Pentaho data integration tool you can integrate, manipulate, and visualize your data and also provide the features of transform, export data from multiple data sources, import, relational databases, Hadoop, NoSQL databases, including flat files, and many more.

BIRT

Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) is an open-source technology platform that provides business intelligence capabilities and web applications based on Java and Java EE. The main goal of this project is to fulfill a wide range of reporting needs within a typical application which varies from enterprise reporting to multi-dimensional online analytically processing. BIRT has a very strong active community of users and it has two main components one is report designer within the Eclipse IDE for creating BIRT Reports and the second is run time component for generating reports that can be deployed to any Java environment. BIRT has a chart engine that is fully integrated into the report designer and can also be used standalone to integrate charts into an application. BIRT reporting design using XML to access a number of different data sources.

RapidMiner

RapidMiner is an open-source predictive analytic platform for data mining, machine learning, and predictive analytic. It is a very easy solution that makes predictive analytic lightning-fast and reduces the time to unearth opportunities and risks. By using RapidMiner you can easily design data analysis routines visually by eliminating the need to write code. It works with different data formats like Excel, Hadoop, Mysql, Oracle, and CSV. It also supported plugins you can increase its performance through additional plugins.