Authors:
Tânia Ferreira
1
;
Isabel Pedrosa
2
and
Jorge Bernardino
3
Affiliations:
1
Polytechnic of Coimbra and Institute of Engineering of Coimbra – ISEC, Portugal
;
2
Polytechnic of Coimbra and Coimbra Business School – ISCAC, Portugal
;
3
Polytechnic of Coimbra, Institute of Engineering of Coimbra – ISEC and CISUC – Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Business Intelligence Tools, Open Source Tools, OSSpal Methodology, Birt, Jaspersoft, Pentaho, SpagoBI.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Analytics
;
Business Intelligence Applications
;
Data Analytics
;
Data Engineering
;
Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Business Intelligence (BI) is a set of techniques and tools that transform raw data into meaningful information.
BI helps business managers to make better decisions, which reflects into a better competitive advantage. Open
source tools have the main advantage of not increasing costs for companies although it is necessary to choose
an appropriate tool to meet their specific needs. For a more precise evaluation of open source BI tools, the
OSSpal assessment methodology was applied, which combines quantitative and qualitative evaluation
measures. Using the OSSpal methodology, this paper compares four of the top business intelligence tools:
BIRT, Jaspersoft, Pentaho and SpagoBI.