A curated list of awesome Business Intelligence (BI) frameworks, tools and resources. Inspired by awesome-bigdata.
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- Awesome BI
- BI Platforms
- Self-Service BI
- Enterprise BI
- Open Source BI
- Cloud BI
- Data Connectors
- ETL/ELT Tools
- Data Warehouses
- OLAP Engines
- Real-time Analytics
- Embedded Analytics
- Data Catalogs
- Metrics Management
- Reporting Tools
- Dashboard Tools
- Data Science Platforms
- Low-Code/No-Code BI
- Industry-Specific BI
- Monitoring and Alerting
- Performance Management
- Collaboration Tools
- Learning Resources
- Conferences and Events
- Blogs and Websites
- Books
- Courses
- Other Awesome Lists
Full-featured business intelligence platforms providing end-to-end analytics solutions.
- Tableau - Leading data visualization and analytics platform
- Power BI - Microsoft's business intelligence service
- Qlik Sense - Modern analytics platform
- Looker - Modern business intelligence platform (now part of Google Cloud)
- Apache Superset - Modern data exploration and visualization platform
- Metabase - Open source business intelligence tool
Tools that enable business users to create reports and analytics independently.
- Tableau Prep - Data preparation tool
- Power Query - Data connectivity and preparation experience
- Alteryx - Self-service data analytics platform
- Trifacta - Data wrangling platform
Advanced business intelligence solutions for large organizations.
- SAP BusinessObjects - Enterprise business intelligence suite
- IBM Cognos Analytics - AI-powered business intelligence platform
- Oracle Analytics Cloud - Enterprise analytics solution
- SAS Viya - Cloud-native analytics platform
Open source business intelligence solutions.
- Apache Superset - Modern data exploration and visualization platform
- Metabase - Open source business intelligence tool
- Pentaho - Data integration and business analytics
- BIRT - Eclipse business intelligence and reporting tools
- JasperReports - Open source reporting engine
- SpagoBI - Open source business intelligence suite
Cloud-based business intelligence services.
- Amazon QuickSight - Fast business analytics service
- Google Data Studio - Free data visualization tool
- Looker Studio - Google's data visualization platform
- Azure Analysis Services - Enterprise-grade analytics engine
Tools and services for connecting to various data sources.
- Airbyte - Open source data integration platform
- Fivetran - Automated data integration
- Stitch - Simple, scalable ETL service
- Singer - Open source data extraction standard
Data extraction, transformation, and loading tools.
- Apache Airflow - Workflow management platform
- dbt - Data build tool
- Talend - Data integration and data quality
- Informatica - Enterprise cloud data management
- Apache NiFi - Automated data flow system
Systems for storing and managing analytical data.
- Amazon Redshift - Fast, fully managed data warehouse
- Google BigQuery - Serverless data warehouse
- Snowflake - Cloud data warehouse
- Azure Synapse Analytics - Limitless analytics service
- ClickHouse - Open source columnar database
Online analytical processing engines.
- Apache Druid - Real-time analytics database
- Apache Kylin - Distributed analytics engine
- ClickHouse - Open source columnar database
- Apache Pinot - Real-time distributed OLAP datastore
Real-time data processing and analytics tools.
- Apache Kafka - Distributed streaming platform
- Apache Flink - Stream processing framework
- Apache Storm - Distributed real-time computation system
- Amazon Kinesis - Real-time data streaming service
Analytics tools that can be embedded into applications.
- Sisense - Embedded analytics platform
- Looker - Embedded business intelligence
- Chart.io - Cloud charting API
- Plotly Dash - Analytical web applications framework
Data discovery and metadata management tools.
- Apache Atlas - Data governance and metadata framework
- DataHub - Modern data catalog
- Amundsen - Data discovery and metadata engine
- OpenMetadata - Open source metadata platform
Business metrics definition and management tools.
- Transform - Metrics layer platform
- Cube.js - Open source analytics API platform
- LookML - Looker's modeling layer
Tools specifically for generating reports.
- JasperReports - Open source reporting engine
- Crystal Reports - Business reporting tool
- BIRT - Eclipse business intelligence and reporting tools
- ReportLab - PDF generation toolkit
Tools specifically for creating dashboards.
- Grafana - Monitoring and observability platform
- Dash - Analytical web applications framework
- Streamlit - Data apps framework
- Observable - Data visualization collaboration platform
Platforms that integrate data science and BI capabilities.
- Jupyter - Open source notebook environment
- Apache Zeppelin - Web-based notebook for data analytics
- Databricks - Unified analytics platform
- H2O.ai - Open source machine learning platform
Low-code or no-code business intelligence solutions.
- Retool - Build internal tools fast
- AppSheet - No-code app platform
- Bubble - Visual programming platform
- Airtable - Cloud collaboration service
Business intelligence solutions tailored for specific industries.
- FactSet - Financial data and analytics
- Bloomberg Terminal - Financial professionals platform
- Adobe Analytics - Digital marketing analytics
- Google Analytics - Web analytics service
Tools for monitoring BI systems and data quality.
- Great Expectations - Data quality tool
- Apache Airflow - Workflow monitoring
- Prometheus - Monitoring and alerting toolkit
- Grafana - Monitoring dashboards
Tools that support team collaboration in BI.
- Notion - Collaborative workspace
- Confluence - Team collaboration software
- Slack - Team communication platform
Resources for learning business intelligence.
- Coursera - Business Intelligence - Business intelligence courses
- edX - Data Science - Data science courses
- Udacity - Data Analyst - Data analyst nanodegree
- Tableau Desktop Specialist - Tableau certification
- Microsoft Power BI Certification - Power BI certification
- Google Data Analytics Certificate - Google data analytics certificate
Conferences and events related to business intelligence.
- Tableau Conference - Annual Tableau conference
- Microsoft Business Applications Summit - Microsoft business applications summit
- Strata Data Conference - Data conference
- Data & BI Summit - Data and BI summit
Blogs and websites related to business intelligence.
- KDnuggets - Data science and machine learning resources
- Analytics Vidhya - Data science community
- Towards Data Science - Data science publication on Medium
- The Data Warehouse Institute - Business intelligence research institute
Recommended business intelligence books.
- "The Data Warehouse Toolkit" by Ralph Kimball - Classic data warehousing guide
- "Building the Data Warehouse" by W.H. Inmon - Data warehouse construction guide
- "Agile Data Warehouse Design" by Lawrence Corr - Agile data warehouse design
- "Storytelling with Data" by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic - Data storytelling
- "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward Tufte - Visual display of quantitative information
- "Information Dashboard Design" by Stephen Few - Information dashboard design
- "Competing on Analytics" by Thomas Davenport - Analytics competition
- "Data Science for Business" by Foster Provost - Business data science
- "Lean Analytics" by Alistair Croll - Lean analytics
Recommended online courses.
- Coursera - Business Intelligence Specialization - Business intelligence specialization
- edX - Introduction to Business Intelligence - Introduction to business intelligence tools
- Udemy - Complete Business Intelligence Course - Complete business intelligence course
- Awesome Data Engineering - Data engineering resources
- Awesome Data Science - Data science resources
- Awesome Big Data - Big data frameworks and resources
- Awesome Analytics - Analytics tools and platforms
- Awesome Machine Learning - Machine learning resources
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