BI Tools and Main Components

"Business Intelligence, BI is a concept that usually involves the delivery and integration of relevant and useful business information in an organization. Companies use BI to detect significant events and identify/monitor business trends in order to adapt quickly to their changing environment and a scenario."

Why is Business Intelligence (BI) important to your company?

• To Gain Insights into Consumer Behaviour
• To Improve Visibility
• To Turn Data into Actionable Information
• To Improve Efficiency
• To Gain Sales & Market Intelligence
• To Gain Competitive Intelligence

Here is some brief summary of the most popular BI tools and their main components.

BI Tool	Manufacturer	Main Component
		ETL	Reporting	Analyzing
Oracle BI	Oracle	Oracle Data Integration(ODI) Oracle Warehouse Builder(OWB)	Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition(OBIEE)	Oracle Express Analyzer (OEA)
MSBI(Power BI)	Microsoft	SQL Server Integration Services(SSIS)	SQL Server Reporting Services(SSRS)	SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
IBM BI(Cognos BI)	IBM	InfoSphere DataStage	Cognos	Informix Warehouse Accelerator dashDB (for cloud data warehouse)
SAP Business Objects BI (BOBJ)	SAP SE	SAP Data Services	SAP Reporting Tool	SAP BusinessObjects Analysis
Open Source	Open Source	Talend	Pentaho	Pentaho GoodData(for cloud data warehouse)

References:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-business-intelligence-bi-important-your-company-yass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence_tools
http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/feature/Comparing-BI-analytics-tools-from-the-leading-vendors
http://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/