Business intelligence software continues to be a hot market in this difficult economic climate. This type of software takes a company’s raw data from its databases and turns it into signposts and mappings that helps firms make better business decision-making with the objective of generating additional revenue.
There are many large players in the business intelligence software market, offering proprietary products with big price tags. IBM, SAS, Microsoft and Oracle are a few tech companies in this market. However, there is a good range of open source software produced by smaller developers which offer a real alternative to these heavyweights.