The 5 best self-service BI tools compared

Business intelligence (BI) and analytics platforms are a staple of informatics for medium to large businesses. Visual-based data discovery has been a key component of BI since about 2004; this trend has moved the responsibility for analytics from IT to self-service by business analysts and managers, with support from data scientists and database administrators. The emphasis of BI has changed from generating monthly reports from the system of record, to interactively discovering and sharing trend