Business intelligence software is getting increasingly more powerful and although most of the popular solutions on the market share much common functionality, some might be easier to use or to offer more or fewer features than others.
- The following list is some of the key features offered by many tools:
- Drill-down (on dimension such as time, company trees, products, etc)
- Graph, charting and trees
- Exception highlighting
- Pivot rows and columns
- Drag and drop dimensions into current view or to the backyard
- Custom calculations (calculate new measures based on existing ones)
- Queries
- Comments
- Combo views
- Dashboard
- Business intelligence and web portals
- Distribution of cubes/reports
- Other popular analytical features (ranking, filtering, sorting etc.)
