Salient

The best part about this tool is that it has a strong focus on collaboration, Geo Analytics feature can track demographics of customers, and Salient360 function that links the Data Mart to Excel. Users can bring data into Excel for further investigation and to help with budgeting and forecasting. Users can access Salient360 via Excel, bring the data from the Analytical Data Mart, and work with the data in Excel.

The part that I don’t like with this tool is that the small sales presence in the global BI market, no SaaS deployment option. The good thing is its still improving and expanding their partner network. I would offer that someone should extensively test the solution to make sure it meets the business needs and requirements. This software is highly powerful but needs more testing.

Salient's offering represents the latest in BI technology - self-service, instant access to information, and collaboration. Salient Management Company’s platform, the Collaborative Intelligence Suite, encompasses all forms of business intelligence – from extracting data to analyzing information to creating dashboards to sharing reports and collaborating with other people. Salient has made this platform user-friendly, scalable, and available to all users within a company.