Metabase – Open Source business intelligence and analytics

Metabase is an Open Source business intelligence and analytics tool.  It supports a variety of databases and services as sources for data, and provides a number of data querying and processing tools.  Have a look at the GitHub repository as well.

And if you want a few alternatives or complimenting tools, I found this list quite useful.

A Comparative Analysis of Top 6 BI and Data Visualization Tools in 2018

A Comparative Analysis of Top 6 BI and Data Visualization Tools in 2018 looks at 6 most popular business intelligence and data visualization tools and compares pros, cons, features, pricing and more.  The systems included in this review are:

 

SmartDraw – The Smartest Way to Draw Anything

It’s not often that I need to draw a diagram or a flowchart these days.  My time is mostly consumed by more technically challenging tasks.  And whenever I do have to produce some form of a chart, I usually fallback on to the Graphviz dot, which allows me to do something in literally seconds.

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However, I’m pretty sure the day will (or, rather, return) when I’d need a tool to produce eye-pleasing diagrams and flowcharts.  For that day, and for that day only, I’m leaving the link to SmartDraw here.  It’s a commercial offering, but at $15/month for their cloud-hosted web-based application, it’s seems to be quite a bargain.

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