I'm trying to choose a BI tool, but I don't have a large budget, what would you recommend and why?

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Former Chief Technology and People Officer in Software6 years ago

Tableau!

VP of Product Management6 years ago

Evaluate Qlik or Tableau. Both of them are relatively inexpensive as compared to PowerBi. However your business and operations team would prefer PowerBI as it relates closely to Excel. From costing perspective, often the developer license would be more than a viewing license. So you need to evaluate how many developers you have vs how many users would like to review these BI dashboards

CTO in Government6 years ago

its open source and free 

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CTO in Government6 years ago

https://www.knowage-suite.com/site/home/

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CIO in Software6 years ago

I endorse Wael Ismail's suggestion.   Microsoft Power BI is very Versatile, easy to setup and use and has Powerful Graphics.  Over and above that it is relatively less expensive than Tableau, SSA, Business Objects and other well known BI tools.  There are also many good not so well know BI Hybrid solutions with On-Cloud and On-Premise offerings.
 

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