Top 5 Free Business Process Management & Analysis Tools

Previously we talked about top 3 business process management software, and today we are going to explore top 5 tools which will help you to manage and analyse your business.

Jaspersoft

The open source Studio is free to analyse your business and get the best out of your business. The Eclipse-based report designer for JasperReports and JasperReports Server, helps you to understand every fine detail. Create very sophisticated layouts containing charts, images, subreports, crosstabs and much more.

Key Features:

• Get answers easier from your applications, increasing satisfaction and making your product more competitive with Embedded BI
• More agile in getting your customers the reports they need
• Enabling users to self-serve the design of their own reports is also a big plus for us
• None of Illuminate’s competitors offers this capability
• Focus your developers on your core product and let Jaspersoft handle analytics
• Get your apps to market faster with analytics first thinking

BIRT

BIRT is a free platform that provides the BIRT technology platform to create data visualizations and reports that can be embedded into rich client and web applications, especially those based on Java and Java EE.

Key Features:

• A visual report designer for creating BIRT Designs
• A runtime component for generating those designs that can be deployed to any Java environment
• The BIRT project also includes a charting engine
• BIRT designs are persisted as XML and can access a number of different data sources including JDO datastores, JFire Scripting Objects, POJOs, SQL databases, Web Services and XML.

KNIME

The open source software is perfect data analytics, reporting, and integration platform. KNIME integrates various components for machine learning and data mining through its modular data pipelining concept.

Key Features:

• Create data science applications and services
• Intuitive, open, and continuously integrating new developments
• Understand data and design data science workflows and reusable components accessible to everyone
• Create visual workflows with an intuitive, drag and drop style graphical interface, without the need for coding.
• Blend tools from different domains with KNIME native nodes in a single workflow, including scripting in R & Python, machine learning, or connectors to Apache Spark.

Pentaho

This offers a free community edition of its business analytics suite, which includes business analytics as well as data integration, a report designer and a marketplace of plugins developed by the community to extend the capabilities of the Pentaho platform.

Key Features:

• Better business outcomes with the power of IoT analytics.
• Drive maximum value from your data with a complete platform for full data integration and business analytics
• Quickly and easily deliver the best data to your business and IT users – no coding or complexity required.
• Empower business users with interactive, real-time visual data analysis and predictive modelling, with minimal IT support.

RapidMiner

RapidMiner is a code-free analytics platform for data mining, machine learning, and predictive analytics. This means you can design your data analysis routines visually and speed up delivery by eliminating the need to write code.

Key Features:

• Connect to all your data, no matter where it lives
• Explore data to identify patterns and correct quality issues
• Includes RapidMiner Turbo Prep to blend, prep, and wrangle data without coding
• Code free workflow designer with hundreds of ML and deep learning algorithms and support for R & Python
• Correct model validation and trustworthy performance calculations
• Includes RapidMiner Auto Model to generate models in just a few mouse clicks
• Export results into business applications like Microsoft Excel
• Visualize results in BI tools like Qlik and Tableau
• Integrate models into existing business applications