BIME Analytics Review - why 4.2 stars?

BIME is fast, fluid, engaging, and powerful to answer questions as they pop up during a business day, on any device. It’s not about consuming dashboards on a mobile, but about doing sophisticated BI wherever you are, particularly on a tablet. If you know how to build a presentation, you can use the entire web as your data warehouse, create compelling visualizations and share insights.

BIME has been since 2009 the cloud BI pioneer - it was the first vendor to offer front-end BI capabilities for Google BigQuery and also the first BI solution available in Google Apps that enables natively collaborative business intelligence.

BIME has also been named in Gartner’s Who’s Who in Cloud BI and has been included among the Gartner Cool Vendors in PaaS for 2014.

The rating of BIME Analytics is 4.2 stars out of 5 and the total score is 85 out of 100. The rating score is based on our unbiased data-based algo. Learn more - rating methodology page.

BIME has customers using its platform all across the globe: Shell, Lenovo, McAffee, Microcred, Royal Canin, Greenpeace,… to name but a few. BIME has built strong formal partnerships with leading technology companies such as Google, Amazon, Appsbroker, Noovle, BI-One, Revevol, Intelligence Partner and many more.

Yes, BIME Analytics makes it fairly easy to use. This product is user friendly and intuitive.

Yes, they offer cloud based hosting, which means IT resources are retrieved through web-based tools and applications and you don't need to buy servers and additional hardware equipment.

Yes, you can access BIME Analytics on your mobile/smart phone.

BIME Analytics is ranked 40 out of 532 software in their category (Business Intelligence systems).

Its UI combines the visual simplicity and elegance of the best consumer apps with powerful features to connect to all major data sources, on-premise or online - from spreadsheets and traditional relational databases to Google Analytics, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Salesforce and Zendesk and up to Big Data sources such as Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure and SAP HANA.

BIME runs entirely in the cloud so enterprises avoid spending tens of thousands of dollars on servers to upload and refine their data. No other BI service is as flexible and powerful, as beautiful and enjoyable and as affordable as BIME. In the mobile first, cloud first world, maximizing ease of use is the name of the game for any business application. BIME is setting a new industry standard for business intelligence UI.

The main competitors for BIME are Sisense and Pentaho Business Analytics.

Sisense provides a business intelligence tool that can access multiple data sources including unstructured Big Data, on premise and cloud based repositories. Its features include interactive dashboards & graphical visualizations which can be shared for joint analysis on a collaboration platform. Additionally Sisense provides an in-chip technology for performance enhancement that improves query speed even for large data volumes. The product also supports mobile device access for data discovery and analysis as well.

In comparison BIME is a business intelligence tool that supports a cloud based data warehouse for real- time querying. Its additional features include rich mapping visualizations plus integration with social media for social analytics. The product also supports multi-modal time based data manipulation to allow scenario analysis across various timeframes.

Pentaho Business Analytics on the other hand supports similar features but also includes predictive analysis which provides insights on trends & patterns using intelligent sorting algorithms. There is also a self-service portal for users to design and customize their own dashboards and reports. Additionally accessing data sources can be done visually by users easily without any coding requirements, and there are APIs for external application integration. Dashboards can also be optimized for embedding in mobile devices as well.

BIME however can embed its interactive dashboards into almost any web based or customer application. It also includes a collaboration platform to improve user engagement on data analysis, and provides custom calculations that can be used for complex data querying requirements.

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