SAP buys 'all the pretty data' firm Roambi

New browser-only BI tools using blazing-fast HTML5 are now available to everyone

Thanks to HTML5, advanced BI analytics tools do not cost a fortune anymore. One does not need SAP or Microsoft BI tools to add intuitive, engaging, interactive, touch-enabled analytics and data visualization to any web and mobile app. Check out Zoomcharts, Highcharts or Amcharts, to start with. Few hundred of dollars per unlimited use license for your website and start delivering ground-breaking visual user experience for your own Big data access that often leaves big boys ashamed. Big vendors are often marketing their overpriced and clumsy BI tools largely due to the fact, that most people are still unaware of the smaller, more agile and more innovative vendors on the market. This crop of new browser-only BI vendors usually has also better designed graphing and charting engines, that are cross-platform, mobile and touch enabled. Their software kits perform way faster at visual rendering and animation effects.