Rational BI

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Rational BI
Score 7.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Rational BI provides analytics, data science and business intelligence in an analytical platform that connects to databases, data files and cloud drives including AWS and Azure data sources, enabling users to explore and visualize data. Users can build real-time notebook-style reports directly in a web browser with JavaScript and SQL with direct and live connections to data. Filter and query data with an SQL database embedded in the client, without network…
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Pricing
Rational BI
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
single user
Professional
$129
single user
Enterprise
Varies
single user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Rational BI
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
Additional DetailsAdditional cost per extra user (varies by edition)
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Rational BI
Features
Rational BI
BI Standard Reporting
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Rational BI
8.3
Ratings
1% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.60 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.70 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.50 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
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Rational BI
8.3
Ratings
4% above category average
Drill-down analysis7.70 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.20 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.20 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
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Rational BI
9.0
Ratings
6% above category average
Publish to Web9.00 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.00 Ratings
Report Versioning8.60 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.20 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers9.30 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Rational BI
8.2
Ratings
1% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.20 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.30 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.90 Ratings
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User Ratings
Rational BI
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
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Usability
8.7
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.7
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Rational BI
Likelihood to Recommend
Rational BI allows managing data analysis coming from different projects in order to create useful reports and dashboards. I usually set up automatically scheduled reports. All the stakeholders can easily share a rational view with the possibility to filter between the interesting arguments. Sometimes different user profiles could be needed, optimize the view.
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Pros
  • Provides high performance embedded analytics
  • Seamless integration to import and export data
  • Rich features for data visualization
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Cons
  • Documentation for new users could be better. Sometimes it's hard for my users that are not that skilled in IS/IT to set up data connectors are understand the dynamics of data sources.
  • I have used several other BI solutions as well, and their GUI is okay, but surely there is also room for improvement here. Not all things are made entirely logically.
  • Understanding their price structure. Generally, their website looks nice, but it's not very informative when it comes to pricing, and support options. I really miss some kind of transparency and overview.
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Usability
Rational BI allows managing data analysis coming from different projects. The outputs are one or more reports, that can be delivered automatically to the stakeholders or other communication media inside the organization. Nice dashboards help to describe and analyze data. Sometimes different user profiles could be needed, optimize the view.
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Support Rating
I haven't had to use support to date for this product.
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Alternatives Considered
Today there are many companies providing BI solutions, and generally, I think Microsoft Power BI is the easiest go-to solution as it is part of the Office365 software. However all software solutions have their limitations, advantages, and disadvantages, but sometimes you don't need the perfect solution. You just need a solution that delivers 80-90 percent of the full potential to reach your goal and in this scope, we were really happy with Rational BI.
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Return on Investment
  • Allows folks to work on other items as reporting is done in the background.
  • Scheduling and delivery of reports with one click.
  • Single pane of management.
  • Ease of use.
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