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17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Business Intelligence Software

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Office, Productivity, Roundup

A business intelligence platform includes three layers: a database layer, a business intelligence layer, and an analytics/performance management layer. Here’s our roundup of the best business intelligence software.

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Business Intelligence

Shaper – SQL-first analytics and dashboard platform

May 21, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

Shaper is a SQL-first analytics and dashboard platform built on DuckDB.

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Business Intelligence

Briefer – collaborative data workspace for teams

May 21, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

Briefer is a collaborative data workspace for teams that want to analyse, present, and share data from a single web application.

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Evidence – code-based alternative to drag-and-drop business intelligence tools

May 20, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

Evidence is a framework for building data products such as reports, decision-support tools, and embedded dashboards with SQL and Markdown.

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Lightdash – Looker alternative

May 20, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

Lightdash is a business intelligence platform built around dbt projects.

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Rill – operational BI tool

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

For data consumers, Rill ensures reliable, fast-loading dashboards with accurate, real-time metrics.

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Business Intelligence

Gephi – Open Graph Viz Platform

February 21, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Gephi is visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Like Photoshop but for graph data.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Power BI

July 3, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Power BI is software services, apps, and connectors that turn unrelated data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights.

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Business Intelligence

Metabase – business intelligence and analytics software

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Metabase is an open source business intelligence tool. Ask questions about your data, and display answers in formats that make sense.

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Business Intelligence

Pentaho – manage and process data in hybrid and multicloud environments

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

The Pentaho BI Project is application software for enterprise reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining, workflow and ETL capabilities.

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Talend Open Studio – data integration based on Eclipse RCP

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Talend Open Studio is an Open Source project for data integration based on Eclipse RCP. It is an ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tool.

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Business Intelligence

Knowage – open source suite for modern business analytics

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Knowage (formerly SpagoBI) is an open source flexible business intelligence suite. It meets the criteria of modern business intelligence.

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Business Intelligence

ReportServer Community Edition – modern and versatile business intelligence platform

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

ReportServer is a modern and versatile business intelligence platform. It integrates Jasper, Birt, Mondrian and Excel-based reporting.

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Business Intelligence

KNIME – Konstanz Information Miner

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

KNIME is a coherent and comprehensive open source visual platform for data integration, processing, analysis, reporting and exploration.

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Business Intelligence

RapidMiner – data science platform

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

RapidMiner (formerly known as YALE) is a flexible Java environment for knowledge discovery in databases, machine learning, and data mining.

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Business Intelligence

BIRT Project – technology platform used to create data visualizations and reports

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project is software that provides reporting and business intelligence capabilities.

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Business Intelligence

Superset – Data visualization and data exploration platform

August 24, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Apache Superset is a modern, enterprise-ready business intelligence web application. It’s written in TypeScript and Python.

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Business Intelligence

Redash – explore, query, visualize, and share data

August 24, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Redash is designed to enable anyone, regardless of the level of technical sophistication, to harness the power of data big and small.

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Business Intelligence

Grafana – platform for monitoring and observability

August 24, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Grafana is an open source platform for monitoring and observability. Compose and scale observability with one or all pieces of the stack.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Oracle Business Intelligence

July 25, 2022 Steve Emms Office, Software

Oracle Business Intelligence is business analytics software that offers an integrated, end-to-end Enterprise Performance Management System. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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