Power BI is Microsoft's solution for data analysis, which falls into the category of self-service Business Intelligence. It is suitable for the business user who wants to perform their own analyses, independently of the IT department, and share them with other members of the organisation...

Xero is an online accounting tool that offers a wealth of features to help small businesses manage their finances. It offers an easy-to-use interface, integration with a host of third-party tools and a wealth of resources and documentation to help users get the most out of the platform.

Databricks is a cloud-based software platform for data engineering, data science and machine learning. It provides a scalable environment for running high-performance data applications, and support for large datasets and high volumes of data processing...

R is an open source suite of utilities and a programming language for data manipulation, statistical calculations, analytics and graphics visualisation.

The environment is easily extendable with new packages (statistics, graphics, analytics, etc.) contributed by the community of R users and developers...

TIBCO Data Science is a set of tools to simplify and extend the process of data exploration and discovery. TIBCO Data Science makes it easy to create predictive models, optimise decision making and gain insight from data. It is ideal for companies that need to gain better control over the data they are collecting and converting into knowledge...

Python is a general-purpose open source language, but thanks to the development of powerful analytics, data processing and predictive modelling libraries, it has become the main programming language used for Data Science projects, along with R...

MATLAB is a programming language and high-performance computing environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis, and numerical computation. Combining high-level programming features with dynamic data types, MATLAB provides an environment for rapidly prototyping ideas and developing software to solve technical computing and analytical problems...

Spark is an open source framework from Apache Software Foundation for distributed processing of large amounts of data on clusters of computers, designed for use in Big Data environments, and created to enhance the capabilities of its predecessor MapReduce.

Spark inherits the scalability and fault tolerance capabilities of MapReduce, but far surpasses it in terms of processing speed, ease of use and analytical capabilities...

Oracle Database delivers performance, scalability, reliability and security in both on-premise and cloud deployments.

Oracle Database 19c is the current long-term release, which also provides the highest level of release stability and the longest time frame for support and bug fixes.