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Dashboards and reports 4 companies

An analyst builds a dashboard once, and it refreshes itself with new data. Some of these companies sell reporting that other software companies build into their own products.

Strategy logoStrategyStrategy, formerly MicroStrategy, has sold business intelligence to large companies for three decades, where thousands of employees read the same reports.ChennaiHiring now
Domo logoDomoPart of ProgressDomo sells dashboards for senior managers as a cloud service, so there is nothing for the buyer to install.
Jaspersoft logoJaspersoftPart of HCLSoftwareJaspersoft is a free reporting engine. Other software companies build it into their own products to produce reports.
Intellicus Technologies logoIntellicus TechnologiesIntellicus, a company built in Indore, sells reporting that software makers build into their products, and reporting for large companies.
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Analytics in plain language 4 companies

Instead of waiting for an analyst, a manager types a question such as "Which city sold the most phones last week?" and the software writes the query and shows the answer.

WisdomAI logoWisdomAIWisdomAI, founded in 2023 by a team from Rubrik, sells an AI business analyst: a company connects it to its data and asks it questions in plain words.BengaluruHiring now
ThoughtSpot logoThoughtSpotThoughtSpot, with engineers in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, built analytics around a search box: a manager types a question and gets a chart.Bengaluru
Sundial logoSundialSundial sells an AI analyst to technology companies, starting from the numbers an app's team watches, such as how many users open the app each day.
AISquared logoAISquaredAISquared does not answer questions itself. It puts AI-generated analysis inside the apps people already work in, so they do not have to open a separate analytics tool.
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Tools for analysts 3 companies

Analysts use these tools to pull data together, clean it, run statistical models and forecast sales or risk, often without writing code.

SAS logoSASSAS, with its engineering in Pune, has been the statistics software of banks, insurers and drug companies since the 1970s, for example to judge which loans are likely to go unpaid.Pune
Alteryx logoAlteryxAlteryx, with engineers in Bengaluru, sells a workbench on which an analyst drags ready-made steps onto a screen to pull, clean, combine and analyse data, without code.BengaluruHired recently
Ikigai logoIkigaiPart of CelonisIkigai, founded out of MIT, sells forecasting models for business data kept in rows and columns, such as sales and stock figures.
How it all worksBusiness intelligence (BI)Last week's sales by city, and the question it misses.
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What's changing

AI models are starting to do the analyst's first draft.

A manager with a question no dashboard answers usually asks an analyst and waits. AI tools can now read the warehouse, write the query and explain the result in plain words, so these companies are competing to become the place where people ask.

Companies: ingrid's company map. Hiring signals: postings feed of 5 Nov 2026.