Business Intelligence tools
Because Neo4j as a graph database management system provides many advantages when interacting with inherently networked and interconnected data structures, many traditional data analysis tools can benefit greatly from leveraging its query power. There is, most notably, an entire category of tools out there that are a prime candidate for doing so: the so-called Business Intelligence tools. Tools in this space include (but are certainly not limited to):
IBM Cognos
SAP Business Objects
Pentaho
Jaspersoft
Qlikview
We will zoom into one of these tools in the following paragraphs, but would first like to clarify the mechanism through which these tools can interface with Neo4j. Of course, they could integrate by calling the raw Neo4j REST API and submittin specific requests this way, and would get responses in the rawest possible format. This type of integration would most likely require quite a bit of integration work, but could be advised in certain more advanced use cases...
