LinceBI
Open-source business intelligence platform with enterprise-grade analytics and no per-user license fees
Founded
N/A
Starting Price
€0
Category
Data Visualization
Last updated August 20, 2026
About LinceBI
LinceBI is an open-source business intelligence platform from Madrid-based Stratebi that packages the Pentaho stack (Kettle, Mondrian) with its own ST analytics tools into a modern BI portal. It covers ad hoc reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, balanced scorecards, and big data integration, and is sold as a hosted cloud service or a supported on-premise license with unlimited users and no per-seat license fees.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- No per-user license fees — unlimited users on every plan, and the full platform is open source on GitHub
- Very low-cost hosted BI compared to per-seat tools like Tableau or Qlik (25 users for €199/mo)
- Built on the proven Pentaho stack (Kettle ETL, Mondrian OLAP) with a modernized portal on top
- Covers the full BI lifecycle in one platform: ETL, OLAP, reporting, dashboards, scorecards, and ML
- Flexible deployment: managed cloud, on-premise, or your own infrastructure via Docker/Kubernetes
Key Features
Global BI portal
Responsive web portal that unifies reports, dashboards, and analysis with search, tags, and tabs on top of the Pentaho BI Server
Ad hoc reporting
Drag-and-drop report builder with business-user-friendly models, corporate templates, and advanced filters
OLAP analysis
Drill-down and roll-up exploration, calculated fields on the fly, what-if analysis, and chart-based data exploration (STPivot)
Dashboards and scorecards
Wizard-driven dashboards plus balanced scorecards with custom KPI weights, thresholds, and traffic-light color coding (STDashboard, STCard)
Report bursting and scheduling
Scheduled report execution with automatic mailing and output to CSV, Excel, PDF, or HTML
Data integration
ETL over multiple data sources with data profiling and deployment automation, based on Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle)
Big data and real-time analytics
Data lake integration with Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Kylin, Vertica, and Elasticsearch, plus real-time and near-real-time analysis
Pricing
Free (Cloud)
€0
- Up to 1 user
- 20 GB disk space
- 2 TB traffic
- 1 weekly backup
- Monitoring service
Best For
Enterprise BI without per-seat licensing
Organizations with hundreds of report consumers can roll out dashboards and reporting to unlimited users for a flat monthly or annual fee instead of paying per seat.
Migrating off expensive legacy BI
Teams on Oracle BI, Business Objects, Cognos, or MicroStrategy can replace them with an open-source stack while keeping OLAP analysis, bursting, and scheduled reporting.
Big data analytics on a data lake
Analyze structured and unstructured data through integrations with Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Vertica, and Elasticsearch, including IoT and real-time scenarios.
KPI scorecards for management
Build balanced scorecards with weighted KPIs, thresholds, and traffic-light indicators so executives can track performance and edit targets on the fly.
