Use Case

Business Intelligence & Reporting

Dashboards, scheduled reports, and self-service analysis.

63 providers 749 APIs 41 declared variants

Turning data into dashboards, scheduled reports, and self-service exploration for business users — including embedded analytics delivered inside another product and product-usage analytics.

63 API providers on the APIs.io network offer business intelligence & reporting. The highest-rated are GitLab, Qlik Sense, Massive (formerly Polygon.io), Microsoft Power Platform APIs, Toast.

Providers

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 10 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
GitLabGitLab Inc. is an open-core company that develops GitLab, a DevOps software platform for building, securing...13 published contracts81.8Qlik SenseQlik Sense and Qlik Cloud from Qlik Parent, Inc. — a business intelligence, data integration and AI analyti...78 published contracts72.5Massive (formerly Polygon.io)Polygon (Polygon.io, rebranded as Massive in early 2026) provides real-time and historical market data APIs...70 published contracts71.6Microsoft Power Platform APIsCollection of APIs for Microsoft Power Platform services including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Co...2 published contracts71.1ToastToast is a restaurant technology platform providing cloud-based point-of-sale, payment processing, and busi...21 published contracts71.0Google AnalyticsGoogle Analytics provides data and insights about website and app usage, enabling businesses to understand ...6 published contracts70.7InstagramInstagram is a photo and video sharing social networking platform owned by Meta. The Instagram APIs allow d...1 published contract68.9ConvoyConvoy is an open-source, cloud-native webhooks gateway used to securely ingest, persist, debug, deliver, a...1 published contract68.4OracleCollection of Oracle's APIs and developer resources across cloud infrastructure, databases, AI services, Sa...161 published contracts68.4Power BIMicrosoft Power BI is a business analytics service that delivers insights to enable fast, informed decision...1 published contract67.5
Strong 13 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Microsoft OutlookMicrosoft Outlook is a personal information manager and email client that is part of the Microsoft Office s...1 published contract66.0UmamiUmami is an open source, privacy-first web analytics platform that provides website traffic insights withou...7 APIs63.5Microsoft WordAPIs for Microsoft Word document creation, manipulation, and automation across Microsoft 365 cloud services...21 APIs63.2Microsoft Office 365A collection of APIs provided by Microsoft Office 365 for productivity, collaboration, and enterprise servi...1 published contract61.9Amazon EventBridge SchedulerAmazon EventBridge Scheduler is a fully managed, serverless scheduler that enables you to create, run, and ...1 published contract61.7Amazon Lake FormationAWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days, providing centrali...1 published contract60.4Amazon EBSAmazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instance...1 published contract59.2Amazon RedshiftAmazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to an...2 published contracts58.8Amazon EFSAmazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, serverless, set-and-forget elastic file system for use ...1 published contract58.4AmplitudeAmplitude is a digital analytics platform that helps product teams understand user behavior, run experiment...10 published contracts57.8Amazon DataZoneAmazon DataZone is a data management service that helps you catalog, discover, govern, share, and analyze y...1 published contract56.9Google SlidesAn API for creating, reading, and editing Google Slides presentations.1 published contract56.5TibberTibber is a fully-digital Nordic and European retail electricity provider operating in Norway, Sweden, Germ...1 published contract55.8
Developing 23 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Amazon Managed GrafanaAmazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for open source Grafana developed in collaboration with G...1 published contract53.9Microsoft ExcelAPIs for automating, integrating, and extending Microsoft Excel functionality including workbook management...11 APIs52.0PeopleSoftCollection of Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise application APIs for Human Capital Management, Financial Managem...21 published contracts51.4TableauTableau is a visual analytics platform transforming the way we use data to solve problems—empowering people...1 published contract51.4TripleseatTripleseat is event management and catering sales software for restaurants, hotels, and unique venues, help...1 published contract50.3LookerLooker is a business intelligence and data analytics platform that enables organizations to explore, analyz...1 published contract49.8WooCommerceWooCommerce is the world's most popular open-source eCommerce platform, built on WordPress. It provides a c...2 published contracts49.2Apache AirflowApache Airflow is an open-source platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows, deve...27 published contracts48.1AmberfloAmberflo is a cloud metering, usage-based billing, and AI cost management platform. It provides real-time e...10 APIs48.0AlteryxAlteryx is an analytics automation platform that enables data analysts and scientists to break data barrier...1 published contract47.7AramarkAramark is a Fortune 500 food, facilities and uniform services company. Its Marko platform is a data and AI...126 published contracts47.0IMDb-APICommunity web service (operated under the IMDb-API / TV-API brand) providing movie, TV series and cast info...1 published contract46.5Adobe IllustratorAdobe Illustrator is the industry-standard vector graphics application. Its developer platform offers scrip...1 published contract45.0SAS InstituteSAS Institute is a global leader in analytics, AI, and data management software. SAS Viya, its cloud-native...1 published contract44.6Workday RecruitingAPIs for Workday's cloud-based recruiting and talent acquisition solution, providing programmatic access to...1 published contract44.6ArubaAPIs for HPE Aruba Networking cloud networking, security, and infrastructure solutions including Central, A...1 published contract44.0SpotOnSpotOn is an all-in-one restaurant point-of-sale and management platform that combines POS, online ordering...15 APIs43.6MarineTrafficMarineTraffic is the leading maritime intelligence and AIS ship-tracking platform — now part of Kpler. The ...9 published contracts43.2AniListAniList is an anime and manga database, tracking, and social platform serving over 500,000 anime and manga ...3 APIs43.0Radio BrowserRadio Browser is a free, community-driven directory of internet radio stations. The project publishes a pub...1 published contract43.0Robin AIRobin AI is a London-headquartered legal intelligence platform founded in 2019 by former Clifford Chance di...1 published contract43.0QlikViewQlikView is Qlik's guided-analytics platform for business intelligence and data visualization, installed an...10 APIs41.7Apache SupersetApache Superset is a modern data exploration and visualization platform designed to be visual, intuitive, a...21 APIs41.6
Thin 15 Limited public surface area
Tableau DesktopAPIs and integration points for Tableau Desktop, a data visualization and business intelligence platform fr...12 APIs39.1Apache DruidApache Druid is a high-performance, real-time analytics database governed by the Apache Software Foundation...1 API38.0SAP BWSAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) and SAP BW/4HANA provide enterprise data warehousing capabilities with APIs...4 APIs38.0FrankfurterFrankfurter is an open-source (MIT) currency exchange rates API that blends foreign-exchange reference rate...2 published contracts37.2Amazon AthenaAmazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standar...1 published contract36.4Chicago Transit AuthorityThe Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is the public transit operator for the City of Chicago and 35 surroundi...2 published contracts36.1ADTADT is a provider of monitored security, interactive home and business automation, and related monitoring s...10 APIs35.8UpworkUpwork is a global freelancing platform that connects businesses with independent professionals through a t...7 APIs33.8Apache ZeppelinApache Zeppelin is a web-based notebook that enables data-driven, interactive data analytics and collaborat...1 API33.6Air Quality Programmatic APIsAir Quality Programmatic APIs provide real-time and forecast air quality data from 11,000+ monitoring stati...1 published contract33.1Apple KeynoteApple Keynote is a presentation software application developed by Apple Inc. as part of the iWork productiv...7 APIs32.8Absence.ioAbsence.io is an innovative and efficient leave management software that simplifies the process of tracking...7 APIs32.3UKGUKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) is an enterprise human capital management (HCM) and workforce management platfo...9 APIs32.1AlbertsonsAlbertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, operating supermar...4 APIs29.0Apache POIApache POI is a Java API for manipulating various file formats based upon the Office Open XML standards (OO...1 published contract27.0
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Crystal ReportsAPIs and resources for Crystal Reports, a business intelligence application for designing and generating re...9 APIs26.0VisualforceVisualforce is a framework that enables developers to build sophisticated, custom user interfaces that can ...1 API22.3

What Providers Actually Declared

This use case is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

Analytics and ReportingAnalytics dashboardsAutomated Report GenerationAutomated ReportingAutomated Reporting PipelinesBatch Report GenerationBig Data AnalyticsBox office dashboardsBuilding productivity dashboards with mail and calendar dataBusiness IntelligenceBusiness Intelligence AnalyticsBusiness Intelligence DashboardsBusiness Metrics DashboardsCampaign Performance DashboardsCustom DashboardsCustom Reporting and DashboardsCustomer-facing webhook dashboards via embeddable portal linksData VisualizationData Visualization & AnalyticsDeveloper DashboardsEmbedded AnalyticsEmbedded DashboardsEnable self-service analytics for business intelligence teamsEnterprise ReportingEnvironmental Monitoring DashboardsExecutive DashboardsHiring Analytics and ReportingHome Energy DashboardsNetwork Health DashboardsOperational DashboardsProduct AnalyticsReport GenerationReporting And AnalyticsReporting and AnalyticsRisk visualization across large contract portfolios in PowerBI and other BI dashboardsRunning big data analytics with Data Flow and Data ScienceSelf-Service AnalyticsSmart City DashboardsStreaming Health DashboardsUsage Analytics and Reporting

Showing 40 of 41 declared variants

Work with this as data

Every use case here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP. Use Cases is not yet its own endpoint on the v1 API. Reach it through catalog search and the tag graph, or the MCP server.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for use cases

3 MCP tools reach this
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

curl for this page
Search the catalog 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/search?q=business-intelligence&limit=10"
Everything under a tag 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/tags/business-intelligence"

Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.

Get an API key

Free tier, no form to fill in. Signing in shares your email address with us — we store it to create your key and to recognise you if you sign in with another provider. See our Privacy Policy and Terms.

GitHub Google LinkedIn

A second provider on the same verified email joins the account you already have.