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ACTUATE

ARCPLAN

BLINK LOGIC

BOARDINTERNATIONAL

IBM COGNOSSOFTWARE

INETSOFTTECHNOLOGY

INFORMATIONBUILDERS

IQUBZ

JASPERSOFT

LOGIXML

LUCIDERA

MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

MYDIALS

NOETIX

OCO INC.

ORACLE

PANORAMASOFTWARE

PARACCEL

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PIVOTLINK

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BLINK LOGIC

BOARDINTERNATIONAL

IBM COGNOSSOFTWARE

INETSOFTTECHNOLOGY

INFORMATIONBUILDERS

IQUBZ

JASPERSOFT

LOGIXML

LUCIDERA

MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

MYDIALS

NOETIX

OCO INC.

ORACLE

PANORAMASOFTWARE

PARACCEL

PENTAHO

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Selecting the best businessintelligence tools for your business

HE BENEFITS OF business intelli-gence (BI) have been provenrepeatedly. BI strikes at theheart of the charter of a busi-ness—bottom-line improve-ment. No longer speculative, BIprovides tangible benefits to an

enterprise’s revenue and expenses. BI isabout getting the right data to the rightpeople at the right time.Historically, BI has meant whatever

we do to data in our post-operationaldata warehouses. That is not entirelytrue anymore. BI is done everywhere—in our operational environments, suchas ERP, supply chain and call center sys-tems, as well as data warehouses andother post-operational analytical struc-tures.BI, of course, needs data to be viable,

and sometimes that means setting upadditional data stores with data in aprepared state for the access. Some-times there is a data store where BIaccess is needed, and sometimes thatstore needs to be built. However, dataaccess is the layer in the data architec-ture that BI addresses. If the plumbingis robust but the presentation layer islacking, all is lost. This guide will look atbusiness intelligence vendors andmethods.There is no best or one-size-fits-all

tool on the market. Multiple BI tools willbe trained on any viable data store overthe course of time. It’s an evolutionary

progression, and there is no method ofdata access that is necessarily a “firstport of call” for BI. Perhaps no technolo-gy term has been as overused as BI, soit is essential to dive much deeper thanthe label and figure out which tools youreally need in your organization.Selecting the right BI tool should

start with requirements-gathering fromthose accessing data. These “users”need a BI tool like a hole in the head.What they need is data access throughthe right mechanism (reports, alerts,visualization, interaction, etc.). Dust iscollecting on unused BI tools (“shelf-ware”) the world over, while frustratedusers live with what is “good enough.”The end result is that Microsoft Excel isthe most common BI tool. This is prob-lematic.Ideally, the requirements-gathering

process begins not with “what do youwant to see?” but with “what are yourbusiness goals?” Together, the BI expertand the user can then explore therobust possibilities that today’s BI mar-ket offers.

BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS GATHERINGOther questions to be asked during therequirements-gathering phase for BIinclude:

1.What are your short-term andlong-term success criteria?

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2.Where are you now, relative to thatplan and your objectives?3.What is viewed as a success foryou and your team?4. How is your business changing?How will it be different in five years?5.What do you see as your compa-ny’s strengths as well as its vulnera-bilities/weaknesses?6.Which operations/processes doyou want to improve within your areaof responsibility?7.What are the critical business deci-sions you make and/or critical busi-ness questions you must answer inorder to achieve your objectives?8.What information or insights doyou need in order to address thesecritical business issues and ques-tions?

During the requirements-gatheringphase, give only cursory considerationto the data sources. Data source selec-tion, or building new databases for BI,can best be determined once you haveall the answers to the above questions. Ialso advise considering likely futurerequirements in the process, even ifthey are not well formulated. Some-times, in order to define these require-ments, you’ll have to reach out to anexperienced outside party with multiplefull-lifecycle views of BI in your industry.

INFRASTRUCTURE CHECKIn order to aid the selection process, thefollowing information should be gath-ered on a project-by-project basis earlyin the process for each user grouping:

� Volumes/architecture of the databeing accessed.

� Data volatility.� Type of application.� Integration needs with othersystems.

� Number of users and their locationsand roles.

� Access schedule.

There are dozens of products in themarketplace that provide access to datastores, many of which offer varioustypes of analytic capability.

One tool can fit multiple uses, butthere is no equivalent of an enterprise“Swiss army knife.” Therefore, it isessential that a company select and de-ploy a small number of tools with com-plementary designs and capabilitiesthat together support the specific useand usage pattern of each class ofusers. Effective sites will have three tofour tools (for a midsized organization)or five to 10 tools (at a large organiza-tion).Just as important as having comple-

mentary tools is not having any toolsthat compete (i.e., with similar featuresand benefits). It is simply too costly tobuy, learn, deploy and support suchtools and to resolve conflicts amongusers when resources become con-

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ARCPLAN

BLINK LOGIC

BOARDINTERNATIONAL

IBM COGNOSSOFTWARE

INETSOFTTECHNOLOGY

INFORMATIONBUILDERS

IQUBZ

JASPERSOFT

LOGIXML

LUCIDERA

MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

MYDIALS

NOETIX

OCO INC.

ORACLE

PANORAMASOFTWARE

PARACCEL

PENTAHO

PIVOTLINK

QLIKTECH

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“One tool can fitmultiple uses, butthere is no equivalentof an enterprise‘Swiss army knife.’”—WILLIAMMCKNIGHT

strained. Choose a few tools well inorder to match explicit business needswithout proliferating.

CATEGORIES OF BI TOOLSThe marketplace requires BI buyers tounderstand which tool best fits theirneeds. The terminology used is confus-ing, with ingeniously subtle variationson common themes used throughoutbecause there aren't enough suitabledescriptive words to go around.The categories of BI tools include:

1. Reporting tools2. Desktop/traditional BI3.Multidimensional tools4. Data mining5. Data visualization tools

There are multiple ways BI tools canprovide access data, but it is importantto understand the value that each cate-gory provides.Reporting tools, often a first port, pro-

vide enterprise reporting and analysisfunctionality that can support complexneeds. They provide users with multiplesoftware components that allow data tobe accessed based on their particularneeds. Ad hoc query or drill-down,slice-and-dice forms of analysis arebest with desktop/traditional BI tools.Reporting tools produce the most

varied forms in the easiest manner of allthe tools, but their ability to interactwith the reports is limited. Other tools,like desktop BI tools, provide greaterinteractivity with the data. Specificreporting needs that are too complex incontent, design, sourcing or formatcould continue to be handled with areporting tool.

Multidimensional access involvesbuilding a structure separate from therelational data store (a "cube") that isoptimized for high performance of aspecific set of queries around a fewdimensions and metrics.Data mining has long been a means

to attain high business value from a

warehouse. As the means of automat-ing discovery to explore and identifynew business insight, it stands alone asan access method. For all other forms ofBI, you must understand ahead of timewhat you’re looking for. Algorithmicdata mining, however, will make youaware of situations that may representnew market opportunities or businessproblems that have yet to surface.Finally, data visualization tools pro-

vide a means of making sense of vastamounts of detailed informationthrough plotting, charting and other-wise cutting through the volumes ofdata to make visual sense.

TOOL SELECTIONA single tool can provide elementsof many categories, but more likely it is

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ARCPLAN

BLINK LOGIC

BOARDINTERNATIONAL

IBM COGNOSSOFTWARE

INETSOFTTECHNOLOGY

INFORMATIONBUILDERS

IQUBZ

JASPERSOFT

LOGIXML

LUCIDERA

MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

MYDIALS

NOETIX

OCO INC.

ORACLE

PANORAMASOFTWARE

PARACCEL

PENTAHO

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“There are multipleways BI tools canprovide access data,but it is importantto understand thevalue that eachcategory provides.”—WILLIAMMCKNIGHT

a suite of tools from a vendor that willmeet all of your data access capabili-ties. An organization’s strategy for ven-dor management (i.e., one large vendorvs. several smaller ones) should providea strong rationale for the ultimateselection.BI tool selection is not an all-IT affair.

Once the requirements have been gath-ered, the infrastructure needs checked,and the tool categories matched to therequirements, users should be involvedin the process in order to aid adoptionand acceptance of the tools. Users canprovide feedback on the look-and-feelelements of the selection. If the organi-zation has made a decision about thedata store upon which BI will be trained,then it might be effective to downloadand test time-limited trial versions ofthe BI tools that have made it to thefinal round of the selection process.

CONCLUSIONIt is important to understand the busi-ness requirements before making a

business intelligence purchase. Collect-ing a profile of the existing architecturethat BI will be integrating with is anoth-er important criterion. The category of

tool needed can then be determinedand the tools short-listed and trialed in-house, with users, in order to determinethe best-fit BI tool to achieve the goal ofthe right data to the right people at theright time. �

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BLINK LOGIC

BOARDINTERNATIONAL

IBM COGNOSSOFTWARE

INETSOFTTECHNOLOGY

INFORMATIONBUILDERS

IQUBZ

JASPERSOFT

LOGIXML

LUCIDERA

MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

MYDIALS

NOETIX

OCO INC.

ORACLE

PANORAMASOFTWARE

PARACCEL

PENTAHO

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QLIKTECH

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“A single tool canprovide elementsof many categories,but more likely it isa suite of tools froma vendor that will meetall of your data accesscapabilities.”—WILLIAMMCKNIGHT

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

WilliamMcKnight, Partner, Information Management at Lucidity Consulting Group. William functionsas strategist, lead enterprise information architect and program manager for complex, high-volume,full-lifecycle implementations worldwide—utilizing the disciplines of data warehousing, master datamanagement (MDM), business intelligence (BI), data quality and operational BI. McKnight is a South-west Entrepreneur of the Year finalist and a frequent best-practices judge; he has authored more than150 articles and white papers and given more than 150 international keynotes and public seminars.

His team’s implementations from both IT and consultant positions have won Best Practices awards. He is a former ITVP of a Fortune company, a former engineer of DB2 at IBM, and holds an MBA. He can be reached at wmcknight@luciditycg.com.

SAASOR ONPAGE VENDOR PRODUCTS SERVICES PREMISE SW

9 1010data 1010data 1

9 Actuate e.Reports s

10 Actuate BIRT-based open-source platform s

10 Actuate e.Spreadsheet s

11 Arcplan arcplan Essentials s

11 Blink Logic Blink Logic 1

12 Board International Board Toolkit s

12 IBM Cognos Software IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence s

13 InetSoft Technology Style Intelligence s

13 Information Builders WebFOCUS s

14 IQubz Hospitality Business Intelligence 1 s

14 JasperSoft JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite s

15 LogiXML Logi Info s

15 LogiXML Logi Ad Hoc s

16 LucidEra LucidEra Enterprise 1

16 Microsoft Corp. SQL Server 2008 s

17 MicroStrategy MicroStrategy 9 s

17 myDIALS myDIALS 1

18 Noetix The Noetix Solution s

18 Oco Inc. Oco BI Solutions 1

19 Oracle Oracle Business Intelligence Applications s

19 Oracle Oracle Business Intelligence SuiteEnterprise Edition Plus s

20 Oracle Oracle Essbase s

20 Panorama Software Panorama NovaView s

21 ParAccel The ParAccel Analytic Database s

21 Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition Version 3 s

22 PivotLink PivotLink 1

22 Qliktech Qlikview s

23 SAP Business Objects XI 1 s

23 SAP SAP Business Objects Edge s

24 SAP SAP NetWeaver BusinessWarehouse s

24 SAS Enterprise BI Server s

25 SAS SAS Visual BI s

25 Strategy Companion Analyzer 1 s

26 Tibco Tibco Spotfire s

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BOARDINTERNATIONAL

IBM COGNOSSOFTWARE

INETSOFTTECHNOLOGY

INFORMATIONBUILDERS

IQUBZ

JASPERSOFT

LOGIXML

LUCIDERA

MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

MYDIALS

NOETIX

OCO INC.

ORACLE

PANORAMASOFTWARE

PARACCEL

PENTAHO

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QLIKTECH

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Vendor: Vendor/developer of product at directory press time;1 SaaS or services indicates technology available asSaaS, hosted, on-demand, ASP and web services;s On-premise SW indicates software or systems on premise;2 Description was written by the SearchDataManagement.com editorial team based on information gathered fromvendor websites.

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1010DATA

1010data

1010data’s BI Service combines a back-end database and analytics tool to deriveinsight directly from raw data.1

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.1010data.comFOUNDED: 2000SUMMARY:Offered in the Software as a Serv-ice (SaaS) model, 1010data’s BI Serviceoffers a complete approach to performingthe deepest analysis and deriving insightdirectly from raw data. 1010data combinesa powerful back-end database with a flexi-ble front-end tool. The data managementtool is architected to handle multi-terabytedatabases at a lower cost than other datamanagement approaches. 1010data isdesigned to allow companies to performtrue ad hoc analytics in seconds. With1010data, users have all the back-endpower they need to analyze and managedata, coupled with front-end capabilitiesthat fully realize that power. 1010data runson commodity hardware, providing a stan-dard, less rigid process that yields lowercosts. 2

PRICING: Starts at $50,000; price is basedon amount of data and the number andtype of users to ensure proper servicelevels.

ACTUATE

e.Reports

Actuate’s core product, e.Reports, is ascalable platform designed for deliveringhigh-fidelity reports to large numbers ofreport consumers, particularly in verylarge extranet applications that servethe financial and public sectors. s

COMPANY WEBSITE: www.actuate.comFOUNDED: 1993SUMMARY: Actuate’s core product, e.Reports,is a scalable platform designed to helporganizations deliver high-fidelity reportsto large numbers of report consumers, par-ticularly in very large extranet applicationsthat serve the financial and public sectors.The Actuate e.Report product line createshigh-level, brochure-quality reports appro-priate for distribution both inside and out-side the firewall. These reports can helporganizations represent the brand at itsbest to employees, investors, customersand partners—users that typically requireinformation presented in a well-designed,pixel-perfect layout. e.Reports also enablesusers to deploy and maintain rich informa-tion applications easily and quickly and theproduct integrates with existing applica-tions and portals. Available within everyreport is a navigation bar that providesaccess to an automatically generated tableof contents; search, analysis, and print andsave options and page navigation tools.Hyperlinks enable drill-to-detail, anddynamic parameter pick lists help usersnavigate easily through reports. 2

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

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IQUBZ

JASPERSOFT

LOGIXML

LUCIDERA

MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

MYDIALS

NOETIX

OCO INC.

ORACLE

PANORAMASOFTWARE

PARACCEL

PENTAHO

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ARCPLAN

BLINK LOGIC

BOARDINTERNATIONAL

IBM COGNOSSOFTWARE

INETSOFTTECHNOLOGY

INFORMATIONBUILDERS

IQUBZ

JASPERSOFT

LOGIXML

LUCIDERA

MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

MYDIALS

NOETIX

OCO INC.

ORACLE

PANORAMASOFTWARE

PARACCEL

PENTAHO

PIVOTLINK

QLIKTECH

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SAS

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ACTUATE

BIRT-based open-source platform

Actuate’s BIRT-based open-sourceplatform and products each provide a pro-gramming environment. This Java-basedplatform for building RIAs and mashupshelps meet the authoring and interactivityneeds of business users in smaller organiza-tions across a broad range of industries. s

COMPANY WEBSITE: www.actuate.comFOUNDED: 1993SUMMARY: Actuate’s BIRT-based open-source platform and products each providea programming environment. (BIRT standsfor BI Reporting Tools, open source Eclipse-based reporting system.) This Java-basedplatform for building Rich Internet applica-tions (RIAs) and mashups expands Actu-ate’s product line beyond its traditionalniche to meet the authoring and interactivi-ty needs of business users in smaller organ-izations across a broad range of industries.Developed in collaboration with the EclipseFoundation and countless developers, theActuate BIRT tools offer options for creat-ing rich interactive reports, dashboards andmashups and more. Interactive Viewer is anad hocWeb reporting tool that enables endusers to modify report views to suit theirneeds. Report Studio is an ad hocWebreporting tool that lets business usersdevelop their own reports based on tem-plates created by IT and/or developers.Both BIRT Designer and BIRT Designer Proenable IT and developers to create tem-plates and reports that can be accessedwithin the Actuate framework and used byboth business and end users. With Flashand Dashboards, BIRT reports can arrive inany format, including (Flash) dashboardsthat users can customize to meet their ownreporting needs. 2

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

ACTUATE

e.Spreadsheet

Actuate’s e.Spreadsheet reportingtechnology is designed to addressspreadsheet distribution issues. In 2008,Actuate released its e.SpreadsheetDesigner tool as freeware from its BIRT-exchange community site. s

COMPANY WEBSITE: www.actuate.comFOUNDED: 1993SUMMARY:Actuate’s e.Spreadsheet reportingtechnology is designed to address spread-sheet distribution issues. In 2008, Actuatereleased its e.Spreadsheet Designer tool asfreeware from its BIRT-exchange communi-ty site. e.Spreadsheet is a spreadsheetautomation tool intended to simplifyspreadsheet creation and enable users atevery skill level to participate in spread-sheet design, modification and viewing.Actuate e.Spreadsheet securely provideslive business data on demand as easy-to-use and familiar Excel spreadsheets, withall formatting, formulas and graphs intact.This can save users from having to refor-mat from flat .CSV files; use custom script-ing or unstable plug-ins; employ complicat-ed querying; or cut, paste and manuallyenter data, which invariably leads to entryerrors. Instead, users can receive completeinformation direct from the source, pre-for-matted and ready for analysis. 2

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

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ARCPLAN

BLINK LOGIC

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IBM COGNOSSOFTWARE

INETSOFTTECHNOLOGY

INFORMATIONBUILDERS

IQUBZ

JASPERSOFT

LOGIXML

LUCIDERA

MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

MYDIALS

NOETIX

OCO INC.

ORACLE

PANORAMASOFTWARE

PARACCEL

PENTAHO

PIVOTLINK

QLIKTECH

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ARCPLAN

arcplan Essentials

arcplan Essentials for SAP is designedto enable SAP clients to quickly andcost-effectively deliver information-rich,user-defined BI applications beyondeither embedded or newly acquiredSAP tools. s

COMPANY WEBSITE: www.arcplan.com/home.cfmFOUNDED: 1993SUMMARY: arcplan Essentials is a third-party BI tool for SAP environments. arcplanEssentials for SAP delivers ad hoc reportingand visual dashboards that offer federatedquery and write back to SAP and non-SAPdata sources. arcplan Enterprise, the core ofthe arcplan Essentials for SAP package, is acomplete environment for composing andrunning BI applications. It includes capabili-ties for data integration, data visualizationand report composition and includes groupcollaboration capabilities. The product hasstrong federated query capabilities acrossenterprise resource planning (ERP), rela-tional database management system(RDBMS), OLAP, corporate performancemanagement (CPM) and other BI systems,making arcplan attractive in heterogeneousenvironments or as a means of integratingother BI investments. 2

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

BLINK LOGIC

Blink Logic

Blink Logic is designed to give users,customers and partners just theinformation they need, when they needit, so they can get insights and takeaction. 1

COMPANY WEBSITE: www.blinklogic.comFOUNDED: 2000SUMMARY:Blink Logic is a secure, easy-to-use, self-service business intelligence toolthat includes: dashboards, analytics, col-laboration, annotation, KPI monitoring,notifications to smartphones, locationintelligence, Web reports and export toExcel and PDF. Blink Logic’s intuitive toolsand interface ensure that end users areself-sufficient from Day 1, creating theirown charts, graphs, tables, views andWebreports with less than 30 minutes of train-ing. Because it is delivered via Software asa Service (SaaS), Blink Logic takes the bur-den of installation and management off IT,and it is available via a monthly subscrip-tion model to fit every budget. 2

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

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ARCPLAN

BLINK LOGIC

BOARDINTERNATIONAL

IBM COGNOSSOFTWARE

INETSOFTTECHNOLOGY

INFORMATIONBUILDERS

IQUBZ

JASPERSOFT

LOGIXML

LUCIDERA

MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

MYDIALS

NOETIX

OCO INC.

ORACLE

PANORAMASOFTWARE

PARACCEL

PENTAHO

PIVOTLINK

QLIKTECH

SAP

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BOARD INTERNATIONAL

Board Toolkit

Board International is a well-integratedBI platform focused on developing anddeploying custom analytic applications. s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.board.com/IN/HomeFOUNDED: 1994SUMMARY: Board’s “toolkit” approach toBI application allows users to update, pres-ent and analyze data and process modelingin a single graphical environment withoutprogramming. Board Management Intelli-gence Toolkit is designed to help organiza-tions improve the effectiveness of theirmanagement decision-making processes.The BOARD platform effectively unifiesBusiness Intelligence and Corporate Per-formance Management in a single integrat-ed product, including applications for plan-ning, budgeting, forecasting, profitabilityanalysis, what-if scenarios, scorecarding,dashboards and consolidation. Functionali-ty includes reporting, monitoring, data nav-igation, data distribution, and ETL/dataintegration. BOARD can be used to sourceyour data from disparate systems (ETL),consolidate it (MOLAP/ROLAP) and rapid-ly build custom BI and CPM applications. 2

PRICING: The Board Toolkit begins at$10,000, with user licenses starting at$350.

IBM COGNOS SOFTWARE

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligencedelivers a range of BI capabilitieson a single, service-oriented architecture(SOA). s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.cognos.comFOUNDED: 1969SUMMARY: IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelli-gence offers organizations aWeb-based,complete tool for all components of thereporting lifecycle: collaborative reporting;enterprise-wide report types; reports thatcan be authored once and consumed any-where; and a system that is adaptable toother data sources. Users can author,share, and use reports that draw dataacross all enterprise sources to aid betterbusiness decisions. IBM Cognos 8 BIAnalysis is based on IBM Cognos Power-Play, an OLAP and analysis software. Thenew analysis capability with IBM Cognos8 BI expands this functionality to cover acomplete range of data sources and to pro-vide seamless movement among reports,queries and analysis. 2

PRICING: IBM Cognos has a role-based pric-ing model for IBM Cognos 8 Business Intel-ligence. Price per role varies, depending onwhether the license is for a consumer,author or administrator role. License pric-ing is subject to volume discounts, so pric-ing for the product can vary depending onthe scope of the client implementation.

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BLINK LOGIC

BOARDINTERNATIONAL

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INETSOFTTECHNOLOGY

INFORMATIONBUILDERS

IQUBZ

JASPERSOFT

LOGIXML

LUCIDERA

MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

MYDIALS

NOETIX

OCO INC.

ORACLE

PANORAMASOFTWARE

PARACCEL

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INETSOFT TECHNOLOGY

Style Intelligence

InetSoft Style Intelligence is an operationalbusiness intelligence platform that usesa visualization-driven approach to addressreporting, analysis, and dashboard needs,in a unified, easy-to-use business intelli-gence tool. s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.inetsoft.comFOUNDED: 1996SUMMARY: InetSoft’s business intelligencesoftware leverages a powerful patent-pending Data Block foundation for real-time data mashups and presents informa-tion through interactive dashboards,enterprise reporting, scorecards, andexception alerts. In contrast to other busi-ness intelligence applications that provideonly reporting, or only dashboards, orrequire an intermediate data access layer,InetSoft’s business intelligence systemincludes analytics software and sophisti-cated reporting capabilities plus directaccess to almost any data source. The SOAand Java architecture delivers an embed-ding and integration-ready platform thatdelivers business intelligence within busi-ness processes. The latest release featuresseveral powerful advances in visualizationcapabilities, so that business users can getmore powerful, visually attractive interac-tive dashboards.

PRICING: Server-based pricing modelsstarting at $20,000.

INFORMATION BUILDERS

WebFOCUS

WebFOCUS is an enterprise businessintelligence platform. s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.informationbuilders.comFOUNDED: 1975SUMMARY: TheWebFOCUS platform,deployed on premise, includes self-opti-mizing autonomic servers with workload,traffic management, and capacity planningdesigned to eliminate complexity, improvesystem performance and reduce TCO. Theplatform also provides a unifying integra-tion infrastructure that accesses, recon-ciles, cleanses, and prepares data; service-oriented architecture support with theability to create, consume, and publishWeb services; and simplified developerand end-user interaction tools. WebFOCUSoffers a complete suite of integrated tools:reporting, dynamic information, deliverywith real-time alerts, an email distribution,report archiving, unique data visualization,query/analysis capabilities, and perform-ance measurement dashboards and score-cards. It also boasts a simplified developerand end-user interaction, with advancedvisualization and deep integration withdesktop products such as Microsoft Exceland Adobe PDF.

PRICING: Starts at $48,090 onWindows,and scales up depending on the platform.

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IQUBZ

JASPERSOFT

LOGIXML

LUCIDERA

MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

MYDIALS

NOETIX

OCO INC.

ORACLE

PANORAMASOFTWARE

PARACCEL

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IQUBZ

Hospitality Business Intelligence

IQubz Hospitality Business Intelligenceis designed to provide a consolidated andconsistent view of hospitality key perform-ance indicators (KPIs) for revenue manage-ment, sales and marketing analysis. 1s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.iqubz.comFOUNDED: 1998SUMMARY:With easy-to-navigate dash-boards, comprehensive scorecards, andfamiliar analysis tools, IQubz BI helps youplan, monitor and act with improvedinsights to maximize revenue, reduce costs,and gain competitive advantage. IQubz BIis accessible directly from Outlook and theWeb. You can create and publish your ownreports with a drag-and-drop ease usingExcel. It integrates with your existing on-property and central systems, and scalesas your business grows. IQubz HospitalityBI includes consolidated multi-propertyreporting for a side-by-side comparison ofproperties, brands and chains; sales andbusiness on the books analysis with year-over-year, budget, and forecast compar-isons; booking pickup and pace reporting;and predictive sales modeling. The tool isalso designed to help users with customersegmentation, prospect recommendationsand customer lifetime value predictivemodeling. 2

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

JASPERSOFT

JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite

JasperSoft BI Suite is an end-to-endcommercial open source BI platform thatprovides integrated reporting, analysisand data integration for business users. s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.jaspersoft.comFOUNDED: 2001SUMMARY: JasperSoft’s BI Suite providesWeb2.0 technologies coupled with advancedmetadata functionality. Product featuresinclude an interactiveWeb 2.0 interfacebuilt on an AJAX framework, dynamicHTML and other technologies that deliverthe ability to mash-up BI features. Thesuite also includes built-in chart types, theability to create and apply themes to cus-tomize chart appearance, and easy integra-tion with third-party visualization engines.Non-technical users can drag-and-drop tomake ad hoc queries and create reports onthe fly, and users can access any datasource—relational, XML, Hibernate, EJB,POJO, or custom—without knowing formalquery language. They can connect directlyto a data source or through business metadata layer; and schedule and automaticallydistribute reports. Jaspersoft’s ETL productcomes with a wide range of connectors andtransforms so you can respond to virtuallyany data integration request. With Jasper-soft, business users have the flexibility ofusing Excel or Web-based browser inter-faces—including mobile device browsers—or their analytical tasks. Jaspersoft’sreporting, data analysis, and data integra-tion are available either as an integratedsuite or as discrete applications that can bedeployed incrementally over time.

PRICING:Annual subscriptions begin around$15,000 for a 2-CPU Server. OEM pricing isbased on the number of customers in theOEM.

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LOGIXML

Logi Info

Logi Info is a flexible developmentenvironment for creatingWeb-baseddashboard, reporting and analysisapplications. s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.logixml.comFOUNDED: 2000SUMMARY: Logi Info offers users Web-baseddashboards, heat maps, GIS maps, animat-ed charts and graphs, automatic reportgeneration and alerts, actionable KPIs andmuch more. It enables users to generatebigger reports faster and to deploy them tomore concurrent users. It also gives reportdevelopers the power to extend data to theWeb and beyond, and gives users ways tovisualize information interactively. Userscan find out who the company’s best sales-person is or where the most profitablestore is located, by placing relevant mark-ers on a Google map, and drill down for abreakdown of the details. Logi Info allowsusers to use reporting formats familiar tothem, like PDF, Word and Excel, plus theability to export and email their reports inthe format they prefer. Logi Info has fea-tures like widgets that users can embed intheir reports, a Web scraper to easily gath-er data from other Web pages, text cloudsto add to reports, and more. Logi Info alsocan connect to Oracle, SQL, Web Services,Excel, and other data sources. 2

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

LOGIXML

Logi Ad Hoc

Logi Ad Hoc is designed to be anintuitive Web-based ad hoc reporting,analysis and dashboard tool for businessintelligence users. s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.logixml.comFOUNDED: 2000SUMMARY: : Easy to connect and to workwith, Logi Ad Hoc gives end users thepower to create and share their ownWeb-based ad hoc reports without burdening IT,and without knowing complex query lan-guage. Logi Ad Hoc can be deployed tounlimited users without paying additionalfees. System administrators can easily con-nect Logi Ad Hoc to whatever data sourceyou are using, including most of today’sdatabases, plus Excel, XML, Web Services,RSS feeds and much more. End users willfind ad hoc report creation intuitive thanksto a wizard-driven process with live reportpreview, and they will find it easy to save,share and export their reports in a varietyof common formats. 2

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

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MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

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NOETIX

OCO INC.

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LUCIDERA

LucidEra Enterprise

LucidEra is designed to enable VPsof Sales to increase revenues and forecastpredictably by delivering Software asa Service (SaaS) business intelligencevisibility and actionable insight. 1

COMPANYWEBSITE:www. lucidera.com/FOUNDED: 2005SUMMARY: LucidEra is designed to deliverfast, easy-to-use and affordable SaaS appli-cations that enable VPs of Sales to achievedramatic sales improvement today. With aspecific focus on Salesforce.com cus-tomers, LucidEra applications have enabledVPs of Sales to identify the 20% of deals inthe pipeline that are at risk and take action,determine that 80% of their resources arenot allocated to the right deals to maximizerevenue, and correctly assess historical winrates and cycle times and focus on thedeals that are moving the fastest throughthe pipeline. LucidEra Enterprise may bepurchased as a suite or as individual appli-cations—Lead Insight, Pipeline Insight, andOrder Insight.

PRICING: LucidEra SaaS BI application pricingbegins at $999/month with $100 and $30per user pricing.

MICROSOFT CORP.

SQL Server 2008

Microsoft SQL Server provides a scalablebusiness intelligence platform optimizedfor data integration, reporting, and analy-sis—enabling organizations to deliverintelligence where users want it. s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.microsoft.comFOUNDED: 1976SUMMARY:Microsoft SQL Server features theability to create high-performance AnalysisServices solutions with optimized cubedesigners, subspace computation, andMOLAP-enabled writeback capabilities.Users can implement enterprise-scaleReporting Services solutions through newon-demand processing and instance-basedreporting; build flexible and effectivereports with the new Tablix data structureand rich formatting capabilities; and ex-pand their reach and empower more usersthrough optimized integration with the2007Microsoft Office System. SQL Serverenables applications to store unstructureddata, such as documents and images,directly in the file system, yet retrieve themwith the same query access as relationaldata, so users can now manage multipledata types from within the database,including these newly supported formats:geographical/spatial, XML, filestream,date/time, and spatial indexes. New fea-tures include: data compression, backupcompression, partitioned table parallelism,star join query optimization, resource man-agement, grouping sets, MERGE SQL state-ments and scalable integration services.

PRICING*: Processor: $24,999 Example**:$23,911; Server Plus CAL: $13,969 with25 CALS; $162 per each additional CAL*All prices reflect pricing for purchases within the United Statesand are in U.S. dollars. The prices listed are estimated retailprices; reseller pricing may vary. **This is representative pricingfor a company purchasing a small number of Processor or Serverlicenses through Microsoft Volume Licensing.

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MICROSOFT CORP.

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OCO INC.

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MICROSTRATEGY

MicroStrategy 9

MicroStrategy supports a full rangeof business intelligence applicationsfrom a single, integrated platform,providing integrated reporting, analysis,and monitoring software. s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.microstrategy. comFOUNDED: 1989SUMMARY:MicroStrategy 9 delivers technol-ogy and features designed to extend enter-prise BI with enhancements for greaterscalability, performance and more efficientBI. MicroStrategy 9 includes new adaptivecaching technology called in-memoryROLAP (relational OLAP), which takesadvantage of the large addressable memo-ry now available on 64-bit Unix, Linux andWindows computer servers. It offers theability to present reports, dashboards orOLAP analyses in the local language ofbusiness users viewing the information.MicroStrategy 9 enables departments toset up BI applications quickly, providingend users with the ability to create reportsand dashboards and to distribute informa-tion with little or no IT support. Using thenewmulti-source ROLAP capability, meta-data and reports from departmental BIislands can be gradually merged into largerenterprise BI metadata, without movingany of the original data into data ware-houses or data marts. MicroStrategy 9 alsoenables companies to move their data fromdisparate databases into the data ware-house simply by ’re-pointing’ the metadatato access the same data, but at its newlocation, with no disruption to reports andno redesign required.

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

MYDIALS

myDIALS

myDIALS is designed to providereal-time visibility into keyperformance indicators (KPIs)via online dashboards. 1

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.mydials.comFOUNDED: 2006SUMMARY:myDIALS’ intuitive, interactiveonline dashboards present key perform-ance indicators (KPIs), specific to an indi-vidual’s position and industry, enablingdecision makers to easily visualize, analyzeand understand operational performance.KPIs are presented in real-time as metricschange and span multiple functional areasincluding finance, sales and production.KPIs support “value streams” aligned withbusiness processes. Metric information isextracted continuously from businessapplications and operational systems andis delivered to the myDIALS hosted appli-cation server. KPI and KPD metrics are cal-culated and made available to users. my-DIALS is delivered via Software as a Service(SaaS) and enables you to continuouslypursue performance improvement oppor-tunities—identify problems before theymanifest; analyze and interpret informationto understand the problem; know how torectify the situation, set actions and moni-tor the outcome. 2

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

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NOETIX

The Noetix Solution

Noetix provides software and services forinstant operational and ad-hoc reportingfrom Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoftEnterprise and Siebel CRM. s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.noetix.comFOUNDED: 1994SUMMARY:Noetix’s patented, metadata-dri-ven technology and lean architecture aredesigned to deliver immediate access todata. Noetix’s BI solution is designed to below-cost and easy to acquire, implementand maintain.NoetixViews: Noetix’s flagship product,

NoetixViews, greatly simplifies reportdevelopment against Oracle enterpriseapplications by automatically creating hun-dreds of easy-to-use business views of theunderlying database organized by function-al area. Available for Oracle E-BusinessSuite (including Release 12), Siebel CRMand PeopleSoft Enterprise.Noetix Platform: Noetix Platform is an

end-to-end BI reporting solution—com-plete with seamless integration toNoetixViews, secure query routing andmanagement and a web-based query toolfor report creation and modification.Noetix Generator: Noetix Generator

automatically generates NoetixViews intopopular business intelligence (BI) reportingtools such as SAP Business Objects, IBMCognos BI, Oracle BI and Oracle Discovererto accelerate access to Oracle E-BusinessSuite application data.

PRICING: NoetixViews starts at $25,000;Noetix Platform starts at $15,000; NoetixGenerator starts at $10,000.

OCO INC.

Oco BI Solutions

Rapidly deployed Software-as-a-Service(SaaS)-based business intelligence anddata warehousing solutions designedto help customers achieve ROI within90 days, while tripling their investment(3X ROI). Oco offers the option to deploySAP BusinessObjects OnDemand toolsthrough its strategic partnership withSAP. 1

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.oco-inc.com/FOUNDED: 1999SUMMARY:Oco’s SaaS-based BI solutionstake a unique, business-centric approachto business intelligence that provides abusiness relevant solution that leveragesa library of leading-edge, best-practicesanalytics. The solution includes data inte-gration, data warehousing and data visuali-zation capabilities, including interactivedashboards, what-if analysis tools, drillablereports, graphical key performance indica-tors, formatted reports and alerts that aretailored to each customer’s specific needs.Oco’s rapid deployment methodology

accelerates the deployment time by lever-aging proprietary tools, patented technolo-gy and pre-built data models to achieve liveproduction deployments in six to 10 weeks.Its BI solutions are delivered with Oco tak-ing the deployment risk with fixed-price,fixed-time contracts.Oco has the option of providing SAP

BusinessObjects’ BI tools, deployed in thesame On Demand model.

PRICING: Pricing begins at about $5,000per month. Oco does not have specific,per-user licensing.

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LUCIDERA

MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

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OCO INC.

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ORACLE

Oracle BusinessIntelligence Applications

Oracle Business IntelligenceApplications are pre-built BI toolsthat deliver role-based intelligenceto enable better decisions, actionsand business processes.s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.oracle.comFOUNDED: 1979SUMMARY:Oracle BI Applications are com-plete, pre-built BI tools. They enable organ-izations to gain greater insight and valuefrom a range of data sources and applica-tions, including the Oracle E-BusinessSuite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, Siebel CRM,and third-party systems such as SAP. TheBI tools are built on Oracle BI Suite EE,which enables organizations to realize thevalue of a packaged BI application such asrapid deployment and lower TCO. OracleBI Applications are available for Financial,Human Resources, Marketing, Procure-ment and Spend, Sales, Service, SupplyChain and Order Management, and arange of specialized industry analytics.

PRICING: Starting at $5,800 per user with a25-user minimum. Terms, conditions andrestrictions apply.

ORACLE

Oracle Business IntelligenceSuite Enterprise Edition Plus

Oracle Business Intelligence SuiteEnterprise Edition Plus (Oracle BI EE Plus)is a suite of BI products that delivers broadanalysis and reporting capabilities.s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.oracle.comFOUNDED: 1979SUMMARY:Oracle BI EE Plus features a uni-fied, modern architecture, and providesintelligence and analytics from data span-ning enterprise sources and applications.The product also bundles key Oracle Hype-rion reporting products for integratedreporting with Oracle Hyperion financialapplications. Oracle BI EE Plus alsoincludes interactive dashboards, full ad hocquery and analysis, proactive intelligencedelivery and alerts, enterprise and financialreporting, online analytical processing(OLAP) analysis and presentation, high-volume production reporting, real-timepredictive intelligence, and disconnectedanalytics, as well as integration withMicrosoft Office. Featuring a “hot-plug-gable” infrastructure, the product inte-grates with any data source extract, trans-form and load (ETL) tool, major businessapplication, application server, securityinfrastructure, portal technology, or otherfront-end and analytical tools.

PRICING: $2,000 per named user or$295,000 per processor.

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ORACLE

Oracle Essbase

Oracle Essbase is an OLAP serverproviding an environment for quicklydeveloping custom analytic and enterpriseperformance management applications.s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.oracle.comFOUNDED: 1979SUMMARY:With a rapid application develop-ment environment, Oracle Essbase enablesusers to quickly model complex businessscenarios. For example, Oracle Essbasemakes it easy for line-of-business person-nel to develop and manage analytic appli-cations that model complex scenarios,forecast the business, and perform “what-if” analyses in order to look into the future.Oracle Essbase supports fast queryresponse times for vast numbers of users,for large data sets and for complex busi-ness models. It is hot-pluggable across anydata source. Oracle Essbase delivers“speed-of-thought” query response time sousers can quickly understand the metricsthat influence business performance, askquestions and make informed decisions. Asingle point of maintenance makes it easyfor administrators to manage businessrules. It also enables line-of-business per-sonnel to drive application design and rapiditerations. The highly graphical “outline”technology makes it easy to build dimen-sions, hierarchies, metrics, and scenarios.Oracle Essbase supports both 32- and 64-bit computing across bothWindows andUnix operating environments—capable ofmassive scalability for enterprise-widedeployments.

PRICING: $184,000 per processor. Terms,conditions and restrictions apply.

PANORAMA SOFTWARE

Panorama NovaView

Panorama NovaView is designed to be acomprehensive, proactive business intelli-gence product suite with functionalityincluding analytics, reporting, dashboard-ing, scorecarding, advanced visualizationand modeling.s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.panorama.comFOUNDED: 1996SUMMARY:NovaView Analytics allows quickand easy query and analysis with an easy-to-use interface. Alerts and bubble-upexceptions can be distributed automatical-ly to help determine, for example, who isfalling behind in payments, what productline isn’t selling well, or what’s selling bet-ter than expected and needs to be quicklyrestocked. NovaView Flash Analytics wasdesigned in partnership with Google todeliver an intuitive analytics user interfaceand user experience to allow casual infor-mation workers to do what once used to bethe task of the experts: navigate throughlarge amounts of data to generate impor-tant business insights. NovaView SmartReporting creates and formats boardroom-ready reports with a few clicks of themouse. NovaView reports remain fullyinteractive and provide powerful visualiza-tion objects that can be embedded in yourreport. NovaView Dashboards yield a quickview of the health and trend lines of yourbusiness, based on a powerful KPI functionthat you can customize. Adding to theirutility is the dashboards’ ability to be inte-grated into commonly used portals, includ-ing SharePoint and mySAP Portal. 2

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

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PARACCEL

The ParAccel Analytic Database

The ParAccel Analytic Database is aDBMS platform for BI, data warehousingand analytics, designed for speed andsimplicity.s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.paraccel.comFOUNDED: 2005SUMMARY: The ParAccel Analytic Database(PADB) is designed to help solve your BIand analytic performance problems quick-ly. BI processing can be a DBMS challenge,especially if the DBMS wasn’t built for it.Why put a traditional database behind yourBI tool? To speed up performance, PADBuses proven techniques like massive paral-lelism, columnar orientation and compres-sion, plus a slew of other features like com-piled query, a customized interconnectprotocol and a patent-pending optimizer, todeliver fast analytic query performance onindustry-standard hardware, without tun-ing. PADB’s load-and-go simplicity andschema-neutral design are designed toallow you to “lift and shift” your applicationto eradicate poor performance in a matterof hours. The product can be deployed asenterprise software, or a hardware andsoftware appliance on your favorite brandof servers.

PRICING: PADB is priced per terabyte of userdata and is licensed as enterprise softwareor an appliance, or by subscription. Sub-scription pricing starts at $5,000 permonth.

PENTAHO

BI Suite Enterprise Edition Version 3

Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Editionis a commercial open source alternativefor business intelligence.s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.pentaho.comFOUNDED: 2004SUMMARY: Pentaho Open BI Suite providescomprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis,dashboards, data integration, data miningand a BI platform that have made it one ofthe world’s most widely deployed opensource BI suites. Pentaho’s commercialopen source business model eliminatessoftware license fees, providing support,services, and product enhancements via anannual subscription. In the years since Pen-taho’s inception as the pioneer in commer-cial open source BI, its products have beendownloaded more than 3 million times,with production deployments at companiesranging from small organizations to TheGlobal 2000. Pentaho BI Suite EnterpriseEdition provides additional capabilitiesincluding a comprehensive professionaltechnical support program, software main-tenance, enhanced software functionality,certified software, product expertise andsoftware assurance. 2

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

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PIVOTLINK

PivotLink

PivotLink is a Software as a Service (SaaS)analytics product that is designed to giveevery department the power, flexibility andsimplicity to answer critical business ques-tions and make the most profitable deci-sions for their company.1

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.pivotlink.com/FOUNDED: NASUMMARY: PivotLink is designed to make iteasy to add data from anywhere, and pub-lish and share reports and analysis withanyone. This is possible because of Piv-otLink’s Cloud Computing architecture,robust security, and granular sharingoptions that let users control who can seeand share data so that collaboration isdone safely. Delivered as a SaaS product,PivotLink offers a simple pay-as-you-gomodel with no up-front costs, secureaccess from anyWeb browser and a solu-tion that is intuitive to use and easy todeploy. PivotLink integrates data from mul-tiple enterprise applications and databasesso users get powerful insights into compa-ny operations and a single version of thetruth. PivotLink does not require theupfront design effort and cost associatedwith data cubes or pre-aggregated data,and users have the flexibility to designreports at any time, along any dimension. 2

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

QLIKTECH

Qlikview

QlikView is a business-analysis tooldesigned to simplify analysis for all depart-ments with access to business reports.s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.qlikview.comFOUNDED: 1993SUMMARY:QlikView is a business analysistool that offers all of the capabilities thattraditionally required a complex and costlysuite of products, on a single unified plat-form. QlikView provides flexible, ad hocanalysis capabilities, powerful analyticapplications and simple, printable reports.This allows organizations to deployQlikView for everyone – highly skilled ana-lysts doing ad hoc detailed reporting, exec-utives requiring a dashboard of criticalbusiness information, and plant supervi-sors analyzing output performance.QlikView utilizes patented in-memoryassociation technology to make sophisti-cated analysis and reporting dramaticallyeasier to deploy, use and maintain.QlikView takes advantage of 64-bit multi-core hardware platforms to allow thou-sands of users to access billions of recordsof data. The QlikView in-memory datamodel is designed to allow an integratedview of information through dashboards,ad hoc analysis, and reports – all from asingle platform. 2

PRICING:QlikView is priced per server andoffered under two pricing bundles:QlikView Small Business Edition andQlikView Enterprise Edition.

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SAP Business Objects XI

SAP BusinessObjects XI tools includeSAP BusinessObjects Enterprise software,as well as software for informationdiscovery and delivery; informationmanagement; and query, reporting andanalysis.1s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.sap.comFOUNDED: 1972SUMMARY:With SAP BusinessObjects XI,users can establish a business intelligenceplatform that provides immediate access totrusted business information. The productis designed to benefit end users by bringingtogether all the information required forconfident decision making; to achievealignment across people, teams, and thecompany’s business ecosystem; and toleverage a single, integrated platform formeeting BI and information managementneeds. By providing a platform for hetero-geneous environments, a refined userexperience for analysts and business users,and real-world BI deployment flexibility,SAP BusinessObjects XI delivers insightthrough a single, trusted BI platform and itredefines the way information empowersusers. SAP BusinessObjects XI is designedto deliver a true intelligence platform – onethat gives customers the best of executionand the best of strategy. It also providesthe means to align and connect strategiesin a closed-loop system.

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

SAP

SAP BusinessObjects Edge

SAP BusinessObjects Edge BusinessIntelligence (BI) is designed to be apowerful business intelligence choicefor midsized companies that want toimprove business processes, discover newopportunities, and gain a competitiveadvantage.s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.sap.comFOUNDED: 1972SUMMARY: SAP BusinessObjects Edge BIis a comprehensive, versatile midmarketsuite that delivers solutions that addressany business intelligence requirement—from flexible ad hoc reporting and analysis,to dashboards and visualization, to power-ful data integration and quality, as well asprepackaged data mart tools. SAP Busines-sObjects Edge BI brings together the sim-plicity and speed of search with the trustand analytical power of BI to provideimmediate answers to your business ques-tions. Users can leverage familiar keywordsearches to find information hidden in datasources, then navigate and explore directlyon data – without the need for existingreports or metrics. Through the pre-pack-aging of SAP BusinessObjects Polestar,end users benefit from easy-to-use searchcapabilities that can enable them to entera few search keywords and view andexplore results via an exploration panel;auto-generate charts for optimal results;and share results via email and other famil-iar formats.

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

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INTRO

SELECTING THEBEST BUSINESSINTELLIGENCE

TOOLS FOR YOURBUSINESS

INDEX

1010DATA

ACTUATE

ARCPLAN

BLINK LOGIC

BOARDINTERNATIONAL

IBM COGNOSSOFTWARE

INETSOFTTECHNOLOGY

INFORMATIONBUILDERS

IQUBZ

JASPERSOFT

LOGIXML

LUCIDERA

MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

MYDIALS

NOETIX

OCO INC.

ORACLE

PANORAMASOFTWARE

PARACCEL

PENTAHO

PIVOTLINK

QLIKTECH

SAP

SAS

STRATEGYCOMPANION

TIBCO

ABOUTSEARCHDATA-MANAGEMENT

.COM

METHODOLOGY

SAP

SAP NetWeaver BusinessWarehouse

SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouseunites a powerful business intelligenceplatform, a comprehensive set of tools,planning and simulation capabilities, anddata-warehousing functionality—deliveredthrough user-centric enterprise portaltechnology to provide a coherent,comprehensive solution.s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.sap.comFOUNDED: 1972SUMMARY: SAP NetWeaver BusinessWare-house brings together powerful analysistools, planning and simulation capabilities,and data-warehousing functionality—deliv-ered through user-centric enterprise portaltechnology. SAP NetWeaver BusinessWarehouse is designed to help users inte-grate data and transform it into practical,timely business information to drive sounddecision making, targeted action and solidbusiness results. SAP NetWeaver BusinessIntelligence includes capabilities for onlineanalytical processing, data mining andalerts, and provides a foundation foraccessing and presenting data, searchingfor patterns, and identifying exceptions.The SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator usescompressions, parallel in-memory process-ing, and search technologies to improve theperformance of queries, reduce administra-tion tasks, and shorten batch processes.Developed as an appliance on Intel proces-sors, the accelerator provides consistentlyfast response times, even as data volumes,number of users, and analytics increase.

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

SAS

Enterprise BI Server

SAS Enterprise BI Server is a compre-hensive, easy-to-use business intelligencesoftware product that integrates the powerof SAS analytics and data integration toshare insights that power better businessdecisions.s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.sas.com/FOUNDED: 1976SUMMARY: SAS Enterprise BI Server includesrole-based, self-service interfaces for alltypes of users within a well-defined IT gov-ernance framework and a centralized pointof administration, helping organizationssimplify and speed business intelligencedeployment. Through centrally manageddata, shared metadata and security, Enter-prise BI Server is designed to deliver con-sistent representation and control of infor-mation by providing reliable results thatcan be easily traced back to the source.This alleviates the repetitive task of validat-ing which reports or results are correct. Inaddition, integration with Microsoft Officeallows IT to retake control of ad hoc Exceluse without impeding users’ desire for thisfamiliar environment. SAS offers some ver-tical industry solutions in an SaaS model.

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

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INTRO

SELECTING THEBEST BUSINESSINTELLIGENCE

TOOLS FOR YOURBUSINESS

INDEX

1010DATA

ACTUATE

ARCPLAN

BLINK LOGIC

BOARDINTERNATIONAL

IBM COGNOSSOFTWARE

INETSOFTTECHNOLOGY

INFORMATIONBUILDERS

IQUBZ

JASPERSOFT

LOGIXML

LUCIDERA

MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

MYDIALS

NOETIX

OCO INC.

ORACLE

PANORAMASOFTWARE

PARACCEL

PENTAHO

PIVOTLINK

QLIKTECH

SAP

SAS

STRATEGYCOMPANION

TIBCO

ABOUTSEARCHDATA-MANAGEMENT

.COM

METHODOLOGY

SAS

SAS Visual BI

SAS Visual BI, powered by JMP software,provides dynamic business visualization,enabling business users to interactivelyexplore ideas and information, investigatepatterns and discover previously hiddenfacts through visual queries.s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.sas.com/FOUNDED: 1976SUMMARY:With SAS Visual BI, businessusers gain instantaneous insight into rela-tionships and patterns in data by viewingand interacting with information in waysthat static charts and Excel spreadsheetscannot match. Instead of developing com-plex data queries in SQL or a prompter,users can simply drag across points in agraph or click subsets in a mosaic plot.Because querying is designed to be simple,fast and dynamic, users can visually askand answer questions to derive additionalvalue from their information assets, with-out requiring IT services. With the ability toprocess up to 2 billion rows and an unlimit-ed number of columns and records, thetool is designed to enable users to explorevast amounts of data and handle large,real-world problems. See long-term trendsinstead of year-to-date views and creategraphics with many distinct variables, andwith motion-enabled graphics you canwatch as trends become clear.

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

STRATEGY COMPANION

Analyzer

Analyzer is a front-end product forMicrosoft SQL Server BI, including report-ing, analytics and dashboards.1s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.strategycompanion.com/home.aspFOUNDED: 2001SUMMARY: Strategy Companion Corporationis a provider of BI products focused solelyon the Microsoft SQL Server Platform.Analyzer provides a powerful front-endtool for the latest SQL server BI capabili-ties. It provides one integrated tool includ-ing reporting, analytics and dashboardsand supports multiple deployment options,including 100% zero footprint InternetExplorer, SharePoint, OEM, and Software asa Service (SaaS). Analyzer empowers busi-ness users with an easy-to-use set of ana-lytical tools, dramatically increasing thequality of their analysis and understandingof key business issues. Analyzer’sadvanced visualization, presentation andcollaboration capabilities are designed toallow analysts and decision makers toquickly see and communicate informationthat is relevant and intuitive, leading to bet-ter decisions. Users can be empowered tocreate their own reports, do their ownanalysis, and build their own scorecards,allowing them to manage corporate per-formance as it happens.

PRICING:No cost for user end licenses.Report Designer licenses start at $7,700for one, with lower costs at higher quanti-ties, and an unlimited number of ReportDesigner per production instance.

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INTRO

SELECTING THEBEST BUSINESSINTELLIGENCE

TOOLS FOR YOURBUSINESS

INDEX

1010DATA

ACTUATE

ARCPLAN

BLINK LOGIC

BOARDINTERNATIONAL

IBM COGNOSSOFTWARE

INETSOFTTECHNOLOGY

INFORMATIONBUILDERS

IQUBZ

JASPERSOFT

LOGIXML

LUCIDERA

MICROSOFT CORP.

MICROSTRATEGY

MYDIALS

NOETIX

OCO INC.

ORACLE

PANORAMASOFTWARE

PARACCEL

PENTAHO

PIVOTLINK

QLIKTECH

SAP

SAS

STRATEGYCOMPANION

TIBCO

ABOUTSEARCHDATA-MANAGEMENT

.COM

METHODOLOGY

TIBCO

Tibco Spotfire

The Spotfire Enterprise Analytic platformallows users to quickly discover newinsights in the information they work withevery day. Spotfire’s interactive, visualcapabilities for data analysis empowerindividuals to easily see trends, patterns,outliers and unanticipated relationshipsin data with unprecedented speed andadaptability.s

COMPANYWEBSITE:www.tibco.comFOUNDED: 1997SUMMARY: The TIBCO Spotfire EnterpriseAnalytics platform offers a fast businessintelligence experience that is designed tobe more adaptable to specific industry andbusiness challenges than traditional alter-natives. IT organizations benefit by deploy-ing a standardized yet highly customizableanalytics infrastructure—reducing opera-tional costs and improving scalability—thattakes their business intelligence invest-ment to the next level and delivers morevalue to the user community. The SpotfireEnterprise Analytics platform allows organ-izations in numerous industries and acrosscountless business processes and applica-tions to deliver new and actionable insightsfrom information. TIBCO Spotfire 2.2 deliv-ers big enhancements for users on thedesktop andWeb, as well as administratorsand developers, including analysis andreporting enhancements, improvements inperformance and scalability, developerenhancements and a new add-on productcalled Network Analytics for those lookingto gain new insights into complex networksof interactions. 2

PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

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