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ACTUATE HE BENEFITS OF business intelli - progression, and there is no method of ARCPLAN gence (BI) have been proven data access that is necessarily a “first BLINK LOGIC repeatedly. BI strikes at the port of call” for BI. Perhaps no technolo - BOARD INTERNATIONAL heart of the charter of a busi - gy term has been as overused as BI, so

IBM COGNOS ness—bottom-line improve - it is essential to dive much deeper than SOFTWARE ment. No longer speculative, BI the label and figure out which tools you INETSOFT provides tangible benefits to an really need in your organization. TECHNOLOGY enterprise’s revenue and expenses. BI is Selecting the right BI tool should INFORMATION t BUILDERS about getting the right data to the right start with requirements-gathering from

IQUBZ people at the right time. those accessing data. These “users” Historically, BI has meant whatever need a BI tool like a hole in the head. JASPERSOFT we do to data in our post-operational What they need is data access through LOGIXML data warehouses. That is not entirely the right mechanism (reports, alerts, LUCIDERA true anymore. BI is done everywhere— , interaction, etc.). Dust is MICROSOFT CORP. in our operational environments, such collecting on unused BI tools (“shelf- MICROSTRATEGY as ERP, supply chain and call center sys - ware”) the world over, while frustrated MYDIALS tems, as well as data warehouses and users live with what is “good enough.” NOETIX other post-operational analytical struc - The end result is that Microsoft Excel is OCO INC. tures. the most common BI tool. This is prob - ORACLE BI, of course, needs data to be viable, lematic. PANORAMA and sometimes that means setting up Ideally, the requirements-gathering SOFTWARE additional data stores with data in a process begins not with “what do you PARACCEL prepared state for the access. Some - want to see?” but with “what are your PENTAHO times there is a data store where BI business goals?” Together, the BI expert PIVOTLINK access is needed, and sometimes that and the user can then explore the QLIKTECH store needs to be built. However, data robust possibilities that today’s BI mar - SAP access is the layer in the data architec - ket offers. SAS ture that BI addresses. If the plumbing STRATEGY is robust but the presentation layer is COMPANION lacking, all is lost. This guide will look at BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS GATHERING TIBCO business intelligence vendors and Other questions to be asked during the methods. requirements-gathering phase for BI ABOUT There is no best or one-size-fits-all include: SEARCHDATA- MANAGEMENT tool on the market. Multiple BI tools will .COM be trained on any viable data store over 1. What are your short-term and METHODOLOGY the course of time. It’s an evolutionary long-term success criteria?

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 3 I INTRO 2. Where are you now, relative to that Data volatility. plan and your objectives? I Type of application. SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS 3. What is viewed as a success for I Integration needs with other INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR you and your team? systems. BUSINESS 4. How is your business changing? I Number of users and their locations INDEX How will it be different in five years? and roles. 5. What do you see as your compa - I Access schedule. 1010DATA ny’s strengths as well as its vulnera - ACTUATE bilities/weaknesses? There are dozens of products in the

ARCPLAN 6. Which operations/processes do marketplace that provide access to data

BLINK LOGIC you want to improve within your area stores, many of which offer various

BOARD of responsibility? types of analytic capability. INTERNATIONAL 7. What are the critical business deci - IBM COGNOS sions you make and/or critical busi - SOFTWARE ness questions you must answer in “One tool can fit INETSOFT order to achieve your objectives? TECHNOLOGY multiple uses, but INFORMATION 8. What information or insights do BUILDERS you need in order to address these there is no equivalent IQUBZ critical business issues and ques - JASPERSOFT tions? of an enterprise LOGIXML ‘Swiss army knife.’ ” During the requirements-gathering LUCIDERA —WILLIAM MCKNIGHT MICROSOFT CORP. phase, give only cursory consideration

MICROSTRATEGY to the data sources. Data source selec -

MYDIALS tion, or building new for BI, can best be determined once you have One tool can fit multiple uses, but NOETIX all the answers to the above questions. I there is no equivalent of an enterprise OCO INC. also advise considering likely future “Swiss army knife.” Therefore, it is ORACLE requirements in the process, even if essential that a company select and de- PANORAMA SOFTWARE they are not well formulated. Some - ploy a small number of tools with com -

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PENTAHO ments, you’ll have to reach out to an that together support the specific use experienced outside party with multiple and usage pattern of each class of PIVOTLINK full-lifecycle views of BI in your industry. users. Effective sites will have three to QLIKTECH four tools (for a midsized organization) SAP or five to 10 tools (at a large organiza - SAS INFRASTRUCTURE CHECK tion). STRATEGY COMPANION In order to aid the selection process, the Just as important as having comple -

TIBCO following information should be gath - mentary tools is not having any tools ered on a project-by-project basis early that compete (i.e., with similar features in the process for each user grouping: and benefits). It is simply too costly to ABOUT SEARCHDATA- buy, learn, deploy and support such MANAGEMENT I .COM Volumes/architecture of the data tools and to resolve conflicts among

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 4 INTRO strained. Choose a few tools well in Multidimensional access involves order to match explicit business needs building a structure separate from the SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS without proliferating. relational data store (a "cube") that is INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR optimized for high performance of a BUSINESS specific set of queries around a few INDEX CATEGORIES OF BI TOOLS dimensions and metrics. The marketplace requires BI buyers to Data mining has long been a means 1010DATA understand which tool best fits their to attain high business value from a ACTUATE needs. The terminology used is confus - ARCPLAN ing, with ingeniously subtle variations BLINK LOGIC on common themes used throughout “There are multiple BOARD because there aren't enough suitable INTERNATIONAL descriptive words to go around. ways BI tools can IBM COGNOS The categories of BI tools include: SOFTWARE provide access data,

INETSOFT TECHNOLOGY 1. Reporting tools but it is important INFORMATION 2. Desktop/traditional BI to understand the BUILDERS 3. Multidimensional tools IQUBZ 4. Data mining value that each JASPERSOFT 5. tools category provides.” LOGIXML —WILLIAM MCKNIGHT LUCIDERA There are multiple ways BI tools can

MICROSOFT CORP. provide access data, but it is important

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MYDIALS gory provides. ing discovery to explore and identify new business insight, it stands alone as NOETIX Reporting tools, often a first port, pro - vide enterprise reporting and analysis an access method. For all other forms of OCO INC. functionality that can support complex BI, you must understand ahead of time ORACLE needs. They provide users with multiple what you’re looking for. Algorithmic PANORAMA SOFTWARE software components that allow data to data mining, however, will make you

PARACCEL be accessed based on their particular aware of situations that may represent

PENTAHO needs. Ad hoc query or drill-down, new market opportunities or business problems that have yet to surface. PIVOTLINK slice-and-dice forms of analysis are best with desktop/traditional BI tools. Finally, data visualization tools pro - QLIKTECH Reporting tools produce the most vide a means of making sense of vast SAP varied forms in the easiest manner of all amounts of detailed information SAS the tools, but their ability to interact through plotting, charting and other - STRATEGY COMPANION with the reports is limited. Other tools, wise cutting through the volumes of

TIBCO like desktop BI tools, provide greater data to make visual sense. interactivity with the data. Specific reporting needs that are too complex in ABOUT SEARCHDATA- content, design, sourcing or format TOOL SELECTION MANAGEMENT .COM could continue to be handled with a A single tool can provide elements

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 5 INTRO a suite of tools from a vendor that will business intelligence purchase. Collect - meet all of your data access capabili - ing a profile of the existing architecture SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS ties. An organization’s strategy for ven - that BI will be integrating with is anoth - INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR dor management (i.e., one large vendor er important criterion. The category of BUSINESS vs. several smaller ones) should provide INDEX a strong rationale for the ultimate selection. 1010DATA BI tool selection is not an all-IT affair. “A single tool can ACTUATE Once the requirements have been gath - provide elements ARCPLAN ered, the infrastructure needs checked, of many categories, BLINK LOGIC and the tool categories matched to the BOARD requirements, users should be involved but more likely it is INTERNATIONAL in the process in order to aid adoption IBM COGNOS and acceptance of the tools. Users can a suite of tools from SOFTWARE provide feedback on the look-and-feel a vendor that will meet INETSOFT elements of the selection. If the organi - TECHNOLOGY all of your data access INFORMATION zation has made a decision about the BUILDERS data store upon which BI will be trained, capabilities.” IQUBZ then it might be effective to download —WILLIAM MCKNIGHT JASPERSOFT and test time-limited trial versions of LOGIXML the BI tools that have made it to the

LUCIDERA final round of the selection process. tool needed can then be determined

MICROSOFT CORP. and the tools short-listed and trialed in-

MICROSTRATEGY house, with users, in order to determine

MYDIALS CONCLUSION the best-fit BI tool to achieve the goal of the right data to the right people at the NOETIX It is important to understand the busi - ness requirements before making a right time. I OCO INC.

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SAS ABOUT THE AUTHOR STRATEGY COMPANION William McKnight , President at McKnight Consulting Group . TIBCO William is the president of McKnight Consulting Group. William functions as strategist, lead enterprise information architect and program manager for complex, high-volume, full life-cycle implementations worldwide—utilizing the disciplines of data warehousing, master data management (MDM), business ABOUT intelligence (BI), data quality and operational BI. McKnight is a Southwest Entrepreneur of the Year final - SEARCHDATA- ist, a frequent best-practices judge, has authored more than 150 articles and white papers and given over MANAGEMENT 150 international keynotes and public seminars. His team's implementations from both IT and consultant positions have .COM won Best Practices awards. He is a former IT VP of a Fortune company, a former engineer of DB2 at IBM and holds an MBA. He can be reached at [email protected] . METHODOLOGY

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 6 INTRO Index at a Glance SELECTING THE Click on the product name at left to jump to a longer description. BEST BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR SAAS OR ON BUSINESS PAGE VENDOR PRODUCTS SERVICES PREMISE SW 8 1010data 1010data 1 INDEX 8 Actuate e.Reports s 9 Actuate BIRT-based open-source platform s 1010DATA 9 Actuate e.Spreadsheet s ACTUATE 10 Arcplan arcplan Essentials s ARCPLAN 10 Blink Logic Blink Logic 1 BLINK LOGIC 11 Board International Board Toolkit s BOARD 11 IBM Cognos Software IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence s INTERNATIONAL 12 InetSoft Technology Style Intelligence s IBM COGNOS SOFTWARE 12 Information Builders WebFOCUS s

INETSOFT 13 IQubz Hospitality Business Intelligence 1 s TECHNOLOGY 13 JasperSoft JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite s INFORMATION 14 LogiXML Logi Info s BUILDERS 14 LogiXML Logi Ad Hoc s IQUBZ 15 LucidEra LucidEra Enterprise 1 JASPERSOFT 15 Microsoft Corp. SQL Server 2008 s LOGIXML 16 MicroStrategy MicroStrategy 9 s LUCIDERA 16 myDIALS myDIALS 1 MICROSOFT CORP. 17 Noetix The Noetix Solution s MICROSTRATEGY 17 Oco Inc. Oco BI Solutions 1 MYDIALS 18 Oracle Oracle Business Intelligence Applications s NOETIX 18 Oracle Oracle Business Intelligence Suite OCO INC. Enterprise Edition Plus s s ORACLE 19 Oracle Oracle Essbase 19 Panorama Software Panorama NovaView s PANORAMA SOFTWARE 20 ParAccel The ParAccel Analytic s PARACCEL 20 Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition Version 3 s

PENTAHO 21 PivotLink PivotLink 1

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QLIKTECH 22 SAP Business Objects XI 1 s s SAP 22 SAP SAP Business Objects Edge 23 SAP SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse s SAS 23 SAS Enterprise BI Server s STRATEGY COMPANION 24 SAS SAS Visual BI s

TIBCO 24 Strategy Companion Analyzer 1 s 25 Tibco Tibco Spotfire s

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

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SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS 1010data e.Reports INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS 1010data’s BI Service combines a back- Actuate’s core product, e.Reports, is a

INDEX end database and analytics tool to derive scalable platform designed for delivering insight directly from raw data. 1 high-fidelity reports to large numbers of report consumers, particularly in very 1010DATA COMPANY WEBSITE: www.1010data.com large extranet applications that serve ACTUATE FOUNDED: 2000 the financial and public sectors. s ARCPLAN SUMMARY: Offered in the Software as a Serv - BLINK LOGIC ice (SaaS) model, 1010data’s BI Service COMPANY WEBSITE: www.actuate.com BOARD offers a complete approach to performing FOUNDED: 1993 INTERNATIONAL the deepest analysis and deriving insight SUMMARY: Actuate’s core product, e.Reports, IBM COGNOS directly from raw data. 1010data combines is a scalable platform designed to help SOFTWARE a powerful back-end database with a flexi - organizations deliver high-fidelity reports INETSOFT TECHNOLOGY ble front-end tool. The data management to large numbers of report consumers, par - tool is architected to handle multi-terabyte ticularly in very large extranet applications INFORMATION BUILDERS databases at a lower cost than other data that serve the financial and public sectors.

IQUBZ management approaches. 1010data is The Actuate e.Report product line creates designed to allow companies to perform high-level, brochure-quality reports appro - JASPERSOFT true ad hoc analytics in seconds. With pri ate for distribution both inside and out- LOGIXML 1010data, users have all the back-end side the firewall. These reports can help LUCIDERA power they need to analyze and manage organizations represent the brand at its MICROSOFT CORP. data, coupled with front-end capabilities best to employees, investors, customers MICROSTRATEGY that fully realize that power. 1010data runs and partners—users that typically require MYDIALS on commodity hardware, providing a stan - information presented in a well-designed,

NOETIX dard, less rigid process that yields lower pixel-perfect layout. e.Reports also enables costs. 2 users to deploy and maintain rich informa - OCO INC. tion applications easily and quickly and the ORACLE PRICING: Starts at $50,000; price is based product integrates with existing applica - PANORAMA SOFTWARE on amount of data and the number and tions and portals. Available within every type of users to ensure proper service report is a navigation bar that provides PARACCEL levels. access to an automatically generated table PENTAHO of contents; search, analysis, and print and PIVOTLINK save options and page navigation tools. QLIKTECH Hyperlinks enable drill-to-detail, and SAP dynamic parameter pick lists help users

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SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS BIRT-based open-source platform e.Spreadsheet INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS Actuate’s BIRT-based open-source Actuate’s e.Spreadsheet reporting INDEX platform and products each provide a pro - technology is designed to address gramming environment. This Java-based spreadsheet distribution issues. In 2008, 1010DATA platform for building RIAs and mashups Actuate released its e.Spreadsheet

ACTUATE helps meet the authoring and interactivity Designer tool as freeware from its BIRT- needs of business users in smaller organiza - exchange community site. s ARCPLAN tions across a broad range of industries. s BLINK LOGIC COMPANY WEBSITE: www.actuate.com BOARD COMPANY WEBSITE: FOUNDED: INTERNATIONAL www.actuate.com 1993 FOUNDED: 1993 SUMMARY: Actuate’s e.Spreadsheet reporting IBM COGNOS SOFTWARE SUMMARY: Actuate’s BIRT-based open- technology is designed to address spread -

INETSOFT source platform and products each provide sheet distribution issues. In 2008, Actuate TECHNOLOGY a programming environment. (BIRT stands released its e.Spreadsheet Designer tool as INFORMATION for BI Reporting Tools, open source Eclipse- freeware from its BIRT-exchange communi - BUILDERS based reporting system.) This Java-based ty site. e.Spreadsheet is a spreadsheet IQUBZ platform for building Rich Internet applica - automation tool intended to simplify JASPERSOFT tions (RIAs) and mashups expands Actu - spreadsheet creation and enable users at LOGIXML ate’s product line beyond its traditional every skill level to participate in spread -

LUCIDERA niche to meet the authoring and interactivi - sheet design, modification and viewing. ty needs of business users in smaller organ - Actuate e.Spreadsheet securely provides MICROSOFT CORP. izations across a broad range of industries. live business data on demand as easy-to- MICROSTRATEGY Developed in collaboration with the Eclipse use and familiar Excel spreadsheets, with MYDIALS Foundation and countless developers, the all formatting, formulas and graphs intact. NOETIX Actuate BIRT tools offer options for creat - This can save users from having to refor - OCO INC. ing rich interactive reports, dashboards and mat from flat .CSV files; use custom script - ORACLE mashups and more. Interactive Viewer is an ing or unstable plug-ins; employ complicat -

PANORAMA ad hoc Web reporting tool that enables end ed querying; or cut, paste and manually SOFTWARE users to modify report views to suit their enter data, which invariably leads to entry PARACCEL needs. Report Studio is an ad hoc Web errors. Instead, users can receive complete

PENTAHO reporting tool that lets business users information direct from the source, pre-for - 2 PIVOTLINK develop their own reports based on tem - matted and ready for analysis . plates created by IT and/or developers. QLIKTECH Both BIRT Designer and BIRT Designer Pro PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing. SAP enable IT and developers to create tem - SAS plates and reports that can be accessed STRATEGY within the Actuate framework and used by COMPANION both business and end users. With Flash TIBCO and Dashboards, BIRT reports can arrive in any format, including (Flash) dashboards ABOUT that users can customize to meet their own SEARCHDATA- 2 MANAGEMENT reporting needs. .COM

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 9 INTRO ARCPLAN BLINK LOGIC

SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS arcplan Essentials Blink Logic INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS arcplan Essentials for SAP is designed Blink Logic is designed to give users, INDEX to enable SAP clients to quickly and customers and partners just the cost-effectively deliver information-rich, information they need, when they need 1010DATA user-defined BI applications beyond it, so they can get insights and take

ACTUATE either embedded or newly acquired action. 1 SAP tools. s ARCPLAN COMPANY WEBSITE: www.blinklogic.com BLINK LOGIC COMPANY WEBSITE: www.arcplan.com/ FOUNDED: 2000 BOARD SUMMARY: INTERNATIONAL home.cfm Blink Logic is a secure, easy-to- FOUNDED: 1993 use, self-service business intelligence tool IBM COGNOS SOFTWARE SUMMARY: arcplan Essentials is a third- that includes: dashboards, analytics, col -

INETSOFT party BI tool for SAP environments. arcplan laboration, annotation, KPI monitoring, TECHNOLOGY Essentials for SAP delivers ad hoc reporting notifications to smartphones, location INFORMATION and visual dashboards that offer federated intelligence, Web reports and export to BUILDERS query and write back to SAP and non-SAP Excel and PDF. Blink Logic’s intuitive tools IQUBZ data sources. arcplan Enterprise, the core of and interface ensure that end users are JASPERSOFT the arcplan Essentials for SAP package, is a self-sufficient from Day 1, creating their LOGIXML complete environment for composing and own charts, graphs, tables, views and Web

LUCIDERA running BI applications. It includes capabili - reports with less than 30 minutes of train - ties for data integration, data visualization ing. Because it is delivered via Software as MICROSOFT CORP. and report composition and includes group a Service (SaaS), Blink Logic takes the bur - MICROSTRATEGY collaboration capabilities. The product has den of installation and management off IT, MYDIALS strong federated query capabilities across and it is available via a monthly subscrip - NOETIX enterprise resource planning (ERP), rela - tion model to fit every budget. 2 OCO INC. tional database management system ORACLE (RDBMS), OLAP, corporate performance PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

PANORAMA management (CPM) and other BI systems, SOFTWARE making arcplan attractive in heterogeneous PARACCEL environments or as a means of integrating

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 10 INTRO BOARD INTERNATIONAL IBM COGNOS SOFTWARE

SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS Board Toolkit IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS Board International is a well-integrated IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence INDEX BI platform focused on developing and delivers a range of BI capabilities deploying custom analytic applications. s on a single, service-oriented architecture 1010DATA (SOA). s

ACTUATE COMPANY WEBSITE: www.board.com/IN/ Home COMPANY WEBSITE: www.cognos.com ARCPLAN FOUNDED: 1994 FOUNDED: 1969 BLINK LOGIC SUMMARY: Board’s “toolkit” approach to SUMMARY: IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelli - BOARD INTERNATIONAL BI application allows users to update, pres - gence offers organizations a Web-based, ent and analyze data and process modeling complete tool for all components of the IBM COGNOS SOFTWARE in a single graphical environment without reporting lifecycle: collaborative reporting;

INETSOFT programming. Board Management Intelli - enterprise-wide report types; reports that TECHNOLOGY gence Toolkit is designed to help organiza - can be authored once and consumed any - INFORMATION tions improve the effectiveness of their where; and a system that is adaptable to BUILDERS management decision-making processes. other data sources. Users can author, IQUBZ The BOARD platform effectively unifies share, and use reports that draw data JASPERSOFT Business Intelligence and Corporate Per - across all enterprise sources to aid better LOGIXML formance Management in a single integrat - business decisions. IBM Cognos 8 BI

LUCIDERA ed product, including applications for plan - Analysis is based on IBM Cognos Power - ning, budgeting, forecasting, profitability Play, an OLAP and analysis software. The MICROSOFT CORP. analysis, what-if scenarios, scorecarding, new analysis capability with IBM Cognos MICROSTRATEGY dashboards and consolidation. Functionali - 8 BI expands this functionality to cover a MYDIALS ty includes reporting, monitoring, data nav - complete range of data sources and to pro - NOETIX igation, data distribution, and ETL/data vide seamless movement among reports, OCO INC. integration. BOARD can be used to source queries and analysis. 2 ORACLE your data from disparate systems (ETL),

PANORAMA consolidate it (MOLAP/ROLAP) and rapid - PRICING: IBM Cognos has a role-based pric - SOFTWARE ly build custom BI and CPM applications. 2 ing model for IBM Cognos 8 Business Intel - PARACCEL ligence. Price per role varies, depending on

PENTAHO PRICING: The Board Toolkit begins at whether the license is for a consumer,

PIVOTLINK $10,000, with user licenses starting at author or administrator role. License pric - $350. ing is subject to volume discounts, so pric - QLIKTECH ing for the product can vary depending on SAP the scope of the client implementation. SAS

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 11 INTRO INETSOFT TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION BUILDERS

SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS Style Intelligence WebFOCUS INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS InetSoft Style Intelligence is an operational WebFOCUS is an enterprise business INDEX business intelligence platform that uses intelligence platform. s a visualization-driven approach to address 1010DATA reporting, analysis, and dashboard needs, COMPANY WEBSITE: www.

ACTUATE in a unified, easy-to-use business intelli - informationbuilders.com gence tool. s FOUNDED: 1975 ARCPLAN SUMMARY: The WebFOCUS platform, BLINK LOGIC COMPANY WEBSITE: www.inetsoft.com deployed on premise, includes self-opti - BOARD FOUNDED: INTERNATIONAL 1996 mizing autonomic servers with workload, SUMMARY: InetSoft’s business intelligence traffic management, and capacity planning IBM COGNOS SOFTWARE software leverages a powerful patent- designed to eliminate complexity, improve

INETSOFT pending Data Block foundation for real- system performance and reduce TCO. The TECHNOLOGY time data mashups and presents informa - platform also provides a unifying integra - INFORMATION tion through interactive dashboards, tion infrastructure that accesses, recon - BUILDERS enterprise reporting, scorecards, and ciles, cleanses, and prepares data; service- IQUBZ exception alerts. In contrast to other busi - oriented architecture support with the JASPERSOFT ness intelligence applications that provide ability to create, consume, and publish LOGIXML only reporting, or only dashboards, or Web services; and simplified developer

LUCIDERA require an intermediate data access layer, and end-user interaction tools. WebFOCUS InetSoft’s business intelligence system offers a complete suite of integrated tools: MICROSOFT CORP. includes analytics software and sophisti - reporting, dynamic information, delivery MICROSTRATEGY cated reporting capabilities plus direct with real-time alerts, an email distribution, MYDIALS access to almost any data source. The SOA report archiving, unique data visualization, NOETIX and Java architecture delivers an embed - query/analysis capabilities, and perform - OCO INC. ding and integration-ready platform that ance measurement dashboards and score - ORACLE delivers business intelligence within busi - cards. It also boasts a simplified developer

PANORAMA ness processes. The latest release features and end-user interaction, with advanced SOFTWARE several powerful advances in visualization visualization and deep integration with PARACCEL capabilities, so that business users can get desktop products such as Microsoft Excel

PENTAHO more powerful, visually attractive interac - and Adobe PDF.

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 12 INTRO IQUBZ JASPERSOFT

SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS Hospitality Business Intelligence JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS IQubz Hospitality Business Intelligence JasperSoft BI Suite is an end-to-end INDEX is designed to provide a consolidated and commercial open source BI platform that consistent view of hospitality key perform - provides integrated reporting, analysis 1010DATA ance indicators (KPIs) for revenue manage - and data integration for business users. s

ACTUATE ment, sales and marketing analysis. 1s COMPANY WEBSITE: www.jaspersoft.com ARCPLAN COMPANY WEBSITE: www.iqubz.com FOUNDED: 2001 BLINK LOGIC FOUNDED: 1998 SUMMARY: JasperSoft’s BI Suite provides Web BOARD SUMMARY: INTERNATIONAL With easy-to-navigate dash - 2.0 technologies coupled with advanced boards, comprehensive scorecards, and metadata functionality. Product features IBM COGNOS SOFTWARE familiar analysis tools, IQubz BI helps you include an interactive Web 2.0 interface

INETSOFT plan, monitor and act with improved built on an AJAX framework, dynamic TECHNOLOGY insights to maximize revenue, reduce costs, HTML and other technologies that deliver INFORMATION and gain competitive advantage. IQubz BI the ability to mash-up BI features. The BUILDERS is accessible directly from Outlook and the suite also includes built-in chart types, the IQUBZ Web. You can create and publish your own ability to create and apply themes to cus - JASPERSOFT reports with a drag-and-drop ease using tomize chart appearance, and easy integra - LOGIXML Excel. It integrates with your existing on- tion with third-party visualization engines.

LUCIDERA property and central systems, and scales Non-technical users can drag-and-drop to as your business grows. IQubz Hospitality make ad hoc queries and create reports on MICROSOFT CORP. BI includes consolidated multi-property the fly, and users can access any data MICROSTRATEGY reporting for a side-by-side comparison of source—relational, XML, Hibernate, EJB, MYDIALS properties, brands and chains; sales and POJO, or custom—without knowing formal NOETIX business on the books analysis with year- query language. They can connect directly OCO INC. over-year, budget, and forecast compar - to a data source or through business meta ORACLE isons; booking pickup and pace reporting; data layer; and schedule and automatically

PANORAMA and predictive sales modeling. The tool is distribute reports. Jaspersoft’s ETL product SOFTWARE also designed to help users with customer comes with a wide range of connectors and PARACCEL segmentation, prospect recommendations transforms so you can respond to virtually

PENTAHO and customer lifetime value predictive any data integration request. With Jasper - 2 PIVOTLINK modeling . soft, business users have the flexibility of using Excel or Web-based browser inter - QLIKTECH PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing. faces—including mobile device browsers— SAP or their analytical tasks. Jaspersoft’s SAS reporting, data analysis, and data integra - STRATEGY tion are available either as an integrated COMPANION suite or as discrete applications that can be TIBCO deployed incrementally over time .

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 13 INTRO LOGIXML LOGIXML

SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS Logi Info Logi Ad Hoc INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS Logi Info is a flexible development Logi Ad Hoc is designed to be an INDEX environment for creating Web-based intuitive Web-based ad hoc reporting, dashboard, reporting and analysis analysis and dashboard tool for business 1010DATA applications. s intelligence users. s

ACTUATE COMPANY WEBSITE: www.logixml.com COMPANY WEBSITE: www.logixml.com ARCPLAN FOUNDED: 2000 FOUNDED: 2000 BLINK LOGIC SUMMARY: Logi Info offers users Web-based SUMMARY: : Easy to connect and to work BOARD INTERNATIONAL dashboards, heat maps, GIS maps, animat - with, Logi Ad Hoc gives end users the ed charts and graphs, automatic report power to create and share their own Web- IBM COGNOS SOFTWARE generation and alerts, actionable KPIs and based ad hoc reports without burdening IT,

INETSOFT much more. It enables users to generate and without knowing complex query lan - TECHNOLOGY bigger reports faster and to deploy them to guage. Logi Ad Hoc can be deployed to INFORMATION more concurrent users. It also gives report unlimited users without paying additional BUILDERS developers the power to extend data to the fees. System administrators can easily con - IQUBZ Web and beyond, and gives users ways to nect Logi Ad Hoc to whatever data source JASPERSOFT visualize information interactively. Users you are using, including most of today’s LOGIXML can find out who the company’s best sales - databases, plus Excel, XML, Web Services,

LUCIDERA person is or where the most profitable RSS feeds and much more. End users will store is located, by placing relevant mark - find ad hoc report creation intuitive thanks MICROSOFT CORP. ers on a Google map, and drill down for a to a wizard-driven process with live report MICROSTRATEGY breakdown of the details. Logi Info allows preview, and they will find it easy to save, MYDIALS users to use reporting formats familiar to share and export their reports in a variety NOETIX them, like PDF, Word and Excel, plus the of common formats. 2 OCO INC. ability to export and email their reports in ORACLE the format they prefer. Logi Info has fea - PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing.

PANORAMA tures like widgets that users can embed in SOFTWARE their reports, a Web scraper to easily gath - PARACCEL er data from other Web pages, text clouds

PENTAHO to add to reports, and more. Logi Info also

PIVOTLINK can connect to Oracle, SQL, Web Services, Excel, and other data sources. 2 QLIKTECH

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 14 INTRO LUCIDERA MICROSOFT CORP.

SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS LucidEra Enterprise SQL Server 2008 INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS LucidEra is designed to enable VPs Microsoft SQL Server provides a scalable INDEX of Sales to increase revenues and forecast business intelligence platform optimized predictably by delivering Software as for data integration, reporting, and analy - 1010DATA a Service (SaaS) business intelligence sis—enabling organizations to deliver

ACTUATE visibility and actionable insight. 1 intelligence where users want it. s

ARCPLAN COMPANY WEBSITE: www. lucidera.com/ COMPANY WEBSITE: www.microsoft.com BLINK LOGIC FOUNDED: 2005 FOUNDED: 1976 BOARD SUMMARY: SUMMARY: INTERNATIONAL LucidEra is designed to deliver Microsoft SQL Server features the fast, easy-to-use and affordable SaaS appli - ability to create high-performance Analysis IBM COGNOS SOFTWARE cations that enable VPs of Sales to achieve Services solutions with optimized cube

INETSOFT dramatic sales improvement today. With a designers, subspace computation, and TECHNOLOGY specific focus on .com cus - MOLAP-enabled writeback capabilities. INFORMATION tomers, LucidEra applications have enabled Users can implement enterprise-scale BUILDERS VPs of Sales to identify the 20% of deals in Reporting Services solutions through new IQUBZ the pipeline that are at risk and take action, on-demand processing and instance-based JASPERSOFT determine that 80% of their resources are reporting; build flexible and effective LOGIXML not allocated to the right deals to maximize reports with the new Tablix data structure

LUCIDERA revenue, and correctly assess historical win and rich formatting capabilities; and ex- rates and cycle times and focus on the pand their reach and empower more users MICROSOFT CORP. deals that are moving the fastest through through optimized integration with the MICROSTRATEGY the pipeline. LucidEra Enterprise may be 2007 Microsoft Office System. SQL Server MYDIALS purchased as a suite or as individual appli - enables applications to store unstructured NOETIX cations—Lead Insight, Pipeline Insight, and data, such as documents and images, OCO INC. Order Insight. directly in the file system, yet retrieve them ORACLE with the same query access as relational

PANORAMA PRICING: LucidEra SaaS BI application pricing data, so users can now manage multiple SOFTWARE begins at $999/month with $100 and $30 data types from within the database, PARACCEL per user pricing. including these newly supported formats:

PENTAHO geographical/spatial, XML, filestream,

PIVOTLINK date/time, and spatial indexes. New fea - tures include: data compression, backup QLIKTECH compression, partitioned table parallelism, SAP star join query optimization, resource man - SAS agement, grouping sets, MERGE SQL state - STRATEGY ments and scalable integration services. COMPANION

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 15 INTRO MICROSTRATEGY MYDIALS

SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS MicroStrategy 9 myDIALS INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS MicroStrategy supports a full range myDIALS is designed to provide INDEX of business intelligence applications real-time visibility into key from a single, integrated platform, performance indicators (KPIs) 1010DATA providing integrated reporting, analysis, via online dashboards. 1

ACTUATE and monitoring software. s COMPANY WEBSITE: www.mydials.com ARCPLAN COMPANY WEBSITE: www.microstrategy. com FOUNDED: 2006 BLINK LOGIC FOUNDED: 1989 SUMMARY: myDIALS’ intuitive, interactive BOARD SUMMARY: INTERNATIONAL MicroStrategy 9 delivers technol - online dashboards present key perform - ogy and features designed to extend enter - ance indicators (KPIs), specific to an indi - IBM COGNOS SOFTWARE prise BI with enhancements for greater vidual’s position and industry, enabling

INETSOFT scalability, performance and more efficient decision makers to easily visualize, analyze TECHNOLOGY BI. MicroStrategy 9 includes new adaptive and understand operational performance. INFORMATION caching technology called in-memory KPIs are presented in real-time as metrics BUILDERS ROLAP (relational OLAP), which takes change and span multiple functional areas IQUBZ advantage of the large addressable memo - including finance, sales and production. JASPERSOFT ry now available on 64-bit Unix, Linux and KPIs support “value streams” aligned with LOGIXML Windows computer servers. It offers the business processes. Metric information is

LUCIDERA ability to present reports, dashboards or extracted continuously from business OLAP analyses in the local language of applications and operational systems and MICROSOFT CORP. business users viewing the information. is delivered to the myDIALS hosted appli - MICROSTRATEGY MicroStrategy 9 enables departments to cation server. KPI and KPD metrics are cal - MYDIALS set up BI applications quickly, providing culated and made available to users. my- NOETIX end users with the ability to create reports DIALS is delivered via Software as a Service OCO INC. and dashboards and to distribute informa - (SaaS) and enables you to continuously ORACLE tion with little or no IT sup port. Using the pursue performance improvement oppor -

PANORAMA new multi-source ROLAP capability, meta - tunities—identify problems before they SOFTWARE data and reports from departmental BI manifest; analyze and interpret information PARACCEL islands can be gradually merged into larger to understand the problem; know how to

PENTAHO enterprise BI metadata, without moving rectify the situation, set actions and moni - 2 PIVOTLINK any of the original data into data ware - tor the outcome. houses or data marts. MicroStrategy 9 also QLIKTECH enables companies to move their data from PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing. SAP disparate databases into the data ware - SAS house simply by ’re-pointing’ the metadata STRATEGY to access the same data, but at its new COMPANION location, with no disruption to reports and TIBCO no redesign required.

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 16 INTRO NOETIX OCO INC.

SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS The Noetix Solution Oco BI Solutions INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS Noetix provides software and services for Rapidly deployed Software-as-a-Service INDEX instant operational and ad-hoc reporting (SaaS)-based business intelligence and from Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft data warehousing solutions designed 1010DATA Enterprise and Siebel CRM. s to help customers achieve ROI within

ACTUATE 90 days, while tripling their investment COMPANY WEBSITE: www.noetix.com (3X ROI). Oco offers the option to deploy ARCPLAN FOUNDED: 1994 SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand tools BLINK LOGIC SUMMARY: Noetix’s patented, metadata-dri - through its strategic partnership with BOARD 1 INTERNATIONAL ven technology and lean architecture are SAP. designed to deliver immediate access to IBM COGNOS SOFTWARE data. Noetix’s BI solution is designed to be COMPANY WEBSITE: www.oco-inc.com/

INETSOFT low-cost and easy to acquire, implement FOUNDED: 1999 TECHNOLOGY and maintain. SUMMARY: Oco’s SaaS-based BI solutions INFORMATION NoetixViews: Noetix’s flagship product, take a unique, business-centric approach BUILDERS NoetixViews, greatly simplifies report to business intelligence that provides a IQUBZ development against Oracle enterprise business relevant solution that leverages JASPERSOFT applications by automatically creating hun - a library of leading-edge, best-practices LOGIXML dreds of easy-to-use business views of the analytics. The solution includes data inte -

LUCIDERA underlying database organized by function - gration, data warehousing and data visuali - al area. Available for Oracle E-Business zation capabilities, including interactive MICROSOFT CORP. Suite (including Release 12), Siebel CRM dashboards, what-if analysis tools, drillable MICROSTRATEGY and PeopleSoft Enterprise. reports, graphical key performance indica - MYDIALS Noetix Platform: Noetix Platform is an tors, formatted reports and alerts that are NOETIX end-to-end BI reporting solution—com - tailored to each customer’s specific needs. OCO INC. plete with seamless integration to Oco’s rapid deployment methodology ORACLE NoetixViews, secure query routing and accelerates the deployment time by lever -

PANORAMA management and a web-based query tool aging proprietary tools, patented technolo - SOFTWARE for report creation and modification. gy and pre-built data models to achieve live PARACCEL Noetix Generator: Noetix Generator production deployments in six to 10 weeks.

PENTAHO automatically generates NoetixViews into Its BI solutions are delivered with Oco tak -

PIVOTLINK popular business intelligence (BI) reporting ing the deployment risk with fixed-price, tools such as SAP Business Objects, IBM fixed-time contracts. QLIKTECH Cognos BI, Oracle BI and Oracle Discoverer Oco has the option of providing SAP SAP to accelerate access to Oracle E-Business BusinessObjects’ BI tools, deployed in the SAS Suite application data. same On Demand model. STRATEGY COMPANION PRICING: NoetixViews starts at $25,000; PRICING: Pricing begins at about $5,000 TIBCO Noetix Platform starts at $15,000; Noetix per month. Oco does not have specific, Generator starts at $10,000. per-user licensing. ABOUT SEARCHDATA- MANAGEMENT .COM

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 17 INTRO ORACLE ORACLE

SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS Oracle Business Oracle Business Intelligence INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR Intelligence Applications Suite Enterprise Edition Plus BUSINESS INDEX Oracle Business Intelligence Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Applications are pre-built BI tools Enterprise Edition Plus (Oracle BI EE Plus) 1010DATA that deliver role-based intelligence is a suite of BI products that delivers broad

ACTUATE to enable better decisions, actions analysis and reporting capabilities . s and business processes . s ARCPLAN COMPANY WEBSITE: www.oracle.com BLINK LOGIC COMPANY WEBSITE: www.oracle.com FOUNDED: 1979 BOARD FOUNDED: SUMMARY: INTERNATIONAL 1979 Oracle BI EE Plus features a uni - SUMMARY: Oracle BI Applications are com - fied, modern architecture, and provides IBM COGNOS SOFTWARE plete, pre-built BI tools. They enable organ - intelligence and analytics from data span -

INETSOFT izations to gain greater insight and value ning enterprise sources and applications. TECHNOLOGY from a range of data sources and applica - The product also bundles key Oracle Hype - INFORMATION tions, including the Oracle E-Business rion reporting products for integrated BUILDERS Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, Siebel CRM, reporting with Oracle Hyperion financial IQUBZ and third-party systems such as SAP. The applications. Oracle BI EE Plus also JASPERSOFT BI tools are built on Oracle BI Suite EE, includes interactive dashboards, full ad hoc LOGIXML which enables organizations to realize the query and analysis, proactive intelligence

LUCIDERA value of a packaged BI application such as delivery and alerts, enterprise and financial rapid deployment and lower TCO. Oracle reporting, online analytical processing MICROSOFT CORP. BI Applications are available for Financial, (OLAP) analysis and presentation, high- MICROSTRATEGY Human Resources, Marketing, Procure - volume production reporting, real-time MYDIALS ment and Spend, Sales, Service, Supply predictive intelligence, and disconnected NOETIX Chain and Order Management, and a analytics, as well as integration with OCO INC. range of specialized industry analytics . Microsoft Office. Featuring a “hot-plug - ORACLE gable” infrastructure, the product inte -

PANORAMA PRICING: Starting at $5,800 per user with a grates with any data source extract, trans - SOFTWARE 25-user minimum. Terms, conditions and form and load (ETL) tool, major business PARACCEL restrictions apply. application, application server, security

PENTAHO infrastructure, portal technology, or other

PIVOTLINK front-end and analytical tools .

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

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 18 INTRO ORACLE PANORAMA SOFTWARE

SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS Oracle Essbase Panorama NovaView INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS Oracle Essbase is an OLAP server Panorama NovaView is designed to be a INDEX providing an environment for quickly comprehensive, proactive business intelli - developing custom analytic and enterprise gence product suite with functionality 1010DATA performance management applications . s including analytics, reporting, dashboard -

ACTUATE ing, scorecarding, advanced visualization COMPANY WEBSITE: www.oracle.com and modeling . s ARCPLAN FOUNDED: 1979 BLINK LOGIC SUMMARY: With a rapid application develop - COMPANY WEBSITE: www.panorama.com BOARD FOUNDED: INTERNATIONAL ment environment, Oracle Essbase enables 1996 users to quickly model complex business SUMMARY: NovaView Analytics allows quick IBM COGNOS SOFTWARE scenarios. For example, Oracle Essbase and easy query and analysis with an easy-

INETSOFT makes it easy for line-of-business person - to-use interface. Alerts and bubble-up TECHNOLOGY nel to develop and manage analytic appli - exceptions can be distributed automatical - INFORMATION cations that model complex scenarios, ly to help determine, for example, who is BUILDERS forecast the business, and perform “what- falling behind in payments, what product IQUBZ if” analyses in order to look into the future. line isn’t selling well, or what’s selling bet - JASPERSOFT Oracle Essbase supports fast query ter than expected and needs to be quickly LOGIXML response times for vast numbers of users, restocked. NovaView Flash Analytics was

LUCIDERA for large data sets and for complex busi - designed in partnership with Google to ness models. It is hot-pluggable across any deliver an intuitive analytics user interface MICROSOFT CORP. data source. Oracle Essbase delivers and user experience to allow casual infor - MICROSTRATEGY “speed-of-thought” query response time so mation workers to do what once used to be MYDIALS users can quickly understand the metrics the task of the experts: navigate through NOETIX that influence business performance, ask large amounts of data to generate impor - OCO INC. questions and make informed decisions. A tant business insights. NovaView Smart ORACLE single point of maintenance makes it easy Reporting creates and formats boardroom-

PANORAMA for administrators to manage business ready reports with a few clicks of the SOFTWARE rules. It also enables line-of-business per - mouse. NovaView reports remain fully PARACCEL sonnel to drive application design and rapid interactive and provide powerful visualiza -

PENTAHO iterations. The highly graphical “outline” tion objects that can be embedded in your

PIVOTLINK technology makes it easy to build dimen - report. NovaView Dashboards yield a quick sions, hierarchies, metrics, and scenarios. view of the health and trend lines of your QLIKTECH Oracle Essbase supports both 32- and 64- business, based on a powerful KPI function SAP bit computing across both Windows and that you can customize. Adding to their SAS Unix operating environments—capable of utility is the dashboards’ ability to be inte - STRATEGY massive scalability for enterprise-wide grated into commonly used portals, includ - COMPANION deployments . ing SharePoint and mySAP Portal . 2 TIBCO

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 19 INTRO PARACCEL PENTAHO

SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS The ParAccel Analytic Database BI Suite Enterprise Edition Version 3 INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS The ParAccel Analytic Database is a Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition

INDEX DBMS platform for BI, data warehousing is a commercial open source alternative and analytics, designed for speed and for business intelligence. s simplicity . s 1010DATA COMPANY WEBSITE: www.pentaho.com ACTUATE COMPANY WEBSITE: www.paraccel.com FOUNDED: 2004 ARCPLAN FOUNDED: 2005 SUMMARY: Pentaho Open BI Suite provides BLINK LOGIC SUMMARY: The ParAccel Analytic Database comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, BOARD (PADB) is designed to help solve your BI dashboards, data integration, data mining INTERNATIONAL and analytic performance problems quick - and a BI platform that have made it one of IBM COGNOS ly. BI processing can be a DBMS challenge, the world’s most widely deployed open SOFTWARE especially if the DBMS wasn’t built for it. source BI suites. Pentaho’s commercial INETSOFT TECHNOLOGY Why put a traditional database behind your open source business model eliminates BI tool? To speed up performance, PADB software license fees, providing support, INFORMATION BUILDERS uses proven techniques like massive paral - services, and product enhancements via an

IQUBZ lelism, columnar orientation and compres - annual subscription. In the years since Pen - sion, plus a slew of other features like com - taho’s inception as the pioneer in commer - JASPERSOFT piled query, a customized interconnect cial open source BI, its products have been LOGIXML protocol and a patent-pending optimizer, to downloaded more than 3 million times, LUCIDERA deliver fast analytic query performance on with production deployments at companies MICROSOFT CORP. industry-standard hardware, without tun - ranging from small organizations to The MICROSTRATEGY ing. PADB’s load-and-go simplicity and Global 2000. Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise MYDIALS schema-neutral design are designed to Edition provides additional capabilities

NOETIX allow you to “lift and shift” your application including a comprehensive professional to eradicate poor performance in a matter technical support program, software main - OCO INC. of hours. The product can be deployed as tenance, enhanced software functionality, ORACLE enterprise software, or a hardware and certified software, product expertise and PANORAMA 2 SOFTWARE software appliance on your favorite brand software assurance. of servers . PARACCEL PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing. PENTAHO PRICING: PADB is priced per terabyte of user PIVOTLINK data and is licensed as enterprise software QLIKTECH or an appliance, or by subscription. Sub - SAP scription pricing starts at $5,000 per

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 20 INTRO PIVOTLINK QLIKTECH

SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS PivotLink Qlikview INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS PivotLink is a Software as a Service (SaaS) QlikView is a business-analysis tool

INDEX analytics product that is designed to give designed to simplify analysis for all depart - every department the power, flexibility and ments with access to business reports. s simplicity to answer critical business ques - 1010DATA tions and make the most profitable deci - COMPANY WEBSITE: www.qlikview.com ACTUATE sions for their company. 1 FOUNDED: 1993 ARCPLAN SUMMARY: QlikView is a business analysis BLINK LOGIC COMPANY WEBSITE: www.pivotlink.com/ tool that offers all of the capabilities that BOARD FOUNDED: NA traditionally required a complex and costly INTERNATIONAL SUMMARY: PivotLink is designed to make it suite of products, on a single unified plat - IBM COGNOS easy to add data from anywhere, and pub - form. QlikView provides flexible, ad hoc SOFTWARE lish and share reports and analysis with analysis capabilities, powerful analytic INETSOFT TECHNOLOGY anyone. This is possible because of Piv - applications and simple, printable reports. otLink’s Cloud Computing architecture, This allows organizations to deploy INFORMATION BUILDERS robust security, and granular sharing QlikView for everyone – highly skilled ana -

IQUBZ options that let users control who can see lysts doing ad hoc detailed reporting, exec - and share data so that collaboration is utives requiring a dashboard of critical JASPERSOFT done safely. Delivered as a SaaS product, business information, and plant supervi - LOGIXML PivotLink offers a simple pay-as-you-go sors analyzing output performance. LUCIDERA model with no up-front costs, secure QlikView utilizes patented in-memory MICROSOFT CORP. access from any Web browser and a solu - association technology to make sophisti - MICROSTRATEGY tion that is intuitive to use and easy to cated analysis and reporting dramatically MYDIALS deploy. PivotLink integrates data from mul - easier to deploy, use and maintain.

NOETIX tiple enterprise applications and databases QlikView takes advantage of 64-bit multi- so users get powerful insights into compa - core hardware platforms to allow thou - OCO INC. ny operations and a single version of the sands of users to access billions of records ORACLE truth. PivotLink does not require the of data. The QlikView in-memory data PANORAMA SOFTWARE upfront design effort and cost associated model is designed to allow an integrated with data cubes or pre-aggregated data, view of information through dashboards, PARACCEL and users have the flexibility to design ad hoc analysis, and reports – all from a PENTAHO reports at any time, along any dimension. 2 single platform. 2 PIVOTLINK

QLIKTECH PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing. PRICING: QlikView is priced per server and SAP offered under two pricing bundles:

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 21 INTRO SAP SAP

SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS SAP Business Objects XI SAP BusinessObjects Edge INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS SAP BusinessObjects XI tools include SAP BusinessObjects Edge Business

INDEX SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise software, Intelligence (BI) is designed to be a as well as software for information powerful business intelligence choice discovery and delivery; information for midsized companies that want to 1010DATA management; and query, reporting and improve business processes, discover new ACTUATE analysis. 1s opportunities, and gain a competitive ARCPLAN advantage. s BLINK LOGIC COMPANY WEBSITE: www..com BOARD FOUNDED: 1972 COMPANY WEBSITE: www.sap.com INTERNATIONAL SUMMARY: With SAP BusinessObjects XI, FOUNDED: 1972 IBM COGNOS users can establish a business intelligence SUMMARY: SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI SOFTWARE platform that provides immediate access to is a comprehensive, versatile midmarket INETSOFT TECHNOLOGY trusted business information. The product suite that delivers solutions that address is designed to benefit end users by bringing any business intelligence requirement— INFORMATION BUILDERS together all the information required for from flexible ad hoc reporting and analysis,

IQUBZ confident decision making; to achieve to dashboards and visualization, to power - alignment across people, teams, and the ful data integration and quality, as well as JASPERSOFT company’s business ecosystem; and to prepackaged data mart tools. SAP Busines - LOGIXML leverage a single, integrated platform for sObjects Edge BI brings together the sim - LUCIDERA meeting BI and information management plicity and speed of search with the trust MICROSOFT CORP. needs. By providing a platform for hetero - and analytical power of BI to provide MICROSTRATEGY geneous environments, a refined user immediate answers to your business ques - MYDIALS experience for analysts and business users, tions. Users can leverage familiar keyword

NOETIX and real-world BI deployment flexibility, searches to find information hidden in data SAP BusinessObjects XI delivers insight sources, then navigate and explore directly OCO INC. through a single, trusted BI platform and it on data – without the need for existing ORACLE redefines the way information empowers reports or metrics. Through the pre-pack - PANORAMA SOFTWARE users. SAP BusinessObjects XI is designed aging of SAP BusinessObjects Polestar, to deliver a true intelligence platform – one end users benefit from easy-to-use search PARACCEL that gives customers the best of execution capabilities that can enable them to enter PENTAHO and the best of strategy. It also provides a few search keywords and view and PIVOTLINK the means to align and connect strategies explore results via an exploration panel; QLIKTECH in a closed-loop system. auto-generate charts for optimal results; SAP and share results via email and other famil -

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 22 INTRO SAP SAS

SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Enterprise BI Server INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse SAS Enterprise BI Server is a compre-

INDEX unites a powerful business intelligence hensive, easy-to-use business intelligence platform, a comprehensive set of tools, software product that integrates the power planning and simulation capabilities, and of SAS analytics and data integration to 1010DATA data-warehousing functionality—delivered share insights that power better business ACTUATE through user-centric enterprise portal decisions. s ARCPLAN technology to provide a coherent, BLINK LOGIC comprehensive solution. s COMPANY WEBSITE: www.sas.com/ BOARD FOUNDED: 1976 INTERNATIONAL COMPANY WEBSITE: www.sap.com SUMMARY: SAS Enterprise BI Server includes IBM COGNOS FOUNDED: 1972 role-based, self-service interfaces for all SOFTWARE SUMMARY: SAP NetWeaver BusinessWare - types of users within a well-defined IT gov - INETSOFT TECHNOLOGY house brings together powerful analysis ernance framework and a centralized point tools, planning and simulation capabilities, of administration, helping organizations INFORMATION BUILDERS and data-warehousing functionality—deliv - simplify and speed business intelligence

IQUBZ ered through user-centric enterprise portal deployment. Through centrally managed technology. SAP NetWeaver Business data, shared metadata and security, Enter - JASPERSOFT Warehouse is designed to help users inte - prise BI Server is designed to deliver con - LOGIXML grate data and transform it into practical, sistent representation and control of infor - LUCIDERA timely business information to drive sound mation by providing reliable results that MICROSOFT CORP. decision making, targeted action and solid can be easily traced back to the source. MICROSTRATEGY business results. SAP NetWeaver Business This alleviates the repetitive task of validat - MYDIALS Intelligence includes capabilities for online ing which reports or results are correct. In

NOETIX analytical processing, data mining and addition, integration with Microsoft Office alerts, and provides a foundation for allows IT to retake control of ad hoc Excel OCO INC. accessing and presenting data, searching use without impeding users’ desire for this ORACLE for patterns, and identifying exceptions. familiar environment. SAS offers some ver - PANORAMA SOFTWARE The SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator uses tical industry solutions in an SaaS model. compressions, parallel in-memory process - PARACCEL ing, and search technologies to improve the PRICING: Vendor declined to provide pricing. PENTAHO performance of queries, reduce administra - PIVOTLINK tion tasks, and shorten batch processes. QLIKTECH Developed as an appliance on Intel proces - SAP sors, the accelerator provides consistently

SAS fast response times, even as data volumes,

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BUYER’S GUIDE 23 INTRO SAS STRATEGY COMPANION

SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS SAS Visual BI Analyzer INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS SAS Visual BI, powered by JMP software, Analyzer is a front-end product for

INDEX provides dynamic business visualization, Microsoft SQL Server BI, including report - enabling business users to interactively ing, analytics and dashboards. 1s explore ideas and information, investigate 1010DATA patterns and discover previously hidden COMPANY WEBSITE: www.strategycompanion ACTUATE facts through visual queries. s .com/home.asp ARCPLAN FOUNDED: 2001 BLINK LOGIC COMPANY WEBSITE: www.sas.com/ SUMMARY: Strategy Companion Corporation BOARD FOUNDED: 1976 is a provider of BI products focused solely INTERNATIONAL SUMMARY: With SAS Visual BI, business on the Microsoft SQL Server Platform. IBM COGNOS users gain instantaneous insight into rela - Analyzer provides a powerful front-end SOFTWARE tionships and patterns in data by viewing tool for the latest SQL server BI capabili - INETSOFT TECHNOLOGY and interacting with information in ways ties. It provides one integrated tool includ - that static charts and Excel spreadsheets ing reporting, analytics and dashboards INFORMATION BUILDERS cannot match. Instead of developing com - and supports multiple deployment options,

IQUBZ plex data queries in SQL or a prompter, including 100% zero footprint Internet users can simply drag across points in a Explorer, SharePoint, OEM, and Software as JASPERSOFT graph or click subsets in a mosaic plot. a Service (SaaS). Analyzer empowers busi - LOGIXML Because querying is designed to be simple, ness users with an easy-to-use set of ana - LUCIDERA fast and dynamic, users can visually ask lytical tools, dramatically increasing the MICROSOFT CORP. and answer questions to derive additional quality of their analysis and understanding MICROSTRATEGY value from their information assets, with - of key business issues. Analyzer’s MYDIALS out requiring IT services. With the ability to advanced visualization, presentation and

NOETIX process up to 2 billion rows and an unlimit - collaboration capabilities are designed to ed number of columns and records, the allow analysts and decision makers to OCO INC. tool is designed to enable users to explore quickly see and communicate information ORACLE vast amounts of data and handle large, that is relevant and intuitive, leading to bet - PANORAMA SOFTWARE real-world problems. See long-term trends ter decisions. Users can be empowered to instead of year-to-date views and create create their own reports, do their own PARACCEL graphics with many distinct variables, and analysis, and build their own scorecards, PENTAHO with motion-enabled graphics you can allowing them to manage corporate per - PIVOTLINK watch as trends become clear. formance as it happens. QLIKTECH

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STRATEGY for one, with lower costs at higher quanti - COMPANION ties, and an unlimited number of Report TIBCO Designer per production instance.

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SELECTING THE BEST BUSINESS Tibco Spotfire INTELLIGENCE TOOLS FOR YOUR BUSINESS The Spotfire Enterprise Analytic platform

INDEX allows users to quickly discover new insights in the information they work with every day. Spotfire’s interactive, visual 1010DATA capabilities for data analysis empower ACTUATE individuals to easily see trends, patterns, ARCPLAN outliers and unanticipated relationships BLINK LOGIC in data with unprecedented speed and BOARD adaptability. s INTERNATIONAL

IBM COGNOS COMPANY WEBSITE: www.tibco.com SOFTWARE FOUNDED: 1997 INETSOFT SUMMARY: TECHNOLOGY The TIBCO Spotfire Enterprise Analytics platform offers a fast business INFORMATION BUILDERS intelligence experience that is designed to

IQUBZ be more adaptable to specific industry and business challenges than traditional alter - JASPERSOFT natives. IT organizations benefit by deploy - LOGIXML ing a standardized yet highly customizable LUCIDERA analytics infrastructure—reducing opera - MICROSOFT CORP. tional costs and improving scalability—that MICROSTRATEGY takes their business intelligence invest - MYDIALS ment to the next level and delivers more

NOETIX value to the user community. The Spotfire Enterprise Analytics platform allows organ - OCO INC. izations in numerous industries and across ORACLE countless business processes and applica - PANORAMA SOFTWARE tions to deliver new and actionable insights from information. TIBCO Spotfire 2.2 deliv - PARACCEL ers big enhancements for users on the PENTAHO desktop and Web, as well as administrators PIVOTLINK and developers, including analysis and QLIKTECH reporting enhancements, improvements in SAP performance and scalability, developer

SAS enhancements and a new add-on product

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