BI / CPM Portal

Recent BI Articles

2010 from SearchDataManagement – “…This directory is designed to be a valuable resources for this getting started with research or evaluating vendors in the business intelligence market. Inside, you’ll find basic information about the major vendors in the business intelligence market and the products they sell. Each listing is accompanies by a short description and [...]

April 20, 2010 from Forbes – “…Cognos was one of the leading makers of business intelligence software, and IBM paid $5 billion for it. IBM wrote another check last year for $1.2 billion to add SPSS, a predictive analytics and data mining company, to what was becoming a growing family of tools for organizing data [...]

April 8, 2010 from Toolbox for IT – “During the last several years, the pressure of commoditization and the desire of the enterprise technology conglomerates to expand into new fast-growing growth markets have led to BI market consolidation. Following a series of blockbuster acquisitions in 2007 and 2008, procurement of both BI and enterprise application [...]

2010 from Info-Tech Research Group – “Business Intelligence (BI) is rapidly becoming one of the most overused terms in IT. More and more software vendors are claiming that their products have BI capabilities; a growing number of consulting firms offer BI optimization assessments. Part of the explanation for this trend is that BI as a [...]

Recent CPM Articles

January 26, 2010 from Gartner via BOARD International – “…The market for corporate performance management (CPM) suites continues to grow rapidly. Previous years were marked by large-scale vendor consolidation and subsequent portfolio rationalization, while this year has seen a more stable market in which the vendors have focused on execution (particularly the large vendors selling [...]

November 19, 2009 from Forrester – “Three of the largest technology vendors play prominently in this market – IBM, Oracle and SAP. These vendors have entered largely through acquisitions (i.e., Cognos, Hyperion, and BusinessObjects, respectively), but continue to evolve their offerings. Other large vendors in the market include SAS Institute, known primarily for its business [...]

December 2009 from CAmagazine and written by Michael Burns – “Welcome to this year’s survey on business intelligence and corporate performance management. We received 12 responses from BI/CPM vendors, up from 10 last year…”

September 2009 from CAmagazine – “…Many companies fail to include critical evaluation functionality that takes into consideration key business process requirements (for Corporate Performance Management systems:

the ability to produce real-time reporting at select points in a business process while scaling the solution to a broad user base; this applies to operational reporting, management reporting and [...]

Systems

BI transforms data into information useful to make decisions. There are a spectrum of BI tools from simple report writers to Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). CPM not only includes BI but also strategic planning, scorecarding, budgeting and forecasting and consolidation.

The products have been segregated by tier based on target customer and price. Within each tier, we have further classified which applications are applicable to the systems as well as the distribution model. See the filter box above to sort for the desired tier, application, and distribution model.

Tier One/Enterprise (Customer Revenues > $200M, Customer Employees > 500, License Fees > $300k and Implementation Fees:License Fees > 2:1)

• BOARD
• Budget Maestro
• Clarity Systems
• IBM
• Information Builders
• Longview
• Microsoft
• MicroStrategy
• Noetix Business Intelligence
• Oracle Hyperion
• Panorama NovaView
• PARIS Technologies
• SAP BusinessObjects
• SAS
• Swift Reporting
• Tableau
• TARGIT BI Suite
• Tibco Spotfire

Tier Two/Mid Market (Customer Revenues $10M-$200M, Customer Employees 50-500, License Fees $50k-$300k and Implementation Fees:License Fees 1:1-2:1)

• Actuate
• BOARD
• Budget Maestro
• Clarity Systems
• IBM
• Information Builders
• Longview
• Microsoft
• MicroStrategy
• Oracle Hyperion
• Panorama NovaView
• PARIS Technologies
• Planning Maestro
• Prophix
• QlikView
• SAP BusinessObjects
• SAS
• Swift Reporting
• Tableau
• TARGIT BI Suite
• Tibco Spotfire

Tier Three/Entry Level (Customer Revenues <$10M, Customer Employees <50, License Fees <$50k and Implementation Fees:License Fees <1:1)

• Actuate
• Dynac Tools
• IBM
• Microsoft
• Prophix
• QlikView
• SAP BusinessObjects
• TARGIT BI Suite

VARs

Value Added Resellers (VARs) implement ERP products. However many of the products listed are also implemented by the companies that own the products.

• CALUMO Group Pty Ltd
• CPM Enterprise Solutions
• iRIX Software Engineering AG
• Newcomp

• CALUMO Group Pty Ltd

• iRIX Software Engineering AG

• Performance Analytics Corporation