BI / CPM Portal

Recent BI Articles

June 2, 2011 from BusinessFinance – “It’s rare a singular metric like turnover or a customer survey score is by itself a good measure of an organization’s performance. Most of the more meaningful measures on dashboards of executives today are indices, made up of three to five submeasures. I review the nine most useful and [...]

January 2011 from Aberdeen Group – “Today’s business decision maker faces a conundrum that challenges even the most analytical minds. In one hand, more data is available to support business intelligence (BI) tools and techniques than ever before… On the other hand, that growth in data volume and complexity can become the enemy of expedience…
The [...]

November 21, 2011 from InformationWeek – “Business intelligence vendors keep adding social features–but how many interfaces does it take to get everybody on the same page?…
The concept is to let practitioners share dashboards, reports and data visualizations, promote discussion and capture comments and interpretations from a variety of stakeholders. There’s data and then there’s insight, [...]

July 11, 2011 from Director of Finance online – “…most CFOs now view information as a major asset justifying significant investment, and many believe that they can now manage information better. As the CFO becomes more strategically involved with enabling all departments to work towards the strategic objectives of the business, sharing information across multiple [...]

Recent CPM Articles

April 7, 2011 from BusinessFinance – “…Finance’s top performance focus area for 2011 is the efficiency and effectiveness of the annual budgeting process, Hackett found, closely followed by forecasting performance (accuracy, cycle time, and efficiency)…”
180 View – We continue to see organizations struggling with complex budgeting and forecasting. It seems that most of them are [...]

April 2011 from CAmagazine and written by Michael Burns – “Welcome to our 2011 survey on corporate performance (CPM), budgeting and business intelligence (BI). When we ran our first BI survey back in 2004, it was all on its own. But surveys have a way of morphing from year to year, gathering and discarding functions [...]

April 2011 – We have now expanded out Systems Analysis Tool to include Business Intelligence, Corporate Performance Management and Budgeting. By completing a brief survey, we will provide you with the top 10 systems that meet your profile and requirements. Systems included are Actuate, Adaptive Planning, BizTools, Dynac, Enterprise Spreadsheet Manager, Indicee, Information Builders, Intellicus, [...]

November 29, 2010 from Dashboard Insight – “When looking at the BI landscape and available solutions, dashboards give the biggest bang for their buck. After all, with high levels of interactivity, strong data visualizations, and general capabilities that provide the quickest way to monitor performance and manage what is happening within the organization, it stands [...]

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)

• 1010data
• Adaptive Planning
• BOARD
• Budget Maestro
• Clarity Systems
• Corda
• Datawatch
• Host Analytics
• IBM
• Information Builders
• Jaspersoft
• Longview
• Microsoft
• MicroStrategy
• Noetix Business Intelligence
• Oco
• Oracle Hyperion
• Panorama NovaView
• PARIS Technologies
• Pentaho
• PivotLink
• PlanGuru
• Sage Active Planner
• 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
• Adaptive Planning
• Birst
• BOARD
• Budget Maestro
• Clarity Systems
• Corda
• Datawatch
• Dundas Data Visualization
• GoodDada
• Host Analytics
• IBM
• InetSoft
• Information Builders
• Jaspersoft
• LogiXML
• Longview
• Microsoft
• MicroStrategy
• Oracle Hyperion
• Panorama NovaView
• PARIS Technologies
• Pentaho
• PivotLink
• PlanGuru
• Planning Maestro
• Prophix
• QlikView
• Sage Active Planner
• SAP BusinessObjects
• SAS
• Swift Reporting
• Tableau
• TARGIT BI Suite
• Tibco Spotfire
• Yellowfin

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

• Actuate
• Adaptive Planning
• Dynac Tools
• IBM
• LogiXML
• Microsoft
• PlanGuru
• Prophix
• QlikView
• SAP BusinessObjects
• TARGIT BI Suite
• Yellowfin

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

• Illumiti
• Performance Analytics Corporation