Spreadsheet Evaluation
This evaluation discusses criteria to consider when evaluating BI suites Office add-ins and export capabilities.

The BI Market
Business intelligence and the sub markets defined. Lists vendor products per sub market, serving as a necessary guide for comparing like-for-like products and seeing the breadth of individual vendor offerings.

Evaluation Frameworks
These spreadsheets provide 300+ criteria to consider when selecting or standardizing on a BI product. As a complementary download, product scores are blank. Subscribers can access the completed scores under Subscriber Content.

• BI Platforms
• Dashboards
• Advanced Visualization and Discovery

Enterprise Business Intelligence:
Strategies and Technologies for Deploying BI on an Enterprise Scale

Methodology for Selecting and Evaluating BI Tools

BIScorecard® Strategic and Product Summary Report
The BIScorecard® Strategic and Product Summary report highlights strategic criteria to consider when evaluating vendors strengths and weaknesses of and major product modules. Scores and analyses are provided for eight leading vendors. This report is updated annually with summary scorecards updated quarterly. This report highlights key differences at-a-glance and is a must read for staying abreast of key product improvements from leading vendors.
Title	Pages	TOC	Price	Purchase
Strategic and Product Summary Report	23		$895
Latest Quarterly Update		4	Only available with yearly subscription

BIScorecard^® Detailed Scorecards (Only available with yearly subscription)
A detailed list of 300+ criteria to consider when selecting or standardizing on a BI product. Capabilities are scored green/yellow/red so you can easily see comparative strengths and weaknesses. Use the scorecard in conjunction with the textual explanations to ensure you understand the criteria and vendor capabilities.

• BI Platforms
• Dashboards
• Advanced Visualization and Discovery

Criteria
In order to evaluate BI products, companies need to understand the benefits that the features intend to provide. Why should you care if a product has "banded reports" or "multi-pass SQL?" The following documents explain the meaning and importance of the criteria in the scorecards. Customers can assign their own importance for various features to adjust summary scores. The detailed scorecards are updated continuously based on ongoing product briefings and evaluations with new scorecards published monthly.

	Title	Criteria	Pages	TOC	Price	Purchase
	Search & BI		9		$95
	Query	26	12		$95
	Reporting	27	9		$95
	Information Delivery
	Spreadsheet	19	8		$95
	OLAP Evaluation Criteria		12		$195
	Administration	13	6		$95
	Architecture
	Suite Integration	6	11		$195

BI Platform Vendors and Products
For each vendor, an overview report discusses the vendor’s BI history, product line, and strengths and challenges in the marketplace. Each overview contains a summary scorecard aggregated from the detailed evaluation criteria, as well as a BI best fit and recommendations. In addition to the overview report, more in-depth reviews of core BI modules are available for several products. Subscribers can also access commentary on individual features within the detailed scorecard.

	Title		Pages	TOC	Price	Purchase
	SAP BusinessObjects
		SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 Overview	6		$295
		SAP Business Objects’ Dashboards	6		$495
		SAP BusinessObjects Explorer	5		$195
		Crystal Reports 2008	14		$195
		XI Release 2 Query, Reporting, Analysis	20		$795
		SAP NetWeaver BI Overview	5		$295
	IBM Cognos
		Cognos 8.3 Overview	5		$295
		Query, Reporting, Analysis	20		$795
		Cognos 8 Dashboards	14		$495
	Oracle & Hyperion
		Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Overview	6		$295
		System 9 Overview	5		$295
		System 9 Interactive Reporting	16		$795
		SmartView Office Add-In	3		$195
		Performance Suite 8.3	20		$795
	Microsoft
		Microsoft BI & PerformancePoint Overview	8		$295
		Microsoft Reporting Services Report Builder	7		$495
	Information Builders
		Information Builders Overview	5		$295
		WebFOCUS InfoAssist	9		$495
		WebFOCUS Query & Reporting	21		$895
	MicroStrategy
		MicroStrategy 9 Overview	6		$295
		MicroStrategy 8.0 Detailed	20		$895
		First Look-Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards	2		Only available with yearly subscription
	SAS
		SAS BI Overview	5		$295
		SAS BI Dashboard	7		$495
		SAS BI Detailed	19		$895
	Pentaho
		Pentaho Overview	9		$495
	Jaspersoft
		Jaspersoft Overview	9		$495

Niche and Complementary BI Products
These vendors and products complement the BI suite or provide best-of-breed capabilities for a particular BI market segment.

	Title		Pages	TOC	Price	Purchase
	QlikTech
		QlikView Overview	8		$295
	Tableau
		Tableau	5		$295
	TIBCO Spotfire
		TIBCO Spotfire	6		$295