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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.

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

Methodology for Selecting and Evaluating BI Tools

Special Report

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2009 Successful BI Survey In-Depth
 
 
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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.

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Strategic and Product Summary Report
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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.

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  Search & BI
 
9
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  Query
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12
 
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  Reporting
27
9
 
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  Information Delivery
 
  Spreadsheet
19
8
 
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  OLAP Evaluation Criteria
 
12
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  Administration
13
6
 
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  Architecture        
Suite Integration
6
11
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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.

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  SAP BusinessObjects
   
    SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 Overview
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    SAP Business Objects’ Dashboards
6
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    SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
5
$195
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    Crystal Reports 2008
14
$195
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    XI Release 2 Query, Reporting, Analysis
20
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  SAP NetWeaver BI Overview
5
$295
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IBM Cognos
    Cognos 8.3 Overview
5
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    Query, Reporting, Analysis
20
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    Cognos 8 Dashboards
14
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Oracle & Hyperion
    Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Overview
6
$295
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    System 9 Overview
5
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    System 9 Interactive Reporting
16
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    SmartView Office Add-In
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Performance Suite 8.3

20
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Microsoft        
    Microsoft BI & PerformancePoint Overview
8
$295
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    Microsoft Reporting Services Report Builder
7
$495
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Information Builders        
    Information Builders Overview
5
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    WebFOCUS InfoAssist
9
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    WebFOCUS Query & Reporting
21
$895
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MicroStrategy        
    MicroStrategy 9 Overview
6
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    MicroStrategy 8.0 Detailed
20
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    First Look-Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards
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SAS        
    SAS BI Overview
5
$295
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    SAS BI Dashboard
7
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    SAS BI Detailed
19
$895
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  Pentaho
   
    Pentaho Overview
9
$495
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  Jaspersoft
   
    Jaspersoft Overview
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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.

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QlikTech        
    QlikView Overview
8
$295
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  Tableau    
    Tableau
5
$295
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  TIBCO Spotfire    
    TIBCO Spotfire
6
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