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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Smart Process Applications, Q2 2013

The 12 Smart Process App Vendors That Matter Most Today And How They Stack Up

Smart process applications are a new and emerging category of applications designed to help CIOs and their firms improve the effectiveness of their human-centric business activities. But finding the...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions, Q1 2013

Predictive analytics enables firms to reduce risks, make intelligent decisions, and create differentiated, more personal customer experiences. But predictive analytics is hard to do without the right...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Customer Analytics Solutions, Q4 2012

How Six Vendors Stack Up In A Mature Yet Changing Market

In Forrester's 70-criteria evaluation of customer analytics vendors, we identified the six most significant software providers — Angoss Software, FICO, IBM, KXEN, Pitney Bowes, and SAS —...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Business Intelligence Services Providers, Q4 2012

The 12 Market Leaders That Deserve To Be On Most Shortlists

In the past few years, the business intelligence (BI) services market has evolved significantly: advisory and management consulting firms have beefed up their implementation capabilities, while...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Advanced Data Visualization (ADV) Platforms, Q3 2012

Seven Leaders, Six Strong Performers, And Two Contenders Compete For Share Of The ADV Market

Enterprises find advanced data visualization (ADV) platforms to be essential tools that enable them to monitor business, find patterns, and take action to avoid threats and snatch opportunities. In...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Self-Service Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2012

Six Leaders And Six Strong Performers Compete For A Share Of The End User BI Market

In Forrester's 31-criteria evaluation of self-service business intelligence (BI) vendors, we found that IBM, Microsoft, SAP, SAS, Tibco Software, and MicroStrategy led the pack due to the breadth of...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Warehousing Platforms, Q1 2011

Teradata, Oracle, Sybase (SAP), IBM, SAP, EMC Greenplum, Netezza (IBM), and Microsoft Lead, With Vertica Systems As A Strong Performer

In Forrester's 56-criteria evaluation of enterprise data warehousing (EDW) platform vendors, we found the EDW market increasingly competitive, as illustrated by tighter clustering of top vendors....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2010

IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects, and Oracle Lead, With Information Builders, SAS, Microsoft, and MicroStrategy Close Behind

In Forrester's 145-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform vendors, we found that IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects, Oracle, Information Builders , SAS, Microsoft, and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Open Source Business Intelligence (BI), Q3 2010

Actuate BIRT Leads, With Jaspersoft Enterprise, SpagoBI, Pentaho Enterprise, And Pentaho Community Close Behind

Comparing open source BI technologies is often an apples-to-oranges comparison: 1) not all vendors include the same functionality in the free community versions of the software versus commercial open...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Predictive Analytics And Data Mining Solutions, Q1 2010

SAS, SPSS/IBM, KXEN, Oracle, And Portrait Software Lead, With Others Innovating

In Forrester's 53-criteria evaluation of predictive analytics and data mining (PA/DM) vendors, we found that SAS Institute, SPSS (evaluated separately from new parent IBM's other PA/DM offerings),...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008

In Forrester's 151-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform vendors, we found that IBM Cognos and SAP Business Objects maintain their leadership positions, while Oracle...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: BI Reporting And Analysis Platforms, Q1 2006

Business Objects And Cognos Lead In Our Product Evaluation

Forrester evaluated 10 leading business intelligence (BI), database, and application vendors across 92 criteria and found Business Objects has established early BI platform leadership, followed by...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Information Quality Software, Q1 2006

Trillium Software, Firstlogic, And IBM Lead In Our Product Evaluation

In this Forrester Wave™, we evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of top information quality software vendors across 53 criteria. Dirty data is both common and costly, but it is also...

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