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February 8, 2006

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

Business Objects And Cognos Lead In Our Product Evaluation

by Keith Gile

with Kyle McNabb, Connie Moore, Lucy Fossner

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

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 Cognos. Hyperion, MicroStrategy, and SAS offer strong enterprise analytics, while Actuate and Information Builders are strong in enterprise reporting and scalability. Microsoft's latest release offers tighter integration with Microsoft Office, while Oracle and SAP emphasize integration with their respective enterprise applications over deeper reporting functionality.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemWhy BI Reporting And Analysis Platforms Matter

itemVendors Try To Deliver An Integrated BI Platform

itemBI Reporting And Analysis Platforms Evaluation Overview

itemEvaluation Criteria Include Enterprise And Analytic Reporting And Strategy

itemEvaluation Methodology Includes Vendor Surveys And Customer Interviews

itemVendors Selected For BI Market Share And Focus

itemBusiness Objects And Cognos Are Tops In Analytic Reporting . . .

item. . . And Lead Enterprise Reporting, Followed By Actuate

itemVendor Profiles

itemSupplemental Material

Forrester conducted an in-depth evaluation of 10 vendors: Actuate, Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, Information Builders, Microsoft, MicroStrategy, Oracle, SAP, and SAS. We also spoke with 11 customer reference accounts.

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