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August 23, 2004

Grading BI Reporting And Analysis Solutions

No Single Solution Answers Every Firm's Questions

by Keith Gile

with Laurie M. Orlov, Colin Teubner, Philip Russom


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Reporting is fundamental to all companies. Most companies strive to standardize on a single reporting and analysis platform to deliver analytic, business, and enterprise reporting, but it is a reality for very few. There is no one single reporting and analysis platform that can deliver every feature and function needed. The direction that companies should take is to adopt a standard that can support at least two of the three different reporting types and fill in gaps with emerging XML and Web services capabilities, advanced visualization, and process definition whenever possible.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemReporting And Analysis Is Fundamental And Pervasive

itemDeployments Are Based On The End User Profile

itemBI Reporting And Analysis Wave™ Criteria And Results

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itemBegin The Process Of Standardization Now

What It Means

itemReporting And Analysis Are Necessities — Not Luxuries

itemSupplemental Material

Forrester surveyed 13 vendors for this report: Actuate, Applix, Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion Solutions, Information Builders, Microsoft, MicroStrategy, Oracle, ProClarity, SAP, SAS, and Temtec. We spoke with two reference customers for each participating vendor. Geac, MIS AG, PeopleSoft, and Siebel Systems were also invited but chose not to participate.

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