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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

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Executive Summary

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Why BI Reporting And Analysis Platforms Matter
  • BI Reporting And Analysis Platforms Evaluation Overview
  • Business Objects And Cognos Are Tops In Analytic Reporting . . .
  • . . . And Lead Enterprise Reporting, Followed By Actuate
  • Vendor Profiles
  • Supplemental Material
  • Related Research Documents

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