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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 and SAS Institute move into leadership positions in enterprise BI thanks to the richness of their functionality, ability to scale, and the completeness of their corporate and product vision and strategy. Actuate, Information Builders, Microsoft, MicroStrategy, SAP, and a new entrant, TIBCO Spotfire, came out as Strong Performers following very closely on the heels of the Leaders, offering very respectable alternatives and a multitude of choices for information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals. New entrants to this Forrester Wave™ evaluation of enterprise BI platforms (though not new to the market) are Panorama Software and QlikTech, who, while lacking the breadth of features to qualify them as single, large-enterprise BI solutions, are reputable Contenders. In some very specific BI use cases, they even outperform the Leaders.
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For years, traditional business intelligence (BI) technologies have provided tools for reporting, analysis, and visualization of information. While these technologies continue to remain the core staples of enterprise-grade BI solutions, Forrester recognizes an emergence of newer technologies and approaches to analyzing data. One such approach is the "BI workspace," where power users, especially power analysts, can explore data without their IT departments imposing any limitations or constraints, such as fixed data models, security, and production environment schedules. Information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals should consider adding workspace capabilities to the list of BI functions that are necessary for leading-edge BI environments.
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2007 was the year of heavy consolidation, which changed the business intelligence landscape forever. This report looks at how those changes have manifested themselves by examining BI platform market shares by vendor and region, along with embedded and stand-alone views.
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Symphony Metreo well-positioned to help companies embrace new integrated business planning processes for superior operational performance.
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In the 2008 Key Motivators Business Survey, 93.4% of respondents report that a company’s reputation is “very important” when choosing a vendor or business partner, 65.2% cite references as “very important” and 41.5% say proof of results are “very important.” Conducted by Porter Positioning in April 2008, the survey of US business professionals was completed by 214 people in a variety of industries and professions. Click here for survey details.
Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, recently announced that it was recently recognized as a ‘Market Leader’ for the Application Infrastructure market1 by Current Analysis, a leading independent research firm. Software AG was also ranked as a ‘Market Leader’ in the research firm’s accompanying analysis of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) market2. Only four vendors were identified as ‘Market Leaders’ in both of these sectors.
“Software AG combines global reach and financial strength with a demonstrated commitment to performance, innovation and time-to-benefit. This has allowed us to establish a significant leadership position within the business infrastructure software market, where we serve as the clear, ‘no compromises’ alternative to the status quo,” said David Mitchell, President and Chief Operating Officer of the webMethods business division and member of the Software AG Executive Board. “We are extremely pleased with this most recent recognition for our success and market leadership. Having established aggressive goals for ourselves in 2007, I’m proud to say that we delivered fully upon these objectives. This sets the stage for an even bigger and better 2008.”
Current Analysis defines the Application Infrastructure market as covering “…technologies which provide the infrastructure necessary to build and run an enterprise application. Often called ‘middleware,’ it includes not only run time environments, but also integration technologies that allow an application to communicate and exchange information with back-end systems. It also includes technologies used to generate user interfaces to applications built upon this middleware. This market focuses primarily on three distinct yet often overlapping markets, service-oriented architecture, integration software and services as well as application and data delivery. These segments fully encompass the software and professional services necessary to integrate disparate systems, create cross-business and cross technology communications, deliver rich, internet-based applications and build software that is highly visible, optimized and reusable.”
In their assessment of the overall Application Infrastructure sector, Current Analysis identified Software AG as one of five overall ‘Market Leaders’. Furthermore, Software AG earned the highest possible ‘Positive’ grade for its overall ‘Market Position’, ‘Vision’ and ‘Momentum’. In terms of maturity, Current Analyst classified Software AG as an ‘Established’ vendor operating within the industry’s ‘1st Tier’ of providers.
Software AG was also ranked as a ‘Market Leader’ in Current Analysis’ assessment of the SOA market, one of three underlying components of the Application Infrastructure market. In this analysis, Software AG received the top grade of ‘Positive’ for its overall ‘Market Position’, ‘Vision’ and ‘Momentum’. Software AG was also classified as an ‘Established’ vendor in terms of overall maturity and was viewed to be amongst the industry’s ‘1st Tier’ of providers.
Software AG also earned ‘Positive’ rankings for its ‘Market Position’ within the Application and Data Delivery3, and B2B Integration Software and Services4 sectors. Within both of these markets, Software AG was ranked as an ‘Established’ vendor in terms of maturity.
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Effective performance management initiatives enable workers to execute scientifically-generated success strategies in a consistent manner across entire organizations. Companies that have excelled at performance management are more likely to enjoy an enhanced understanding of their customers and their marketing initiatives, leading to better products and services and increased profitability.
As part of the extensive research program, the eight articles at this link identified key points that companies must understand to overcome the obstacles and exploit the opportunities offered by an ideal performance management environment.
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Business intelligence (BI) sits at the top of the IT priority list for many enterprises. Enterprises that haven’t paid enough attention now see a need to act, and those that have kept up with BI want to consolidate their siloed implementations. The promises of BI attract any organization, but how do you get started? Enterprises face multidimensional choices, and they cannot start with vendor selection. Tasks like data governance, matching requirements with logical architectures, and picking an experienced architect and implementer should be at the top of the list.
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Forrester evaluated leading SOA consulting and integration services providers across 50 criteria and found that IBM and Accenture have established early leadership thanks to their strong technical capabilities and clear focus on business outcomes. BearingPoint and Infosys are Strong Performers. Although constrained by their smaller size or lack of business focus, their offerings are competitive and both have good client references. A number of emerging providers that are currently developing SOA capabilities will provide more competition to the existing market leaders and strong performers over the next few years. Included in this report is an interactive provider comparison tool that includes detailed evaluations and customizable rankings.
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