Review: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2010

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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 MicroStrategy led the pack because of the completeness of not just BI, but overall information management functionality. Actuate came out as a Strong Performer on the heels of the Leaders offering equal - or in some cases superior - BI functionality, but it mostly relies on partners for the rest of its information management capabilities.

TIBCO Spotfire also came out as a Strong Performer offering top choices for analytics, even surpassing other Strong Performers in the overall information management arena based on its traditional strength in middleware and application integration. Last but not least, QlikTech and Panorama Software moved up from Contenders and into the Strong Performers category based on the continuous improvements in their analytical capabilities.

Our evaluation uncovered a market in which:

• IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects, Oracle, and SAS continue to lead the pack
• Information Builders, Microsoft, and MicroStrategy move into the Leaders category
• TIBCO Spotfire and Actuate maintain their Strong Performer status
• QlikTech and Panorama Software move into the Strong Performer category

Obviously, it's not all that simple. So please be sure to drill into details (forgive the pun), especially our 147 evaluation criteria and individual vendor results and scores here.