Saturday, October 30, 2010
Compare BI Software
A new site released this month helps you compare business intelligence software, by provide business intelligence software information and comparison data.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Business Intelligence - OLAP Technology
OLAP or Online Analytical Processing is a major breakthrough in technology. It primarily handles tasks like Data mining and relational reporting. It is designed in such a way that it can discover the critical factors and trends in an organization. In order to run a business successfully you need to know the strength and weakness of it. This tool surveys both external and internal factors of any business.
The data in this tool is always stored in multidimensional cubes. The structure is made from operational data which is generally known as OLAP cube. A fact table is situated in the center and is generally linked with various dimension tables. This structure enhances the performance regarding queries. The unit of this cube is known as measure and they are unit of analyzed data. Again each dimension can be divided into smaller units known as members. These members are generally organized to form a hierarchy. The top rug of the hierarchy table related with time is generally occupied by years, then comes the months, week and days and even hours.
You can find different types of Online Analytical Processing. MOLAP or Multidimensional OLAP, HOLAP or Hybrid OLAP and Relational OLAP or ROLAP are some to the popular types of OLAP each having their own benefits. There are several renowned companies dealing with such software related with business intelligence and have a good stock of it. It has been also seen that some outsource software developing companies and organizations plays an important role for producing this software for various businesses.
Almost everyone maintains website, which help their clients and customers with the information regarding services and the products of the company. People even now search websites to solve analytical queries which is multi-dimensional in nature. OLAP is considered as the perfect solution and has made the task possible for the users. You can also consult experts regarding this software or search the web about this software for more information and how to use it properly to enhance your business. This software does a perfect job by simply helping the users with fast access to different type of multi-dimensional problems. This is very effective for corporate sector.
Article Source: http://www.ArticleBlast.com
About The Author:
Carlos Quijada is an IT professional associated with the field since the last 20 years. His core area of ecialization is programming. Besides working with one of the leading IT services, he writes about technology and its benefits, OLAP.
The data in this tool is always stored in multidimensional cubes. The structure is made from operational data which is generally known as OLAP cube. A fact table is situated in the center and is generally linked with various dimension tables. This structure enhances the performance regarding queries. The unit of this cube is known as measure and they are unit of analyzed data. Again each dimension can be divided into smaller units known as members. These members are generally organized to form a hierarchy. The top rug of the hierarchy table related with time is generally occupied by years, then comes the months, week and days and even hours.
You can find different types of Online Analytical Processing. MOLAP or Multidimensional OLAP, HOLAP or Hybrid OLAP and Relational OLAP or ROLAP are some to the popular types of OLAP each having their own benefits. There are several renowned companies dealing with such software related with business intelligence and have a good stock of it. It has been also seen that some outsource software developing companies and organizations plays an important role for producing this software for various businesses.
Almost everyone maintains website, which help their clients and customers with the information regarding services and the products of the company. People even now search websites to solve analytical queries which is multi-dimensional in nature. OLAP is considered as the perfect solution and has made the task possible for the users. You can also consult experts regarding this software or search the web about this software for more information and how to use it properly to enhance your business. This software does a perfect job by simply helping the users with fast access to different type of multi-dimensional problems. This is very effective for corporate sector.
Article Source: http://www.ArticleBlast.com
About The Author:
Carlos Quijada is an IT professional associated with the field since the last 20 years. His core area of ecialization is programming. Besides working with one of the leading IT services, he writes about technology and its benefits, OLAP.
CA Magazine Compares Business Intelligence Tools
The CA Magazine's 2009 Corporate Performance Management / Business Intelligence Survey compared a number of BI tools in many areas. Included in the survey:
Board Management
Intelligence Toolkit
Centage Budget Maestro
Centage Planning Maestro
Clarity 6
DynacTools
Epicor
Exact Synergy Performance Suite
Noetix Solution
PROPHIX for SQL Server
QlikView
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
SAS Business Intelligence and Financial Intelligence Solutions
Board Management
Intelligence Toolkit
Centage Budget Maestro
Centage Planning Maestro
Clarity 6
DynacTools
Epicor
Exact Synergy Performance Suite
Noetix Solution
PROPHIX for SQL Server
QlikView
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
SAS Business Intelligence and Financial Intelligence Solutions
Friday, October 15, 2010
SAS Business Intelligence Software Press Release
The update from SAS, the leader in business analytics, builds upon SAS’ recognized and powerful platform that enables IT organizations to optimally plan, purchase, build, maintain and manage IT infrastructure. Users of SAS IT Resource Management proactively manage and control IT costs each and every day.
"IT organizations are seeking a holistic view of the performance and capacity aspects of their increasingly complex IT infrastructures that include innumerable technology domains, virtualized environments, mission-critical applications and database systems, all running in heterogeneous operating environments. Cloud computing, with all of its merits, is now further complicating IT operations," said Lisa Erickson-Harris, research director for Enterprise Management Associates (EMA).
"SAS Institute is well-known for its advanced analytics,” said Erickson-Harris. “SAS IT Resource Management builds upon decades of experience to simplify usability and ease the management realities for IT," said Erickson-Harris.
SAS IT Resource Management now includes adapters for VMware vCenter Server and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (MS SCOM) servers, both of which support cloud infrastructures.
In addition to approximately 4,000 preconfigured IT Intelligence reports and web-based reporting, SAS IT Resource Management now features enhanced performance management and capacity planning for mainframe and distributed systems, networks, databases, the web and applications.
Other enhancements, including more powerful usage monitoring and workload measurement features, provide potential infrastructure cost savings and improved throughput.
About SAS
SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.
"IT organizations are seeking a holistic view of the performance and capacity aspects of their increasingly complex IT infrastructures that include innumerable technology domains, virtualized environments, mission-critical applications and database systems, all running in heterogeneous operating environments. Cloud computing, with all of its merits, is now further complicating IT operations," said Lisa Erickson-Harris, research director for Enterprise Management Associates (EMA).
"SAS Institute is well-known for its advanced analytics,” said Erickson-Harris. “SAS IT Resource Management builds upon decades of experience to simplify usability and ease the management realities for IT," said Erickson-Harris.
SAS IT Resource Management now includes adapters for VMware vCenter Server and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (MS SCOM) servers, both of which support cloud infrastructures.
In addition to approximately 4,000 preconfigured IT Intelligence reports and web-based reporting, SAS IT Resource Management now features enhanced performance management and capacity planning for mainframe and distributed systems, networks, databases, the web and applications.
Other enhancements, including more powerful usage monitoring and workload measurement features, provide potential infrastructure cost savings and improved throughput.
About SAS
SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.
Compare Business Intelligence Software
Compare the Business Intelligence Software options here. From Earthweb:
SAP Crystal Reports
Crystal Reports is part of SAP's Business Objects portfolio of business intelligence software solutions. It allows users to graphically design interactive reports and connect them to virtually any data source, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Oracle databases, Business Objects Enterprise business views and local file system information. Reports can then be delivered via Web, e-mail, Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF or embedded in enterprise applications. Crystal Reports provides integration with Xcelsius, Adobe Flex and Adobe Flash. It includes built-in barcode support, multilingual reporting and an integrated Salesforce.com driver. Microsoft helped make Crystal Reports the de facto standard report writer when it bundled it with Microsoft Visual Studio.
SAS Enterprise BI Server
SAS' flagship business intelligence software solution, SAS Enterprise BI Server, combines SAS Analytics with data integration, and provides role-based, self-service interfaces for all types of users within an IT governance framework and a centralized point of administration. Components include: portals and dashboards, Web-based report viewing, Web-based report building and editing, Web-based advanced data exploration with the ability to push results back to report building and viewing environments. It also offers integration with Microsoft Office, guided analysis and access to SAS Analytics, query and analysis as a pervasive part of all interfaces and centralized metadata, and a single point of management. SAS has committed itself to continuing to push the envelope. Of its $2.26 billion 2009 revenue, SAS reinvested a robust 23 percent into R&D.
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus
Oracle's Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus is a suite of business intelligence software solutions that leverage Oracle BI Server as a common platform, providing a level of integration among the tools. The integration provides a common service-oriented architecture, data access services, analytic and calculation infrastructure, metadata management services, semantic business model, security model and user preferences and administration tools. The suite includes Oracle’s BI Server, BI Answers, BI Interactive Dashboards, BI Delivers, BI Disconnected Analytics, BI Publisher, and Oracle BI Briefing Books. Additionally, it offers Hyperion Interactive Reporting, Hyperion SQR Production Reporting, Hyperion Financial Reporting and Hyperion Web Analysis. Oracle's offering has the advantage of integrating with Oracle’s many other enterprise middleware, database and business application solutions.
IBM Cognos 8 BI
IBM's Cognos 8 BI offering is an inclusive suite featuring a range of BI capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboarding and scorecards on a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA). The suite includes Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio, Metric Studio, Metric Designer, Event Studio, Framework Manager and PowerPlay Studio. IBM has declared business analytics as one of the most critical parts of its overall strategy. It has spent heavily on business intelligence and business analytics R&D, investing more than $12 billion in the last five years. That includes the $1.2 billion acquisition of SPSS in 2009, which added a predictive analytics element to its portfolio. (See a video interview of IBM’s Jeff Jonas on BI concepts.)
Microsoft PowerPivot
Two applications, Microsoft's PowerPivot for Excel and PowerPivot for SharePoint, both leverage Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 in an offering that uses the ubiquity of Microsoft's applications to provide BI tools to the knowledge worker masses rather than BI experts. PowerPivot for Excel uses the Excel features users are already familiar with to provide interactive data analysis tools. PowerPivot for SharePoint provides the ability to share and collaborate on user-generated data analysis in Excel and in the browser. By leveraging technology already found in many companies and comfortable to most workers, Microsoft hopes to capture a much larger slice of the BI pie.
MicroStrategy Reporting Suite
MicroStrategy Reporting Suite is a free, commercial reporting tool composed of server software for core analytical processing and job management, an end-user Web interface, Web-based reporting software, desktop reporting software and a data architecting product. It outputs reports in HTML, PDF, Microsoft Excel and text. It can present data in tabular grid reports, graphs and charts, and combination grid-and-graph displays. It is available for Windows, Unix, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and any data source (including SAP BW and Microsoft Analysis Services). MicroStrategy Software is often layered over massive data warehouses, and it boasts the ability to support large-scale, demanding BI environments.
Salesforce CRM
Salesforce.com is the world's first billion-dollar cloud computing company. Its Salesforce CRM is a hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering that consists of several modules: Sales, Service & Support, Partner Relationship Management, Marketing, Content, Ideas, Analytics and the Chatter collaboration platform. While Salesforce CRM offers a number of analytics tools, many business intelligence software vendors offer products that integrate with the platform, allowing it to serve as a primary data-gathering tool for a variety of BI applications.
TIBCO Spotfire Analytics
TIBCO Spotfire Analytics combines business process management (BPM), complex event processing (CEP), predictive analytics (PA) and visual data mining (DM) software. It handles everything from real-time data capture and streaming to data analysis, forecasting and interactive reporting on a single platform.
Information Builders WebFOCUS
Information Builders' flagship WebFOCUS BI platform uses a purely Web-based architecture with no plug-ins. The company describes its approach as focused on BI applications and embedded BI rather than tools, noting that BI applications "are much simpler to use than tools." WebFOCUS has been implemented at more than 12,000 customer sites and is used to build Web-based BI applications.
Tableau Business Intelligence Software
A pure-play BI software vendor, Tableau refers to its offering as "rapid fire BI." It boasts drag-and-drop features that allow users without IT expertise to visualize information from any structured format. It claims to be the "only provider of data visualization and business intelligence software that can be installed and used by anyone while also adhering to IT standards.” Its offering is comprised of Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server. Tableau Desktop is a tool for graphically analyzing virtually any structured data to produce charts, graphs, dashboards and reports. Tableau Server adds enterprise-class security and performance to support large deployments.
SAP Crystal Reports
Crystal Reports is part of SAP's Business Objects portfolio of business intelligence software solutions. It allows users to graphically design interactive reports and connect them to virtually any data source, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Oracle databases, Business Objects Enterprise business views and local file system information. Reports can then be delivered via Web, e-mail, Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF or embedded in enterprise applications. Crystal Reports provides integration with Xcelsius, Adobe Flex and Adobe Flash. It includes built-in barcode support, multilingual reporting and an integrated Salesforce.com driver. Microsoft helped make Crystal Reports the de facto standard report writer when it bundled it with Microsoft Visual Studio.
SAS Enterprise BI Server
SAS' flagship business intelligence software solution, SAS Enterprise BI Server, combines SAS Analytics with data integration, and provides role-based, self-service interfaces for all types of users within an IT governance framework and a centralized point of administration. Components include: portals and dashboards, Web-based report viewing, Web-based report building and editing, Web-based advanced data exploration with the ability to push results back to report building and viewing environments. It also offers integration with Microsoft Office, guided analysis and access to SAS Analytics, query and analysis as a pervasive part of all interfaces and centralized metadata, and a single point of management. SAS has committed itself to continuing to push the envelope. Of its $2.26 billion 2009 revenue, SAS reinvested a robust 23 percent into R&D.
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus
Oracle's Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus is a suite of business intelligence software solutions that leverage Oracle BI Server as a common platform, providing a level of integration among the tools. The integration provides a common service-oriented architecture, data access services, analytic and calculation infrastructure, metadata management services, semantic business model, security model and user preferences and administration tools. The suite includes Oracle’s BI Server, BI Answers, BI Interactive Dashboards, BI Delivers, BI Disconnected Analytics, BI Publisher, and Oracle BI Briefing Books. Additionally, it offers Hyperion Interactive Reporting, Hyperion SQR Production Reporting, Hyperion Financial Reporting and Hyperion Web Analysis. Oracle's offering has the advantage of integrating with Oracle’s many other enterprise middleware, database and business application solutions.
IBM Cognos 8 BI
IBM's Cognos 8 BI offering is an inclusive suite featuring a range of BI capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboarding and scorecards on a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA). The suite includes Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio, Metric Studio, Metric Designer, Event Studio, Framework Manager and PowerPlay Studio. IBM has declared business analytics as one of the most critical parts of its overall strategy. It has spent heavily on business intelligence and business analytics R&D, investing more than $12 billion in the last five years. That includes the $1.2 billion acquisition of SPSS in 2009, which added a predictive analytics element to its portfolio. (See a video interview of IBM’s Jeff Jonas on BI concepts.)
Microsoft PowerPivot
Two applications, Microsoft's PowerPivot for Excel and PowerPivot for SharePoint, both leverage Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 in an offering that uses the ubiquity of Microsoft's applications to provide BI tools to the knowledge worker masses rather than BI experts. PowerPivot for Excel uses the Excel features users are already familiar with to provide interactive data analysis tools. PowerPivot for SharePoint provides the ability to share and collaborate on user-generated data analysis in Excel and in the browser. By leveraging technology already found in many companies and comfortable to most workers, Microsoft hopes to capture a much larger slice of the BI pie.
MicroStrategy Reporting Suite
MicroStrategy Reporting Suite is a free, commercial reporting tool composed of server software for core analytical processing and job management, an end-user Web interface, Web-based reporting software, desktop reporting software and a data architecting product. It outputs reports in HTML, PDF, Microsoft Excel and text. It can present data in tabular grid reports, graphs and charts, and combination grid-and-graph displays. It is available for Windows, Unix, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and any data source (including SAP BW and Microsoft Analysis Services). MicroStrategy Software is often layered over massive data warehouses, and it boasts the ability to support large-scale, demanding BI environments.
Salesforce CRM
Salesforce.com is the world's first billion-dollar cloud computing company. Its Salesforce CRM is a hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering that consists of several modules: Sales, Service & Support, Partner Relationship Management, Marketing, Content, Ideas, Analytics and the Chatter collaboration platform. While Salesforce CRM offers a number of analytics tools, many business intelligence software vendors offer products that integrate with the platform, allowing it to serve as a primary data-gathering tool for a variety of BI applications.
TIBCO Spotfire Analytics
TIBCO Spotfire Analytics combines business process management (BPM), complex event processing (CEP), predictive analytics (PA) and visual data mining (DM) software. It handles everything from real-time data capture and streaming to data analysis, forecasting and interactive reporting on a single platform.
Information Builders WebFOCUS
Information Builders' flagship WebFOCUS BI platform uses a purely Web-based architecture with no plug-ins. The company describes its approach as focused on BI applications and embedded BI rather than tools, noting that BI applications "are much simpler to use than tools." WebFOCUS has been implemented at more than 12,000 customer sites and is used to build Web-based BI applications.
Tableau Business Intelligence Software
A pure-play BI software vendor, Tableau refers to its offering as "rapid fire BI." It boasts drag-and-drop features that allow users without IT expertise to visualize information from any structured format. It claims to be the "only provider of data visualization and business intelligence software that can be installed and used by anyone while also adhering to IT standards.” Its offering is comprised of Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server. Tableau Desktop is a tool for graphically analyzing virtually any structured data to produce charts, graphs, dashboards and reports. Tableau Server adds enterprise-class security and performance to support large deployments.
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