Enterprise Business Intelligence Comparison Guide

June 2012

Overview
Vendor Birst Product(s) Birst Business Intelligence Suite Product Options On-premise BI Platform SalesForce, SAP On-premise applications/suite RDMS - Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, MS Access; Excel; delimited les; ODBC data sources; Google Analytics Supports most major operating systems including Linux and UNIX; Oracle, Microsoft, Sybase and Teradata ERP systems, major databases and other business applications. Integration to most ERP, CRM database and business applications; supports all major operating systems Most major databases and data warehouses; most major business applications including ERP and CRM. Most major databases, business applications and applications servers. INP SaaS/On-demand Yes Private/hosted solution Yes Target environment Yes Pricing Model Discovery Tools, Advanced Dashboards Sales Channels Yes Year founded Yes Financials No Partner Echo System No

IBM

Cognos

SalesForce, SAP, COGNOS

Yes

INP

No

Virtual Tools, Advanced Dashboards, Predictive analytics Role-based features

Yes; Windows Mobile; Symbian

Yes

Yes

Yes

Information Builders MicroStrategy

WebFocus; WebFocus Mobile MicroStrategy 9; MicroStrategy Cloud Oracle OBIEE

SalesForce, SAP, COGNOS SalesForce, SAP, COGNOS SAP

INP

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Advanced Dashboards Discovery Tools, Advanced Dashboards Discovery Tools, Advanced Dashboards Virtual Tools, Advanced Dashboards, Inmemory analytics; aggregates and calculates in real-time Advanced Dashboards, Inmemory analytics, Predictive analytics Virtual Tools, Advanced Dashboards Advanced visualization, Virtual Tools, Advanced Dashboards

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Oracle

Yes

INP

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Pivotlink

Pivotlink 5

INP

INP

INP

INP

Yes

Yes

No

No

QlikTech International

QlikView

SalesForce, SAP

Major databases and business applications including CRM and ERP

INP

INP

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

SAP

BusinessObjects; BusinessObjects OnDemand SAS Enterprise BI Server; SAS OnDemand Suite Tableau Desktop; Tableau Server

SalesForce, SAP

Major data and business applications including Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.

Yes

INP

Yes

Yes

INP

INP

INP

SAS Institute

Microsoft Solutions

Most metadata sources; Microsoft Ofce and SharePoint Microsoft OS support; Data sources from IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Teradata and most ODBC databases.

Yes

INP

No

Yes with optional Roambi ES5 for SAS Yes using Mobile Safari

Yes

Yes

No

Tableau Software

INP

INP

INP

INP

Yes

Yes

Yes

INP - Information Not Provided

Enterprise Business Intelligence Comparison Guide

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Features
Vendor Birst Business Intelligence Suite Product(s) SalesForce, SAP Direct support/integration RDMS - Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, MS Access; Excel; delimited les; ODBC data sources; Google Analytics Data sources/connects/OS Yes OLAP Yes ETL Yes In-memory architecture Discovery Tools, Advanced Dashboards Advanced User Features Yes Mobile Device Support Yes iPad No iPhone No Android No Blackberry No

Cognos

SalesForce, SAP, COGNOS

Supports most major operating systems including Linux and UNIX; Oracle, Microsoft, Sybase and Teradata ERP systems, major databases and other business applications. Integration to most ERP, CRM database and business applications; supports all major operating systems Most major databases and data warehouses; most major business applications including ERP and CRM. Most major databases, business applications and applications servers. INP Major databases and business applications including CRM and ERP

Yes

INP

No

Virtual Tools, Advanced Dashboards, Predictive analytics Role-based features

Yes; Windows Mobile; Symbian

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

WebFocus; WebFocus Mobile MicroStrategy 9; MicroStrategy Cloud Oracle OBIEE Pivotlink 5 QlikView

SalesForce, SAP, COGNOS SalesForce, SAP, COGNOS SAP INP SalesForce, SAP

INP

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Advanced Dashboards

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes INP INP

INP INP INP

No INP Yes

Discovery Tools, Advanced Dashboards Discovery Tools, Advanced Dashboards Virtual Tools, Advanced Dashboards, In-memory analytics; aggregates and calculates in real-time Advanced Dashboards, Inmemory analytics, Predictive analytics Virtual Tools, Advanced Dashboards Advanced visualization, Virtual Tools, Advanced Dashboards

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes

Yes No Yes

No No Yes

No Yes Yes

No Yes Yes

BusinessObjects; BusinessObjects OnDemand SAS Enterprise BI Server; SAS OnDemand Suite Tableau Desktop; Tableau Server

SalesForce, SAP

Major data and business applications including Oracle, IBM and Microsoft. Most metadata sources; Microsoft Ofce and SharePoint Microsoft OS support; Data sources from IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Teradata and most ODBC databases.

Yes

INP

Yes

Yes

INP

INP

INP

INP

INP

Microsoft Solutions INP

Yes

INP

No

Yes with optional Roambi ES5 for SAS Yes using Mobile Safari

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

INP

INP

INP

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

INP - Information Not Provided

Enterprise Business Intelligence Comparison Guide

Ziff Davis, Inc. 2012