Business Intelligence Software Vendors REVEALED 2011 Edition

TOP 10
Business Intelligence
Software Vendors REVEALED
2011 Edition
Profiles of the Leading Business

Intelligence Software Vendors
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About Business Intelligence
Maintaining a competitive edge is not as easy as it used to be. In the past, companies
simply had to offer superior products and services, and treat customers courteously in
order to create sustained profitability and growth.
Today, organizations must be able to think on their feet, leveraging their most important
asset – their enterprise data – to understand the status of their mission-critical
activities, detect vital operational patterns, anticipate industry trends, and achieve
the agility that will enable them to conduct business more dynamically. However, as
companies deploy more and more business applications, and information architectures
become increasingly complex, obtaining that type of actionable insight can become a
tremendous challenge.
What is Business Intelligence Software?

Business intelligence software enables companies to perform reporting and in-depth
analysis of detailed information from across their entire organization. Data from various
systems, applications, and databases is accessed, gathered, compiled, formatted, and
presented to end users, facilitating faster, more effective decision support by providing
them with timely and vital insight about key operations and activities.
Key Benefits for Your Company

Dramatic benefits can be achieved through the purchase and implementation of a
business intelligence software package. The primary advantages include:
* Improved access to and integration of business data from disparate sources.
* Complete, 360-degree visibility into corporate activities.
* More rapid information sharing across the enterprise.
* Faster and more accurate detection of the positive and negative trends that impact the
business.
* Real-time tracking of key performance indicators and critical metrics.
* Improved collaboration and communication with customers, suppliers, vendors, and
other business partners.
* Enhanced strategic planning.
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Does My Company Need Business Intelligence Software?
Every company, of every size, in every industry can derive tremendous value from a
business intelligence solution. In most organizations today, critical business information
is scattered across disparate systems and applications that exist among various
departments and business units. Without a business intelligence solution in place,
retrieving, consolidating, and formatting that data – then harnessing it to support
planning and decision making at both the strategic and operational level – would require
extensive time and effort from IT staff, and delay the delivery of vital intelligence needed
to support mission-critical business activities.
Common Business Intelligence Software Features

The business intelligence software packages on the market today typically provide the
following features to enable better, faster, more informed decision-making across the
enterprise:
Web-Based Access
The traditional client/server reporting tools of the past made actionable business
intelligence available to only a small percentage of an organization’s information
consumers. So, over the past several years, the majority of business intelligence
vendors have incorporated Web-based access into their offerings, making reporting and
analysis capabilities readily available to a broader base of users and user types.
Ad Hoc Reporting
To minimize burden on IT resources, and ensure that front line workers have immediate
access to the insight they need to perform their jobs on a day-to-day basis, most
business intelligence tools offer the ability for functional end users to easily build and
run their own reports, while shielding them from the technical complexities of the
underlying data.
Flexible Output Formats

Most of today’s popular business intelligence systems enable users to present report
output in a variety of formats, including spreadsheets, word processing documents,
HTML, and other mediums.

Dynamic Scheduling and Delivery
This capability allows users to schedule reports to run and/or refresh at pre-determined
intervals, and to have completed reports automatically “pushed” to relevant users via
email, mobile devices, and other communication vehicles.
Financial Reporting
As legislation becomes increasingly stringent, and the penalties for non-compliance
become greater, more and more business intelligence solutions are incorporating
financial reporting capabilities into their offerings. Examples include templates for
balance sheets and profit and loss statements, the ability to process and calculate
financially-oriented data, and dynamic conversion of foreign currencies.
What to Look for When Choosing a Business Intelligence Solution

While most business intelligence solutions will provide a broad array of reporting
and analysis capabilities, there are some more advanced features that will set some
systems apart from the pack. These include:
Scalability
As the value of a business intelligence environment becomes clear, more and more
users will want to leverage it. Additionally, as an organization thrives, the number
of reports needed, and the number of data sources to be accessed, will grow. Not
all business intelligence solutions are fully scalable, so be sure to choose one that
can address expanding capacity needs and support broader access and reporting
requirements as they emerge.
Unlimited Data Access

Finding a business intelligence solution that accesses common or widely-used systems
is easy. But, if your organization maintains data sources that are proprietary, antiquated,
or obscure, you may be challenged to find a vendor that can easily access and report
on the information contained within them. However, there are some vendors that
have either developed a portfolio of data adapters – or partnered with an application
integration company – to address this very requirement.

Visualization
Enterprise data can be highly complex, making it difficult for functional users to
understand and interpret it. While most business intelligence software packages
offer some basic visualization capabilities – such as simple charts and graphs – more
advanced visualization techniques such as matrixes, scatter plots, histograms, and
maps may be needed if your information is scientific or mathematical in nature.
Predictive Analytics
Are forecasting and advance planning part of your business intelligence needs? Then
you may want to look for a solution that offers predictive analytics – sophisticated
algorithms and formulas that mine historical data for patterns and trends, and use it to
make weighted anticipations regarding future events and activities.
Top 10 Business Intelligence Solutions

You have many options when selecting a business intelligence solution. To make your
search a bit easier, we’ve featured some of the leading business intelligence vendors
in this paper. Review these companies, and you’ll be well on the way to finding the right
business intelligence solution for your company.

www.cognos.com | 866-601-1934 x1
Highlights
* The IBM Cognos BI suite serves more than 23,000 customers in more than
135 countries.
* Complete corporate performance management solution. Supports enterprise
planning, scorecarding, and business intelligence.
* Rated a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence
Platforms, 2008.
Ownership: Headquarters: SOFTWARE Solutions:

Public (DJI: IBM) Burlington, MA IBM Cognos 8 Business
Intelligence Solution Suite
Founded:
1969, Ottowa, Canada
Acquired by IBM: 2008
Customer Focus:
The IBM Cognos business intelligence solution suite serves more than 23,000 customers
in more than 135 countries.
Select Customers:
Ingenix Healthcare, China Zheshang Bank, Jebsen & Jessen SEA, evu zählwerk, Mentor
Graphics, Miller Paint, NYPD, Oxxio, Austrian Railways, Bundeswher.

About IBM Cognos
Cognos, an IBM company, is a world leader in business intelligence and corporate
performance management (CPM) software for the enterprise. IBM Cognos solutions let
companies improve and direct corporate performance by enabling all of the key steps
in the management cycle, including planning and budgeting; measuring and monitoring
performance; and reporting and analysis.
Whether customers choose to apply Cognos software strategically on an enterprise

scale, or leverage it as a point solution to address key operational requirements,
Cognos allows customers to better monitor, understand, and drive the successful
performance of their business.
Cognos customers are involved in every industry sector including all industries within
manufacturing such as automotive, energy, natural resources, consumer packaged
goods, and high tech. Cognos solutions are sold directly and are also available from
more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. These solutions are supported by
an experienced and award-winning field force of more than 1,800 customer-facing
personnel.
Founded in 1969, Cognos employs over 3,400 people and serves more than 23,000
customers in over 135 countries. Cognos was acquired by IBM in January 2008.
Key Strengths
* The new IBM Cognos 8 BI MidMarket Reporting Packages offer midsize
organizations an affordable, single, Web-based solution for all components of the
reporting lifecycle: managed reports, ad-hoc reports, and transactional, operational,
production, and statement-style reports. These reports can be authored once and
consumed anywhere, and are adaptable to any data source.
* IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers the complete range of BI capabilities on
a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA). Customers can author, share, and use
reports that draw on data across all enterprise sources for better business decisions.
* IBM Cognos 8 Analysis enables the guided exploration of information that pertains
to all dimensions of a business, regardless of where the data is stored. The
solution gives businesses the power to analyze and report against online analytical
processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational sources.

About IBM Cognos
* IBM Cognos 8 enables customers to perform complex analysis quickly and easily to
get to the “why” behind an event or action to improve business performance.
Technology
The IBM Cognos BI/Analytics solution resides on an IBM DB2 balanced data
warehouse running on an IBM System platform provides a flexible and scalable
business intelligence infrastructure to support the delivery of information as a service.
Built with modern, service-oriented architecture, IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
integrates with technology standards today, and can adapt as companies evolve.
Software Highlights
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Reporting
* Gives you access to a complete list of self-serve report types, is adaptable to any
data source, and operates from a single metadata layer for a variety of benefits such
as multilingual reporting.
* With the web-based deployment and reporting capability, you can personalize
the style and quality of BI delivered to your key stakeholders; and you expand the
community of BI users.
* Delivers complete reporting coverage, a user interface that supports 10+ languages;
reports delivered in 25+ languages, and reports in multiple export formats: Excel,
PDF, XML, HTML, and CSV.
Analysis
* Enables the guided exploration of information that pertains to all dimensions of your
business, regardless of where the data is stored. Analyze and report against online
analytical processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational sources.
* Lets you can personalize the style and quality of BI delivered to your key
stakeholders; and you expand the community of BI users.
* Using robust analysis tools, you can perform complex analysis quickly and easily to
get to the “why” behind an event or action to improve business performance.
* Lets you analyze PowerCube to see what’s driving your business with data organized
in logical categories such as fiscal periods, sales regions, and product groups.

About IBM Cognos
Dashboards
* Offers the full range of dashboards — operational, tactical, strategic — to help you
monitor, measure, and manage corporate performance.
* Cognos dashboards can be deployed as a standalone application or as a core
element of an enterprise business intelligence or performance management platform.
Dynamic Business Intelligence

* Flash-based graphics let you build attractive, interactive dashboards quickly.
* Client-side data capture gives you near-instant response times to repeated queries
and layout changes.
Personalized Information
* Drag-and drop-interface lets you create dashboards on the fly; no need to wait for IT
or search for existing content.
* Modular report creation lets you build dashboards using existing report elements.
Trusted Data Source

* Lets you build your dashboards using trusted Cognos information.
* Use existing report elements for complete, consistent view of results.
Scorecarding
* Helps you align your teams and tactics with strategy, communicate goals consistently,
and monitor performance against targets.
* Aligns decisions and tactics with strategy to produce a balanced scorecard view of
performance.
* Gives you the ability to use a metrics network and centralized data store to ensure
reliable and consistent information.
IBM Cognos TM1

* Fast, easy-to-use analytics for financial performance management.
* Provides a real-time approach to consolidating, viewing, and editing enormous
volumes of multidimensional data.
* Using a patented, 64-bit, in-memory OLAP server, IBM Cognos TM1 has a proven
track record supporting financial performance management.

About IBM Cognos
IBM® Content Analyzer (previously known as IBM OnmiFind Analytics Edition)
* Lets you discover new insights from unstructured and structured content to enable
better business decisions.
* With total content analysis, enterprises can better identify new revenue opportunities,
improve customer satisfaction and provide early problem detection.
* Reduces the expense and effort to manually analyze unstructured content like call
center logs, website blogs, and documents.
* Gives business users powerful visualization tools to analyze enterprise information
in multiple ways such as keyword & semantic search, drill-down navigation, trend
analysis, delta analysis, and 2D correlation heat maps.
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www.sas.com | 800-727-0025
Highlights
* Exceptionally strong in advanced analytic analysis.
* Full analysis power revealed in the hands of uses with knowledge of SAS
programming.
* Subscription-based pricing model.
* Rated a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence
Platforms, 2008.
Ownership: Headquarters: SOFTWARE Solutions:

Private Cary, NC SAS Business Intelligence
Solution Suite
Founded:
1976, North Carolina
Customer Focus:
SAS solutions are used at 45,000 sites in 109 countries. Customers include 91 of the
top 100 FORTUNE Global 500 companies.
Select Customers:
1-800-Flowers.com, Kraft, Affinity Health Plan, Nedbank Retail, Nationwide, OMV, Blue
Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Redcats USA, Canada Post, Steelcase.

About SAS
SAS is a leader in business intelligence and analytical software and services.
Customers at 43,000 sites use SAS software to improve performance through insight
from data, resulting in faster, more accurate business decisions; more profitable
relationships with customers and suppliers; compliance with governmental regulations;
research breakthroughs; and better products and processes.
Founded in 1976, this $1.6 billion company is based Cary, NC and employs about
10,000 people. It also offers industry-specific integrated software and support packages.
Its clients span the commercial, private, and government sectors. In March 2006 the
company acquired the assets of Marketing Resource Management provider Veridiem,
Inc., a privately held software company based in Maynard, MA, that helps customers
analyze and optimize their returns across the entire spectrum of marketing investments.
Key Strengths
* SAS business intelligence offers decision-makers fast, simple access to reports and
analysis. Self-service reporting and familiar interfaces are tailored to the different skills
and needs of individuals, enabling everyone to generate reports on their own.
* The SAS Business Intelligence solution suite gives companies the information when
they need it, in the format they need. By integrating data from across the enterprise
and delivering self-service reporting and analysis, IT spends less time responding to
requests, and business users spend less time looking for information, so more time is
spent on making better, more informed decisions.
* SAS ensures that customers have the breadth of BI capabilities to meet the needs
of every type of user: managers looking for dashboards; groups who want to view or
build reports on the Web; analysts or power users; and IT staff who need to deploy,
manage, control and maintain the entire solution.
Technology
The SAS on-demand hosted SaaS solution delivers end-to-end linked technologies,
including data access, data quality and a common metadata layer, that increase
consistency of data and business rules. This ensures that large volumes of raw data are
converted into accurate information for reporting and analysis.

About SAS
A point-and-click interface allows users to exploit the power of SAS and publish
dynamic results throughout the organization. Interactive dialog boxes guide users
through analytic and reporting tasks that range from simple to complex, and can export
the results to other Windows and server-based applications.
By leveraging existing data and system assets and bringing Business Intelligence to
everyone through familiar and intuitive interfaces, SAS helps organizations leverage
existing skill sets, serve all user types, lower total cost of ownership and deliver critical
business intelligence to more people faster than ever.
Software Highlights
SAS Business Intelligence Solution Suite
SAS Business Intelligence Reporting

* Delivers self-service reporting, a robust business user view of data, intuitive and
familiar wizard-driven interfaces, and unlimited report authors and consumers.
* Provides ad-hoc and managed reporting, and integration of analytic results and
processes.
SAS Integrated Analytics

* Provides an integrated environment for predictive analytics and descriptive modeling,
data mining, text mining, forecasting, optimization, simulation, experimental design
and more.
* Gives you a range of techniques and processes for the collection, classification,
analysis and interpretation of data to reveal patterns, anomalies, key variables and
relationships, leading ultimately to new insights for guided decision making.
* Descriptive and predictive statistics can be applied to a vast range of business
challenges across many industries and departments.
SAS Visualization
* Presents data in charts, graphs and maps integrated within multiple BI applications
* Summarizes and present data using a variety of customizable charts and plots.
* Creates plots and charts and deliver them on hundreds of different devices.

About SAS
* Creates and integrate geographic maps within the OLAP application as an interactive
data exploration interface.
SAS Statistics
* Provides a wide range of statistical software, ranging from traditional analysis of
variance to exact methods and dynamic data visualization techniques. Using statistical
software can provide new information that improves processes, drives development
and revenues, and helps organizations retain valued and satisfied customers.
SAS/IML Software
* Provides a powerful and flexible matrix programming language in a dynamic
environment for programmers, statisticians and researchers.
SAS Visual Data Discovery

* Interactive data visualization for analytics provides a point-and-click interface to the
advanced analytic capabilities of SAS.
* Enhances advanced analytics and exploratory data analysis with interactive
data visualization, leading to better analyses, faster decisions and more effective
presentations of analytic results. It combines three of SAS’ most popular software
products (Base SAS®, SAS/STAT® and SAS/GRAPH®) with JMP®.
* Delivers a comprehensive set of tools for advanced statistical analysis.
SAS Forecasting
* Lets you analyze and forecast processes that take place over time.
* Integrates time series and econometric techniques for modeling, forecasting and
simulating business processes.
* SAS High-Performance Forecasting can produce thousands of forecasts quickly and
automatically. Each forecast is individually calculated using statistically optimized
parameters so you can use the results to drive strategic planning.
Econometrics & Time Series with SAS/ETS® Software

* Provides integrated time series and econometric techniques for modeling, forecasting
and simulating business processes.

About SAS
* Gives you a time Series Forecasting System with a full range of forecasting and time
series methods.
SAS Enterprise Miner

* Unearths valuable insight and gain profitable data mining results with less time and
effort.
* Streamlines the data mining process to create highly accurate predictive and
descriptive models based on analysis of vast amounts of data from across the
enterprise.
SAS Desktop Visual Data Discovery for Midsize Business

* Provides unmatched analytics and interactive, dynamic data visualization in a single,
highly interactive, easy-to-use package.
SAS Business Intelligence for Small-to-Midsize Business

* Gives you easy-to-use, affordable and flexible business intelligence solutions that
grow with your organization.
* Presents a comprehensive, affordable business intelligence solution to address the
needs of all users.

www.informationbuilders.com I askinfo@ibi.com | 800-969-4636
Highlights
* Strong BI on-demand platform: secure, scalable, good integration, low TCO,
simplified developer and user interactions.
* Customer focus in North America.
* Recognized by CRM magazine as a 2008 CRM Market Leader in Business
Intelligence.
* Reputation for strong customer support.
Ownership: Headquarters: software Solutions:

Private New York, NY * WebFOCUS Enterprise
Business Intelligence Suite
Founded: * FOCUS (Host-Based
1975, New York Reporting -- Mainframe
solution)
Customer Focus:
Information Builders’ customers include mid-sized companies and larger enterprises
companies in many of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies.
Select Customers:
Ace Hardware Corporation, City of Houston Police, Ford Motor Company, Everest
Insurance, Hillerich & Bradsby, Lloyds Corporation of London, Merrill Lynch Credit
Corporation (MLCC), Omaha Public Schools, Scherer Brothers Lumber Co., Texas
Instruments.

About Information Builders
Information Builders’ customers include most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal
government agencies. Headquartered in New York City with 90 offices worldwide, the
company employs 1,600 people and has more than 350 business partners.
The company’s’ award-winning combination of business intelligence and enterprise

integration software has provided innovative solutions to over 12,000 customers for the
past 30 years.
Information Builders’ WebFOCUS product is the world’s most widely utilized business
intelligence platform. It provides the security, scalability, and flexibility needed at every
level of global extended enterprises. Its simplicity helps create executive, analytical, and
operational applications that reach dozens to millions of users.
Moreover, Information Builders’ subsidiary, iWay Software, provides state-of-the-

art, multi-purpose integration engines that address all SOA, application, data, and
information management requirements. iWay’s integration adapters have been adopted
by leading software-platform providers. Together, these products give Information
Builders’ customers the ability to live up to the company motto: “Your business, no
barriers.”
Leveraging over $300 million in revenue, Information Builders will continue to expand on
its very simple mission: to help organizations access all of their information and deliver it
to anyone who needs it.
Key Strengths
* Information Builders was recognized by CRM magazine as a 2008 CRM Market
Leader in the Business Intelligence category of the 2008 CRM Market Awards. The
CRM Market Award honor vendors, consultants, and end-user companies focused on
creating and cultivating rewarding customer experiences and relationships through the
sophisticated integration of people, processes, and technologies.

* The company’s WebFOCUS solution is a comprehensive and fully integrated
enterprise business intelligence platform: its architecture, integration, and simplicity
permeate every level of the global organization – executive, analytical, and
operational – and make any data available, accessible, and meaningful to every
person or application who needs it, when and how they need it.
* WebFOCUS equips mid-market leaders with scalable BI solutions to effectively
address the daily business pressures of getting the right data to the right employees
so they can make educated operational decisions. With it, users gain critical business
insight from their data through easy-to-use drill-down functionality. WebFOCUS also
gives mid-market leaders confidence in their data, helping them face increasingly
rigorous compliance and reporting requirements.
* As further evidence of its growing BI market presence, Information Builders was
named as a winner of the prestigious START-IT Magazine Hottest Companies of 2008
Awards. The Hottest Companies Award honors software and technology providers
that target the manufacturing industry and have developed innovative applications or
products.
Technology
Information Builders’ on-demand BI solution is delivered from self-optimizing autonomic
servers whose workload and traffic management and capacity planning eliminate
complexity, improve system performance, and dramatically reduce TCO.
WebFOCUS’s super-linear technology provides scalability through multiple

technological advantages, a unifying integration infrastructure that accesses,
reconciles, cleanses, and prepares any and all data for business intelligence use,
and service-oriented architecture support with the ability to create, consume, and
publish Web services. The result is simplified developer and end-user interaction, with
advanced visualization and deep integration with desktop products such as Microsoft
Excel and Adobe PDF.

Software Highlights
Enterprise Business Intelligence (WebFOCUS)
End user Reporting

* With the product’s guided ad hoc technology, companies can give users the ability
to rapidly create their own fully-customized reports by simply choosing columns, sort
criteria, measures, and output formats from drop-down menus.
Report Distribution
* By combining a robust report delivery engine with leading-edge event monitoring,
WebFOCUS provides a single point of control for real-time alerts, as well as the
automation, scheduling, distribution, and storage of reports and other critical business
content.
Financial Reporting and Analysis

* With WebFOCUS, financial professionals at all levels can access and analyze
real-time information from any source, and rapidly share it with investors, creditors,
regulatory agencies, and other key stakeholders.
Print-ready Reporting
* Lets user create boardroom-quality reports and documents in scalable vector graphic
(SVG) format.
Report Distribution
* Provides electronic distribution of any content via preferred delivery vehicles – e-mail,
FTP, or network printers; also via fax through a third-party fax service provider.
Query and Analysis

* Lets you generate ad hoc queries from any enterprise data using nothing more than a
Web browser.
* Gives you an intuitive, drag-and-drop, graphical interface that allows use of business
terminology.
* Provides capability for dynamic creation of “virtual” columns that combine/calculate
data from two or more existing database.

Dashboards and Scorecards
* Performance Management - With a comprehensive performance management suite,
WebFOCUS enables effective and timely measurement and tracking of the key
metrics that drive business success.
* Portable Dashboards - WebFOCUS Active Dashboards lets users deploy dashboards
on Web sites and portals, save them on their personal computers, receive them as
e-mail attachments, and forward them to other users.
Visualization
* Empowers users with the advanced mechanisms and features to perform the most
in-depth and intuitive analysis possible.
Location Intelligence/GIS
* Gives users the ability to more accurately process and comprehend spatially-oriented
data by visualizing it on geographic maps.

www.microstrategy.com | info@microstrategy.com | 888-537-8135
Highlights
* Rated a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms,
2008.
* Strong, comprehensive and unified BI functionality – reporting, real-time
business monitoring, integration, and analysis.
* On-demand BI solution was built from the ground-up by MicroStrategy.

Public (NASDAQ: MSTR) McLean, VA MicroStrategy 8 Business
Intelligence Solution
Founded: * MicroStrategy 8 Platform
1989, Virginia * Intelligence Server
* Narrowcast Server
Customer Focus:
MicroStrategy serves thousands of the world’s leading companies, including 7 of the top
10 global retailers, 9 of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies, and 8 of the top 10
global telecommunications companies.
Select Customers:
Lowes, Netflix, Healthcare Partners, Samsung, Borax, Herbalife, Comcast, Hallmark,
Amlin, Astra Zeneca.

About MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy Incorporated is a worldwide provider of business intelligence software
that enables companies to report, analyze and monitor the data stored across their
enterprise. MicroStrategy provides sophisticated analytical performance to every
business user in the format that suits them best, from high-level dashboards to custom
reports and advanced analysis via e-mail, Web, fax, wireless and voice communication
channels.
The company provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps
leading organizations make better business decisions every day.
MicroStrategy’s flagship BI solution, MicroStrategy 8, is an integrated business

intelligence platform that’s designed to enable organizations to consolidate business
intelligence applications onto a single platform for smarter, faster, and more
comprehensive reporting, analysis and monitoring of real-time business information that
drives greater performance and greater bottom-line growth.
Key Strengths
* MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Solutions enable improved and more predictable
business performance by putting actionable information into the hands of every
business person in the enterprise. The company’s technology offers an unprecedented
range of monitoring, reporting, and analyzing capabilities within a single architecture
to allow every-one to make better business decisions every day, and drive business
performance goals.
* The company’s solution product, MicroStrategy 8, is the first and only business
intelligence architecture to unify reporting, analysis, and real-time business monitoring
into one seamless experience for the business user, into one efficient and scalable
architecture for the IT professional, and into one economical and extensible utility for
the CIO.
* The MicroStrategy 8 platform consists of product components, such as Intelligence
Server, a foundation for the BI platform; Report Services, the enterprise reporting
engine that delivers a range of enterprise reports, including production and operational
reports, managed metrics reports, and scorecards; OLAP Services, an extension of
Intelligence Server that allows Web and desktop users to manipulate Intelligent Cubes
databases.

About MicroStrategy
* MicroStrategy provides a robust, holistic business view of enterprise data. Users do
not need to understand databases, table structures, or query languages -- just how
to point and click. MicroStrategy’s workflow guides help users “drill” into detail as
represented by their business model, not their database model. With drill anywhere
capabilities, users can view summary- to detail-level data, with access to the entire
breadth and depth of data contained in a database.
* “MicroStrategy 8 is reporting at its finest. With an outstanding/unique focus on
reporting, it offers an effortless convergence of reporting and analysis not available in
other business intelligence pro-ducts. Our users will be able to see exactly how their
reports look as they build them, without having to go into a separate design mode. As
a result, we envision faster report writing production.” -- Meredith Corporation
Technology
MicroStrategy’s on-demand BI solution is built and delivered from MicroStrategy
Intelligence Server, the industry’s most advanced, scalable secure and robust business
intelligence server. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server provides the core analytical
processing and job management for all reporting, analysis and monitoring applications.
Employing a Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA), MicroStrategy Intelligence Server
makes it easy to standardize on a single, open platform for all an enterprise’s reporting
and analysis needs through a number of access channels: Web browsers, Microsoft
Office, Desktop clients, and emails. It is the first and only BI server to provide the full
range of BI applications through a unified metadata and a single integrated server
running on Windows®, UNIX, or Linux.
Software Highlights
MicroStrategy 8 Business Intelligence Platform
Business Intelligence Monitoring

* With easily configurable dashboards, scorecards, and portals, MicroStrategy 8
provides the ability to deliver detailed data on current and historical operational
performance so people can see what is happening across the enterprise, and how
well the business is operating.
* Scorecards and dashboards provide “at-a-glance” information about business
performance across the enterprise. They are typically generated for managers and

About MicroStrategy
executives who need an overall view of business performance and find tremendous
value in viewing timely, visually intuitive snapshots of strategic financial and
operational data.
Business Intelligence Reporting

* Provides advanced reporting technology with a more intuitive user experience and
delivery via the Web, giving more users access to report information.
* Delivers the detailed information that impacts decision-makers throughout the
enterprise. Individuals at all organizational levels and job functions, as well as supply
chain partners and customers, rely on powerful, flexible enterprise reporting systems
that present targeted data in the most consumable format for day-to-day operations.
Business Analytics
* Presents views of the business from many different angles so that managers can
uncover the causes of performance problems, uncover opportunities that the business
should exploit, or predict business results.
* Supports advanced and predictive analysis capabilities, enabling users for the first
time to perform analyses such as hypothesis testing, churn prediction and customer
scoring models within a single unified web interface.
* With built-in support for over 400 statistical, mathematical and financial functions,
MicroStrategy lets users create reporting applications that combine ease-of-use with
unparalleled backend sophistication.

www.microsoft.com | www.microsoft.com/dynamics | 888-477-7989
Highlights
* Rated a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms,
2008.
* Attractive to companies that are standardized on Microsoft solutions.
* Extensive network of application developers, indirect sales and service channels.
* Built on familiar and widely used Microsoft technologies.

Public (NASDAQ: MSFT) Redmond, WA Microsoft Dynamics GP
Business Intelligence
Founded: * Microsoft Dynamics add-on
1975, New Mexico * Microsoft FRx
* Microsoft Office Business
Scorecard Manager 2005
* Microsoft SQL Server
Customer Focus:
Microsoft distributes its products primarily through the following channels: OEM;
distributors and resellers; and online services. Its financial management products are
used by small and medium-sized organizations, enterprises, governmental institutions,
educational institutions, Internet Service Providers, application developers, and OEMs.
Select Customers:
Arthur Schuman, OrangeCounty Choppers, Nexion, Winona Health Hospital Group, Lava
World, Malibu Boats, Six Flags, ICO Polymers, American Bible Society, The Sol Group.

About Microsoft
Microsoft was founded in 1975. The company’s product segments provide management
with a financial view of its key businesses. The segments provide a framework for
the alignment of strategies and objectives across the development, sales, marketing,
and services organizations, and for the timely and rational allocation of development,
sales, marketing, and services resources within businesses. The company’s seven
product segments are: Client; Server and Tools; Information Worker; Microsoft Business
Solutions; MSN; Mobile and Embedded Devices; and Home and Entertainment.
The company’s research and development facilities are located primarily in Redmond,
Washington, with smaller facilities in such locations as Mountain View, California;
Fargo, North Dakota; Beijing, China; Dublin. As of June 30, 2005, Microsoft employed
approximately 61,000 people.
Like its size, Microsoft’s ambitions are anything but small. The world’s #1 software
company provides a variety of products and services, including its Windows operating
systems and Office software suite. The company has expanded into markets such as
video game consoles, servers and storage software, and digital music players.
Microsoft’s success includes the flexibility to respond to emerging markets, such as

today’s growth opportunities in China and Eastern Europe, and to the ever-changing
needs of the customers. Capitalizing on these opportunities and demands involves
quickly adapting to new approaches, trading partners, and procurement strategies.
In response to these global challenges, Microsoft offers Microsoft Dynamics, a suite of

integrated, adaptable business applications for small and medium-sized organizations
and divisions of large enterprises. These integrated solutions—delivered through
a worldwide network of experienced Microsoft Certified Partners—work like and
with familiar Microsoft software and help automate and improve financial, customer
relationship, business intelligence/analytics, and supply chain management.

About Microsoft
Key Strengths
* Microsoft’s Dynamics GP Business Intelligence solution product lets you plan more
effectively. With Dynamics GP, you get the power to create accurate, high-level plans
instantly by automatically spreading increases and decreases across each of your
planning periods, using up-to-date data pulled directly from the General Ledger in
Microsoft Dynamics GP. What’s more, integration across Microsoft FRx and Microsoft
Forecaster enables you to drill down smoothly from summaries to transactions.
* Decision makers who want to perform ad hoc queries on Microsoft Dynamics GP
data without logging into the system can now work with Office Excel report templates,
which are based on the data that can be found in more than 200 SmartList favorites.
Business intelligence reports can be stored on Office SharePoint Server 2007 or
another shared network location for easy access and instantly refreshed at any time
to ensure data is current.
* With Office Excel 2007 Services, a component of Office SharePoint Server 2007,
all your Excel-based reports, spreadsheets, and pivot tables can be stored in a
centralized, Web-based location—helping ensure that people are using and sharing a
real-time view of data and performance intelligence.
* Analysis Cubes in Microsoft Dynamics GP enables people to take full advantage
of SQL Server Analysis Services by providing out-of-the-box preconfigured OLAP
cubes. Analysis Cubes provides virtually unlimited ways to look at data with powerful
interactive analysis.
* SmartList in Microsoft Dynamics GP enables people to organize and present data
from the accounting system in a way that makes sense to them. They can display lists
of records from a specific category, such as Customers or Purchase Orders, as well
as apply search criteria to limit results to only the records of interest. They can even
determine which columns should be displayed, as well as the order of the columns.
* With the bottom-line BI benefits from Microsoft Dynamics GP, you empower your
decision-makers by giving them access to information across the organization.
Integration between industry-leading tools and Microsoft Dynamics GP, such as
Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft SQL Reporting Services, and Microsoft FRx
Professional, gives your people the information they need to forecast and make
business decisions. People can also drill down to the information they need and
analyze data in multiple ways.

About Microsoft
Technology
The Microsoft Dynamics licensed suite of products, built on familiar and widely used
Microsoft technologies, offers several solutions for business intelligence and reporting.
The company’s Dynamics GP licensed solution can be integrated with Microsoft SQL
Server and the Microsoft Office system.
Software Highlights
Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Intelligence
Activity Monitoring
* Gives you the power to keep current on changing business conditions by accurately
monitoring current business activity, and comparing it to historical activity and plans.
* Provides people with the contextual information they need to keep performance on
track.
* Delivers many integrated monitoring tools so that people are always aware of the
most relevant, accurate, and timely information.
Business Insight
* Provides your people with the insight they need to take quick action and take
advantage of opportunities.
* Lets you organize and display data. SmartList in Microsoft Dynamics GP allows
people to organize and display data from the accounting system in a way that makes
sense to them, and then search those records according to specific criteria.
Microsoft Forecaster: Budget, Forecast, and Planning

* Provides the ability to update budgets and plans on the basis of new data and
analyses. Microsoft Dynamics GP offers flexible, secure planning tools to help
businesses stay competitive and confidently plan for the future.
* Helps you build budgets that incorporate first-hand knowledge of market conditions
and specific business objectives. The result is more commitment to the budget from
those responsible for delivering against it.
* Microsoft Forecaster is a fast and affordable budgeting and planning application that
helps organizations take control of their finances, contain costs, and keep business
performance on target.

About Microsoft
Microsoft FRx
* Helps organizations control their entire financial reporting process and makes it easy
to manage and distribute critical financial reports that businesses depend on to run
effectively.
* Reports built using Microsoft FRx include balance sheets, income statements,
statement of cash flows, budget versus actual reports, or any other financial report
that includes amounts from the general ledger.

www.actuate.com | sales@actuate.com | 800-914-2259
Highlights
* High scalability to support extranet deployments.
* Strong reporting and Business Performance Management (BPM) dashboards.
* Platform is backed by the open source information application developer
community, grounded in BIRT.
* Rated a niche player in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence
Platforms, 2008.

Public (NASDAQ: ACTU) San Mateo, CA Actuate Business Intelligence
Suite
Founded: * BIRT and Business Report
1993, California * Web Dashboards
* Actuate e.Reports
* Actuate e.Spreadsheet
* Actuate Analytics
* Actuate Performancesoft
Customer Focus:
Companies of all sizes, in all industries across the globe exceed their business goals
with the help of Actuate products, services, and partners. Actuate has over 2,100 direct
customers and 300 OEM partners in a range of industries including financial services,
pharmaceuticals, insurance, and distribution services, as well as the government sector.
Select Customers:
Mercy Ships, Orange, Atkins, City of Milwaukee, Gyrus ENT, Lincoln Financial
Distributors, Durham County Council, Cal-ISO, NSTAR, Public Benefit Corporation.

About Actuate
Actuate Corporation provides software and services for business intelligence,
performance management, and reporting applications in the United States and
internationally.
Actuate products and services are used in the development and deployment of Internet
applications in a range of business functions, including financial management, sales
management, account management, and customer self-service. The company also
provides performance management solutions software and services, including the
flagship Actuate Performancesoft Suite.
Actuate is headquartered in San Mateo, California and employs 580 people in the U.S.
and abroad.
Key Strengths
* Actuate’s Information Application Platform is the foundation on which Global 9000
organizations (companies with annual revenues greater than $1 billion) and packaged
application software vendors create reporting and analytics applications that scale to
empower 100 percent of their user community inside and outside the firewall.
* Actuate offers a wide variety of business intelligence products, and analytics
and reporting capabilities for any size project. From tapping data warehouses to
implementing operational reporting within a department or across the business.
Actuate’s comprehensive business intelligence reporting platform offers organizations
a cost-effective report authoring, deployment and delivery environment that meets the
needs of every user, regardless of skill or experience.
* Actuate’s Information Applications include Business Performance Management (BPM)
dashboards, Information Portals as well as business analytic, enterprise reporting
and spreadsheet reporting applications. Information Applications built with Actuate
enable companies to increase their business agility, improve customer and partner
relationships, adhere to corporate governance policies, and increase revenues while
leveraging existing technology assets.
* When tested against other business intelligence products, Actuate’s Information
Application Platform has been proven to offer industry-leading scalability, the best
performance, lowest total cost of ownership.

About Actuate
Technology
Actuate provides business intelligence users with a robust platform that supports all
BI applications in an environment capable of unlimited scalability and 24/7 service.
Several tiers are available within each product group, with applications and services
developed to meet the needs of every user in the organization, from novice to expert
and beyond.
As a business intelligence solution, the Actuate enterprise reporting platform centers on

the Actuate iServer. Actuate’s on-demand solution delivers Rich Internet Applications
(RIA)-ready information platform for both customer and employee-facing applications.
Its platform is backed by the open source information application developer community,
grounded in BIRT, the Eclipse Foundation’s only top level Business Intelligence and
reporting project
Two of the unique strengths of the Actuate Information Application Platform are its
ability to access multiple data sources simultaneously and access relational and non-
relational data sources.
Software Highlights
Actuate Business Intelligence Suite
BIRT and Business Report

* Actuate’s Business Intelligence Reporting Tools (BIRT) provide report creation tools
and deployment options through which BIRT-based report designs can be shared
among highly skilled application and report developers, power or business users, and
end users or consumers.
* Fosters a progressive report development process and environment that speeds
development and encourages adoption of the applications. Enterprise products
enhance and simplify the BIRT experience by creating skill-specific BI tools for all
users.
* BIRT is the foundation for interactive web reports, ad-hoc web report authoring,
interactive web dashboards and enterprise-caliber information applications.

About Actuate
Web Dashboards
* Present operational indicators in real time in order to proactively drive performance.
* Enables end users to quickly take action and effect change before it is too late.
* Driven by transactional as well as historical data, Actuate dashboards provide a
complete, easily configured view of the enterprise.
Actuate e.Reports
* Provides interactive Web reports designed specifically for application developers,
report developers, business analysts, and business and casual users, can share
the same report design, allowing anyone to start the design process and anyone to
complete it.
* These tools can be used to develop rich Internet applications, which can then be
launched using one of Actuate’s deployment options.
Actuate e.Spreadsheet
* Automates and centralizes spreadsheet production, maintenance, archiving, and
security, eliminating version discrepancies and curbing the proliferation of multiple
silos of Excel workbook data.
Actuate Analytics
* Delivers self-serve, personalized business analytics for power users.
* Gives users the ability to meet their analysis needs without being hindered by slow
cube creation processes. effectively balances the needs of the business user and the
IT developer so that OLAP is effective and practical.
Actuate Performancesoft
* Performance Management Scorecard helps high-performing organizations drive
strategy at all levels, improve decision making, and ensure better operational
performance and execution.

www.oracle.com | sales@oracle.com | 1-800-633-0738
Highlights
* Widely established and respected vendor of business intelligence solutions.
* Market leader for data warehousing tools.
* Gartner recognized the Siebel Business Analytics platform as one of the most
comprehensive and visionary BI platforms available.
* Oracle solutions are designed to integrate seamlessly with any existing
database systems.
* Hosted and on-premise B.I. solutions available.

Public (NASDAQ: ORCL) Redwood Shores, CA * Business Intelligence
Foundation Products
Founded: * Business Intelligence
1977, California Applications
Customer Focus:
Oracle offers solutions for companies of any size in any part of the world – Enterprise
solutions are targeted at the Fortune 1000 and largest companies in the world.
Select Customers:
ABB Group, Alcoa, BMI, BP, Cisco Systems, EMC, Fifth Third Bancorp, Hewlett-Packard,
Ingersol-Rand, Marriott Hotels, National City Corporation, Northwestern University, Pitney
Bowes, Solo Cup, U.S. Postal Service, Verizon Wireless.

About Oracle
After 30 years of providing leading-edge solutions to a vast and growing base of
customers, Oracle remains the gold standard for database technology and applications
in enterprises throughout the world: The company is the world’s leading supplier of
software for information management, and the world’s second largest independent
software company. Oracle technology can be found in nearly every industry, and in the
data centers of 98 of the Fortune 100 companies. Oracle is the first software company
to develop and deploy 100 percent internet-enabled enterprise software across its
entire product line: database, business applications, and application development and
decision support tools.
It is innovation that drives Oracle’s success. Oracle was one of the first companies
to make its business applications available through the internet—an idea that is now
pervasive. With the release of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle has begun debuting
new products and functionality that reflect the company’s goal: connecting all levels of
enterprise technology to help customers access the knowledge they need to respond
to market conditions with speed and agility. Today, Oracle Real Application Clusters,
Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Grid Computing, support for enterprise Linux, and
Oracle Fusion all fuel a commitment to innovation and results that has defined Oracle
for thirty years.
The company’s success speaks for itself. Oracle applications are now running in over
1,500 public sector organizations, 10 of the world’s top 10 banks, 20 of the world’s top
20 telecom companies, and 10 of the top 10 academic universities worldwide.
Key Strengths
* Comprehensive BI functionality built on a unified infrastructure—Includes interactive
dashboards, full ad hoc queries and analysis, proactive intelligence delivery and
alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP) analysis
and presentation, high-volume production reporting, real-time predictive intelligence,
disconnected analytics, as well as integration with Microsoft Office.
* Pervasive insight to everyone, everywhere—Provides relevant insight to everyone, not
just analysts. All levels of the organization can see information optimized for their role.
* Unified business model—Built on an enterprise information model that unifies
metadata across the Oracle BI tools and analytical applications for the lowest TCO.

About Oracle
* Hot-Pluggable BI infrastructure—Integrates with any data source, extraction,
transformation and load (ETL) tool, major business application, application server,
security infrastructure, portal technology, other front-end and analytical tools, and
databases including IBM DB/2, Teradata, Microsoft SQL Server; SAP Business
Information Warehouse (BW), Microsoft Analysis Services; flat files; XML data; and
unstructured data.
Technology
Hosted: Oracle On-Demand delivers business solutions online. On-Premise: Complete
web-service oriented architecture allows BI functionality to be added to any data
source, warehouse or ETL tool, and any data source including relational databases
like Oracle Database, IBM DB/2, Teradata, Microsoft SQL Server; multidimensional
sources such as Oracle Essbase, SAP NetWeaver BI, Microsoft Analysis Services; flat
files; XML data; and unstructured data.
Software Highlights
Business Intelligence Foundation Products:
* Business Intelligence Suite, Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE+)
* Business Intelligence Standard Edition One (OBIE)
* Business Intelligence Publisher
* Business Intelligence Answers
* Real-Time Decisions
Business Intelligence Applications:

* Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition
* Oracle Financial Analytics
* Oracle Human Resources Analytics
* Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics
* Oracle Supply Chain and Order Management Analytics
* Oracle Sales Analytics
* Oracle Service Analytics
* Oracle Contact Center Analytics
* Oracle Marketing Analytics
* Oracle Business Indicators

www.sap.com | sales@sap.com | 800-872-1727
Highlights
* As one of the largest business software companies, SAP can integrate BI
throughout SAP applications and your company.
* Strong data scalability and performance thanks to in-memory analytics and
column-based vectoring.
* Rated a challenger in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence
Platforms, 2008.
* Acquisition of Business Objects makes SAP the largest BI vendor.

Public (NYSE & FSE: SAP) Walldorf, Germany * SAP Business Intelligence
* SAP Analytics
Founded: * SAP NetWeaver
1977, Germany
Customer Focus:
SAP’s business software products are built for businesses of all sizes in the manufacturing,
financial and professional services, and service industry sectors.
Select Customers:
Eastman Kodak, Arla Foods, Pirelli Tire, Siemens, Wyeth, MassMutual Insurance, Toyota,
Caterpillar Logistics, Adidas, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army Material
Command.

About SAP AG
SAP Americas is a subsidiary of SAP AG, one of the world’s largest business software
companies and the third-largest software supplier overall. SAP Americas’ corporate
headquarters is located in Newtown Square, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia.
Founded in 1972 as Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing, SAP

has a rich history of innovation and growth that has made them a leader in providing
collaborative business solutions for all types of industries – in every major market. The
company, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, employs more than 51,800 people in
more than 50 countries, and serves more than 76,000 customers in more than 120
countries.
SAP has leveraged their extensive experience to deliver a comprehensive range of

solutions to empower every aspect of business operations. Organizations of all sizes
can use SAP solutions – including small business solutions and solutions for midsize
companies – to reduce costs, improve performance, and gain the agility to respond to
changing business needs.
By deploying top-on-the-line technology, services, and development resources, SAP

has delivered a business platform that unlocks valuable information resources, improves
supply chain efficiencies, and builds strong customer relationships. And through the
Global Solution Center, SAP Americas identifies customer needs and develops solutions
to meet these needs.
Technology
SAP’s Enterprise Services Architecture outlines a framework for delivering a true
software-as-a-service infrastructure on top of existing business systems. The framework
includes components like NetWeaver Portal, Visual Composer, Exchange Infrastructure
and Master Data Management - each of which plays a role in building business
applications on top of existing applications and business data. The platform also
includes an extensive library of connectors for seamless integration into a wide variety
of data sources.

About SAP AG
Software Highlights
SAP Business Intelligence
* Suite of tools to analyze data from internal and external sources
* Data warehouse software component
* Link traditional business environments with e-business operations
* visually represents data analysis in a variety of formats: grids, graphs, maps, and
more
* Analyze and interpret data to create business information
SAP Analytics
* Out-of-the-box industry specific and cross industry business functions.
* Integrated with NetWeaver tools to allow for customization and modification without
requiring complex programming or coding.
SAP NetWeaver Platform

* BI and Analytics are considered to be component of the NetWeaver platform.
* Visual Composer application development environment with a minimal training
requirement.
* Extensive library of connectors to a variety of SAP and non-SAP data sources.
* Other integration, data management, extraction and presentation tools to provide the
greatest level of flexibility to meet specific and dynamic business requirements.

www.qliktech.com | infous@qliktech.com | 1-888-828-9768
Highlights
* Up-and-coming BI company with 7,000 customers.
* Offers a fully functional, free trial, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
* High customer satisfaction scores.
* Rated a visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence
Platforms, 2008.
Ownership: Headquarters: Software Solutions:

Public (NASDAQ: QLIK) Radnor, PA * QlikView
Founded:
1993, Sweden
Customer Focus:
QlikView brings fast results and better decision making to small and mid-sized companies.
Industries served include: Consumer Products, Retail & Distribution; Financial Services;
Infrastructure Services; Life Sciences & Healthcare; Manufacturing; and Public Sector.
Select Customers:
American Kennel Club, Bainbridge International, Belgian Cabinet, Fleura, IDG, Panasonic
Netherlands, SI International, KLM Equipment Services, WD-40

About QlikTech
QlikTech is a global leader in next-generation business intelligence solutions, offering
sophisticated in-memory analysis and reporting solutions for enterprise and individual
customers.
QlikTech supports an open information architecture, where business information is

broadly, affordably and quickly available to those who need it. QlikTech’s flagship
product, QlikView, uses next-generation patented in-memory association technology to
make sophisticated analysis dramatically easier to deploy, use and maintain. QlikView’s
click driven, visually interactive interface is simple for end users to learn and use.
QlikTech was founded in 1993 as a consulting company. The office was established in
Lund, Sweden at Ideon, one of the oldest science parks in the world.
One of the company’s first assignments was to develop a tool for analyzing multi-
dimensional data. While developing a solution for this customer, it struck the founders
that this was also a solution to a general problem that many organizations have. This
led to the development of QlikTech’s patented in-memory associative technology.
They called the new software they developed QlikView because it provided a point-and-
click-simple way to view data and information.
At the end of 2004, Accel Partners and Jerusalem Venture Partners, the premier global
venture capitalists made an investment in taking QlikView global. Since then the growth
has been rapid.
QlikTech was named the world’s fastest-growing business intelligence software vendor
by IDC, QlikTech has more than 9,700 customers in 90 countries and more than 500
partners worldwide.
QlikTech is headquartered in Radnor, PA (USA) with direct operations throughout

Europe and the Americas.

About QlikTech
Key Strengths
* QlikTech is the world’s fastest growing business intelligence software company two
years in a row (2004-2006) according to IDC. In addition to thousands of small and
mid-sized companies, QlikTech’s customers include large corporations such as Tetra
Pak, Deutsche Telekom, Reuters, 3M, Colonial Supplemental Insurance, and BMW.
* QlikTech’s flagship product, QlikView, simplifies analysis for everyone. QlikView
works the way your mind works – making associations by connecting data from many
sources in a few clicks. This patented in-memory association technology brings fast
results and better decision making to a wide range of customers and industries.
* QlikView provides fast, powerful and visual in-memory business analysis – without
the limitations, cost or complexity of traditional BI tools. QlikView can be deployed in
days and users trained in minutes. Designed specifically for business users, QlikView
puts information at your fingertips instantly, giving you the intelligence you need to act
– faster.
* QlikView makes it simple to deploy powerful analysis. QlikView takes advantage of
64-bit multi-core hardware platforms to allow thousands of users to access billions
of records of data. The QlikView in-memory data model allows an integrated view
of information through dashboards, ad-hoc analysis, and reports – all from a single
platform.
* QlikView is easy to learn and use. Because of its color coded, point- and-click user
interface, QlikView is extremely intuitive and easy-to-learn for any employee. Changes
to QlikView applications are done in seconds, which makes it easy to respond quickly
to the changing BI needs of an organization.
* With the QlikView Connector Certified for SAP NetWeaver®, SAP customers can
now take full advantage of the power of QlikView, the leading in-memory business
intelligence solution that allows for dynamic analysis and reporting.
* SalesLogix Visual Analyzer is a fully integrated sales and marketing analysis module
for your SalesLogix CRM system. Based on QlikTech’s QlikView business intelligence
platform, SalesLogix Visual Analyzer gives SalesLogix users a real-time snapshot of
organizational, departmental and individual performance against objectives.

About QlikTech
Technology
Unlike most BI packages, QlikView doesn’t rely on OLAP, it is an in-memory analysis
solution. QlikView gives you all the benefits of OLAP-based BI—multi-dimensional
“slice-and-dice” data analysis—without the limitations. QlikView applications deploy
quickly, are easy for the IT department to maintain, and give end-users unlimited
freedom for ad-hoc queries across any dimensions in the data.
Software Highlights
* QlikView simplifies analysis for everyone. QlikTech’s patented technology allows
instant, in memory, manipulation of massive datasets on low cost hardware, allowing
affordable widespread deployment of sophisticated analytic applications in days.
Organizations using QlikView can gain business value quickly as they develop,
modify, deploy, and – most importantly – use business intelligence applications.
QlikView’s innovative approach results in significant benefits, including:

* Fast Time-to-Value – customers are live in less than 30 days, and most in a week.
* Risk Free – available as a fully-functional free trial download.
* Easy to Use – end users require no training.
* Flexible – unlimited dimensions and measures and can be modified in seconds.
* Integrated – fully integrated business analysis suite with power analysis, sophisticated
applications, and simple reporting on a single architecture.
* Powerful – near instant response time on massive data volumes.

www.vai.net | ealmonte@vai.net | 1-800-824-7776
Highlights
* Over 30 years of experience
* IBM Premier Business Partner with custom software solutions backed by
superior service and support.
* Awards include: “Inc. 5000 America’s Fastest Growing Companies,” Deloitte
& Touche’s “Fast 50 Award,” Long Island Software’s “Top 10 Fastest Growing
Companies” and numerous IBM awards, including the “IBM Beacon Award for
Most Innovative ‘Built On IBM Express Portfolio’ Solution.”
Ownership: Headquarters: Distribution Solutions:

Private Ronkonkoma, NY * S2K Distribution
* S2K Manufacturing
Founded: * S2K Food
1978 * S2K Warehouse Management
* S2K Retail
* S2K e-Commerce
* S2K Sales Force
* S2K Analytics
* S2K Service and Repair
* S2K Rental
Customer Focus:
VAI’s flagship product, S2K Enterprise, is used by a variety of businesses worldwide,
with clients in the manufacturing, wholesale distribution, retail, food and related service
industries. Advanced applications such as Warehouse Management, EDI, CRM, Business
Analytics and e-Business provide companies with the power to leverage their information
technology investment.
Select Customers:
A.S. Bryden, Wist Office Products, Norscot, McClarin Plastics, Haier America, American
Fibers and Yarns Company, Fraenkel Company, Naghi Group, Joshen Paper & Packaging,
Ince Distributing

About VAI (S2K)
VAI is an award-winning software developer and an IBM Premier Business Partner.
Designed for the mid-range market, S2K Enterprise is used by a wide variety of
companies worldwide, with a number of clients in the manufacturing, distribution, retail,
food and related service industries.
VAI provides flexible, fully integrated business software solutions that give companies
of all sizes a true market advantage. The IBM Power Systems™ technology is cost
effective and can enrich business processes across-the-board, improving productivity,
saving money and enhancing customer satisfaction. With VAI’s high performance
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application, companies obtain reliable data
that will streamline business processes to make it more competitive, responsive, and
profitable.
VAI is committed to helping its customers meet their objectives by delivering the most
robust, feature rich, flexible software solutions available. VAI’s history of customer-
driven software development and commitment continues today. Hundreds of features
suggested by customers are incorporated into VAI’s products yearly and new
technologies are continually integrated into new offerings.
VAI continues to grow as a leading provider of ERP Software solutions. The company’s
continued expansion into Canada, Europe and the Caribbean has provided VAI with
worldwide recognition as an industry leader for ERP solutions.
VAI is headquartered in Ronkonkoma, New York, with branch offices in Miami, Orlando,
Chicago and Oroville, California.
VAI S2K Distribution Key Features

VAI’s Enterprise for Distribution offers numerous solutions to help you manage your
supply chain, enterprise resources, and customer relationships more efficiently and
effectively.
Key features include:

E-business application

About VAI (S2K)
Sales Analysis
Financial Management
Warehouse management
Purchasing
Manufacturing Software
S2K Enterprise for Manufacturing is a manufacturing software solution that will help
you manage all your operations with superior responsiveness and performance. Key
features include:
Forecasting
Product Quality Tracking
Work Order Processing
MPS and MRP Streamlining
Capacity Requirements Planning
Shop Floor Management
Warehouse Management Software

VAI’s WMS system helps you enhance productivity and improve overall warehouse
efficiency, so that you can meet your company’s operational performance objectives and
increase customer satisfaction. Key features include:
Inventory Management/Tracking
Automated Receiving/Pallet Creation
Order Management
Performance Tracking
Cycle and Physical Counting
VAI S2K Distribution Product Highlights

S2K Enterprise provides one of the most advanced purchasing programs available
today. A variety of tools help to minimize the burdensome tasks associated with manual
purchasing through the automation of your demand planning, purchasing, and ordering
process.
Increase Staff Productivity with advanced features such as windows application

integration, workflow alerts, and job scheduling.

About VAI (S2K)
Unlimited Growth Potential – VAI’s value pack offer includes source code, an unlimited
user license and no upgrade charges, allowing you to grow, add users and incorporate
new technology without any additional fees.
Eliminate costly mistakes and improve warehouse productivity with features such as
receiving/pallet creation, product movement, order verification, and counting programs.
S2K Service and Repair Software

VAI’s S2k Service and Repair application is an integrated field service software solution
that provides a means of recording and tracking service and repair calls through
the various stages. In addition, our field service software system assigns and tracks
technicians with on-line inquiry support providing real-time information enabling you to
provide your customers with the best possible service.
S2K Rental Software

The rental industry spans many different types of equipment. S2K’s Rental Software
covers all aspects of a rental business including Reservations and Allocations,
Financials, Equipment Servicing, Sales Order Processing, Inventory Management,
Purchasing and CRM.
S2K Retail Software

With S2K Retail Software, you can transform your retail business into a multi-channel
organization. This application offers a complete solution for the retail industry,
including Point-of-Sale (POS), Accounting, Inventory Management, CRM, Purchasing,
Warehouse Management, and e-Commerce. By centralizing information across your
entire organization, you can locate and move items more effectively, eliminate costly
delays, and make more informed decisions.
S2K Food Software

Today’s food service enterprise systems must incorporate the latest industry features,
offer unparalleled ease-of-use with a minimal learning curve, and be flexible in design
and scalable in scope to meet the needs of a dynamic business environment. VAI’s
S2K for Food Software meets these criteria and delivers much more. With this powerful,
industry-specific solution, distributors can manage their supply chain and customer
relationships more efficiently than ever before.
S2K e-Commerce
VAI offers a variety of e-Commerce solutions that allow you to leverage the
opportunities that the web provides. Our Commerce Express solution is ideal for small
businesses looking to quickly start selling on-line.

About VAI (S2K)
VAI Technology
VAI’s S2K Enterprise software provides complete integration with PC-based productivity
products such as Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Word. At the touch of a key, users can
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*View and *Excel allow users to create PDF or Excel files for all reports. This integration
provides users with the flexibility to utilize desktop applications while taking advantage
of the power, reliability, and security of the VAI Enterprise software.

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