Common Business Intelligence Applications

When choosing a business intelligence application, your goal is put an effective Business Intelligence (BI) solution into place, and you’re looking at processes and software. This chart represents some of the more frequently used BI applications:

	Microsoft	Oracle	SAP	IBM	Business Objects
Source Data	SQL Server, Access	Oracle 11g		DB2
ETL, Data Integration, Warehousing	Integration Services aka SSIS (formerly known as DTS)	Warehouse Builder	SAP BW	DB2 Data Warehouse, Warehouse ManagerWebSphere DataStage (ETL) IBM Information Server	Business Objects XI R2: Data Integrator (ETL) Data Federator (virtualization) Rapid Marts (standard platform data marts)
Query and Analysis	SQL Server Analysis Services, Access, Excel	Warehouse Builder, Oracle Hyperion Essbase	Netweaver BI	Various	Business Objects XI R2: Web Intelligence (query tool) Voyager (OLAP) Desktop Intelligence (query tool)
Reporting, Information	SQL Server Reporting Services, Access	BI Suite Enterprise & Standard Editions: query, analysis, reporting, Siebel Answers, Interactive Dashboards	Netweaver BI	BIRT, Design Studio, Alphablox	Crystal Reports
Other Front-End Tools	Excel Pivot Tables, PerformancePoint 2007 (enterprise scorecarding)	Oracle Data Mining	Netweaver BI	IBM Intelligent Miner (data mining)	Crystal Xcelsius (visualization tools), Crystal Vision (dashboard), InfoView (BI portal)
Specialty Apps	MS Sharepoint Server 2007 (report distribution)	Business domain operational analytics applications, Hyperion System 9 Financial Management, Financial Planning	ERP Software, Financial Analytics (formerly Outlooksoft)	Websphere Content Discovery (unstructured search)	Information OnDemand (hosted BI solutions), Performance Management (Formerly Cartesis)

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