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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
Looking at available analysts surveys and reports on BI tools (Business Intelligence), it is inconclusive as to what are the best BI tools overall. Case in point: 1) The independing http://www.bi-survey.com/ by Nigel Pendse points to Microstrategy as the leading BI tools in many criteria. 2)Cognos won various awards over the years, i.e. eWeek, TechTarget: http://www.cognos.com.cn/news/awards/index.html
Microstrategy's very small footprint and streamline integration of its various packages including finance may have propelled it to the front of the BI race.
Cognos, however, has the Go_Search feature enabling Google's style search of the report repository - a feature that is invaluable for end-users and power users alike.
SAS is unique in that it integrates full statistical and predictive analytics/data mining features.
If modeling is important, Analytica is a good tool to have. Analitica has influence diagrams for scenarios, probability distribution, and Monte Carlo simulatio. Note that Analytica is not a traditional BI tool, i.e. reporting.
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