This Free Preview examines the new and complex architecture of Microsoft’s highly-anticipated PerformancePoint Server. Learn more about this recently released fully integrated financial application in this 32-page preview. This preview outlines how PerformancePoint interrelates with existing Microsoft tools such as SQL Server, Analysis Services, Excel and ProClarity (acquired in 2006).
Find out how PerformancePoint measures up on a number of other criteria including:
When Microsoft, Oracle and SAP announce strong interest in the Business Intelligence (BI) market you know that BI is now in the mainstream. The technology used to address the BI solution has become largely irrelevant—every credible vendor can extract data from heterogeneous databases, load that data into cubes, run some ‘what if’ questions and output the results of those queries into professional report formats. The key question now is “which vendor(s) can you trust?”
To answer that question, you will need to cut through the marketing hype and drill down to IT and solutions components as part of extended product and supplier evaluations. That is the objective of this new report from Bloor Research: Assisting you in the selection of the best BI solution provider(s) for your own specific needs.
To do that, the “Bullseye Scoring Method” is used to evaluate 21 BI solution providers and provide you with Bloor’s assessment of the winners in each of three main groupings of offerings: Complete BI solutions; Platform tools: Query & reporting.