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I'm Lyndsay Wise, senior research analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers. Welcome to another in TEC's series of enterprise
software Vendor Showdowns. Today's Showdown pits three of the top business intelligence (BI) vendors against each other in
a head-to-head contest: Oracle's Hyperion System 9 vs. Mi (...)
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I'm Lyndsay Wise, senior research analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers. Welcome to another in TEC's series of
enterprise software Vendor Showd...
Published:
2007-09-26
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The core concept behind the Vanguard solution is that business intelligence (BI) must be demand-driven, which means that
the business needs of the user dictate the technical solution, not the other way around. In other words, it should let the
business users drive the process, and remove the problems of (...)
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The core concept behind the Vanguard solution is that business intelligence (BI) must be demand-driven, which means that the
business needs of the...
Published:
2005-07-20
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During September, two more data warehousing vendors announced product suites that they claim offer broader integration between
different data warehousing technologies. BI vendor Cognos announced "Cognos platform", a tool to build complete "BI-ready
data infrastructures". Data Movement vendor Ardent Softw (...)
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During September, two more data warehousing vendors announced product suites that they claim offer broader integration between
different data ware...
Published:
1999-09-29
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Oracle does not have a history of major acquisitions, let alone experience with the subsequent integration efforts. Run by
a management team that has never maneuvered a company through a large takeover, will Oracle be capable of digesting PeopleSoft? (...)
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Oracle does not have a history of major acquisitions, let alone experience with the subsequent integration efforts. Run by
a management team that ...
Published:
2005-05-31
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Web Services is a no-brainer as a standard mechanism for providing access to enterprise applications and data; this will
allow businesses to create words out of alphabet soup (ERP, SFA, CRM, EAI, EJB, COM, BFD). Nothing about Web Services, however,
addresses the front-end complexity of dealing with multi (...)
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... and foremost), standard, consistent interfaces are good; they promote harmony, a sense of well-being,
and general mental health amongst the programmer ranks. ...
Published:
2002-05-22
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I'm Lyndsay Wise, senior research analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers. Welcome to another in TEC's series of enterprise
software Showdowns. Today's Showdown pits three of the top business performance management (BPM) vendors against each other
in a head-to-head contest: Hyperion System 9 vs. Outlook (...)
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I'm Lyndsay Wise, senior research analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers. Welcome to another in TEC's series of
enterprise software Showdowns. T...
Published:
2007-05-30
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Abstract:
SAP’s viability and its business applications market’s leadership remains unscathed, as the company remains rock-solid and
will be the leader for a long time to come. While SAP has espoused one of the most compelling and promising collaborative-Commerce
vision to-date, the ideal enablers of collabor (...)
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SAP’s viability and its business applications market’s leadership remains unscathed, as the company remains rock-solid and
will be the leader for ...
Published:
2002-06-07
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Oracle remains a true IT powerhouse with fingers in many pies other than databases, such as application servers, and development
tools, which ranks it as an enterprise infrastructure provider, together with SAP, IBM at a higher and, and Microsoft at the
lower end of the market. However, Oracle may be get (...)
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Oracle remains a true IT powerhouse with fingers in many pies other than databases, such as application servers, and development
tools, which rank...
Published:
2002-04-17
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The merger looks like a positive move for both companies and their customers, since Epicor obtains a foothold in some complementary
geographic regions, and in certain discrete manufacturing and service industries it has not really penetrated in the past
by acquiring a reasonably run vendor without much e (...)
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The merger looks like a positive move for both companies and their customers, since Epicor obtains a foothold in some complementary
geographic reg...
Published:
2004-12-14
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Abstract:
SAP’s viability and its business applications market’s leadership remains unscathed, as the company remains rock-solid and
will be the leader for a long time to come. While SAP has espoused one of the most compelling and promising collaborative-Commerce
vision to-date, the ideal enablers of collabor (...)
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SAP’s viability and its business applications market’s leadership remains unscathed, as the company remains rock-solid and
will be the leader for ...
Published:
2002-06-07
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Abstract:
I'm Larry Blitz, editor of TEC's Vendor Showdown series. Today's Showdown pits two major enterprise resource planning (ERP)
and accounting for small to midsized business (SMB) vendors against each other, head-to-head: Exact Software North America
(a division of Exact Software) and Infor. (...)
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I'm Larry Blitz, editor of TEC's Vendor Showdown series. Today's Showdown pits two major enterprise resource planning
(ERP) and accounting for sma...
Published:
2008-09-24
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There are two types of extract transform and load (ETL) vendors. Business intelligence (BI) vendors integrate ETL functionality
into their overall BI framework, while best-of-breed data integration vendors, who provide enhanced ETL functionality, have
an increased focus on data cleansing and integrity. (...)
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There are two types of extract transform and load (ETL) vendors. Business intelligence (BI) vendors integrate ETL functionality
into their overall...
Published:
2006-03-07
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Abstract:
I'm Lyndsay Wise, senior research analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers. Welcome to another in TEC's series of enterprise
software Showdowns. Today's Showdown pits three of the top business performance management (BPM) vendors against each other
in a head-to-head contest: Hyperion System 9 vs. Outlook (...)
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articles bi ranks:
I'm Lyndsay Wise, senior research analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers. Welcome to another in TEC's series of
enterprise software Showdowns. T...
Published:
2007-05-30
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Combining deep analytics with BI solution functionality, expanding in certain verticals, and by acquiring several well thought
out companies, have been key for SAS to further entrench itself in the market. (...)
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Combining deep analytics with BI solution functionality, expanding in certain verticals, and by acquiring several well thought
out companies, have...
Published:
2005-08-11
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Until recently, the few leaders in the lower end of the technology and platform market have hardly had any viable competition.
However, Oracle is determined to give these players—especially archrival Microsoft—a run for their money, starting with offerings
attractive to small to medium businesses and (...)
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Until recently, the few leaders in the lower end of the technology and platform market have hardly had any viable competition.
However, Oracle is ...
Published:
2008-10-29
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Small and medium businesses wanting the benefits of business intelligence (BI) without having to implement a large enterprise
system may find a viable option in Excel-based BI and analytics tools that leverage add-in applications from vendors.
(...)
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Small and medium businesses wanting the benefits of business intelligence (BI) without having to implement a large enterprise
system may find a vi...
Published:
2005-06-22
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Although SAP’s recently announced tamed results for Q1 2002, which fit within the current market milieu, may add to some
challenges moving forward, particularly seen from sharply reduced license revenue, and while some may question SAP’s justification
of assimilating its two former subsidiaries, SAP (...)
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Although SAP’s recently announced tamed results for Q1 2002, which fit within the current market milieu, may add to some challenges
moving forward...
Published:
2002-06-06
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Geac is now a financially conservative, stable but acquisitive organization that has remained profitable despite the general
IT industry downturn. Geac’s future focus on delivering new functionality to its heartland of existing customers and industry
verticals, while building out its technology to make (...)
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Geac is now a financially conservative, stable but acquisitive organization that has remained profitable despite the general
IT industry downturn....
Published:
2003-08-13
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In a nutshell, J.D. Edwards seems poised to deliver applications within its traditional verticals that are wide-ranging,
integrated, and modular (loosely decoupled) at the same time, which is apparently a clearer message and a better business
model for the company. With a new management team the company (...)
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In a nutshell, JD Edwards seems poised to deliver applications within its traditional verticals that are wide-ranging, integrated,
and modular (...
Published:
2002-10-04
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Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) Principal Analyst P.J. Jakovljevic reports on the changes Deltek has been making, and
speaks with some top execs about its strategy. Deltek has been a software provider that does the job as promised (and more),
but the company and its products, with its focus on governm (...)
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Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) Principal Analyst PJ Jakovljevic reports on the changes Deltek has been making, and speaks
with some top exec...
Published:
2011-08-10