Technology Evaluation Center (TEC) is a well known portal for evaluating enterprise applications like ERP,CRM, Analytics and BI etc. TEC recently released a list of the BI products which have been considered for evaluation most frequently . The list is as follows
1. QlikView by QlikTech International
2. Style Intelligence by InetSoft Technology
3. WebFOCUS by Information Builders
4. Hyperion System 9 by Oracle
5. Bitam Artus by Bitam
6. POSmart by Relational Solutions
7. TARGIT BI Suite by TARGIT
8. Yellowfin by Yellowfin
9. IBM Cognos BI by IBM
10. Exact Business Analytics by Exact
The list throws up some surprises. Of the top 10 BI products listed here only 2 products are enterprise BI products while the rest are mid market BI tools or Data discovery tools as termed by Gartner.These tools might or might not be a match for enterprise BI tools on features like planning, forecasting and reporting. But they have a visible edge over the BI biggies in terms of low TCO, low learning curve, rapid deployment, high user adoption, interactive visualization , pre built KPIs, analysis etc. Another advantage is that they claim to co exist with existing BI ecosystems. It would be interesting on how enterprise BI vendors react to this unexpected challenge .
