Actuate
Enterprise reporting specialist Actuate continues to diversify its product portfolio and actively support the Eclipse BIRT initiative, and it has now entered the on-demand, software-as-a-service market. (5/12/2008)

Price: $495

Harte-Hanks Trillium Software
Trillium Software continues to further integrate its technology and leverage its partnerships as it remains almost exclusively focused on data quality products and services. (4/28/2008)

Price: $495

IBM
With revenues approaching $100 billion, IBM remains the industry giant. Though its capabilities encompass data integration, database, business intelligence, hardware, and professional services it also has a very large cadre of partners. (8/7/2008)

Price: $495

Informatica
Informatica continues to show impressive growth in the data integration and quality markets. It is pursuing an on-demand delivery channel and aggressively targeting third parties to OEM its technology. (5/12/2008)

Price: $495

Information Builders
Although still an industry force that is committed to enhancing and evolving its pioneering products, Information Builders continues to face competition from other established vendors and partners that have acquired competitive technology. (6/26/2008)

Price: $495

Microsoft
Microsoft has been active on many fronts as it prepares to release SQL Server 2008 this quarter. However, its leader and founder has retired and it faces challenges from open source vendors and the movement towards cloud computing. (7/22/2008)

Price: $495

MicroStrategy
ROLAP pioneer MicroStrategy remains an independent BI pure play with a very loyal installed base. It continues to leverage its OEM channel and is committed to sticking to its core BI competencies and divesting itself of unrelated business units. (7/2/2008)

Price: $495

Oracle
Oracle remains the relational database king as it continues its aggressive acquisition strategy while digesting and integrating the technology it had previously acquired and extending its push into the SMB market. (5/14/2008)

Price: $495

Pitney Bowes Group 1
Although Pitney Bowes has placed Group 1 and MapInfo under the Pitney Bowes Software business unit it created in September 2007, it has done little to integrate the two companies’ technologies and they continue to operate relatively independently. (6/13/2008)

Price: $495

Progress Software
Progress Software is an established and profitable vendor with strong positions in the data integration, natural language query processing, SOA, and special-purpose database markets. However, it needs to market its strengths more aggressively. (7/30/2008)

Price: $495

SAP
SAP’s acquisition of Business Objects establishes the software company as the leading vendor in both enterprise applications and business intelligence, allowing it to compete more effectively against Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM. (9/25/2008)

Price: $495

SAS Institute
SAS, a recognized leader in advanced analytics, continues to enhance and diversify its BI and CPM product portfolio, while retaining its independence as several other major BI specialists have been, or are about to be, acquired. (11/17/2008)

Price: $495

SPSS
SPSS continues to enhance its technology and retains a leadership position in predictive analytics. It has entered into partnerships with several vendors seeking to integrate data mining technology into their BI platforms. (6/2/2008)

Price: $495

Sybase
Sybase, though offering a wide range of DM products, continues to lose ground to other established database vendors. However, with the recent launch of its Analytic Appliances, it appears to now be taking the DW appliance market seriously. (6/9/2008)

Price: $495

Teradata
No longer a division of NCR, Teradata has strengthened its DW solution portfolio while introducing a new data warehouse appliance. However, it continues to face considerable competitive pressure from other database and appliance vendors. (5/29/2008)

Price: $495

TIBCO
TIBCO remains a strong middleware vendor with both message- oriented and ETL capabilities. It continues to augment its MDM capabilities while its year-old acquisition of Spotfire provides it with some of the BI technology it formerly lacked. (5/30/2008)

Price: $495

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  • -Current Perspective
  • -Company Market/Sales Strategy
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• Company Description
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• Current Perspective
  • Our analysts give their assessment on whether or not the company has the technology, products & services and management team needed to compete in its markets.
• Company Market/Sales Strategy
  • What are the company’s value proposition and key differentiators. How it positions itself in the market, and against its competitors. And what are its target audiences.
• Company Strengths & Weaknesses
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  • Who are the company's main competitors, and what actions we can expect from each competitor or the market at large.
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