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

BEA
BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform (ALDSP) 2.5 is a competitive EII product, and the forthcoming BEA WebLogic Event Server 2.0 is a promising Java-based CEP/ESP middleware platform. (11/9/2007)

Price: $495

Business Objects
Business Objects continues to strengthen its best-of-breed BI, CPM, DQ, and DI solution portfolio via innovative product development, strategic partnering, and fill-in acquisitions, but it still lacks data mining and event processing solutions. (8/28/2007)

Price: $495

Cognos
Cognos continues to show impressive financials and to strengthen its best-of-breed CPM solution portfolio. However, its days as a pure-play BI/CPM vendor appear numbered in light of SAP’s impending takeover of rival Business Objects. (11/9/2007)

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

Hyperion Solutions
Hyperion recently announced release 9.3 of its flagship BI/CPM platform, which deepens the financial modeling, planning, and workflow features of the Hyperion System 9 environment and expands the platform’s integration with corporate applications. (3/22/2007)

Price: $495

IBM
IBM has significantly strengthened its best-of-breed DM portfolio through well-chosen strategic acquisitions, an impressive range of recent product announcements, and its visionary “Info 2.0” approach to mashup-oriented development. (12/26/2007)

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
Information Builders is losing ground in a BI market that is rapidly evolving toward comprehensive CPM application portfolios that leverage best-of-breed SOA platforms. However, it continues to keep pace functionally with its core BI offerings. (12/26/2007)

Price: $495

Microsoft
Microsoft’s recent release of Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 re-launches the vendor in the BI/CPM arena, but this 1.0 product faces tough competition from established competitors, several of which have recently announced mergers. (12/26/2007)

Price: $495

MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy, which remains limited to its traditional BI focus, is a second-tier vendor with a lackluster roadmap. It lacks the differentiators necessary to sustain its position in a market increasingly dominated by large SOA vendors. (12/26/2007)

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
Pitney Bowes Software is a best-of-breed vendor in an increasingly important DQ niche: location intelligence and business geographics, having been created in September from a consolidation of the parent’s Group 1 Software and MapInfo subsidiaries. (12/26/2007)

Price: $495

Progress Software
Progress Software is an established vendor of enterprise software products, with strong positions in the markets for special-purpose DBMSs and data-integration point solutions, including best-of-breed complex event processing offerings. (12/26/2007)

Price: $495

SAP
SAP’s pending acquisition of Business Objects will catapult the German software vendor to the top of the BI market and position it more effectively to compete against Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM in CPM and other markets. (12/26/2007)

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. (1/24/2008)

Price: $495

SPSS
SPSS continues to deepen its best-of-breed status in predictive analytics, having recently enhanced its core statistical analysis solution and entering into promising OEM deals with both IBM and Business Objects. (12/26/2007)

Price: $495

Sybase
Sybase, though offering a comprehensive range of DM products, is not substantially innovating in any DM segment and remains an also-ran in most of them except for data mobility. (12/26/2007)

Price: $495

Teradata
Teradata has significantly strengthened its DW solution portfolio, but lacks the BI/CPM solution breadth needed to compete against SAP/Business Objects, Oracle/Hyperion, IBM/Cognos and Microsoft for the broader enterprise DM market. (12/26/2007)

Price: $495

TIBCO
TIBCO remains one of the strongest DI and MDM vendors, and it has recently improved its positioning in the emerging CEP/ESP market through its acquisition of Spotfire and enhancements to its BusinessEvents product. (7/12/2007)

Price: $495

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