“THE VENTANA RESEARCH PRODUCT ASSESSMENT GUIDE for Performance Management” is an aid to assess and recommend BI technologies — such as query, reporting, analysis, planning, informa- tion delivery, and data mining — that provide performance management capabilities. Ventana Research created the Product Assessment Guide to assist you in assessing more than 60 products from 17 vendors for your new and existing per- formance management-related BI solutions. We designed this Assessment Guide to be used with the Ventana Research Decision- Cycle™. The DecisionCycle is a unique method- ology that applies business and IT requirements in a rational process to help companies select the software that will best align to the needs of the people and roles within their organizations. Ventana Research recommends that you use this product assessment guide in the context of the DecisionCycle methodology. All successful business and IT projects must have structure from start to completion, and your BI/performance management project is no exception. The DecisionCycle identifies the steps necessary for successful vendor selection and provides the framework and process to rapidly and accurate- OCTOBER 2003 PRODUCT ASSESSMENT GUIDE 1 The Ventana Research Product Assessment Guide Performance Management for > Performance Management > How to Use the Assessment Guide > PerformanceCycle: Process Steps, Functionalities, and Capabilities Defined > DecisionCycle > Real-World Business Examples Applying the DecisionCycle > Disclaimer > About Ventana Research What’s Inside: BROUGHT TO YOU BY
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“THE VENTANA RESEARCH PRODUCT ASSESSMENT GUIDE
for Performance Management” is an aid to
assess and recommend BI technologies — such
as query, reporting, analysis, planning, informa-
tion delivery, and data mining — that provide
performance management capabilities. Ventana
Research created the Product Assessment Guide
to assist you in assessing more than 60 products
from 17 vendors for your new and existing per-
formance management-related BI solutions.
We designed this Assessment Guide to be
used with the Ventana Research Decision-
Cycle™. The DecisionCycle is a unique method-
ology that applies business and IT requirements
in a rational process to help companies select
the software that will best align to the needs of
the people and roles within their organizations.
Ventana Research recommends that you use
this product assessment guide in the context of
the DecisionCycle methodology. All successful
business and IT projects must have structure from
start to completion, and your BI/performance
management project is no exception. The
DecisionCycle identifies the steps necessary for
successful vendor selection and provides the
framework and process to rapidly and accurate-
OCTOBER 2003 PRODUCT ASSESSMENT GUIDE 1
The Ventana Research Product Assessment Guide
PerformanceManagement
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> Performance Management
> How to Use the Assessment Guide
> PerformanceCycle: Process Steps,
Functionalities, and Capabilities Defined
> DecisionCycle
> Real-World Business Examples Applying the
DecisionCycle
> Disclaimer
> About Ventana Research
What’s Inside:
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ly reap the full value of IT for performance management.
HOW TO USE THE PRODUCT ASSESSMENT GUIDE We designed the Ventana Research Product Assessment
Guide for Performance Management to be used with the
DecisionCycle Methodology, the Ventana Research
methodology for assessing and evaluating software for
new or existing performance management initiatives.
To utilize the Assessment Guide, we recommend you
read the section on The DecisionCycle.
The Assessment Guide is based on the Ventana
Research PerformanceCycle, the framework used to suc-
cessfully implement performance management. The
PerformanceCycle and this Assessment Guide employ a
TABLE 1 Components of the PerformanceCycle. Refer to thePerformanceCycle section for component definitions and examples.
OCTOBER 2003 PRODUCT ASSESSMENT GUIDE 3
Model > Define: Define logical business models, dimensions,
hierarchies, levels, attributes, and numeric and text
metrics. It also includes the ability to handle time-
series-related structures, information security, for-
eign languages, and logical model management.
> Manipulate: Modify logical business models by
grouping business model levels and creating
custom hierarchies. It also requires the ability to
support aliases and user-based naming of mem-
bers of the business model.
> Business Rules: Define business rules at the metric
and member level and as a mathematical formula.
> Manage: Manage the model within the product
or RDBMS. It also includes the ability to audit,
deploy, and synchronize models for use through-
out an organization.
Access> Source: Access data from a RDBMS, multidimen-
sional database management system (MDBMS),
and XML. It also includes the capability to access
data from any ERP or CRM application suite at the
application level.
> Integrate: Integrate information from RDBMSs
via SQL or XML into a document, report, table,
and/or chart.
> Access: Define users or groups and customize
the view of the portal or access mechanism to
information. It also includes the capability to
access documents directly from a portal,
Microsoft Excel, URL, and wireless or mobile
devices via text or voice. It also includes the capa-
bility to synchronize a document with a client
computer or mobile device.
> Manage: Save regular and external documents
with attributes into a category catalog. It also
includes the capability to refresh documents and
save them in XML.
Discover> Query: Create and save queries and results as well
as directly query physical tables and columns and
metadata. It also includes the capability to do spe-
cific-level manipulation of queries through setting
limits and attributes and through multi-step query-
ing, and joining of results. In addition, it offers the
ability to cache query results, perform aggrega-
tions, execute stored procedures and inner and
outer joins, query text metrics, and audit queries.
> Calculate: Calculate columns and custom and
derived metrics, including subtotal, aggregate,
what-if, and a whole set of calculation functions
— mathematical, statistical, logical, financial,
date, and numerical. It also includes the capabil-
ity to automatically add subtotals and totals on
Web and Windows clients.
> Analyze: Build derived metrics from source and
resulting metrics. It also includes the capability to
build top/bottom, rank by count, value, and per-
centage, analyze time series, and perform analy-
ses using scatter, bubble, and clustering methods.
Interact> Navigate: Drill down and drill across on informa-
Companies are searching for ways to bring IT invest-ments in line with their most critical business priorities.This quest has created a shift from transaction-centricto information-centric approaches that facilitate collab-oration and information to drive action on decisionsthroughout organizations. This transition is the impetusbehind a new class of software capabilities evolvingfrom the roots of BI: performance management.
Performance management is the strategy, method-ologies, and processes of managing the performanceof the organization and its business network by lever-aging assets to achieve a common set of goals andobjectives. This approach focuses on understanding,optimizing, and aligning actions and decisions byensuring the collaboration and empowerment of allindividuals across the business network. It enables allindividuals to work across strategic, tactical, and oper-ational levels to align actions to ensure optimal per-formance for business processes or operations.
Performance Management
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tion and detail that supports the metrics. It also
includes the capability to interact in other meth-
ods that can support the Understand process.
> Interact: Pivot, page, and sort in a report or
table along with filter by members, metrics, and
attributes. It also includes the capability to
graphically select information and create a result-
ing document or presentation.
> Present: Display information in a report, chart, map,
table, financial report, and text form. It also includes
the ability to format presentation elements, such as
the border, cell, text, range of values, and so on.
> Search: Search a repository for documents or
contents in the document.
PERFORMANCECYCLE PROCESS 2: OPTIMIZETo make performance as effective as possible through
forecasting, collaboration, integration, and action taking.
Project> Forecast: Forecast from base data, percentage,
numbers, rules, and user-defined values.
> Plan: Modify the business model into scenarios,
perform simulations to recalculate a model, and
save the versions and business model scenarios,
simulations, and plans.
> Mine: Mine data based on decision trees, induc-
tion rules, statistical trees, neural nets, and other
methods. It also includes the capability to output
results sets into a RDBMS for use in other systems
and export data-mining models to Predictive Model
Markup Language (PMML).
Collaborate> Publish: Directly email documents to individuals
or groups in the organization.
> Share: Share documents among individuals and
categories.
> Interact: Make notations, annotations, and com-
ments in newsgroups and embed video clips and
documents.
> Coordinate: Approve documents and define a
workflow for document routing.
Integrate> Customize: Build customer user interfaces using
scripting, custom controls, and use graphics to
drive applications. It also includes the capability
the goals set and outline the methods for the rest
of the organization in order to reach the objectives.
> Business users will have the capability to monitor
efforts on a weekly basis and guide individuals
toward targets.
> Information consumers will have the ability to
understand their contributions and align their
efforts on a daily basis.
4. Define functional requirements. Using the prede-
fined functional requirements outlined in Table 1
or the PerformanceCycle section, you determine
the needs of your users. Based on this determina-
tion, you can either list the needs across all users
or group it by user classes to rank each functional
capability by how essential it is for users. In this
example, users have the following needs:
> Management must set goals, assess progress,
benchmark performance, and have access to infor-
mation to analyze key performance indicators.
Managers’ requirements include Access, Discover,
Interact, Collaborate, Target, and Score.
> Analysts must model customer segments and ana-
lyze product-related supply chain information to
optimize marketing and selling. Analysts’ require-
ments include Model, Access, Discover, Interact,
Project, Collaborate, Inform, and Automate.
> Business users across sales, marketing, and manu-
facturing must analyze and monitor customer and
product information that is relevant to their roles and
responsibilities. They must communicate issues and
opportunities for meeting business goals. Business
users’ requirements include Access, Discover,
Interact, Collaborate, Act, Score, Inform, and
Automate.
> Information consumers must understand their
performance and have their actions aligned to the
business goals. Individuals’ requirements include
Collaborate, Act, Score, Inform, and Automate.
5. Define functional capabilities. Choosing from the
predefined functional capabilities [outlined in
Table 1 that best meet your functional require-
ments, you assemble a list of questions for soft-
ware vendors to answer.
6. Determine master list of vendors. At this step, you
determine the master list of vendors that most
closely align to the functional requirements and
capabilities. You do this by determining a scoring
mechanism to reduce the total numbers of vendors
that you can more closely examine for the project.
While steps 1-6 of the DecisionCycle methodology
focus on matching users’ needs to vendor capabilities,
steps 7 and 8 involve defining business and technology
requirements other than user needs that you will use to
determine the short list of vendors that you will fully
evaluate for your business project. Then, you will match
capabilities and project experience from your vendor
short list to your company’s specific strategies and
technologies, leading to final selection of a vendor.
TelecommunicationsA telecommunication company must optimize its cus-
tomer interactions to maximize revenue and achieve
higher levels of customer satisfaction. This business
challenge applies across organizations that sell prod-
uct or services. This scenario requires a complete
understanding of your customers and how to develop
effective offers to them through any channel.
1. Define business goals. The mission is to increase
revenue by optimizing customer interactions across
all channels, which will improve revenue and maxi-
mize return on investment in CRM technologies.
2. Define business requirements. To achieve this
goal, you must develop customer models that
will determine how to target the customers that
are most likely to purchase products. The result
will be to develop interaction campaigns across
all channels. Then you must assess and optimize
performance of the interaction campaigns.
3. Define user community. Again, the users involved
in this project will span across communities.
> Management must assess progress, along with hav-
ing access to high-level key performance indicators
to assess performance across the customer base.
> Analysts must build customer models and ana-
lyze the supply chain to determine which prod-
ucts will be promoted through which channels.
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> Business users will have the capability to moni-
tor efforts on a weekly basis and guide individu-
als toward the target.
> Information consumers will be influenced by
sales, service, and marketing efforts on what to
offer customers. They will have the ability to under-
stand their performance as compared to others and
align their daily operational roles.
4. Define functional requirements. You perform the
same tasks as in the previous scenario at this stage
to determine the capabilities required by each user
class:
> Management must set goals, assess progress, bench-
mark performance, and understand the effects on the
bottom line. Functional capabilities required for man-
agers include Discover, Collaborate, Target, and Score.
> Analysts must model customer segments, devel-
op target customers with recommended cam-
paigns, and analyze results to optimize customer
relationships. Functional capabilities required for
analysts include Model, Access, Discover, Interact,
Project, Collaborate, Integrate, Act, Inform, and
Automate.
> Business users across sales, marketing, and service
must analyze and monitor customer behavior and
communicate issues and opportunities to analysts
and management. Functional capabilities required
for business users includes Access, Discover, Interact,
Collaborate, Act, Score, Inform, and Automate.
> Information consumers must take recommenda-
tions that are presented to them in operational sys-
tems, portals, or any application they use while
interacting with the customer. Customers will also
receive recommendations via e-business interac-
tions and will have the opportunity to dynamically
react to the campaign. Functional capabilities
required for individuals include Collaborate, Act,
Score, Inform, and Automate.
Steps 5 and 6 are the same as in the previous sce-
nario to achieve a master list of vendors that best meet
your functional requirements.
Again, Steps 7 and 8 involve DecisionCycle processes
not discussed in this report. "
DisclaimerVentana Research completed “The Ventana Research ProductAssessment Guide for Performance Management” indepen-dently of vendors. The review process did not include anyadvertising or vendor influence. We invited a wide array of ven-dors of all sizes to participate. However, we have not providedany vendor published in this guide with preferential treatment.
This guide is independent of subject- or vertical-areaapplications (such as CRM, supply chain, or telecommunica-tions). The intent is not to give any weight to or detract fromthe value of a buy approach for packaged analytic applica-tions, but to give you insight into the build-or-deployapproach to meet your business needs. This approach letsany vendor demonstrate its support for the breadth anddepth of functionality required for optimizing decision-mak-ing throughout the organization.
The scoring of the functional capabilities is based onanswers to specific functionality questions provided by thevendors with validation by Ventana Research. VentanaResearch calculated scores based on the number of positiveacknowledgments of the functional capability questionsdivided by the total number of questions in the subcategory.It is important to understand that vendors’ products aredesigned for certain capabilities or types of users, and a lowrating may not indicate that the product is lacking sufficientcapabilities to be used in your project. This review is intend-ed to demonstrate how the methodology is applied to ven-dors’ products but is based on the capability questions wehave provided as examples.
Ventana Research is a leading research andadvisory services firm committed to providingcredible and objective insight and education onthe best practices, methodologies andtechnologies that enable organizations to utilizeinformation assets and resources to achievebusiness performance management.
Unlike other firms, which are often challengedby their abilities to sustain breadth and depth ofresearch, Ventana Research provides one researchframework for complete business and technologycoverage in a particular market — performancemanagement. This gives Ventana Research theunique ability to put research and market trendsinto context for the specific needs of business andIT end users and vendor communities.
Ventana Research performs quantitative andqualitative research and offers a range of servicesincluding annual subscription services, primaryand custom research, strategic consulting, re-search studies, and speaking and writing services.
Functional Requirements Model Access Discover Interact
Functional Requirements that have a zero score for theentire sub-category are listed as Not Applicable (NA) ornot providing that functionality
Providing no functionality described
Providing 1/4 of the functionality described
Providing 1/2 of the functionality described
Providing 3/4 of the functionality described
Providing all the functionality described
Score would have been higher but it depends on anotherproduct from the vendor - Contact Vendor for Details
Score would have been higher but it depends on customprogramming - Contact Vendor for Details
CorVu Corp., Dimensional Insight Inc., HyperionSolutions Corp., IBM, Oco Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., SASInstitute Inc., and Siebel Systems Inc. did notrespond to invitation for participation.
* Oracle - Deployment of Oracle 9i DS is via Oracle 9iAS. Oracle 9i RDBMS provides additional functionali-ty not listed in this guide.
* Microsoft - Microsoft SQL Server 2000 providesadditional functionality beyond what is listed forMicrosoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
* MicroStrategy - Multiple product were consolidatedunder 7i Platform - Additional Products are found onwww.microstrategy.com
ProClarity - Additional functionality to supportAnalytics Platform through Microsoft SQL Server2000 - Analysis Services
1
Functional Capabilities
Product
CleverPath EUREKA:Strategy 6.2
CleverPath Forest & Trees 7
CleverPath OLAP 5.1
CleverPath Predictive Analysis Server 2.0
CleverPath Reporter 4.1
Crystal Analysis Professional 9.0
Crystal Enterprise 9.0
Crystal Reports 9.0
Balanced Scorecard
Epistemic Analytics Toolkit 2.0
BI Suite 8
BI Analyze 8
BI Query 8
BI Server 8
BI Web 8
PowerAnalyzer 4.0
WebFocus Maintain 5.2
WebFocus Managed Reporting 5.2
WebFocus ReportCaster 5.2
WebFocus Reporting Server & Tools 5.2
Defin
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Man
ipul
ate
Busi
ness
Ru
les
Man
age
Sour
ce
Inte
grat
e
Acce
ss
Man
age
Quer
y
Calc
ulat
e
Anal
yze
Navi
gate
Inte
ract
Pres
ent
Sear
ch
Understand
Company
Computer Associates
International Inc.
Crystal Decisions Inc.
Epistemic Corp.
Hummingbird Ltd.
Informatica Corp.
Information Builders Inc.
Functional Requirements Model Access Discover Interact
2
Functional Requirements that have a zero score for theentire sub-category are listed as Not Applicable (NA) ornot providing that functionality
Providing no functionality described
Providing 1/4 of the functionality described
Providing 1/2 of the functionality described
Providing 3/4 of the functionality described
Providing all the functionality described
Score would have been higher but it depends on anotherproduct from the vendor - Contact Vendor for Details
Score would have been higher but it depends on customprogramming - Contact Vendor for Details
CorVu Corp., Dimensional Insight Inc., HyperionSolutions Corp., IBM, Oco Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., SASInstitute Inc., and Siebel Systems Inc. did notrespond to invitation for participation.
* Oracle - Deployment of Oracle 9i DS is via Oracle 9iAS. Oracle 9i RDBMS provides additional functionali-ty not listed in this guide.
* Microsoft - Microsoft SQL Server 2000 providesadditional functionality beyond what is listed forMicrosoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
* MicroStrategy - Multiple product were consolidatedunder 7i Platform - Additional Products are found onwww.microstrategy.com
ProClarity - Additional functionality to supportAnalytics Platform through Microsoft SQL Server2000 - Analysis Services
UnderstandFunctional Requirements Model Access Discover Interact
3
Functional Requirements that have a zero score for theentire sub-category are listed as Not Applicable (NA) ornot providing that functionality
Providing no functionality described
Providing 1/4 of the functionality described
Providing 1/2 of the functionality described
Providing 3/4 of the functionality described
Providing all the functionality described
Score would have been higher but it depends on anotherproduct from the vendor - Contact Vendor for Details
Score would have been higher but it depends on customprogramming - Contact Vendor for Details
CorVu Corp., Dimensional Insight Inc., HyperionSolutions Corp., IBM, Oco Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., SASInstitute Inc., and Siebel Systems Inc. did notrespond to invitation for participation.
* Oracle - Deployment of Oracle 9i DS is via Oracle 9iAS. Oracle 9i RDBMS provides additional functionali-ty not listed in this guide.
* Microsoft - Microsoft SQL Server 2000 providesadditional functionality beyond what is listed forMicrosoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
* MicroStrategy - Multiple product were consolidatedunder 7i Platform - Additional Products are found onwww.microstrategy.com
ProClarity - Additional functionality to supportAnalytics Platform through Microsoft SQL Server2000 - Analysis Services
Functional Requirements that have a zero score for theentire sub-category are listed as Not Applicable (NA) ornot providing that functionality
Providing no functionality described
Providing 1/4 of the functionality described
Providing 1/2 of the functionality described
Providing 3/4 of the functionality described
Providing all the functionality described
Score would have been higher but it depends on anotherproduct from the vendor - Contact Vendor for Details
Score would have been higher but it depends on customprogramming - Contact Vendor for Details
CorVu Corp., Dimensional Insight Inc., HyperionSolutions Corp., IBM, Oco Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., SASInstitute Inc., and Siebel Systems Inc. did notrespond to invitation for participation.
* Oracle - Deployment of Oracle 9i DS is via Oracle 9iAS. Oracle 9i RDBMS provides additional functionali-ty not listed in this guide.
* Microsoft - Microsoft SQL Server 2000 providesadditional functionality beyond what is listed forMicrosoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
* MicroStrategy - Multiple product were consolidatedunder 7i Platform - Additional Products are found onwww.microstrategy.com
ProClarity - Additional functionality to supportAnalytics Platform through Microsoft SQL Server2000 - Analysis Services
Functional Requirements that have a zero score for theentire sub-category are listed as Not Applicable (NA) ornot providing that functionality
Providing no functionality described
Providing 1/4 of the functionality described
Providing 1/2 of the functionality described
Providing 3/4 of the functionality described
Providing all the functionality described
Score would have been higher but it depends on anotherproduct from the vendor - Contact Vendor for Details
Score would have been higher but it depends on customprogramming - Contact Vendor for Details
CorVu Corp., Dimensional Insight Inc., HyperionSolutions Corp., IBM, Oco Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., SASInstitute Inc., and Siebel Systems Inc. did notrespond to invitation for participation.
* Oracle - Deployment of Oracle 9i DS is via Oracle 9iAS. Oracle 9i RDBMS provides additional functionali-ty not listed in this guide.
* Microsoft - Microsoft SQL Server 2000 providesadditional functionality beyond what is listed forMicrosoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
* MicroStrategy - Multiple product were consolidatedunder 7i Platform - Additional Products are found onwww.microstrategy.com
ProClarity - Additional functionality to supportAnalytics Platform through Microsoft SQL Server2000 - Analysis Services
Functional Requirements that have a zero score for theentire sub-category are listed as Not Applicable (NA) ornot providing that functionality
Providing no functionality described
Providing 1/4 of the functionality described
Providing 1/2 of the functionality described
Providing 3/4 of the functionality described
Providing all the functionality described
Score would have been higher but it depends on anotherproduct from the vendor - Contact Vendor for Details
Score would have been higher but it depends on customprogramming - Contact Vendor for Details
CorVu Corp., Dimensional Insight Inc., HyperionSolutions Corp., IBM, Oco Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., SASInstitute Inc., and Siebel Systems Inc. did notrespond to invitation for participation.
* Oracle - Deployment of Oracle 9i DS is via Oracle 9iAS. Oracle 9i RDBMS provides additional functionali-ty not listed in this guide.
* Microsoft - Microsoft SQL Server 2000 providesadditional functionality beyond what is listed forMicrosoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
* MicroStrategy - Multiple product were consolidatedunder 7i Platform - Additional Products are found onwww.microstrategy.com
ProClarity - Additional functionality to supportAnalytics Platform through Microsoft SQL Server2000 - Analysis Services
Functional Capabilities
Product
e.Analysis Option 7
e.Report Option 7
e.Spreadsheet Option 7
Alphablox 5
Integra 1.2
TM1 8.1
dynaSight 3.5
Application Foundation v6
BusinessObjects Enterprise v6
BusinessObjects Designer v6
BusinessQuery v6 for Microsoft SQL Server & Excel
InfoView & Mobile Portal v6
WebIntelligence v6
Cognos Enterprise Planning v7.1
Impromptu Web Reports Series 7 v2
Cognos Metrics Manager 2.0
Cognos NoticeCast Series 7 v2
PowerPlay Series 7 v2
Cognos ReportNet 1.01
Visualizer Series 7 v2
Align
Company
Actuate Corp
Alphablox Corp.
Applix Inc.
ArcPlan Inc.
Business Objects SA
Cognos Inc.
Functional Requirements
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Target Score Inform Automate
Functional Requirements that have a zero score for theentire sub-category are listed as Not Applicable (NA) ornot providing that functionality
Providing no functionality described
Providing 1/4 of the functionality described
Providing 1/2 of the functionality described
Providing 3/4 of the functionality described
Providing all the functionality described
Score would have been higher but it depends on anotherproduct from the vendor - Contact Vendor for Details
Score would have been higher but it depends on customprogramming - Contact Vendor for Details
CorVu Corp., Dimensional Insight Inc., HyperionSolutions Corp., IBM, Oco Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., SASInstitute Inc., and Siebel Systems Inc. did notrespond to invitation for participation.
* Oracle - Deployment of Oracle 9i DS is via Oracle 9iAS. Oracle 9i RDBMS provides additional functionali-ty not listed in this guide.
* Microsoft - Microsoft SQL Server 2000 providesadditional functionality beyond what is listed forMicrosoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
* MicroStrategy - Multiple product were consolidatedunder 7i Platform - Additional Products are found onwww.microstrategy.com
ProClarity - Additional functionality to supportAnalytics Platform through Microsoft SQL Server2000 - Analysis Services
Functional Requirements that have a zero score for theentire sub-category are listed as Not Applicable (NA) ornot providing that functionality
Providing no functionality described
Providing 1/4 of the functionality described
Providing 1/2 of the functionality described
Providing 3/4 of the functionality described
Providing all the functionality described
Score would have been higher but it depends on anotherproduct from the vendor - Contact Vendor for Details
Score would have been higher but it depends on customprogramming - Contact Vendor for Details
CorVu Corp., Dimensional Insight Inc., HyperionSolutions Corp., IBM, Oco Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., SASInstitute Inc., and Siebel Systems Inc. did notrespond to invitation for participation.
* Oracle - Deployment of Oracle 9i DS is via Oracle 9iAS. Oracle 9i RDBMS provides additional functionali-ty not listed in this guide.
* Microsoft - Microsoft SQL Server 2000 providesadditional functionality beyond what is listed forMicrosoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
* MicroStrategy - Multiple product were consolidatedunder 7i Platform - Additional Products are found onwww.microstrategy.com
ProClarity - Additional functionality to supportAnalytics Platform through Microsoft SQL Server2000 - Analysis Services
Functional Requirements that have a zero score for theentire sub-category are listed as Not Applicable (NA) ornot providing that functionality
Providing no functionality described
Providing 1/4 of the functionality described
Providing 1/2 of the functionality described
Providing 3/4 of the functionality described
Providing all the functionality described
Score would have been higher but it depends on anotherproduct from the vendor - Contact Vendor for Details
Score would have been higher but it depends on customprogramming - Contact Vendor for Details
CorVu Corp., Dimensional Insight Inc., HyperionSolutions Corp., IBM, Oco Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., SASInstitute Inc., and Siebel Systems Inc. did notrespond to invitation for participation.
* Oracle - Deployment of Oracle 9i DS is via Oracle 9iAS. Oracle 9i RDBMS provides additional functionali-ty not listed in this guide.
* Microsoft - Microsoft SQL Server 2000 providesadditional functionality beyond what is listed forMicrosoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
* MicroStrategy - Multiple product were consolidatedunder 7i Platform - Additional Products are found onwww.microstrategy.com
ProClarity - Additional functionality to supportAnalytics Platform through Microsoft SQL Server2000 - Analysis Services