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Hyperion (Oracle)

Hyperion Solutions Corporation is a business performance management software company, which was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2007. Many of its products are targeted at the Business Intelligence and performance management market, and are still actively developed and sold by Oracle. Hyperion can provide an organization with the tools to enable better planning and financial [...]

MicroStrategy

For over 20 years, MicroStrategy has helped businesses make decisions through better insight from their data. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence platform offers an integrated solution to all business data query, reporting and advanced analytical needs, and distributes insight to users at their desks and while mobile. MicroStrategy is a business intelligence (BI), enterprise reporting, and [...]

SAS

SAS (once known as Statistical Analysis System) is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina and is the largest privately held software compay in the world. SAS continually achieves year over year revenue gains, most recently generating $2.26 billion for fiscal year 2008. SAS was formed in the early 1970′s by Jim Goodnight, John Sall and other [...]

SPSS

SPSS, an IBM company, is a leading provider of statistical analysis and predictive analytics software. Originally developed for use in the social sciences, SPSS has also become established in the commercial and government sectors. These software packages enable a competitive advantage in areas such as attracting, retaining, and growing customer bases, while providing protection from [...]

Teradata

Teradata is a software company, founded in 1979, with over 5,900 employees and $1.76 billion in annual revenue. It develops and sells a relational database management system with the same name. Teradata was a division of the NCR Corporation, which acquired the Teradata Company on February 28, 1991. However, on January 8, 2007, NCR announced [...]

Actuate

Actuate was founded in 1993 and continues to co-lead the Eclipse BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tools) open source project. BIRT is the premier development environment for Rich Information Applications that present data in compelling and interactive ways via the web on any device. Companies have deployed Actuate-based Enterprise Reporting and Performance Management Applications that are [...]

Cognos (IBM)

Cognos (Cognos Incorporated), founded in 1969, was a Canadian company making business intelligence (BI) and performance management software. Originally known as Quasar it adopted the Cognos name in 1982. On January 31, 2008, Cognos was officially acquired by IBM. The Cognos name continues to be used, being applied to IBM’s line of business intelligence (BI) [...]

Business Objects (SAP)

SAP BusinessObjects is comprised of a portfolio of tools and applications designed to optimize performance by connecting people and information across business networks. Its most well-known product is BusinessObjects XI (Crystal Reports), with components that provide performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis and enterprise information management. Databases are generally queried using a language called [...]