Industry Analyst Reports

Independent analyst reports from Gartner, Ventana, Butler Group, and other third-party analysts describe the business issues and technological considerations of enterprise business intelligence.

	Butler Group Technology Audit: WebFOCUS Performance Management Framework v5 Independent analyst firm, Butler Group, performs an in-depth evaluation of the WebFOCUS Performance Management Framework solution. Find out why they say that our modular performance management framework, PMF, is easily tailored to enable anyone within the organization to participate in what Information Builders calls "a culture of accountability." Building on the highly regarded WebFOCUS BI platform or runtime equivalent, the solution can be tailored to present highly personalized, visually appealing dashboards.

	iWay introduces EIM iWay, the Information Builders subsidiary, has introduced an EIM (enterprise information management) offering. Since the term EIM may not necessarily be clear I had better explain that this is a platform-based approach that spans data integration, data quality and master data management.

	Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms Information Builders was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms. According to Gartner's report, "Leaders are vendors that are reasonably strong in the breadth and depth of their BI platform capabilities, and which can deliver on enterprisewide implementations that support a broad BI strategy. Leaders articulate a business proposition that resonates with buyers, supported by the viability and operational capability to deliver on a global basis."

	Information Builders Elbows In With Predictive Analytics I attended the Information Builders annual conference this week where they entertained over 1,100 customers from across the world. Information Builders announced and demonstrated their predictive analytics tool called RStat which is built on top of the R open source project.

	Butler Group's Technology Audit on WebFOCUS BI Platform Independent analyst firm, Butler Group performs an in-depth evaluation of the WebFOCUS business intelligence platform. Find out why they say WebFOCUS is "an ideal platform for the development of enterprise BI applications."