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.

Please select one or more reports from the list below by checking the box to the left of each paper and clicking "submit" on the bottom of the page.

	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 "a comprehensive and fully integrated enterprise business

	Business Intelligence: Strategic Imperative for CIOs The CIO's role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper ¬ using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS' performance on System z running z/OS and Linux ¬ helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power.

	Ventana Research: Information Builders Aims at Operational BI Many organizations want to bring closer to the hundreds, even thousands, of employees and partners who interact with customers and supply chains. Information Builders aims to enable such operational BI, which merges dashboard interfaces, event alerts, metrics, search, and other new features with BI reporting and analysis. Ventana Research believes that the company's latest developments will improve its competitive position in the marketplace.

	Using Operational Business Intelligence for Intra-Day Analysis and Decision Making Independent research report from Business Intelligence Network examines the importance of delivering the right information to the right people at the right time so they can make effective and timely business decisions. Report includes a case study on Information Builders customer, The Hillman Group, who successfully use Operational BI to provide real-time access to live data in operational systems.

	A Snapshot of Integration in Upstream Oil and Gas Operations In the upstream oil and gas industry, integration of business and production systems is becoming a critical part of doing business and remaining competitive. This report produced by Advertas and Upstream CIO Newsletter interviews producers of various sizes and an industry-standards group to form a picture of the challenges as well as potential solutions for successful systems integration in the oil and gas sector.

	Ventana Research: Information Builders Adds to Its Stack This independent report focuses on the innovations announced at Information Builders 2006 Summit user conference. In Ventana's own words, "We believe these technologies should prove valuable for Information Builders customers and will help position it in future battles with leading BI vendors."

	Scalability Requirements for Business Intelligence Platforms Ventana Research gives line-of-business and IT managers a vision of enterprise-wide BI scalability reflecting real-world deployment issues, plus a framework to evaluate the scalability potential for BI platforms.

	Meta Group's Enterprise Reporting and Dashboard Assessment - Vendor Scoring To assist organizations in selecting a standard business intelligence (BI) vendor, META Group is publishing a series of Practices evaluating various segments of the BI market. This first Practice evaluates the capabilities of the nine leading BI vendors for enterprise reporting and dashboard functionality.

	Case Study: Alcan Achieves 934% ROI on EAI Project The ability to tie together data from multiple sources using iWay Software and bring it forward in new e-commerce initiatives has enabled Alcan to realize significant savings in operational costs while also generating incremental revenue.

	A Report on WebFOCUS Scalability Unisys and Information Builders' scalability benchmark tests of WebFOCUS were reviewed and corroborated by Dr. Howard Kanter from the Laboratory for Software Metrics at DePaul University.

	A Pragmatic Solution to Application Integration Needs IDC explores the integration solution offered by iWay Software, the structure of the application integration market, and the key issues that integration products should address to provide significant utility.

	Ventana Research TCO Paper After a six-month study, Ventana Research named Information Builders the vendor offering the lowest total cost of ownership for both user-defined and parameterized reports.

	Business Intelligence With Smarts Information Builders rated "Best Buy" by Network Computing in this head-to-head business intelligence software evaluation.

	Integrated Business Intelligence Technology Audit The Butler Group, Europe's leading analyst company, named Information Builders as the leading supplier of business intelligence solutions.