Business Intelligence Software Vendor Profiles
Selected Suppliers of Business Intelligence Software (In alphabetical order)
arcplan
Arcplan is a provider of business intelligence, dashboard, corporate performance, and planning software systems that enable businesses to improve operational performance while leveraging their existing infrastructure. Founded in 1993, arcplan has more than 3,000 customers. The company is led by CEO Detlef Kamps. Its flagship product, arcplan Enterprise, is a reporting and analytics platform that creates custom BAI applications such as reports and forecasts.
Birst
Founded in 2004, Birst is led by CEO Brad Peters and serves a wide range of industries, from manufacturing to life sciences and pharmaceutical companies. The company provides a BI solution call Birst, a fact-based, decision-making SaaS product. Birst is used by manufacturers and others for supply chain analysis and optimization, manufacturing intelligence, and product lifecycle analysis.
Bitam
CEO David Abdo leads Bitam, which was founded in 2000 and has more than 2,000 customers. The company provides Artus, a BI application that provides monitoring and analyzing capabilities, including management dashboards and ad-hoc reporting. Artus’ capabilities include slicing, dicing, and drilling into underlying data; performing trend analysis; using powerful statistical functions, predictive modeling and what-if analysis; applying thresholds, and alerts for exception analysis; and integrating visualization components into other existing applications such as intranets, portals, or customer extranets.
BOARD International
BOARD International, founded in 1994, is a privately held company with more than 2,500 customers. The company is led by CEO Giovanni Grossi. BOARD provides the functionality required to build any BI or corporate performance management application without the need for programming. The toolkit approach, along with the ability to build BI applications (and their customization/maintenance), provides users with an interactive interface to create reports and analyses.
IBM
IBM is under the direction of Samuel J. Palmisano, chairman of the board and CEO. The company, founded in 1911, manufactures and sells computer hardware and software. Today, it has revenues of approximately $100 billion. The company's Business Intelligence offering is called Cognos 10 BI. The software helps companies with decision-making that enables them to understand trends, opportunities, weaknesses, and threats. Cognos 10 allows users to explore data in combination and over time using analytics.
Information Builders
Founded in 1975 by CEO Gerald Cohen, Information Builders’ BI and enterprise integration software is used by more than 12,000 customers, generating over $300 million in revenue. The company's WebFOCUS BI software provides security, scalability, and flexibility. It helps users create executive, analytical, and operational applications.
iQ4bis
Founded in 2001, iQ4bis is led by president Ray Major. The privately held company has more than 300 customers. Its BI product, iQ for Business, features modules for sales, finance, and inventory. It also includes reporting and analytics capabilities, as well as dashboards.
Jaspersoft
Jaspersoft, a privately held firm, was founded in 2001. The company, which has more than 13,000 customers, is currently led by CEO Brian Gentile. Jaspersoft provides a business intelligence suite called Jaspersoft 4. The suite enables decision-making through interactive Web-based reports, dashboards, and analysis. The software is built on a standards-based architecture and is vendor-independent.
Microsoft
Microsoft, founded in 1975, is led by CEO Steve Ballmer. In 2010, the company had total revenues of more than $62 billion. Microsoft's BI software integrates the capabilities of the company's SQL Server, SharePoint Server, and Office to enable users to make informed business decisions. The software builds on existing technology investments so employees gain access to accurate, up-to-date information.
MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy, founded in 1989, is led by Michael J. Saylor, chairman, president, and CEO. The company had revenues of $455 million in 2010. MicroStrategy provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that enables companies to analyze the data stored across their enterprise to make better business decisions. MicroStrategy’s BI platform delivers actionable information to business users via e-mail, Web, and mobile devices.
myDIALS
Wayne Morris, CEO, leads myDIALS, which was founded in 2006. The company provides a self-service BI platform for visualization and analysis of performance metrics within the cloud. Its SaaS BI solution combines best practices embedded in pre-defined modules, enabling users to view, filter, and interact with data to make decisions more quickly. The software features automated deployment, connects to virtually any data source, and delivers interactivity, knowledge sharing, and predictability.
Oracle
Led by CEO Lawrence J. Ellison, Oracle serves 370,000 customers globally across a wide range of industries. Founded in 1977, Oracle’s annual revenue for fiscal year 2010 was $26.8 billion. Oracle Business Intelligence combines a number of applications to provide an integrated solution. Oracle’s range of BI capabilities includes enterprise reporting, ad hoc query and analysis, dashboards, and scorecards. All Oracle BI products are integrated with common metadata, security, clustering, administration services, query request generation, and optimized data access services.
Panorama Software
Founded in 1993, Panorama Software is a BI software provider with more than 1,600 customers. The company is led by CEO Eynav Azarya. Panorama Necto is the company's socially enabled BI solution. The software offers a way to connect data, insights, and people in the organization. Panorama Necto enables enterprises to leverage the power of social intelligence to gain insights quickly, efficiently, and with greater relevancy.
Pentaho
Pentaho was founded in 2004 by five BI industry veterans, including current CEO Richard Daley. Pentaho BI Suite creates reports, dashboards, and analytics. The suite provides a spectrum of data integration and BI capabilities, including ETL and OLAP. The platform also provides enterprise data services that include integration with Hadoop for big-data analytics and support for the company's Agile BI initiative, which enables users to build BI applications quickly and in response to business changes.
QlikTech
QlikTech, founded in 1993, serves more than 18,000 customers. Led by CEO Lars Bjork, QlikTech revenues are more than $206 million. The company's Business QlikView Business Discovery software bridges traditional BI solutions and standalone office productivity applications. The platform enables user-driven analysis, and its in-memory associative search technology allows users to explore information freely rather than being confined to a predefined path of questions.
Salient Management Co.
Founded in 1986, Salient Management Co. is led by Founder, President, and CEO Guy Amisano. Salient has 35,000 users of its BI product offering, Salient UXT. The BI software is an automated, analytical warehouse that provides users with the ability to create knowledge from data. The product's scalable in-memory intelligence processing and visualization technology capture relevant detail for business decision-making.
SAP AG
Founded in 1972, SAP AG is the world’s largest business software company. The company has revenues of more than €10 billion and over 95,000 customers. Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe are co-CEOs. SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite provides self-service access to relevant business information. The BI software helps business users with decision-making by providing fact-based, quality information regardless of where the data resides.
SAS Institute
SAS, the world’s largest privately held software company, recorded 2010 revenue in excess of $2.4 billion. Under the leadership of CEO and co-founder Jim Goodnight, SAS is used at more than 50,000 sites. SAS BI Server, offered in enterprise and SMB configurations, is a comprehensive BI system that integrates SAS Analytics and SAS Data Management. It includes role-based, self-service interfaces for all types of users within a well-defined IT governance framework and a centralized point of administration, which helps organizations simplify and speed BI deployment.
TARGIT
TARGIT, founded in 1986 with CEO Morten Sandlykke as one of the founding partners, has more than 4,000 customers. The company's TARGIT BI Suite streamlines the decision processes through its integrated tool set, which enables users to create dashboards, analyses, and reports. The solution gathers data from a company's systems and provides a shared interface from which users can draw and analyze business information.
TIBCO Software
TIBCO Software, a provider of infrastructure systems, has more than 4,000 customers. The company is led by Rock Gnatovich, COO for Spotfire (TIBCO'S in-memory analytics software for BI). By offering an interactive experience, Spotfire enables users to discover new and actionable insights in business information. Through in-memory analysis, predictive modeling, and a visual interface, Spotfire gives users the ability to explore their business data.
(Editor’s Note: This select list of Business Intelligence Software suppliers is based on market research reports, analyst reports, and company information.)