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.

Plus Relocation Reaps $3.4 Million in Benefits With WebFOCUS

Using the WebFOCUS business intelligence (BI) platform, Plus Relocation has improved productivity, reduced costs, attracted new customers, and enhanced its relationships with existing customers, leading to a projected cumulative three-year net benefit of $3.4 million and an ROI of 196 percent.

 
ICO Achieves an ROI of 424 Percent Using Information Builders' iWay and WebFOCUS

Using the WebFOCUS business intelligence (BI) platform from Information Builders and integration technology from iWay Software, a division of Information Builders, International Car Operators (ICO) has improved operational efficiency; produced more timely and useful reports; improved communications with customers; reduced costs; increased revenue; and gained nearly 3,000,000 in benefits.

  
The "Wisdom of Crowds" Business Intelligence Market Study

The "Wisdom of Crowds" Business Intelligence Market Study was conceived, designed and executed by Dresner Advisory Services (an independent advisory firm) and Howard Dresner, its president and founder. According to the report, "Information Builders generally exceeded its peer group and was above the average for the entire sample. This is especially true in the areas of sales and technical support." In addition to achieving a perfect score in the customer recommendation category, Information Builders ranked highest in the sales experience category, which judged vendors' sales staffs on their product knowledge, responsiveness to business needs, and professionalism, among other metrics.

  
Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms

Information Builders was positioned in the 2010 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."

  
The Ventana Research Value Index: Business Intelligence 2009 Executive Summary

This Ventana Research Value Index is an analytic representation of Ventana's assessment of how well vendors' offerings meet buyers' requirements for software that enables and supports Business Intelligence.

  
The Ventana Research Value Index: Performance Management 2009 Executive Summary

This Ventana Research Value Index is an analytic representation of Ventana's assessment of how well vendors' offerings meet buyers' requirements for software that enables and supports Performance Management.

  
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.

  
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."