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| 1. | Study participants | 6 |
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| 2. | Study background and set-up | 7 |
| 2.1 | Is Business Intelligence still relevant? | 8 |
| 2.1.1 | What’s in a name? | 8 |
| 2.1.2 | Is it worth the investment? | 9 |
| 2.1.3 | The four phases of Business Intelligence | 10 |
| 2.2 | Enterprise Business Intelligence products | 10 |
| 2.3 | Database and packaged products | 11 |
| 2.4 | Data discovery & visualization products | 11 |
| 2.5 | Innovative, new and niche products | 13 |
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| 3. | Motivation for the Business Intelligence study | 14 |
| 3.1 | How the study was carried out | 16 |
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| 4. | Graphs per category & ranking | 24 |
| 4.1 | Infrastructure and Architecture | 24 |
| 4.2 | Cloud architecture | 26 |
| 4.3 | Functionality and completeness | 28 |
| 4.4 | Usability and Visualization | 30 |
| 4.5 | Mobile Business Intelligence | 32 |
| 4.6 | Hardware and servers | 35 |
| 4.7 | Performance Issues & Big Data | 37 |
| 4.8 | Predictive Analysis (Data Mining) | 40 |
| 4.9 | Search and Alerting | 43 |
| 4.10 | Performance Management | 45 |
| 4.11 | Security and Connectivity | 47 |
| 4.12 | Self service Business Intelligence | 50 |
| 4.13 | Collaborative & Social BI | 51 |
| 4.14 | All Categories | 52 |
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| 5. | Expert opinion on each Business Intelligence tool | 54 |
| 5.1 | Enterprise Business Intelligence products | 55 |
| 5.1.1 | – IBM Cognos BI & Analytics 11 | 56 |
| 5.1.2 | – SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2/SP4 | 60 |
| 5.1.3 | – Information Builders (IBI) – WebFOCUS 8.2 | 63 |
| 5.1.4 | – SAS Business Analytics 9.4m3 | 67 |
| 5.1.5 | – MicroStrategy 10.8 | 72 |
| 5.1.6 | – Birst 5.27 | 76 |
| 5.1.7 | – Pentaho Business Analytics (HDS) 7.1 | 79 |
| 5.2 | Database and Packaged Products | 82 |
| 5.2.1 | – Oracle BI Enterprise Edition 12.2.1.1 (OBIEE) | 83 |
| 5.2.2 | – SAP BW 7.4 (powered by HANA) | 87 |
| 5.2.3 | – Microsoft BI 2017 (Power BI included) | 91 |
| 5.2.4 | – Oracle Hyperion – System 9 | 95 |
| 5.3 | Data Discovery & Visualization | 96 |
| 5.3.1 | – Qlik 12.10 | 97 |
| 5.3.2 | – Tableau Software 9.4 | 100 |
| 5.3.3 | – Board 10.1 | 102 |
| 5.3.3 | – Sisense 6.6.1 | 103 |
| 5.4 | Innovative, new and niche products | 105 |
| 5.4.1 | – Bizzscore Suite 7.3 | 105 |
| 5.4.2 | – Yellowfin 7.3 | 106 |
| 5.4.3 | – Style Intelligence 12.2 | 109 |
| 5.4.4 | – JasperSoft 6.4 | 113 |
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| 6. | Some comments about Pricing | 117 |
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| 7. | User opinion & sentiment analysis | 119 |
| 7.1 | The overall sentiment | 121 |
| 7.2 | What’s in a name: Analytics or Business Intelligence? | 122 |
| 7.3 | Career opportunities | 124 |
| 7.4 | Big Data: buzz or booming? | 127 |
| 7.5 | Mobile BI sentiment analysis | 129 |
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| 8. | Conclusions and Recommendations | 131 |
| 8.1 | Why do you want to use the product? | 131 |
| 8.2 | What is my existing infrastructure? | 131 |
| 8.3 | What are the volumes involved? | 131 |
| 8.4 | What is my budget? | 132 |
| 8.5 | What is most important for your organization? | 132 |
| 8.6 | Who do I want to do business with? | 132 |
| 8.7 | Conclusion | 132 |
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| 9. | About Passionned Group | 134 |
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| 10. | Appendices – Only in the Enterprise Edition | 136 |
| 10.1 | Appendix A1: Infrastructure and architecture | 137 |
| 10.2 | Appendix A2: Cloud Architecture | 143 |
| 10.3 | Appendix A3: Core Functionality | 145 |
| 10.4 | Appendix A4: Usability and visualization | 152 |
| 10.5 | Appendix A5: Mobile Business Intelligence | 155 |
| 10.6 | Appendix A6: Performance Issues & Big Data | 161 |
| 10.7 | Appendix A7: Predictive Analysis (Data Mining) | 165 |
| 10.8 | Appendix A8: Search and alerting | 167 |
| 10.9 | Appendix A9: Performance Management | 169 |
| 10.10 | Appendix A10: Security and connectivity | 173 |
| 10.11 | Appendix A11: Self service Business Intelligence | 177 |
| 10.12 | Appendix A12: Collaborative & Social BI | 180 |
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| 11 | Appendix B1: Explanation of Terms & the RFI questionnaire | 184-210 |
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