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Over 11 years ago

Commented on No compelling reasons to choose Cognos unless the suite of products offers a particularly good fit with needs, or the organization has an existing heavy commitment to IBM products and services

Well I don't think we are disagreeing particularly - if I may say so. But building your own data mining tools is a bit onerous -SVMs, neural nets and random forests for example require considerable skills to build - and why reinvent the wheel? But if you do have the…

Over 11 years ago

Contributed a review of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform: Business Objects - Big in Every Way

Over 11 years ago

Contributed a review of MicroStrategy: One step ahead of much of the competition, and delivers a highly configurable and quite uniquely functional BI environment

Over 11 years ago

Contributed a review of SAP HANA: Why HANA Is Important

Over 11 years ago

Contributed a review of QlikView: More than just a pretty face, there is some truly innovative, and very useful technology on offer here

Over 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Tableau: Places great emphasis on the ability to create visualizations without the need for any technical skills

Over 11 years ago

Contributed a review of IBM Cognos: No compelling reasons to choose Cognos unless the suite of products offers a particularly good fit with needs, or the organization has an existing heavy commitment to IBM products and services

Over 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Pentaho Business Analytics: Very capable suite of BI, reporting, and data mining tools with sophisticated functionality

Over 11 years ago

Contributed a review of TIBCO Jaspersoft: The scope of the product is fairly limited compared with some other open source offerings, but it does what it does very well

Over 11 years ago

Contributed a review of Knowage: Users of SpagoBI will need support, training and consulting services, and obviously this is where the revenue model is pitched

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Over 11 years ago

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform

Business Objects - Big in Every Way

Over 11 years ago

MicroStrategy

One step ahead of much of the competition, and delivers a highly configurable and quite uniquely functional BI environment

Over 11 years ago

SAP HANA

Why HANA Is Important

Over 11 years ago

QlikView

More than just a pretty face, there is some truly innovative, and very useful technology on offer here

Over 11 years ago

Tableau

Places great emphasis on the ability to create visualizations without the need for any technical skills

Over 11 years ago

IBM Cognos

No compelling reasons to choose Cognos unless the suite of products offers a particularly good fit with needs, or the organization has an existing heavy commitment to IBM products and services

Over 11 years ago

Pentaho Business Analytics

Very capable suite of BI, reporting, and data mining tools with sophisticated functionality

Over 11 years ago

TIBCO Jaspersoft

The scope of the product is fairly limited compared with some other open source offerings, but it does what it does very well

Over 11 years ago

Knowage

Users of SpagoBI will need support, training and consulting services, and obviously this is where the revenue model is pitched

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Over 11 years ago

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

No compelling reasons to choose Cognos unless the suite of products offers a particularly good fit with needs, or the organization has an existing heavy commitment to IBM products and services

About me

First in Theoretical Physics with 2 years post-grad study of quantum mechanics and general relativity.
Founded Butler Group - Europe's largest indigenous IT analyst firm until acquisition by Datamonitor in 2005.
Founder of Butler Analytics - dedicated to analysis of analytics technologies and methods.