Dataprix

Before starting a Business Intelligence project, or if we have doubts about the tools we are using, we can take a look at Magic Quadrant For Business Intelligence Platforms from Gartner.

In this quadrant Gartner positions the best-known platforms in the market in terms of Ability to execute and Completeness of vision. 

These are the four resulting portions and providers that fall within each:

+ Ability to execute + Completeness of vision (Leaders)

Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, Oracle y SAS

+ Ability to execute - Completeness of vision (Challengers)

SAP, Microsoft e Information Builders

- Ability to execute + Completeness of vision (Visionaires)

SUN Microsystems and Pentaho have signed an alliance in order to integrate the Pentaho reporting engine in next OpenOffice and StarOffice release. This will allow the famous office suite to offer new BI and OLAP features. It is sure that this alliance is going to be very fruitful. Pentaho is going to come to a people not so especialized in Business Intelligence, and SUN makes his suite more competitive opposite to propietary license tools.