Last week I received an email asking why I don't do more to mention/compare/contrast proprietary products and companies as it relates to my those of the open source variety. My initial response was laughter considering this blog sports the name Open Source Unleashed as well as the ample coverage of proprietary entities available elsewhere. However, after thinking on it a bit I figured it might be worthwhile to throw in a post or two to break up my open source monotone. Therefore, below is a categorical look at Business Intelligence (BI) vendors (listed in alphabetic order within each category):
Blended Approaches
- HP
- IBM
- Teradata
- Sybase
ERP-centric
- Infor
- Lawson
- Oracle
- SAP
Business Process Solutions (BPS)
- Applix (Cognos)
- Cartesis (Business Objects)
- OutlookSoft (SAP)
Visualization-based
- iDashboards
- Tableau Software
- Visual Mining
Open Source
- JasperSoft
- Pentaho
BPO-based
- Coremetrics
- Omniture
SaaS players
- 1010data
- SeaTab Software
Appliance providers
- DATAllegro
- Greenplum/Sun Netezza
Platform-oriented
- Microsoft
- Oracle
Traditional, pure play BI
- Actuate
- Business Objects
- Cognos
- Information
Builders - MicroStrategy
- SAS
Lightweight BI
- BOARD
- Dimensional Insight
- DSPanel
- FAST
Search - RSinteract
- InetSoft
- InforSense
- LogiXML
- Panorama
- QlikTech
Point solution providers (through acquisition)
- Allen Systems Group
- OpenText
About the blogger: Alex Fletcher is lead industry analyst at Entiva Group Incorporated, a research and analyst firm which specializes exclusively on the open source software industry. In addition to hisanalyst coverage activities, he advises organizations of all sizes on establishing governance, strategy and policy surrounding use of open source software as a competitive differentiator. Alex has prior experience as a consultant, software engineer and start-up founder. He can be reached at alex dot fletcher -at- entivagroup dot com.
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Hi Alex, let me be the first of not included vendors to chime in. LucidEra should be listed in the SaaS category. You may also be interested to know that our on-demand analytic applications take advantage of open source technologies - Mondrian and LucidDB.
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