Business Intelligence Corporate Performance Management Market Landscape
Olin Thompson & P.J. Jakovljevic - July 13, 2005

The BI/CPM Market Landscape

The vendor landscape remains diverse, with every vendor touting some or near total corporate performance management (CPM) capabilities. The abundance of astute vendors will prevent any single vendor from achieving leadership any time soon, while growth for all will be, in part, hampered by increasing pricing pressures. Thus, the "arms race" to marshal the most complete CPM platform has been intensified among major vendors, and many have a comprehensive set of business intelligence (BI) functionality, including online analytical processing (OLAP) analytics, ad hoc query, end user reporting, enterprise reporting, planning, and some type of analytic dashboards or balanced scorecards...