Welcome to BPM Showdown:
Oracle's Hyperion System 9 vs. OutlookSoft vs. Cartesis Suite
I'm Lyndsay Wise, senior research analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers. Welcome to another in TECs series of enterprise software Showdowns. Today's Showdown pits three of the top business performance management (BPM) vendors against each other in a head-to-head contest: Hyperion System 9 vs. OutlookSoft vs. Cartesis Suite! We hope you find this Showdown helpful and informative, and invite your comments and questions at showdown@technologyevaluation.com .
Introduction
Business performance management (BPM) can be viewed as the next generation of business intelligence (BI) software. BPM helps businesses make efficient use of their financial, human, and material resources by consolidating data from various sources, analyzing the data, and putting the results into practice.
For this BPM Showdown, we selected three of the top BPM solutions: Oracles Hyperion System 9, OutlookSoft, and Cartesis Suite. We looked at these vendors solutions in two different ways