Business Intelligence (BI) software is widely used for reporting, dashboarding and analysis. The following BI software products were thoroughly examined in our Business Intelligence Survey on 103 criteria considered important for high productivity and Business Intelligence systems that actually add value to your organization.

Vendor independent comparison

The following BI software products (in random order)  that are part of our Business Intelligence Survey. The comparison is made by Passionned Group, an independent consultancy and research company based in The Netherlands. Download today the BI Survey for a thorough comparison of the Business Intelligence Software Solutions listed in the table below.

BI software compared in the Survey

Nr.	BI Software Solution	Version	BI Vendor
1.	IBM Cognos Series 10	10.1	IBM
2.	Oracle Enterprise BI Server	11g1	Oracle
3.	SAP Business Objects Enterprise XI	r4	SAP
4.	SAS Enterprise BI Server	9.2	SAS Institute
5.	Microsoft Integrated BI offering*	2008/2010	Microsoft
6.	SAP NetWeaver BI	7.3	SAP
7.	Board Management IntelligenceToolkit	7.1	Board International
8.	BizzScore Suite	7.3	EFM Software
9.	WebFocus	8	Information Builders
10.	QlikView	11	QlikTech
11.	Microstrategy	9	Microstrategy
12.	Oracle Hyperion System	9	Oracle
13.	JasperSoft	4.5	JasperSoft
14.	Style Intellingence	11	InetSoft
15.	Pentaho BI suite (open source)	4	Pentaho
16.	Tableau Software	6.1	Tableau Software

* The following Microsoft BI Products are evaluated in the BI Survey: SQL Server Analysis Service (SSAS), SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS) in combination with Excel and Excel Services, where relevant accessed by SharePoint (MOSS 2010).

Download the BI Survey: 16 solutions evaluated

Get all information to select the best (enterprise) BI software for the best price by ordering the BI Software Survey 2012. You will get real insight into using BI software solutions to build successful BI applications and we will send you results of comparing 16 BI software solutions across 103 criteria. Open the table of contents to see what’s in the BI Software Survey. The price is stated in Euros and excludes local taxes. Applicable taxes will be applied during the checkout process, there are no taxes for US customers.

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