Business Intelligence Solutions at your company

The business intelligence function in your company/department:
Customer Profitability
Enterprise Performance Management
Extranets   
Financial Reporting and Analysis
Human Resources
Product and Service Analysis
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
Six Sigma
Supply Chain Analysis

The BI product category you (or your company) are using:

Data Integration

Data integration software. These products are also known as extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) software. They are designed to combine information from multiple sources to feed a database or data warehouse.

Enterprise Reporting

These products distribute reports efficiently to large groups of users inside or outside the organization. They include additional security, management, and distribution features that are lacking in simple operational reporting.

Operational Reporting

These products provide the reports for the systems used to run the organization on a daily basis. They are often seamlessly embedded into applications. Examples of operational reports include bills of lading, invoices, and payroll slips.

Query and Analysis

These products are designed to give business users and analysts autonomous and interactive information access. Users are not limited to the subset of information available in a particular report or cube, but can ask new questions and analyze any of the information stored in the database or data warehouse.

Data Mining

These products are used for sophisticated, automatic analysis of large amounts of data with lots of different variables. Tuning and interpreting these results requires specialized expertise in statistical modeling.

Performance Management, Dashboards, and Scorecards

These products gather key corporate performance indicators and display them in a single interface. Typically associated with executive users, they may also support goal setting, collaboration, and standard business methodologies like Balanced Scorecard.

Which major BI application vendors are you (or your company) currently using?
Business Objects
Cognos
Microstrategy
Siebel
SAP
SAS
Other

Your industry / company:

Company Name: ______________________________
Communications
Consumer Product Goods
Energy
Financial Services
Government
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Pharmaceuticals
Hospitality
Retail
Other