In-Depth
Data Insight product guide
- By Lana Gates, Donna Sussman
- October 3, 2002
Categories
* Front-end Tools (data extraction/transformation/loading, data
integrity, data design)
* Platforms (data warehousing servers/storage, OLAP,
data integration)
* Business Intelligence (includes data query and
reporting)
* Analytical Applications/Data Mining
ACTA
TECHNOLOGY
1667 Plymouth Ave.
Mountain View, CA
94043-1203
http://www.businessobjects.com/
Offerings by category
Front-end tool (ETL) and Platform (data integration)
--
Acta Data Integration Platform
Includes a next-generation batch and real-time extraction, transformation and
loading tool that expands ETL technology to application-to-application data
integration. Also includes pre-packaged batch and real-time data movement and
business logic.
ACTUATE CORP.
701 Gateway Blvd.
South San Francisco, CA 94080
www.actuate.com
Offerings by category
Business Intelligence (information delivery tool)
--
Actuate 6
Information delivery platform that enables organizations to provide users
with the enterprise information they need in a secure and timely manner.
AMB DATAMINERS INC.
2144 Crabtree Lane
Northbrook, IL 60062
www.amb-dataminers.com
Offerings by category
Front-end tool (data migration, ETL, data profiling,
data integrity, data design, change data capture) --
eCartography
Integrated component suite that combines the functionality of ETL, data
profiling, data cleansing and meta data management. Supports data audit,
cleansing, migration and integration projects.
ANGOSS SOFTWARE CORP.
34 Saint Patrick St.
Suite 200
Toronto,
Ontario M5T 1V1
www.angoss.com
Offerings by category
Analytical Applications/Data Mining (data visualization
and exploration) --
KnowledgeStudio, KnowledgeServer and
KnowledgeExcelerator
A data mining workbench that supports data profiling, visualization and
predictive modeling; a data mining engine to support analytics applications; and
a data exploration and visualization tool.
ASCENTIAL SOFTWARE CORP.
50 Washington St.
Westboro, MA 01581
www.ascentialsoftware.com
Offerings by category
Platform (data integration) -- DataStage
An end-to-end data integration suite that includes data profiling, data
assessment, data cleansing, meta data management and ETL data integration for
enterprises.
ATTUNITY
One Wall St.
Burlington, MA 01830
www.attunity.com
Offerings by category
Platform (data integration) -- Attunity Connect
Delivers a library of standards-based adapters that provide real-time
connectivity to enterprise data and legacy applications on more than 20
platforms.
AVELLINO TECHNOLOGIES
7000 Bee Caves Road
Suite 300
Austin, TX
78746
www.avellino.com
Offerings by category
Front-end Tool (data integrity) -- Avellino
Discovery
An automated data profiling and analysis software solution that intelligently
reports on the content, structure, dependencies, relationships and quality of
source data.
BLUE MARTINI
SOFTWARE
2600 Campus Drive
San Mateo, CA 94403
www.bluemartini.com
Offerings by category
Business Intelligence and Analytical Applications/Data
Mining --
Blue Martini Integrated Analytics
Provides an infrastructure for investigating all dimensions of customer
behavior by combining online and offline data, and delivering pre-defined and
custom reports.
BRIO SOFTWARE
4980 Great American Pkwy.
Santa Clara, CA 95054
www.brio.com
Offerings by category
Business Intelligence -- Brio Intelligence and Brio
Reports
Front-end Tool -- Brio Portal
Analytical Applications -- Brio
Metrics Builder
Products leverage data from existing enterprise information systems, drive
real-time evaluation of enterprise performance, produce reports and provide an
interactive, real-time metrics environment.
BROADVISION INC.
585 Broadway St.
Redwood City, CA 94063
www.broadvision.com
Offerings by category
Analytical Applications/Data Mining -- BroadVision
Analytics
A solution for reporting and analyzing customer behavior, content access and
product transactions in BroadVision's personalized portal, content and commerce
products.
BUSINESS
OBJECTS
3030 Orchard Pkwy.
San Jose, CA 95008
www.businessobjects.com
Offerings by category
Business Intelligence -- BusinessObjects 2000 and
BusinessObjects Analytics
BusinessObjects 2000 is a strategic business intelligence platform and
integrated toolset, while BusinessObjects Analytics is an integrated suite of
enterprise analytic applications.
CARTESIS INC.
Metro Center
One Station Place
Stamford, CT
06902
www.cartesis.com
Offerings by category
Analytical Applications -- Cartesis Magnitude
A fully integrated Web-based solution for strategic financial management that
covers the business performance management cycle in one system.
CLEARFOREST
15 E. 26th St.
Suite 1711
New York, NY 10010
www.clearforest.com
Offerings by category
Platform -- ClearTags
Business Intelligence --
ClearResearch
ClearResearch reads large amounts of text and identifies and interrelates key
entities, facts and events. ClearTags adds intelligence to textual content.
COGNOS INC.
3755 Riverside Drive
Ottawa, Ontario K1G
4K9
Canada
www.cognos.com
Offerings by category
Platform -- Cognos Series 7
Provides integration of a firm's multiple data sources to scorecarding,
reporting and analysis.
COMPUTER ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL INC.
One Computer Associates
Plaza
Islandia, NY 11788
www.ca.com
Offerings by category
Front-end Tools (ETL) -- Advantage Data Transformer,
Advantage InfoRefiner, Advantage InfoTransport and AllFusion ERwin Data
Modeler
Business Intelligence -- CleverPath OLAP, CleverPath Forest &
Trees and CleverPath Reporter
Analytical Applications/Data Mining --
CleverPath Predictive Analysis Server
Products for data transformation, replication and integration,
multidimensional analysis, enterprise reporting, analyzing data for patterns and
relationships, and transactional and data warehouse database design, generation
and maintenance.
COREMETRICS
577 Airport Blvd.
Suite 440
Burlingame, CA
94010
www.coremetrics.com
Offerings by category
Analytical Applications -- Coremetrics
Marketforce
An online marketing analytics platform that captures all customer and visitor
clickstream activity to build Lifetime Individual Visitor Experience
profiles.
CORVU CORP.
3400 W. 66th St.
Suite 445
Edina, MN 44535
www.corvu.com
Offerings by category
Analytical Applications/Data Mining --
CorInsight
Provides an integrated approach to data mining by combining CorVu's business
intelligence framework and graphical analysis capabilities with automated data
mining techniques.
DATADIRECT TECHNOLOGIES
3202 Tower Oaks Blvd.
Suite
300
Rockville, MD 20852
www.datadirect-technologies.com
Offerings by category
Platform (data integration) -- DataDirect
Connect
A portfolio of components for connecting software to data, providing
standards-based technology to ensure consistent behavior and performance across
diverse environments.
DATAFLUX
4001 Weston Pkwy.
Suite 300
Cary, NC 27513
www.dataflux.com
Offerings by category
Front-end Tool (data quality) -- dfPower Studio
Data quality solution that improves the accuracy, consistency and usability
of an organization's data.
DATA JUNCTION CORP.
2201 Northland Drive
Austin, TX 78756
www.datajunction.com
Offerings by category
Platform -- Data Junction
An integrated suite of solutions that can automate all aspects of data
migration, transformation and integration between databases, directories and
applications across the extended enterprise.
DATA MINING TECHNOLOGIES INC.
2 Split Rock
Melville, NY 11747
www.data-mine.com
Offerings by category
Analytical Applications/Data Mining -- Nuggets and
eNuggets
Nuggets, a non-statistical data mining method, builds, validates and applies
models; eNuggets, an online data mining server, provides information to a Web
server scalably in real-time.
DATAMIRROR
3100 Steeles Ave., East
Suite 1100
Markham, Ontario
L3R 8T3
Canada
www.datamirror.com
Offerings by category
Platform (data integration) -- DataMirror
Transformation Server
Captures, transforms and flows data in real-time between multiple databases
and computing platforms for loading and replenishing data warehouses and data
marts.
DECISIONPOINT
APPLICATIONS
9590 SW Gemini Drive
Beaverton, OR
97008
www.dpapplications.com
Offerings by category
Front-end Tools -- DecisionPoint Warehouse
Administrator
Business Intelligence
-- Decision-Point
WebAnalyst
Analytical
Applications/Data Mining -- DecisionCast
Active Decision Support Software that delivers financial analytics, Web-based
reporting and a complete data warehouse solution, implemented in eight weeks or
less.
DIMENSIONAL INSIGHT INC.
111 S. Bedford St.
Burlington, MA
01803
www.dimins.com
Offerings by category
Platform -- DI-Atlantis
Business Intelligence --
DI-Diver, DI-Broadcast
Analytical Applications/Data Mining -- DI-Analyst
Tools provide ETL, data design, data integration and OLAP model builds;
access to OLAP data models for reporting and analysis, broadcast views via
e-mail and customized analytical apps.
EMBARCADERO
TECHNOLOGIES
425 Market St.
Suite 425
San Francisco,
CA 94105
www.embarcadero.com
Offerings by category
Front-end Tools (ETL, data design) -- DT/Studio
An ETL tool and a data design tool that transforms, migrates and integrates
data between applications. The extensible ETL engine provides usability,
scalability and flexibility.
ENABLESOFT INC.
930 Woodcock Road
Suite 224
Orlando, FL
32803
www.enablesoft.com
Offerings by category
Front-end Tools (ETL) -- Foxtrot
Works with a terminal emulator to process transactions on host systems.
Manual transactions can be handled automatically without errors.
E.PIPHANY INC.
1900 S. Norfolk St.
Suite 310
San Mateo, CA
94403
www.epiphany.com
Offerings by category
Front-end Tools (ETL) -- E.piphany Insight
E.piphany Insight, a module of E.piphany E.6, is a family of packaged apps
and underlying tools used for reporting and analysis across the enterprise.
EVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL INC. (ETI)
816 Congress
Ave.
Suite 1300
Austin, TX 78701
www.eti.com
Offerings by category
Platform (data integration) -- The ETI Solution
Enterprise-wide data integration software that consolidates, transforms and
exchanges information between incompatible systems by generating interfaces that
enable the flow of data.
EXPERIAN
475 Anton Blvd.
Costa Mesa, CA 92626-7036
www.experian.com
Offerings by category
Platform (data integration) -- Truvue
Business Intelligence --
Data View
Front-end Tool (data integrity) -- House File
Refresh
Products cleanse and link customer information from disparate sources;
analyze and audit data; and help businesses keep customer data files accurate,
up-to-date and deployable.
FILETEK INC.
9400 Key West Ave.
Rockville, MD 20850
www.filetek.com
Offerings by category
Platform -- StorHouse
Accesses direct row-level data across different storage media, transparently
integrates with the most popular relational databases, and supports standard
gateways and data access methods.
FIRSTLOGIC INC.
100 Harborview Plaza
La Crosse, WI 54601
www.firstlogic.com
Offerings by category
Front-end Tool (data quality) -- Information Quality
Suite (IQ Suite)
Allows users to capture accurate data, match records from multiple sources,
and refresh and update changes across the enterprise.
GROUP 1 SOFTWARE INC.
4200 Parliament Place
Suite 600
Lanham, MD
20706-1844
www.g1.com
Offerings by category
Platform -- DM1
Offers data hygiene and enhancement capabilities and provides analysis
through ad hoc query and OLAP tools, data visualization, modeling and reporting,
and campaign management.
HUMMINGBIRD LTD.
1 Sparks Ave.
Toronto, Ontario M2H
2W1
Canada
www.hummingbird.com
Offerings by category
Front-end Tool (ETL) -- Hummingbird ETL
Business Intelligence --
Hummingbird BI
Hummingbird ETL transforms, cleanses, enriches and directs information, while
Hummingbird BI -- an integrated, scalable, portal-enabled solution -- allows
desktop and Web-based users to access, report on and analyze enterprise
information.
IBM CORP.
IBM Data Management Solutions
Route 100
Somers, NY
10589
www.ibm.com/software/data
Offerings by category
Platform -- DB2 Universal Database
Front-end Tool --
DB2 Warehouse Manager
Data Mining -- DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data and
DB2 Intelligent Miner Scoring
Business Intelligence
-- DB2 OLAP Server and
DB2 Spatial Extender
The DB2 data warehousing portfolio is a suite of infrastructure products for
building warehouses and marts, managing them, and delivering reporting and
analysis to end users.
INFORMATICA CORP.
2100 Seaport Blvd.
Redwood City, CA 94063
www.informatica.com
Offerings by category
Platforms (data integration) -- PowerCenterRT,
PowerCenter 6 and PowerMart
Analytical Applications -- Customer Relationship
Analytics, Strategic Sourcing Analytics, Supply Chain Analytics, Business
Operations Analytics and Web Channel Analytics
Informatica offers data integration platforms to help enterprises build,
deploy and manage data stores and warehouses; as well as metrics-driven
enterprise applications for analytics performance management.
INFORMATION
BUILDERS
Two Penn Plaza
New York, NY 10121
www.informationbuilders.com
Offerings by category
Business Intelligence -- WebFocus
Delivers time-critical information at the point of business to the extended
enterprise - employees, partners, suppliers, customers and prospects.
INFORMATION DISCOVERY
INC .
111 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Suite
250
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
www.datamining.com
Offerings by category
Data Mining -- Data Mining Suite and Pattern
Warehouse
The suite discovers multidimensional patterns within large databases. The
Pattern Warehouse delivers Java-based access to pre-mined, refined patterns of
knowledge from a Web browser.
INNOVATIVE SYSTEMS INC.
790 Holiday Drive
Pittsburgh, PA
15220
www.innovativesystems.com
Offerings by category
Front-end Tools -- i/Lytics and Innovative
Discovery
Innovative Discovery is a data profiling and analysis solution that reduces
the time and effort of data integration projects, while i/Lytics provides an
accurate, enterprise-wide customer view.
INSIGHTFUL CORP.
1700 Westlake Ave. N.
Suite 500
Seattle, WA
98109
www.insightful.com
Offerings by category
Business Intelligence -- InFact
Analytical Applications/Data Mining --
Insightful Miner
Insightful Miner provides the ability to deploy predictive intelligence
throughout the enterprise. InFact, a search and analysis solution, includes text
mining with 'human-like intelligence.'
LEGATO SYSTEMS
INC.
2350 W. El Camino Real
Mountain View, CA
94040
www.legato.com
Offerings by category
Platforms (storage) -- DiskXtender Database Edition
and Networker
DiskXtender automates storage management policies and parameters for RDBMSs.
Networker protects critical business data by simplifying, centralizing and
automating backup and recovery operations.
MEGAPUTER INTELLIGENCE INC.
120 W. 7th St.
Bloomington, IN
47401
www.megaputer.com
Offerings by category
Analytical Applications/Data Mining -- PolyAnalyst,
TextAnalyst, X-SellAnalyst, Textractor and Megaputer Knowledge Server
Products analyze structured and unstructured data; perform summarization,
navigation and clustering; learn common buying patterns; extract key senses and
search intelligently; and integrate diverse enterprise and analytical
applications.
METAEDGE CORP.
1257 Tasman Drive
Suite C
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
www.metaedge.com
Offerings by category
Platform -- C-Insight
An analytical platform engine that combines multiple disparate sources for
query and analysis; offers visualization through Web-based reports and GIS
maps.
MICROSOFT CORP.
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
www.microsoft.com
Offerings by category
Platform -- Microsoft SQL Server 2000
A database and analysis platform for every aspect of building and maintaining
a data warehouse.
MICROSTRATEGY INC.
1861 International Drive
McLean, VA 22102
www.microstrategy.com
Offerings by category
Platform -- MicroStrategy 7i
A Web-based, zero-footprint business intelligence platform that combines the
speed and interactivity of multidimensional OLAP with the analytical power of
relational OLAP.
NETIQ CORP.
3553 N. First St.
San Jose, CA 95134
www.netiq.com
Offerings by category
Analytical Applications -- WebTrends Intelligence
Suite
Can maximize return on investment by measuring user experience, marketing
effectiveness, e-commerce performance and customer self-service effectiveness
through one customized data warehouse.
NIMBLE
TECHNOLOGY
1938 Fairview Ave. E.
Suite 100
Seattle, WA
98102-3604
www.nimble.com
Offerings by category
Platform (data integration) -- Nimble Integration
Suite
Enables companies to build Web services and applications that query multiple
disparate data sources and return a unified result.
PEOPLESOFT INC.
4460 Hacienda Drive
Pleasanton, CA 94588
www.peoplesoft.com
Offerings by category
Platform -- PeopleSoft Enterprise Warehouse
Enables real-time access to pre-defined business metrics and delivers
analytics that integrate across applications.
PROCLARITY CORP.
500 S. 10th St.
Boise, ID 83702
www.proclarity.com
Offerings by category
Platform -- ProClarity Analytics
Platform
Front-end Tools -- ProClarity Professional, ProClarity Web Standard,
ProClarity Selector, ProClarity Business Reporter for Excel
Analytical Applications
--
ProClarity Analytics Server
ProClarity offers a customizable analytics environment; a middle-tier server
that interacts with data from any database; and tools to build complex queries
and locate, analyze and interact with business information.
SAGENT
800 W. El Camino Real
Suite 300
Mountain View, CA
94040
www.sagent.com
Offerings by category
Platform -- Sagent Business Intelligence
Platform
Front-end Tool (data quality) -- Centrus
Sagent's BI platform lets firms develop custom analytic solutions to gain
insight into their customers, while Centrus performs standardization, address
correction, data consolidation and spatial analysis.
SAS
INSTITUTE
SAS Campus Drive
Cary, NC 27513
www.sas.com
Offerings by category
Platform -- SAS Data Warehousing Solution
Includes products for data extraction, data transformation, data transport,
data integrity and design, a scalable performance data server, business
intelligence, analytical applications and data mining.
SIEBEL SYSTEMS
2207 Bridgepointe Pkwy.
San Mateo, CA 94404
www.siebel.com
Offerings by category
Front-end Tools (ETL) -- Siebel Sales, Siebel PRM,
Siebel Call Center and Siebel ERM
Analytical
Applications -- Siebel
Analytics
Siebel offers front-end tools for sales, partners, call-center operations and
corporate values. Siebel Analytics delivers best-practice analyses across the
e-business value chain.
SPSS INC.
233 S. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
www.spss.com
Offerings by category
Platform -- ShowCase Strategy
An integrated business intelligence software suite for the IBM eServer
iSeries that supports information access, data warehousing, data management,
OLAP and other analytical applications.
SQL POWER GROUP INC.
4950 Yonge St.
Suite 2200
Toronto, Ontario
M2N 6K1
Canada
www.sqlpower.ca
Offerings by category
Front-end Tool (ETL) -- Power*Loader
Suite
Business Intelligence -- Power*Dashboard
Power*Loader Suite automates and expedites every aspect of ETL.
Power*Dashboard is a Web-based data visualization tool that simplifies KPI
tracking and management reporting.
SYBASE
5000 Hacienda Drive
Dublin, CA 94568
www.sybase.com
Offerings by category
Business Intelligence -- Sybase Adaptive Server IQ
Multiplex
Analytical Applications/Data Mining -- Industry Warehouse
Studio
Adaptive Server is a highly scalable analytical database, while the Industry
Warehouse Studio is an infrastructure for ''jump-starting'' the development of
enterprise analytic applications.
SYNCSORT INC.
50 Tice Blvd.
Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677
www.syncsort.com
Offerings by category
Front-end Tool (ETL) -- SyncSort
A sort/ETL/data manipulation product that improves the performance of
data-intensive applications, including data warehousing, data mining, CRM, BI
and Oracle.
TARGIT (US) INC.
International Tower
229 Peachtree St.,
N.E.
Suite 1010
Atlanta, GA 30303
www.targit.com
Offerings by category
Business Intelligence -- Targit Analysis 2K2
Suite
Enables employees throughout an organization, regardless of skill level or
background, to have access to state-of-the-art analysis and reporting tools.
TERADATA, A DIVISION OF
NCR
1700 S. Patterson Blvd.
Dayton, OH
45479
www.teradata.com
Offerings by category
Platform -- Teradata Database
Analytical Applications/Data Mining --
Teradata Warehouse Miner, Teradata CRM and Teradata
E-Business Analytics
Teradata Database and Warehouse Miner analyze large amounts of data. CRM
focuses on analysis, modeling, communication, personalization, optimization and
interaction. E-Business Analytics creates personalized online experiences.
TRILLIUM SOFTWARE, A
DIVISION OF HARTE-HANKS
25 Linnell
Circle
Billerica, MA 01821
www.trilliumsoftware.com
Offerings by category
Front-end Tool (data quality) -- The Trillium
Software System
A solution for global data quality management.
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