In-Depth

A sampling of recent BI products

• By Lana Gates
• October 30, 2003

Ascential Software Corp.
Westborough, Mass.
www.ascential.com

Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite 7.0 -- Enterprise data integration platform that includes data profiling, data quality, data transformation and data routing solutions for analytical, operational and transactional applications.

Business Objects
San Jose, Calif.
www.businessobjects.com

BusinessObjects Enterprise 6.1 -- Provides organizations with one integrated, functionally complete BI environment for all users. Includes enhanced performance and analysis features.

CXO Systems
Waltham, Mass.
www.cxosystems.com

CXO System 3.0 -- Entirely Web services-based executive dashboard for a one-touch, real-time view of enterprise information without data warehousing.

Data Junction Corp.
Austin, Texas
www.datajunction.com

djCosmos 8.0 -- Multipurpose and configurable data integration design and execution environment that enables the extraction, cleansing and standardization of data from all sources throughout an organization.

DataMirror
Markham, Ontario
www.datamirror.com

Transformation Server 5.1-- Adds enhanced synchronization between systems and high-performance monitoring to its abilities to capture, transform and flow data in real time between multiple databases and computing platforms.

Dimensional Insight Inc.
Burlington, Mass.
www.dimins.com

Diver 5.1-- Internet/intranet/browser-enabled BI interface that provides users with access to the OLAP data models for reporting and analysis.

Information Builders
New York, N.Y.
www.informationbuilders.com

WebFocus ETL Manager 5.0 -- Comprehensive, fully integrated BI and data management platform that includes Information Builders’ ETL Manager, Metadata Manager, Resource Analyzer and Governor.

Insightful Corp.
Seattle, Wash.
www.insightful.com

Insightful Miner 3 -- Highly scalable and extensible data analysis workbench for addressing a range of predictive modeling problems found within finance, biopharmaceutical and government organizations. Supports Windows and Solaris servers.

Megaputer Intelligence Inc.
Bloomington, Ind.
www.megaputer.com

PolyAnalyst 4.6, TextAnalyst 2.3 -- PolyAnalyst is a comprehensive data mining suite that includes built-in text-mining functionality. TextAnalyst is a text-mining system that carries out semantic analysis and outputs a hierarchical network of important terms and concepts in documents.

Proclarity Corp.
Boise, Idaho
www.proclarity.com

ProClarity Analytics Platform -- Customizable analytics environment that includes a dashboard server, a Key Performance Indicator builder, a business logic server and a new thin client with zero footprint.

SAS
Cary, N.C.
www.sas.com

SAS ETL Studio (SAS 9.1) -- Part of SAS’ end-to-end enterprise data integration and management platform for designing, managing and maintaining data warehouses or marts. Includes the ability to import/export meta data and consolidate disparate silos of data sources.

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