SAP Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports is part of SAP's Business Objects portfolio of business intelligence software solutions. It allows users to graphically design interactive reports and connect them to virtually any data source, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Oracle databases, Business Objects Enterprise business views and local file system information. Reports can then be delivered via Web, e-mail, Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF or embedded in enterprise applications. Crystal Reports provides integration with Xcelsius, Adobe Flex and Adobe Flash. It includes built-in barcode support, multilingual reporting and an integrated Salesforce.com driver. Microsoft helped make Crystal Reports the de facto standard report writer when it bundled it with Microsoft Visual Studio.

SAS Enterprise BI Server

SAS' flagship business intelligence software solution, SAS Enterprise BI Server, combines SAS Analytics with data integration, and provides role-based, self-service interfaces for all types of users within an IT governance framework and a centralized point of administration. Components include: portals and dashboards, Web-based report viewing, Web-based report building and editing, Web-based advanced data exploration with the ability to push results back to report building and viewing environments. It also offers integration with Microsoft Office, guided analysis and access to SAS Analytics, query and analysis as a pervasive part of all interfaces and centralized metadata, and a single point of management. SAS has committed itself to continuing to push the envelope. Of its $2.26 billion 2009 revenue, SAS reinvested a robust 23 percent into R&D.

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus

Oracle's Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus is a suite of business intelligence software solutions that leverage Oracle BI Server as a common platform, providing a level of integration among the tools. The integration provides a common service-oriented architecture, data access services, analytic and calculation infrastructure, metadata management services, semantic business model, security model and user preferences and administration tools. The suite includes Oracle’s BI Server, BI Answers, BI Interactive Dashboards, BI Delivers, BI Disconnected Analytics, BI Publisher, and Oracle BI Briefing Books. Additionally, it offers Hyperion Interactive Reporting, Hyperion SQR Production Reporting, Hyperion Financial Reporting and Hyperion Web Analysis. Oracle's offering has the advantage of integrating with Oracle’s many other enterprise middleware, database and business application solutions.

IBM Cognos 8 BI

IBM's Cognos 8 BI offering is an inclusive suite featuring a range of BI capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboarding and scorecards on a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA). The suite includes Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio, Metric Studio, Metric Designer, Event Studio, Framework Manager and PowerPlay Studio. IBM has declared business analytics as one of the most critical parts of its overall strategy. It has spent heavily on business intelligence and business analytics R&D, investing more than $12 billion in the last five years. That includes the $1.2 billion acquisition of SPSS in 2009, which added a predictive analytics element to its portfolio. (See a video interview of IBM’s Jeff Jonas on BI concepts.)

Microsoft PowerPivot

Two applications, Microsoft's PowerPivot for Excel and PowerPivot for SharePoint, both leverage Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 in an offering that uses the ubiquity of Microsoft's applications to provide BI tools to the knowledge worker masses rather than BI experts. PowerPivot for Excel uses the Excel features users are already familiar with to provide interactive data analysis tools. PowerPivot for SharePoint provides the ability to share and collaborate on user-generated data analysis in Excel and in the browser. By leveraging technology already found in many companies and comfortable to most workers, Microsoft hopes to capture a much larger slice of the BI pie.

MicroStrategy Reporting Suite

MicroStrategy Reporting Suite is a free, commercial reporting tool composed of server software for core analytical processing and job management, an end-user Web interface, Web-based reporting software, desktop reporting software and a data architecting product. It outputs reports in HTML, PDF, Microsoft Excel and text. It can present data in tabular grid reports, graphs and charts, and combination grid-and-graph displays. It is available for Windows, Unix, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and any data source (including SAP BW and Microsoft Analysis Services). MicroStrategy Software is often layered over massive data warehouses, and it boasts the ability to support large-scale, demanding BI environments.

Salesforce CRM

Salesforce.com is the world's first billion-dollar cloud computing company. Its Salesforce CRM is a hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering that consists of several modules: Sales, Service & Support, Partner Relationship Management, Marketing, Content, Ideas, Analytics and the Chatter collaboration platform. While Salesforce CRM offers a number of analytics tools, many business intelligence software vendors offer products that integrate with the platform, allowing it to serve as a primary data-gathering tool for a variety of BI applications.

TIBCO Spotfire Analytics

TIBCO Spotfire Analytics combines business process management (BPM), complex event processing (CEP), predictive analytics (PA) and visual data mining (DM) software. It handles everything from real-time data capture and streaming to data analysis, forecasting and interactive reporting on a single platform.

Information Builders WebFOCUS

Information Builders' flagship WebFOCUS BI platform uses a purely Web-based architecture with no plug-ins. The company describes its approach as focused on BI applications and embedded BI rather than tools, noting that BI applications "are much simpler to use than tools." WebFOCUS has been implemented at more than 12,000 customer sites and is used to build Web-based BI applications.

Tableau Business Intelligence Software

A pure-play BI software vendor, Tableau refers to its offering as "rapid fire BI." It boasts drag-and-drop features that allow users without IT expertise to visualize information from any structured format. It claims to be the "only provider of data visualization and business intelligence software that can be installed and used by anyone while also adhering to IT standards.” Its offering is comprised of Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server. Tableau Desktop is a tool for graphically analyzing virtually any structured data to produce charts, graphs, dashboards and reports. Tableau Server adds enterprise-class security and performance to support large deployments.

COMPANIES WITH DATA MINING AND ANALYTICS PRODUCTS

• AlphaBlox, extending data-driven decision making to line-of-business managers throughout the enterprise.
• Alyuda Research, providing neural networks based software for forecasting.
• ALTA Analytics, developers of NETMAP, an advanced visualisation tool for knowledge discovery.
• Amdocs, providing Business Insight Suite with predictive modeling and interactive data visualization. Winners of KDD Cup 1999 and 2000.
• ANGOSS Software, developers of KnowledgeSeeker, KnowledgeStudio suite, and KnowledgeWebMiner products.
• ASA: Advanced Software Applications, developing applications for data mining and decision support in database marketing, fraud detection and risk management.
• Attar Software, developers of the XpertRule suite for Data Mining and more.
• Advanced Visual Systems, develops data visualization software to help integrate, analyze and understand different types of data.
• Azmy Thinkware Inc, offering SuperQuery, a Windows based data analysis and mining tool (free trial version available)
• Bayes Forecast develops dynamic data models for markets and business operations by performing Data analysis and research.
• Bayesia, provides a complete data mining and decision support tool based on Bayesian networks, including data preparation, missing values imputation, data and variables clustering, unsupervised and supervised learning.
• Blia Solutions, using AI techniques for data mining and knowledge discovery; BLIASoft Knowledge Discovery software enables the transformation of raw data into useful and formalized knowledge.
• Business Objects, provides a complete suite of decision support tools including query, reporting, OLAP, and data mining.
• Centre of Excellence CIBIT, Netherlands based company, providing consulting and training in Knowledge Discovery and related technologies
• Citrus Technology Replay Professional, with highly visual interface for quickly building a decision tree on any dataset, from any database. Explore, analyse, define and reuse decision trees within minutes.
• ClearForest, offering text analysis, mining and visualization tools.
• Cognos, developers of OLAP tools and Scenario data mining software.
• Compumine, developers of Rule Discovery System, with complete coverage of rule-based predictive modeling methods for both classification and regression.
• Connotate Technologies(TM), delivers technology for extracting user-defined content from legacy data and converting it to XML
• Data Description which develops, sells, and supports innovative statistics and training software, featuring Data Desk
• Data Mining Technologies software automatically finds business rules using AI-based proprietary method.
• DAZ Systems Incorporated, provider of Agent-Oriented Database Technology for Data-Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
• DBMiner Technology, providing DBMiner 2.0 Enterprise.
• Diagnos, offering MCubiX, user-friendly, powerful knowledge extraction platform (download free demo).
• Dimensional Insight, provides complete business intelligence, reporting, and data analysis solutions featuring DI-Discovery.
• DM STAT-1 Consulting, a leading firm in analysis and modelling, seminars and software in the Direct Marketing Industry.
• Elseware, a french company providing Classpad and Previa tools and vertical solutions for financial industries
• Exclusive Ore, developers of XAffinity, a database enabled associations and sequencing tool available as an end user tool and as ActiveX DLL for embedding in your application programs. Trial version available.
• FICO, (formerly Fair, Isaac) a leader in Decision Management and predictive analytics, helping businesses automate, improve and connect decisions across organizational silos and customer lifecycles.
• Fuzzy Logix, product and services company that provides in-database analytic solutions, with existing libraries and applications.
• Genalytics, providing genetic-programming based engine for generating predictive models
• Generation 5, provides automatic data mining and predictive analytics software with built-in grid computing capability.
• gepsoft, developers of regression and classification software, based on Gene Expression Programming.
• Group 1, offering MODEL 1 and other data mining software.
• High Tower Software, a data monitoring and data visualization company.
• IBM, offering Intelligent Miner for Data and Intelligent Miner for Text.
• INDECS, a Germany-based company offering MPP data mining and internet software and services.
• InferX provides privacy preserving real-time analytics via encrypted networks for remote data and text analysis, clustering and visualization.
• Infobionics Knowledge Server offers a platform for developing flexible mining applications for use in business intelligence, predictive analysis, and bioinformatics with less IT involvement.
• inforSense, a spinoff from Imperial College, London, UK. Provides Kensington knowledge discovery and management solutions
• Insightful Corporation, developer of Insightful Miner, S-PLUS, StatServer and S-PLUS Analytic Server.
• Intellexer, developing semantic technology (including document summarization and document comparison software) for custom built search engines based on natural language processing.
• Intellix, makers of expert systems and data mining based on self-optimising universal learner.
• Island Data, develops software solutions that perform real-time analysis of open-ended, unstructured customer feedback.
• Isoft, providing Data Mining solutions including AC2 and Alice d'ISoft
• J&A, offering sales and support of patented DaMi2TM AI Analysis Engine.  Unattended clustering, classification, and optimization of hundreds of variables simultaneously in a single analysis operation.
• Jurik Research, providing NN and GA tools for financial forecasting.
• KNIME.com, providing support for the open source KNIME data mining software and Enterprise Products (Server, Report Designer, Cluster Support).
• KXEN (Knowledge eXtraction ENgines) providing Vapnik SVM (Support Vector Machines) tools to application providers and system integrators.
• Logic Programming Associates, UK company, developers of Datamite.
• Magnify, Inc., provides predictive modeling solutions for companies in the financial services, insurance, and e-commerce industries.
• Mantas, SRA Ventures spinoff provides fraud detection and other business intelligence solutions to financial services industry.
• Megaputer Intelligence develops multi-strategy complete solutions for data mining and text mining.
• Miner3D Inc., developer of Miner3D visual business intelligence and data analysis software.
• MIT GmbH, a German company offering DataEngine system for data analysis.
• Neusciences, providing ActiveX Controls for Kohonen Clustering, building a decision tree, and more.
• Nestor, uses its neural network technology in eCLIPSE(TM) for online customer loyalty and PRISM� eFraud(TM) for online fraud detection.
• Neuralware, developer of NeuralWorks Predict and NeuralWorks Professional II/Plus.
• Neural Technologies, providing a range of products/services associated with data mining.
• NeuroDimension, Inc., makers of NeuroSolutions, a highly graphical neural network simulator for Windows.
• NeuroTech A/S, Denmark-based company, providing consulting and products based on neural network and other advanced statistical methods.
• Oracle Data Mining (ODM), provides GUI, PL/SQL-interface, and Java-interface to Attribute Importance, Bayes Classification, Association Rules, Clustering, SVM, and more.
• Palisade Corporation, maker of the world's leading risk and decision analysis software, @RISK and the DecisionTools Suite
• Pattern Discovery Software, developers of the Discover*e Suite of Exploratory Data Mining tools.
• Partek Incorporated, makers of Partek data anlysis and modeling software provide a comprehensive suite of modern tools for data mining.
• Portrait Software, provides the world's most advanced customer analytics, powerful inbound and outbound campaign management, and best-in-class business process integration to drive real time customer interactions.
• Predictive Dynamix, provides the Predictive Data Mining Suite and OEM-able predictive engines.
• Prudential Systems Software GmbH, developer of non-linear, discrete, and distributed data mining solutions.
• REDUCT & Lobbe Technologies Inc., developers of Datalogic data mining tool
• Retention, Inc., a market research consulting company that combines in-depth research experience with a proprietary knowledge discovery technology platform.
• REvolution Computing offers open source products and services for high performance analytics, including REvolution R Enterprise.
• Rulequest, developers of C5.0 decision tree/rules and Cubist for numeric estimation.
• Sagent, provides Sagent Solution Platform and analytic applications.
• Salford Systems, a data mining consulting and software development firm, specializing in decision tree, non-parametric regression, and logistic regression methods.
• SAS Institute, data mining software and services.
• SciencePlus provides marketing and distribution of scientific software.
• Sentient, (Netherlands-based), applying the DataDetective suite since 1991 in marketing, crime analysis, risk analysis, medical expert systems, and matching.
• Siebel Business Analytics provide real-time and enterprise-wide insight for all users, with solutions for more than 20 industries powered by the Siebel Business Analytics Platform.
• Spatialytics, focus on GeoBI, adding Spatial / Geospatial capabilities in the Open Source ETL Kettle and the OLAP Server Mondrian.
• Spotfire, Inc. provides interactive, visual data analytics applications and services.
• SPSS, offering Clementine and other leading statistical and data mining tools
• SRA International, Inc. offers a complete line of fully scaleable data mining tools and professional services
• StatConsulting, developer of AdvancedMiner (formerly Gornik) - a platform for data analysis and modeling with integrated Data Mining, visualization and data processing.
• StatSoft, the developer of the STATISTICA line of products for data mining, analysis, and visualization.
• Temis, develop and market innovative Text Mining Solutions.
• Teradata, offering TeraMiner™ data mining software, designed for Teradata™ data warehouses.
• Text Analysis International, offers tools and services for natural language processing and information extraction, building on the VisualText(TM) IDE and NLP++(R) programming language.
• thinkAnalytics, massively scaleable, embeddable, Java-based real-time data-mining platform.
• Unica Corporation, a leading provider of analytical CRM and marketing automation solutions
• Urban Science, developers of GainSmarts direct marketing system.
• Viscovery, developers of a comprehensive data mining suite, including modules for visual data mining, clustering, scoring, automation and real-time integration.
• Visual Analytics, Inc, developers of VisuaLinks (VL) and Digital Information Gateway (DIG) used for pattern discovery and information sharing.
• Visual Numerics, web-based, 3 and 4D visual and analytical solutions for business intelligence.
• Visual i|o develops interactive visual analysis solutions that provide comprehensive views into the state of business operations to maximize organizational decision-making.
• WhiteCross, a UK-based consultancy, specializing in data warehousing and high-speed data mining.
• WizSoft, developer of WizRule and WizWhy data mining software.
• XLSolutions Corporation, developers of R-PLUS Professional and R-PLUS Enterprise Miner, offers statistical analysis, model building, and open source products and services for customized analytics.
• Xtract, specializing in customer behavior analytics. Offers products and services that monitor and predict customer behavior.
• Zementis, Inc., develops the ADAPA decision engine which is a framework to deploy, integrate, and execute predictive models in PMML.