BI Front-End Presentation tool assessment

1 Participating Tools

The participating tools include: MSTR, BO, Cognos, Brio, SAS, CA 2 selection Instructions

For this choice of six products, in addition to the CA BI products, the other five categories are very well-known in the BI industry company's products, from the Internet search engines of various types of searching results can be seen.

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² MSTR: full name MicroStrategy for the ongoing development of the Telecommunications Business Analysis System, hereinafter referred to as MSTR. The assessment data is derived from the development experience and communication with the system support provider;

² BO: for the exchange of presentations, the focus on the products in China has a good market. The assessment data is derived from communication with system providers and the Internet;

² Cognos: applied to the implementation of the Telecommunications Business Analysis system, the assessment data from my system development, implementation experience;

² Brio: applied to a telecommunication business analysis system, the evaluation originates from my research on the related implementation system (telecommunication field), the communication with the maintenance personnel and the Internet;

² SAS: belongs to the global first-class SAS company's products in statistical analysis and data mining. Assessment data from the Internet;

² CA: applied to a telecommunication operation analysis system. The assessment data comes from the research of the system and the Internet.

3 Bi Company Introduction

March 2003, Cognos Mergers and acquisitions software company adaytum,7 month 17th business Objects mergers and acquisitions crystal, July 24, Hyperion mergers and acquisitions brio, the world's bi market is set to lift the wind. 4 Product Introduction

Participate in the evaluation of the product introduction 1.1. MicroStrategy Company Products

1, Company profile

MicroStrategy was founded in 1989 by Michael J. Saylor, initially primarily as a consulting firm in the area of decision support, and in the course of its development, the first package was launched in 1993: Microstrategyagent, Subsequently launched a series of products: MicroStrategy Web, MicroStrategy broadcaster, MicroStrategy Telecaster, and so on, is the latest product package called MicroStrategy 7, is committed to providing personalized E-commerce intelligent solutions.

2. Product INTRODUCTION

microstrategy Intelligence Server--The core product in the whole product, the intermediate application server under the Multi-layer architecture provides the intermediate application layer capability for various front-end applications.

The application server under the microstrategy Web--web system provides query, spreadsheet and multidimensional analysis capability based on the web system.

microstrategy Agent-Data mining, application development tools, to provide API interface.

microstrategy InfoCenter-Enterprise reports, portal tools.

MicroStrategy Architect--The business Object Abstraction Layer design tool.

microstrategy Desktop--microstrategy Agent, MicroStrategy architect and MicroStrategy administration Integrated application Environment of utility

1.2. Bo Product introduction

Desktop products include:

businessobjects Explorer Reporter View, refresh, schedule, distribute, and print customer-wide documents, create new queries and documents, rotate and slice OLAP, and drill-through capabilities.

Designer allows universe designers to create, manage, and distribute universes. Universe uses everyday commercial business terms to represent data structures, belonging to the semantic level

Supervisor allows administrators to manage permissions

businessquery Excel add-in, using BusinessObjects Universe, support for relational and multidimensional databases (OLAP)

Businessminer discovers and processes implicit relationships in data

Enterprise-Class Server products include:

InfoView

webintelligence (Reporter and explorer) is a businessobjects web-based decision support System.

broadcast Agent to develop a timing mechanism for automatic publishing of documents. Introduction to the products of 1.3. Cognos

The products of Cognos are composed of a series of functional modules, including the following modules:

Powerplay Enterpriseserver-is powerplay enterprise-class servers. Consists of an application server and a Web server. Cubes can be published on the Internet, Wan and LAN and run as an online analysis platform.

Impromptu Web report--web interface for the production and release of the professional platform.

Scenario -The ETL tool provided by the system.

4Thought-Modeling and prediction module, using neural network technology.

Impromptu-is an enterprise-level, interactive database query and report generation tool,