Business Intelligence and Finance

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Greenplum Database is a software solution built to support the next generation of data warehousing and large-scale analytics processing. Supporting SQL and MapReduce parallel processing, Greenplum Database offers industry-leading performance at a low cost for companies managing terabytes to petabytes of data.

 

Greenplum Database's fundamental breakthrough is its ability to store and analyze terabytes to petabytes of data using clusters of commodity servers. Greenplum Database moves processing power as close as possible to the data, so processing always occurs in parallel, delivering unmatched query and load performance. Greenplum Database makes it easy to incrementally add storage capacity and processing power when needed, avoiding costly appliance upgrades.

 

Greenplum Database is simply the industry's fastest and most affordable high-end data warehousing solution. With Greenplum Database, users will have the power to answer complex questions, running analyses that used to take days with traditional solutions, in literally just seconds.

 

http://www.greenplum.com/products/greenplum-database/

 

 

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The Jaspersoft Business Intelligence (BI) Suite provides integrated reporting and analysis and data integration so organizations can make faster, better decisions. Make faster, better business decisions: Jaspersoft BI Suite

 

• Interactive Web 2.0 power and ease of use
• Secure and enterprise-ready
• Leverages existing IT infrastructure servers and services
• Cost-effective for workgroups and small businesses
• Deploys quickly for fast ROI
• Seamlessly embeddable in business and ISV applications

 

http://www.jaspersoft.com/JasperSoft_BI_Suite.html

 

 

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MicroStrategy 8 is the first and only business intelligence architecture to unify Reporting, Analysis, and real-time business Monitoring into one seamless experience for the business user, into one efficient and scalable architecture for the IT professional, and into one economical and extensible utility for the CIO.

 

MicroStrategy 8 builds upon the unified architectural foundation established by MicroStrategy 7. It inherits the industrial-strength attributes that have become the hallmark of MicroStrategy technology—including the highest user scalability, highest data scalability, supporting all 5 Styles of Business Intelligence as plug-n-play components, and an enterprise-caliber of non-stop operations and powerful administration.

 

With MicroStrategy 8, businesses can now extend the richness of MicroStrategy business intelligence to more diverse business people and to use it to manage more facets of business performance.

 

http://www.microstrategy.com/Software/index.asp

 

 

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Oracle Crystal Ball is the leading spreadsheet-based application suite for predictive modeling, forecasting, simulation, and optimization. It gives you unparalleled insight into the critical factors affecting risk. With Crystal Ball, you can make the right tactical decisions to reach your objectives and gain a competitive edge under even the most uncertain market conditions.

 

Oracle Crystal Ball solutions begin with Oracle Crystal Ball, the base package for predictive modeling, Monte Carlo simulation and forecasting. Oracle Crystal Ball Enterprise Performance Management builds on that set of tools by adding the power of Oracle Crystal Ball to your Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) applications.

 

http://www.oracle.com/crystalball/index.html

 

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The Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition extends Pentaho’s best-in-class open source business intelligence (BI) capabilities with additional software and services designed to help you and your organization:

• Achieve BI success     What makes the difference between success and failure in business intelligence or data warehousing projects? There is ample evidence from IT professionals, consultants, and industry analysts that success or failure with business intelligence is often driven far more by “people and process” issues rather than technology. Poor planning, lack of commitment, inadequate resources or skill sets, and inability to deliver initial results quickly can doom a BI project regardless of the selected software products and technology. While open source software is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and has provided new levels of flexibility and freedom for customers, open source software alone does not address the traditional pitfalls of BI projects. Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition provides the product capabilities and services to help you deliver a successful BI project for your organization quickly and cost-effectively, including consultative support and product expertise, software maintenance, management and monitoring tools, and more.
• Save time, resources, and money     Even large organizations have fewer IT resources than they would like, and they strive to get the most out of their investments in time, people, and technology. There are numerous public examples of Pentaho customers who have realized the reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) advantages of commercial open source BI from Pentaho, recognizing that investing in a relationship with Pentaho saves time, resources, and money not just in the long-term, but in the short term as they initiate BI projects. “Going it alone” with free BI software not only increases your risk of failure, it turns out to be more expensive. Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition delivers critical benefits like stabilized software, enhanced deployment capabilities, direct access to product expertise, and committed response times to help you save time, resources, and money.
• Mitigate risk     Business intelligence risk comes in many shapes and forms. Risk of project failure, risk of late delivery, risk of going over budget, and legal risk as well. Beyond providing the software enhancements and services to reduce project risk, Pentaho provides a lower-cost model for enterprise-class business intelligence software that reduces budget risk by eliminating large, upfront software license fees. Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition also includes legal protection to minimize your company’s risk and exposure to potential legal issues related to intellectual property in open source software.

 

http://www.pentaho.com/products/enterprise/

 

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SAP Business Suite applications are modular enterprise software that supports end-to-end industry processes. This means your company can effectively coordinate business and IT strategies at the same time. Comprehensive business process support, with industry level specificity, helps your company execute strategies that save operational costs or stimulate productivity, without the complexity of managing multiple technology platforms.

 

Business and IT decision makers can use SAP Business Suite applications to improve visibility into mission-critical business processes – and incrementally expand and innovate without disruption through proven, built-in best practices for access to information anytime, anywhere.

 

You can add innovations incrementally to SAP software with enhancement packages – so you can scale your operations quickly and respond to changing business conditions without disruption. SAP Business Suite provides better overall transparency across organizations, helps improve operational effectiveness, and increases the flexibility to adapt to today's business challenges.

Built on an open, service-oriented architecture (SOA) – and powered by the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, SAP Business Suite offers companies the opportunity to transform business processes efficiently and integrate business processes that enable your company to compete more effectively in your industry.

 

SAP Enterprise Support helps reduce the total cost of ownership of SAP Business Suite with integrated life-cycle management capabilities. The holistic support offering accelerates innovation and decreases implementation cycles by providing experts, tools, and best practices that improve testing, minimize customization, and reduce operational risk and cost.

 

http://www.sap.com/solutions/business-suite/index.epx

 

 

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SAS® Enterprise BI Server is a comprehensive, easy-to-use business intelligence software solution that integrates the power of SAS analytics and data integration to share insights that power better business decisions. It includes role-based, self-service interfaces for all types of users within a well-defined IT governance framework and a centralized point of administration. This helps organizations simplify and speed business intelligence deployment.

• SAS offers a fast, simple and complete BI solution that adds an easy-to-use presentation layer to the world’s best analytics, enabling fact-based decisions across the enterprise. Other vendors provide business intelligence in the form of historical reports that provide only limited insight.
• SAS BI gives users at all different skill levels immediate access to cleansed and reliable data through targeted user interfaces that make use of centralized metadata.
• All SAS software is built on a comprehensive, unified platform designed to work together so you can eliminate the need for constant, ongoing integration of technologies.

 

http://www.sas.com/technologies/bi/entbiserver/index.html

 

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Sybase IQ is a highly optimized analytics server designed specifically to deliver faster results for mission-critical business intelligence, data warehouse and reporting solutions on any standard hardware and operating systems. It works with diverse data – including unstructured data – and diverse data sources to deliver unsurpassed query performance at the lowest price/performance available.

 

Sybase IQ combines extraordinary speed and agility with low total cost of ownership, enabling enterprises to perform analysis and reporting that was previously impossible, impractical or cost-prohibitive. This is possible through Sybase IQ's unique indexing and column-based processing approach to analytical and reporting processes.

 

http://www.sybase.com/products/datawarehousing/sybaseiq

 

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MoSes provides a single common platform for a wide variety of financial modeling solutions in life insurance, property/casualty insurance and financial services. We offer a comprehensive suite of MoSes applications that many of the world's leading insurers and financial services companies rely on for enhanced risk and capital management.
MoSes offers several distinctive features and benefits over other financial modeling packages, including transparency, audit capability and adaptability. Combine this with our comprehensive library of applications, and it's easy to see why so many companies use MoSes for their financial models.

 

http://www.towersperrin.com/tp/service-offering.jsp?service=15529&country=global

 

   

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The Vertica® Analytic Database gives more people the freedom to analyze more data in more ways, faster, so they can out-think and out-innovate the competition. Vertica is the only analytic database built from scratch to handle today's business intelligence (BI) workloads.

 

• Performs 30x-200x faster than other solutions - Read the Benchmarks
• Has a unique shared-nothing, column architecture
• Scales smoothly from 100s of GBs to 100s of terabytes of data
• Compresses data by 90% to reduce storage costs
• Runs on "green" grids of off-the-shelf servers
• Available as software only, as an appliance or on-line in the cloud
• Automates database design, recovery and replication to reduce admin costs
• Works with OLTP databases, ETL and reporting tools

 

http://www.vertica.com/relational-database-management-system

  

 

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WebFOCUS is a comprehensive and fully integrated enterprise business intelligence platform whose architecture, integration, and simplicity permeate every level of the global organization – executive, analytical, and operational – and make any data available, accessible, and meaningful to every person or application who needs it, when and how they need it.

 

The WebFOCUS operational business intelligence platform is all about architectural superiority. It boasts:

• Self-optimizing autonomic servers whose workload and traffic management and capacity planning eliminate complexity, improve system performance, and dramatically reduce TCO
• Super-linear scalability through multiple technological advantages
• A unifying integration infrastructure that accesses, reconciles, cleanses, and prepares any and all data for business intelligence use
• Service-oriented architecture support with the ability to create, consume, and publish Web services
• Simplified developer and end-user interaction, with advanced visualization and deep integration with desktop products such as Microsoft Excel and Adobe PDF.

 

http://www.informationbuilders.com/products/webfocus/index.html

 

 

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Derivatives Expert IV is a complete, fully integrated suite of functions for doing complex financial analysis and engineering for exchange and over-the-counter (OTC) traded securities and derivatives. Derivatives Expert fills a unique niche in the market for high-end financial analysis tools by providing financial engineers with an easy-to-use desktop environment for exploring, prototyping, and testing financial models without the programming overhead of larger, less-integrated systems. This environment makes Derivatives Expert an indispensable desktop tool for all serious financial analysts, brokers, traders, investment bankers, portfolio managers, treasurers, and financial consultants. In addition, Derivatives Expert integrates directly with large, high-performance network systems such as IBM WebSphere, and Oracle.

 

Derivatives Expert and Mathematica combine to provide a full range of financial analysis tools, enabling users to become productive quickly and optimally. The latest version of Derivatives Expert provides over 500 symbols, functions, arguments, and optionals. This time-saving program now also includes many functions for pricing exotic derivatives, doing Monte Carlo simulations, accessing SQL databases such as Oracle, and outputting XML. Specialized packages are also included for bonds, mortgage-backed obligations, floaters, forwards, swaps, and options. To ensure that users are supported from the very beginning, Derivatives Expert includes extensive online documentation, which provides background material, exact function descriptions and definitions, a user's guide, a reference manual, and detailed programming examples.

 

http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/derivatives/

 

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