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THE BI Survey 16The world´s largest survey of BI software users

This document is a specially produced summary by BARC of the headline results for

Information Builders

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THE BI Survey 16 Information Builders highlights

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Information Builders again achie-ves outstanding results in the BI Survey 16 and ranks as the top performer in a number of KPIs in the large international BI vendors and large enterprise BI platforms peer groups.

Customers especially value Web-FOCUS’ flexibility, self-service and ease of use, and are also very satisfied with the solution’s overall performance and ability to process large data volumes. The results show that a “big vendor” can maintain a good level of customer support, and even beat specialists like Tableau and Qlik in the ‘Vendor support’ KPI.

Information Builders’ strong results in the ‘Business bene-fits’ and ‘Business value’ KPIs - among the most important measures in The BI Survey - de-monstrate that its customers get good value from the product and it gives them a good chance of achieving their business goals.

Summary

Top-ranked in

Leader in

Business benefitsProject success

Price-to-value perceptionBusiness value

Big data analyticsCollaboration

Visual design standardsOperational BI

InnovationVendor support

Implementer supportCustomer satisfactionQuery performance

PerformanceRecommendation

Self-serviceFlexibility for users

AgilityCustomer experience

Mobile BILocation intelligenceProduct satisfaction

Performance satisfactionProject lengthEase of use

1. Top-ranked in

Business benefitsOperational BI

Vendor support

Flexibility for users

. . . . . . . . . . .

Leader in

Project successBusiness valueData volume

Big data analyticsVisual design standards

InnovationImplementer supportCustomer satisfactionQuery performance

PerformanceSelf-service

AgilityCustomer experience

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.

Peer group

Large enterprise BI platforms

Peer group

Large internationalBI vendors

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THE BI Survey 16 Information Builders top ranks

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Business benefitsPeer group

Large internationalBI vendors

Top rankedin

Business benefitsPeer group

Large enterprise BI platforms

Top rankedin

Customer satisfaction

Top rankedin

Peer groupLarge enterprise BI platforms

Flexibility forthe user

Top rankedin

Peer groupLarge international

BI vendors

Big data analyticsPeer group

Large enterprise BI platforms

Top rankedin

Flexibility forthe user

Top rankedin

Peer groupLarge enterprise BI platforms

Operational BIPeer group

Large internationalBI vendors

Top rankedin

Business valuePeer group

Large enterprise BI platforms

Top rankedin

Implementer support

Top rankedin

Peer groupLarge enterprise BI platforms

Vendor supportPeer group

Large internationalBI vendors

Top rankedin

CollaborationPeer group

Large enterprise BI platforms

Top rankedin

InnovationPeer group

Large enterprise BI platforms

Top rankedin

AgilityPeer group

Large enterprise BI platforms

Top rankedin

Customer experience

Top rankedin

Peer groupLarge enterprise BI platforms

Operational BIPeer group

Large enterprise BI platforms

Top rankedin

Information Builders in

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THE BI Survey 16 Information Builders top ranks

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PerformancePeer group

Large enterprise BI platforms

Top rankedin

Self-servicePeer group

Large enterprise BI platforms

Top rankedin

Price-to-value perception

Top rankedin

Peer groupLarge enterprise BI platforms

Vendor supportPeer group

Large enterprise BI platforms

Top rankedin

Project successPeer group

Large enterprise BI platforms

Top rankedin

Visual design standards

Top rankedin

Peer groupLarge enterprise BI platforms

Query performance

Top rankedin

Peer groupLarge enterprise BI platforms

RecommendationPeer group

Large enterprise BI platforms

Top rankedin

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Introduction

THE BI Survey 16 is based on findings from the world‘s largest and most comprehensive survey of business intelligence end users, conducted from February 2016 to May 2016. In total, 3,137 people responded to the sur-vey with 2,611 answering a series of detailed questions about their usage of a named pro-duct. Altogether, 37 products (or groups of products) are analyzed in detail.

THE BI Survey 16 examines BI product selec-tion and usage among users in categories (KPIs) including business benefits, project success, business value, recommendation, customer satisfaction, customer experience, innovation and agility. There are 32 KPIs in total.

This document contains just a selection of the headline findings for Information Buil-ders. It does not show all the KPI results and focuses mainly on the positive findings.

For more information on the survey visit our new BI Survey homepage.

Information Builders customer responses

Versions used

5

n=23

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17%

V7

83%

V8

This year we had 31 responses from Information Builders users. 17 percent of them use version 7 while 83 percent run version 8.

data discovery area. Information Builders also offers development environments for custom Web portals, dashboards and BI applications (“InfoApps”).

As well as end user products, Information Buil-ders also offers the iWay product line, which in-cludes a data integration, data quality and mas-ter data management suite. It is often used in tandem with WebFOCUS to provide information management capabilities.

Information Builders is a privately held US soft-ware company with its head office in New York. It was founded in 1975 and has more than 60 of-fices worldwide. Its products have been in active use for nearly 40 years and have a large commu-nity of experienced users.

Information Builders’ main BI offering is WebFO-CUS, a business intelligence (BI) suite specia-lizing in formatted and ad hoc reporting, dash-boards and analysis. WebFOCUS InfoAssist Plus is a visual analysis module aimed at business users and positioned in the self-service BI and

Information Builders overview

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User & use case demographics

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Current vs. planned usen=31

In use Planned

97%

90%

84%

65%

19%

16%

10

10

13%

26%

32%

32%

68%

Ad hoc query

Standard/Enterprisereporting

Dashboards/Scorecards

Basic data analysis

Financialconsolidation

Budgeting/Planning

Advanced analysis

5 products most often evaluated incompetition with Information Buildersn=92

57%

49%

42%

33%

29%

Tableau

QlikView

IBM Cognos BI

Microsoft SSRS

MicroStrategy

Percentage of employees usingInformation Buildersn=31

22%

17%

Information Builders

Average of allproducts

Number of users using Information Buildersn=29

Median

Mean 6213

1500

1521

100

Information Builders Average of allproducts

Company size (employees)n=31

0%

39%

61%

Less than 100

100 - 2500

More than 2500

Licensing modelsn=29

66%21%

14%0%

License up-frontPart of a bundle

SubscriptionOpen source

Tasks carried out with Information Buildersby business usersn=27

Information BuildersAverage of all products

100%92%

93%84%

81%81%

26%29%

View

Navigate

Explore/Analyze

Model/Enrich

This year’s Survey results show that Informa-tion Builders is mostly used for ad hoc query, standard reporting and dashboards, a testa-ment to the breadth of the WebFOCUS plat-form. Besides these traditional BI use cases, 68 percent of survey respondents also plan to use WebFOCUS for advanced analysis. In-formation Builders provides R Stat, a module with pre-defined R algorithms, which can be used for statistical analysis. R Stat results can be visualized using WebFOCUS functionality.

WebFOCUS is often used in large scenarios within large companies. In 2016, in a bid to boost its presence in the SME market, Infor-mation Builders introduced new editions of its software aimed at smaller accounts. Future BI Surveys will reveal how successful this stra-tegy turns out to be.

Comment

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Peer Groups & KPIs THE BI Survey 16 features a range of different types of BI tools so we use peer groups to help identify competing products. The groups are essential to al-low fair and useful comparisons of products that are likely to compete.

The peer groups have been defined by BARC ana-lysts using their experience and judgment, with segmentation based on two key factors:

1. Usage scenario - functional peer groups are mainly data-driven and ba-sed on how customers say they use the product.

2. Regional focus - is the vendor a large international vendor with a truly global presence or does it focus on a particu-lar region. We also take into account the location of BI Survey respondents.

Information Builders features in the following peer groups:

• Large enterprise BI platforms

• Large international BI vendors

Large enterprise BI platforms

Includes products equipped with functionality for enterprise deployments that focus on a broad range of BI use cases.

Dashboarding-focused products

Includes products that focus on creating advanced and highly sophisticated dashboards.

Self-service reporting-focused products

Includes products that focus on self-service reporting and ad hoc analysis.

OLAP analysis-focused products

Includes products that focus on analysis in dimensio-nal and hierarchical data models.

Visual data discovery-focused products

Includes products that focus on visual data discovery and advanced data visualization.

Integrated performance management products

Includes products that provide integrated functiona-lity for BI and performance management, especially planning and budgeting.

Large international BI vendors

Includes products from companies with annual re-venues of $200m+ and a truly international reach.

EMEA-focused vendors

Includes products from vendors that have a signifi-cant presence in - and focus on - the EMEA region.

Americas-focused vendors

Includes products from vendors that have a signifi-cant presence in - and focus on - the Americas region.

THE BI Survey 16 provides the reader with well-de-signed KPI dashboards packed with concise infor-mation, which can be absorbed at a glance. The KPIs all follow these simple rules:

• Only measures that have a clear good/bad trend are used as the basis for KPIs.

• KPIs may be based on one or more measures from THE BI Survey.

• Only products with samples of at least 20 - 30 (depending on the KPI) for each of the questions that feeds into the KPI are included.

• For quantitative data, KPIs are conver-ted to a scale of 1 to 10 (worst to best).

• A linear min-max transformation is ap-plied, which preserves the order of, and the relative distance between, pro-ducts‘ scores.

The terms ‘top-ranked’ and ‘leader’ are used in the following KPI chart titles. ‘Top-ranked’ indicates first position. ‘Leader’ usually denotes a position in the top 20-25% of products listed in the chart.

Peer Group Classification Peer Groups Overview

The KPIs

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Report

This KPI is based on the achievement level of a variety of business benefits.

Business benefits

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Information Builders offers a highly flexible BI suite and achieves very good results in the ‘Bu-siness benefits’ KPI. The vendor ranks as the top performer in both the large international BI vendors and large enterprise BI platforms peer groups. In the large international BI vendors peer group - where Information Builders also competes with specialized data discovery ven-dors such as Tableau or Qlik -it has consistently managed to improve its business benefits ran-king each year since 2011. Information Builders has also maintained its top ranking in the large enterprise BI platforms peer group for the last four years. These results underline Information Builders’ successful strategy of carving out and focusing on values it can provide to its custo-mers rather than going for a “feature fight”.

Viewpoint

Business benefits – Top-ranked 1.1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Consistently outstanding in business benefits

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Business benefits – Top-ranked

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Consistently outstanding in business benefits

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Business benefits9.6

7.05.5

4.74.4

3.22.32.2

1.0

Information BuildersMicroStrategy

Oracle BIMS SSRS

Peer Group AverageIBM Cognos BI

SAP BExSAP BO BI

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9.68.1

7.87.7

7.27.0

6.76.0

5.55.04.7

3.63.63.2

2.72.42.3

1.71.0

Information BuildersMS Power BI

IBM Cognos TM1Qlik Sense

QlikViewMicroStrategy

TibcoTableau

Oracle BIPeer Group Average

MS SSRSMS Excel

InforIBM Cognos BI

SAP BO Design St.SAP BO Analysis

SAP BExSAP BO WebI

SAS© BARC

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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

13.

3.

12.

1.

11.

2.

10.

6.

9.

4.5.

16.15.14.

17.18.

8.7.

MS Excel

MS Power BI

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

Qlik SenseQlikView

SAP BexSAP BO AnalysisSAP BO Design St.

SAP BO WebISAS

TableauTibco

IBM Cognos BI

IBM Cognos TM1

Infor

Information Builders

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

5.

1.

4.

2.

3.

6.

7.

8.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

IBM Cognos BI

Information Builders

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Report

This KPI is based on the implementation satisfaction level and the frequency of projects completed on time and on budget.

Project success

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WebFOCUS achieves excellent project suc-cess ratings compared to other large enter-prise BI platforms and large international BI vendors. These results support the vendor’s strategy of concentrating on value in projects and delivering quick wins to demonstrate it.

Viewpoint

Project successProject success – Top-ranked 1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Consistently outstanding in project success

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Project success – Leader

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Consistently top-ranked in project success

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

2014 2015 2016

7.

1.

2.

3.

5.

6.

4.

8.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

IBM Cognos BI

Information Builders

8.15.3

4.83.8

3.53.1

2.62.1

1.0

Information Builders

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

MS SSRS

Peer Group Average

IBM Cognos BISAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS© BARC

THE BI Survey 16

2014 2015 2016

17.

3.

13.

2.

12.

6.

9.

11.

14.

1.

5.

15.

7.

10.

16.

18.

4.

8.

MS Excel

MS Power BI

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

Qlik Sense

QlikView

SAP Bex

SAP BO Analysis

SAP BO Design St.

SAP BO WebI

SAS

Tableau

Tibco

IBM Cognos BI

IBM Cognos TM1

Infor

Information Builders

8.68.1

7.97.1

6.96.86.8

5.45.35.24.94.84.8

4.53.1

2.62.22.1

1.0

Information Builders

MS Power BI

IBM Cognos TM1

Qlik Sense

QlikView

MicroStrategy

Tibco

Tableau

Oracle BI

Peer Group AverageMS SSRS

MS ExcelInfor

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BO Design St.

SAP BO Analysis

SAP BExSAP BO WebI

SAS© BARC

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Report

This KPI is based on how users rate their BI tool in terms of price-to-value.

Price-to-value perception

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Information Builders has been the top-ranked large enterprise BI platforms vendor in price-to-value perception for the last two years. Po-sitive results for project success and business benefits also show that customers appreciate the business value Information Builders can bring. In our consulting projects we regularly see Information Builders quoting reasonab-le prices for its solutions. This combination of good price and value continues to ensure po-sitive feedback from WebFOCUS customers in this category.

Viewpoint

Price-to-value perception

Improved in price-to-value perception

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

2014 2015 2016

7.

1.

2.

3.

6.

4.

7.

5.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI/IBM Cognos BI

SAS

Information Builders

Price-to-value perception – Top-ranked 1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

7.47.4

5.44.74.5

3.53.43.3

2.2

Information Builders

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

MS SSRS

Peer Group Average

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

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Report

This KPI combines the ‘Business benefits’, ‘Project success’, ‘Price-to-value perception’, ‘Project length’ and ‘Innovation‘ KPIs.

Business value

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With outstanding results in the ‘Business be-nefits’, ‘Project success’ and ‘Price-to-value perception’ KPIs, it is no surprise to see the vendor emerge as the top-ranked large enter-prise BI platforms vendor and a leader in the large international BI vendors peer group for business value.

Viewpoint

Business value

Business value – Top-ranked 1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Business value – Leader

Peer group: large international BI vendors

7.85.45.3

4.13.8

3.02.9

2.51.8

Information BuildersMicroStrategy

Oracle BI

MS SSRSPeer Group Average

IBM Cognos BISAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS© BARC

THE BI Survey 16

8.07.87.8

6.96.96.8

6.35.45.35.25.15.1

4.44.03.8

2.92.5

1.9

Information BuildersMS Power BI

IBM Cognos TM1

Qlik Sense

QlikView

MicroStrategy

Tableau

Oracle BI

Peer Group Average

MS SSRSMS Excel

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BO Design St.SAP BO Analysis

SAP BEx

SAP BO WebISAS

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Tibco

1.8

Infor

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Report

This KPI is based on the median volume of data in databases used with the BI tool.

Data volume

TBTBTB

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WebFOCUS is mainly used in large scenarios in large enterprises. Besides providing functiona-lity for a range of BI use cases, the vendor also supplies a range of over 300 data connectors in its iWay product line. This ability to connect directly to numerous different data sources means WebFOCUS does not necessarily need to hold data in its own storage. We often see Information Builders used on top of large data warehouse applications or in scenarios with operational data. The BI Survey results indica-te that Information Builders customers seem to be satisfied with the way WebFOCUS handles higher data volumes.

Viewpoint

Data volumeTBTBTB

Data volume – Leader

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Consistently high ratings in data volume

Peer group: large international BI vendors

10.09.89.69.59.49.4

9.08.9

8.68.5

6.35.1

3.73.2

2.11.9

1.71.61.4

Information Builders

MS Power BI

IBM Cognos TM1

Qlik Sense

QlikView

MicroStrategy

Tibco

Tableau

Oracle BI

Peer Group AverageMS SSRS

MS ExcelInfor

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BO Design St.

SAP BO Analysis

SAP BEx

SAP BO WebI

SAS

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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

8.

14.

16.

4.

15.

18.

11.

3.

7.

17.

12.

2.

10.

6.

9.

5.

13.

1.

MS Excel

MS Power BI

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

Qlik Sense

QlikView

SAP Bex

SAP BO Analysis

SAP BO Design St.

SAP BO WebI

SAS

Tableau

Tibco

IBM Cognos BI

IBM Cognos TM1

Infor

Information Builders

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Report

This KPI is based on the ‘Data volume‘ KPI and how many sites currently use sensor data analysis, text data analysis and social media analysis with their BI tool.

Big data analytics

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Information Builders is the top ranked large enterprise BI platform vendor and a leading large international BI vendor in big data ana-lytics. Its own iWay solutions offer numerous connectors to different data sources, and in recent releases Information Builders has also improved its connectivity to Hadoop systems, which can be used for various big data scena-rios including text analysis. WebFOCUS also provides good support for operational use ca-ses where sensor data is often analyzed.

Viewpoint

Big data analytics

Big data analytics – Top-ranked 1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Big data analytics – Leader

Peer group: large international BI vendors

10.08.6

7.37.37.0

6.56.4

5.85.85.75.6

5.25.1

4.84.1

3.83.3

2.81.9

Information Builders

MS Power BIIBM Cognos TM1

Qlik SenseQlikView

MicroStrategy

Tibco

Tableau

Oracle BI

Peer Group Average

MS SSRS

MS Excel

Infor

IBM Cognos BISAP BO Design St.

SAP BO Analysis

SAP BEx

SAP BO WebI

SAS

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8.67.37.37.0

6.56.5

6.05.7

3.8

Information Builders

MicroStrategyOracle BI

MS SSRS

Peer Group Average

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BExSAP BO BI

SAS

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Report

This KPI is based on how many sites currently use collaboration features with their BI tool.

Collaboration

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WebFOCUS has consolidated its position as a leading large enterprise BI platform for colla-boration in the last three years, justifying the vendor’s investment in this area. Information Builders has always provided good support for exporting BI content in a number of different formats, and offers an interactive output for-mat called Active Technologies. This format is Flash-based and is stored and distributed as a PDF file. Notably, the file holds its data offline and provides interactivity for navigating cont-ent within the file. In recent versions Informati-on Builders has started to port this functionality to the new HTML5-based architecture.

Viewpoint

Collaboration

Two top placings in collaboration in the last five years

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Collaboration – Top-ranked 1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

4.63.8

3.32.4

2.12.0

1.71.11.0

Information BuildersMicroStrategy

Oracle BI

MS SSRS

Peer Group Average

IBM Cognos BISAP BEx

SAP BO BISAS

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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

7.

1.

6.

2.

3.

8.

5.

4.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

IBM Cognos BI

Information Builders

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Report

This KPI is based on how many sites currently use mobile BI with their BI tool.

Mobile BI

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Information Builders has made improvements in its mobile BI rating compared to other lar-ge enterprise BI platforms. Some years ago it offered a hybrid application, which displayed Web content and had some additional mobile features such as libraries to host it. However, customer feedback to this mobile solution was not wholly positive.

However, the vendor has invested heavily in this area in recent years and is still working on re-building the WebFOCUS suite to be fully responsive. Responsive design results in flexi-ble UIs which change format (and sometimes visualization) depending on the screen size of the device in use. The suite is also being mo-dernized and ported to the HTML5 standard, which offers better capabilities and interactivi-ty on mobile devices.

Viewpoint

Mobile BI

Improved in mobile BI

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Mobile BI – Leader

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

4.

2.

8.

1.

3.

6.

5.

7.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

IBM Cognos BI

Information Builders

7.56.4

4.63.9

3.53.3

2.42.3

1.0

Information BuildersMicroStrategy

Oracle BI

MS SSRS

Peer Group AverageIBM Cognos BI

SAP BExSAP BO BI

SAS © BARCTHE BI Survey 16

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Report

This KPI is based on how many sites currently use visual design standards with their BI tool.

Visual design standards

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Information Builders receives good customer feedback for visual design standards compared to its rivals in the large international BI vendors and large enterprise BI platforms peer groups. The vendor has always provided an extensive range of different visualizations that can be customized to create visualization standards within an enterprise. By porting the solution to HTML5, the vendor has improved its charting functionality, especially in terms of rendering performance. Charting remains an investment area for Information Builders: the vendor alrea-dy provides support for the D3 open library in its enterprise edition. Information Builders not only supports advanced visualizations but also their integration and availability as standard vi-sualizations within the enterprise.

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Visual design standardsVisual design standards – Top-ranked 1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Improved in in visual design standards

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Visual design standards – Leader

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Two top placings in visual design standards in the last three years

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

6.75.15.04.84.7

4.54.34.14.1

Information Builders

MicroStrategy

Oracle BIMS SSRS

Peer Group Average

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

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2014 2015 2016

7.

1.

3.

6.

2.

4.

8.

5.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

IBM Cognos BI

Information Builders

2014 2015 2016

15.

8.9.

3.

11.

16.

7.

14.

6.5.

12.

10.

18.

1.

17.

13.

4.

2.

MS Excel

MS Power BI

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BIQlik Sense

QlikView

SAP Bex

SAP BO Analysis

SAP BO Design St.

SAP BO WebI

SAS

Tableau

Tibco

IBM Cognos BI

IBM Cognos TM1Infor

Information Builders

8.17.4

6.76.5

5.15.15.05.04.94.84.74.74.74.54.34.1

3.63.4

2.8

Information Builders

MS Power BI

IBM Cognos TM1

Qlik Sense

QlikView

MicroStrategy

Tibco

Tableau

Oracle BI

Peer Group AverageMS SSRS

MS Excel

Infor

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BO Design St.

SAP BO Analysis

SAP BEx

SAP BO WebI

SAS

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This KPI is based on how many sites currently use spatial/location analysis with their BI tool.

Location intelligence

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The WebFOCUS platform is a leader among large enterprise BI platforms in terms of loca-tion intelligence. Dealing with spatial data is becoming increasingly important for BARC‘s customers. Analyzing and displaying spatial in-formation and combining it with existing enter-prise data sources often provides new insights into data. Information Builders supports ESRI maps, one of the leading providers of geo-in-formation systems. For instance WebFOCUS uses color-coding to show the information on a map.

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Location intelligence

Consistently outstanding in location intelligence

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Location intelligence – Leader

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

2015 2016

6.

2.

5.

1.

4.

8.

7.

3.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

IBM Cognos BI

Information Builders

6.75.9

4.64.0

3.73.5

2.82.8

1.9

Information BuildersMicroStrategy

Oracle BIMS SSRS

Peer Group Average

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BExSAP BO BI

SAS

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This KPI is based on how many sites currently use real-time data from transactional systems with their BI tool.

Operational BI

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Operational BI is not only a highly strategic area for Information Builders but also a use case for which the vendor has been rated num-ber one in the large international BI vendors and large enterprise BI platforms peer groups for the last three years. The WebFOCUS suite is good for retrieving metadata from disparate data sources and for analyzing and visualizing relevant content. The vendor’s iWay portfolio of over 300 adapters enables WebFOCUS to connect directly to data sources without repli-cating data.

Information Builders also supports the creation of individual portals and BI applications (Info-Apps) with write-back functionality to help ope-rational staff consume pre-defined analytical information and execute actions in operational systems.

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Operational BIOperational BI – Top-ranked 1.1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Consistently top-ranked in operational BI

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Operational BI – Top-ranked

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Consistently top-ranked in operational BI

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

2014 2015 2016

6.

1.

3.

2.

4.

7.

5.

8.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

IBM Cognos BI

Information Builders

10.05.2

5.04.9

4.54.2

3.42.7

1.0

Information BuildersMicroStrategy

Oracle BIMS SSRS

Peer Group Average

IBM Cognos BISAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS© BARC

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2014 2015 2016

12.

15.

17.

1.

14.

7.

5.4.

6.

13.

3.

16.

10.

8.

11.

18.

9.

2.

MS Excel

MS Power BI

MS SSRSMicroStrategy

Oracle BI

Qlik Sense

QlikView

SAP Bex

SAP BO Analysis

SAP BO Design St.

SAP BO WebI

SAS

Tableau

Tibco

IBM Cognos BI

IBM Cognos TM1

Infor

Information Builders

10.06.5

5.35.2

5.04.9

4.44.24.24.24.04.0

3.43.4

3.13.1

2.71.41.0

Information Builders

MS Power BI

IBM Cognos TM1

Qlik Sense

QlikViewMicroStrategy

Tibco

Tableau

Oracle BI

Peer Group Average

MS SSRS

MS Excel

Infor

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BO Design St.

SAP BO Analysis

SAP BEx

SAP BO WebI

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This KPI combines the ‘Big Data Analytics‘, ‘Cloud BI’, ‘Collaboration’, ‘Data discovery/visualization‘, ‘Mobile BI’, ‘Operational BI‘, ‘Location intelligence‘ and ‘Visual design standards’ KPIs to measure the product’s level of innovation.

Innovation

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Information Builders is a grounded vendor: it knows its strengths and does not go chasing every trend in the BI area. However, with some investment in a few key trending areas, it has been able to improve its innovation rating in the last five years.

Currently the WebFOCUS platform has featu-res covering all the major BI trends, including InfoAssist Plus for self-service BI and data dis-covery, RStat for predictive analytics and ESRI integration for location intelligence. By making these enhancements to the suite, customers now perceive Information Builders as an inno-vative vendor.

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InnovationInnovation – Top-ranked 1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Improved in innovation

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Innovation – Leader

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Improved in innovation

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

7.26.8

6.26.2

5.65.5

5.14.9

4.64.5

4.23.63.43.33.33.1

2.82.62.2

Information Builders

MS Power BI

IBM Cognos TM1

Qlik Sense

QlikView

MicroStrategy

Tibco

Tableau

Oracle BIPeer Group Average

MS SSRS

MS Excel

Infor

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BO Design St.

SAP BO AnalysisSAP BEx

SAP BO WebI

SAS

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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

12.

17.18.

4.

10.

2.

13.

5.

9.

6.

8.

16.15.

7.

14.

11.

3.

1.

MS Excel

MS Power BI

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

Qlik Sense

QlikView

SAP BexSAP BO Analysis

SAP BO Design St.

SAP BO WebI

SAS

Tableau

Tibco

IBM Cognos BI

IBM Cognos TM1Infor

Information Builders

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

6.

1.

7.

2.

3.

8.

4.

5.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

IBM Cognos BI

Information Builders

6.25.6

4.64.1

3.73.63.43.3

2.8

Information BuildersMicroStrategy

Oracle BI

MS SSRS

Peer Group Average

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BISAS

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This KPI is based on the frequency of problems encountered with the product.

Product satisfaction

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Information Builders is among the leading large enterprise BI platform vendors in the ‘Product satisfaction’ KPI. The flexibility and breadth of WebFOCUS enables customers to deploy it in a variety of different scenarios, and customers report very few significant problems with their deployments: a ringing endorsement of the product.

Viewpoint

Product satisfaction

Consistently outstanding in productsatisfaction

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Product satisfaction – Leader

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

7.

2.

1.

3.

4.

8.

6.

5.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

IBM Cognos BI

Information Builders

3.33.03.02.8

2.32.3

1.81.6

1.0

Information BuildersMicroStrategy

Oracle BI

MS SSRS

Peer Group Average

IBM Cognos BISAP BEx

SAP BO BISAS

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This KPI measures user satisfaction with the level of vendor support provided for the product.

Vendor support

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Information Builders’ vendor support rating is very impressive. The vendor has come top in the large enterprise BI platforms and large in-ternational BI vendors peer groups for the last three years, beating off competition from all the software industry giants as well as specia-lists such as Tableau and Qlik.

The results show that any vendor - no matter how large it is - has the potential to satisfy its customers and provide proper support and services.

Viewpoint

Vendor supportVendor support – Top-ranked 1.1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Consistently outstanding in vendor support

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Vendor support – Top-ranked

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Consistently top-ranked in vendor support

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

8.25.4

5.04.4

4.03.8

3.13.0

2.5

Information BuildersMicroStrategy

Oracle BIMS SSRS

Peer Group Average

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

7.

1.

5.

2.

6.

4.

8.

3.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

IBM Cognos BI

Information Builders

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

17.

9.10.

1.

15.

6.

14.

8.

16.

3.4.

13.12.

7.

18.

11.

2.

5.

MS Excel

MS Power BI

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

Qlik SenseQlikView

SAP BexSAP BO Analysis

SAP BO Design St.

SAP BO WebI

SAS

Tableau

Tibco

IBM Cognos BI

IBM Cognos TM1Infor

Information Builders

8.27.1

6.96.3

5.85.7

5.45.45.3

5.15.05.04.8

4.03.8

3.53.13.0

1.0

Information Builders

MS Power BI

IBM Cognos TM1

Qlik SenseQlikView

MicroStrategy

Tibco

Tableau

Oracle BI

Peer Group Average

MS SSRSMS Excel

Infor

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BO Design St.

SAP BO AnalysisSAP BEx

SAP BO WebI

SAS

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This KPI measures user satisfaction with the level of the implementer’s support for the product.

Implementer support

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In addition to outstanding vendor support, In-formation Builders is also the top ranked large enterprise BI platforms vendor and a leading large international BI vendor for implementer support. Potential customers should be reas-sured by this result, which shows that WebFO-CUS implementation services, whether per-formed by Information Builders itself (which is often the case) or a partner, usually conclude with a satisfied client.

Viewpoint

Implementer supportImplementer support – Top-ranked 1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Consistently outstanding in implementersupport

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Implementer support – Leader

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Consistently top-ranked in implementer support

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

14.

1.

8.

2.

15.

4.

12.

11.

13.

3.

5.

7.

6.

9.

17.

16.

10.

MS Excel

MS Power BI

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

Qlik Sense

QlikView

SAP Bex

SAP BO Analysis

SAP BO Design St.

SAP BO WebI

SAS

Tableau

IBM Cognos BI

Infor

IBM Cognos TM1

Information Builders

8.16.8

5.75.45.4

5.04.9

4.64.54.54.4

4.03.7

3.43.1

2.52.4

1.1

Information Builders

MS Power BI

IBM Cognos TM1

Qlik Sense

QlikView

MicroStrategy

Tableau

Oracle BI

Peer Group Average

MS SSRS

MS Excel

Infor

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BO Design St.

SAP BO AnalysisSAP BEx

SAP BO WebISAS © BARC

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6.84.9

4.03.83.7

3.43.1

2.52.4

Information Builders

MicroStrategy

Oracle BIMS SSRS

Peer Group Average

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BISAS

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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

6.

1.

4.

3.

5.

2.

7.

8.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

IBM Cognos BI

Information Builders

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This KPI combines the ‘Product satisfaction’, ‘Vendor support’ and ‘Implementer support’ KPIs.

Customer satisfaction

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Information Builders has outstanding results in the ‘Product satisfaction’, ‘Vendor support’ and ‘Implementer support’ KPIs, which all feed into this high overall customer satisfaction ranking. WebFOCUS has been top-ranked for customer satisfaction in the large enterprise BI platforms peer group for three consecutive years.

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Customer satisfactionCustomer satisfaction – Top-ranked 1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Consistently outstanding in customersatisfaction

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Customer satisfaction – Leader

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Consistently top-ranked in customer satisfaction

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

5.94.1

3.63.53.4

3.13.1

2.52.2

Information BuildersMicroStrategy

Oracle BI

MS SSRSPeer Group Average

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

7.

1.

3.

2.

6.

5.

8.

4.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

IBM Cognos BI

Information Builders

6.46.05.95.85.85.6

5.24.24.1

3.83.73.73.6

3.43.13.1

2.82.5

Information Builders

MS Power BI

IBM Cognos TM1

Qlik Sense

QlikView

MicroStrategy

Tableau

Oracle BI

Peer Group Average

MS SSRS

MS Excel

Infor

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BO Design St.SAP BO Analysis

SAP BEx

SAP BO WebI

SAS

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Tibco

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

17.

5.

9.

3.

16.

7.

12.

8.

15.

1.

6.

14.

10.11.

18.

13.

4.

MS Excel

MS Power BI

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

Qlik Sense

QlikView

SAP Bex

SAP BO AnalysisSAP BO Design St.

SAP BO WebI

SAS

Tableau

Tibco2.

IBM Cognos BI

IBM Cognos TM1

Infor

Information Builders

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This KPI is based on how quickly queries respond (adjusted by data volume).

Query performance

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Query performance is an important area, espe-cially for end users. Users’ satisfaction is con-siderably reduced when they have to wait too long for their data. WebFOCUS is mostly used in large scenarios and large enterprises. Custo-mers report not only that high data volumes can be processed with the software, but also that it is able to deliver fast query results com-pared to other large enterprise BI platforms.

Viewpoint

Query performance

Query performance – Top-ranked 1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Query performance – Leader

Peer group: large international BI vendors

7.87.0

6.25.8

4.44.34.3

3.93.73.6

3.33.3

3.02.92.7

2.42.32.2

1.0

Information Builders

MS Power BIIBM Cognos TM1

Qlik Sense

QlikView

MicroStrategy

Tibco

Tableau

Oracle BIPeer Group Average

MS SSRSMS Excel

Infor

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BO Design St.

SAP BO Analysis

SAP BEx

SAP BO WebISAS © BARC

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5.83.73.6

3.13.0

2.42.32.22.0

Information Builders

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

MS SSRSPeer Group Average

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BISAS © BARC

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This KPI measures the frequency of complaints about the system’s performance.

Performance satisfaction

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Information Builders customers report few performance-related problems, which leads to WebFOCUS achieving a leading position in the large enterprise BI platforms peer group. Performance is especially important for end users working with the software. Acceptance of a solution in an organization can be serious-ly impaired if it delivers data and visualizations slowly. The performance of the front end, whe-re results are calculated and visualizations are rendered, is just as important as data-related performance in influencing user experience.

Viewpoint

Performance satisfaction

Consistently outstanding in performancesatisfaction

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Performance satisfaction – Leader

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

7.

2.

3.

4.

1.

8.

5.

6.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

IBM Cognos BI

Information Builders

8.88.8

6.66.4

6.06.0

5.74.5

1.0

Information Builders

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

MS SSRS

Peer Group Average

IBM Cognos BISAP BEx

SAP BO BI

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This KPI is a combination of the ‘Query performance’ and ‘Performance satisfaction’ KPIs.

Performance

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Performance is an aggregated KPI based on the ‘Query performance’ and ‘Performance sa-tisfaction’ KPIs. BI Survey respondents rate the vendor as a leader in the large international BI vendors peer group and as the top large enter-prise BI platforms vendor for performance.

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PerformancePerformance – Top-ranked 1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Performance – Leader

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Three top placings in performance in the last five years

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

7.

1.

3.

4.

2.

8.

5.

6.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

IBM Cognos BI

Information Builders

7.36.3

4.84.64.4

4.04.0

3.42.3

Information Builders

MicroStrategy

Oracle BIMS SSRS

Peer Group Average

IBM Cognos BISAP BEx

SAP BO BISAS

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8.78.4

7.57.37.0

6.36.16.1

5.55.15.04.8

4.64.44.3

4.03.53.4

2.3

Information BuildersMS Power BI

IBM Cognos TM1

Qlik Sense

QlikView

MicroStrategy

Tibco

Tableau

Oracle BI

Peer Group Average

MS SSRSMS Excel

Infor

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BO Design St.

SAP BO Analysis

SAP BEx

SAP BO WebISAS

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This KPI is based on how many users would recommend the product to others.

Recommendation

Recommended

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It is no major surprise to see Information Buil-ders receive outstanding results for recom-mendation. The flexibility and breadth of its product, the paucity of problems caused by the software, adequate vendor and implementer support, good performance and high business value all contribute to making WebFOCUS users more inclined to recommend their BI pro-duct than users of rival products. WebFOCUS has been the top ranked large enterprise BI platform in this category for the last five years.

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Recommendation Recommended

Consistently top-ranked in recommendation

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Recommendation – Top-ranked 1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

6.45.6

5.34.03.9

3.52.82.7

1.0

Information Builders

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

MS SSRS

Peer Group Average

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

6.

1.

2.

3.

7.

8.

5.

4.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

IBM Cognos BI

Information Builders

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This KPI is based on how quickly the product is implemented.

Project length

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Compared to other large enterprise BI platform vendors, Information Builders is one of the lea-ding software providers for fast project imple-mentations. These results correspond with the vendor’s strategy of concentrating on provi-ding quick wins and results in projects.

Viewpoint

Project length

Consistently outstanding in project length

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Project length – Leader

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

8.

2.

1.

5.

7.

4.

3.

6.

MS SSRS

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

SAS

IBM Cognos BI

Information Builders

4.73.7

3.02.3

2.01.61.51.01.0

Information Builders

MicroStrategy

Oracle BI

MS SSRS

Peer Group Average

IBM Cognos BI

SAP BEx

SAP BO BI

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This KPI is based on how many sites currently use self-service features with their BI tool.

Self-service

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Information Builders ranks as one of the lea-ding large international BI vendors and a top performer among large enterprise BI platforms when it comes to providing self-service to users. Information Builders was not among the first wave of vendors to address self-service BI, but now it not only supports explorative scena-rios for data mashups and visual analysis but also provides business user-oriented self-ser-vice functionality for non-power users. For in-stance, the ad hoc reporting module InfoAssist (now InfoAssist Plus), which was introduced in version 8, provides data modeling, ad hoc query and visualization capabilities for busi-ness users.

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Self-serviceSelf-service – Top-ranked 1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Consistently high ratings in self-service

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Self-service – Leader

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Consistently outstanding in self-service

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

9.37.9

6.25.85.55.35.3

3.53.2

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This KPI is based on how often the product was chosen for its flexibility, and on the frequency of complaints about user flexibility post-implementation.

Flexibility for users

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Information Builders is top ranked in terms of flexibility in both its peer groups. This result reflects the fact that many customers choo-se WebFOCUS for its flexibility and also that customers have few complaints about the pro-duct’s flexibility. WebFOCUS not only supports the creation of individual portals and BI appli-cations, it also accesses a vast range of data sources, increasing the software’s flexibility for different architectural scenarios. With InfoAs-sist Plus, the vendor provides flexibility for bu-siness users to perform self-service BI.

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Flexibility for usersFlexibility for users – Top-ranked 1.1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Consistently outstanding in flexibility for users

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Flexibility for users – Top-ranked

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Consistently top-ranked in flexibility for users

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

7.77.0

6.05.85.8

5.04.8

4.64.5

4.13.93.7

3.52.6

2.12.01.81.6

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This KPI combines the ‘Project length’, ‘Self-service’ and ‘Flexibility for users‘ KPIs.

Agility

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Agility is crucial for many enterprises these days as they seek to compete in fast-changing and uncertain global markets. Good feedback in the ‘Project length’, ‘Self-service’ and ‘Flexi-bility’ categories result in this excellent rating for agility.

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AgilityAgility – Top-ranked 1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Improved in agility

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Agility – Leader

Peer group: large international BI vendors

Consistently outstanding in agility

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

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8.07.2

6.96.46.4

6.16.0

5.65.15.04.9

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2.82.7

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This KPI is based on how often the product was chosen for its ease of use, and on the level of com-plaints about ease of use post-implementation.

Ease of use

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Ease of use is one of the key factors that in-fluences adoption levels and user satisfaction with any software. This KPI takes into account how many customers chose to buy the solution for its ease of use as well as the level of prob-lems relating to ease of use reported with the solution. A strong rating for WebFOCUS in this KPI matches our experience with the product, which provides a good set of capabilities for building interactive and intuitive applications for end users.

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Ease of use

Consistently outstanding in ease of use

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Ease of use – Leader

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

5.35.25.25.0

4.33.8

3.11.31.0

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This KPI combines the ‘Ease of use’, ‘Self-service’, ‘Performance satisfaction’, ‘Flexibility for the user’ and ‘Recommendation‘ KPIs.

Customer experience

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Customer experience is a combination of the ‘Ease of use’, ‘Self-service’, ‘Performance sa-tisfaction’, ‘Flexibility for users’ and ‘Recom-mendation’ KPIs. WebFOCUS achieves good results in all these categories, leading to a top ranking in the large enterprise BI platforms peer group.

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Customer experience

Customer experience – Top-ranked 1.

Peer group: large enterprise BI platforms

Customer experience – Leader

Peer group: large international BI vendors

7.35.8

5.04.84.74.6

4.03.6

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