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A thermometer to gauge BI vendors

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PLEASANTON, CA: Businesses may now be able to meet the challenge of evaluating vendors and their products and making choices based on an understanding of how well the offerings meet their needs. Ventana Research has introduced its 2009 Value Index for Business Intelligence, the second of a new category of quantified, research-based Indexes.

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The Index is claimed to provide a specific thermometer reading with a series of component metrics for a technology buyer to consider. Organizations can use the Value Index by determining their priorities and then consulting the Index to determine which vendors best meet those needs.

The Value Index methodology, as the press release adds, used to produce the Value Index for Business Intelligence evaluates in detail aspects of product functionality and suitability-to-task as well as the effectiveness of vendor support for the buying process and customer assurance.

The 2009 Value Index for Business Intelligence indicates that the company delivering the highest value on an overall weighted evaluation basis is Information Builders, which earned the ‘Hot Vendor’ rating, followed by IBM Cognos Software, Infor, Softscape and arcplan, all of which earned the ‘Warm’ rating. Drilling down, the Value Index evaluation of product functionality using the Ventana Research Business Intelligence methodology identified (in order) Information Builders, Infor,IBM Cognos Software, Actuate, Symphony-Metreo, Microsoft and arcplan as Hot Vendors in this category.

”We are proud to unveil the next in our ongoing series of Ventana Research Indexes,” said Mark Smith, CEO and executive vice president of Ventana Research.

This new research-based undertaking is neither sponsored nor influenced by technology vendors and is conducted in pursuit of Ventana Research's mission to provide value to business and IT through benchmark assessment, workshops and advisory services.”