Find the best Business Intelligence (BI) software for your needs

Business intelligence (BI) is a decision support tool used to capture, report, and analyze a subset of organizational data without affecting operational systems. The software provides essential business visibility to help clients' businesses grow by giving them the information they need about product, sales, and customer behavior. It allows clients to look at their businesses in different ways, and helps them to understand the core issues so they can take action to improve performance.

• Facilitate corporate decision making initiatives
• Meet compliance and governance standards (i.e. SOX, HIPAA)
• Align business processes with information systems
• Maximize sales and customer service initiatives
• Attain return on investment (ROI) on planning initiatives (i.e., product distribution)

• Bitam Artus by Bitam
  
• Exact Business Analytics by Exact Software North America
  
• Hyperion System 9 by Oracle
  
• IBM Cognos 8 BI by IBM
  
• InetSoft Suite by InetSoft Technology
  
• Infor PM 10 by Infor
  
• Logi 9 Business Intelligence Platform by LogiXML
  
• Logix BI by TOTVS S/A
  
• Logo Linx by Logobiz Software
  
• Oco On Demand Business Intelligence by Oco, Inc
  
• POSmart by Relational Solutions
  
• ProClarity by Microsoft
  
• QlikView by QlikTech International
  
• TARGIT BI Suite by TARGIT
  
• WebFOCUS by Information Builders
  
• Yellowfin by Yellowfin
  
• Cartesis by Business Objects
  
• CorVu by CorVu Corporation
  
• Enterprise Performance Optimization Suite by Business Objects
  
• IBM Cognos TM1 by IBM
  
• OutlookSoft by OutlookSoft
  

Developed in conjunction with software analysts and the world's leading software vendors, TEC's enterprise software evaluation reports are designed to give manufacturers and service organizations a comprehensive list of features and functions (criteria) for each of over forty different kinds of enterprise software solutions. Complete functional criteria is included for ERP systems, Accounting, CRM, SCM, WMS, BI, PLM, and others required by companies of all sizes. These lists of criteria, which in most cases numbering in the thousands, give you a full view of all the features and functions currently available for the selected type of software. This allows you to easily compare software vendors side-by-side and determine which features and functions are required for your organization. With over 1000 vendor products available for evaluation, TEC is the largest service of its kind in the industry.

TEC helps thousands of businesses, every month, evaluate and select software solutions that meet their exacting needs by empowering purchasers with the tools, research, and expertise to make an ideal decision.  

Industry standard terminology aids evaluation process  

The language used to describe each category and criterion has been vetted by TEC analysts and provides a standard description that is understood and accepted by leading vendors and consultants in each enterprise area. During the RFI or RFP process, users benefit from clear, concise descriptions of critical functions that prospective vendors can respond to without confusion. This leads to better participation by invited vendors and reduces the possibility of errors.     

Report uses by role:

• IT project managers: Save time and avoid errors in the creation of high quality requirements for a software acquisition. Use the reports help develop all RFI, RFP and software tender documents.
• IT Consultants: Use comprehensive criteria to determine build vs. buy analysis and perform gap analysis for legacy systems against the latest software functionality included in the reports. With ratings on over 1000 enterprise software solutions, you have access to the most comprehensive vendor data available.
• Software manufacturers and vendors: Compare your system against the combined feature set of the leaders in your category to help prioritize future development. Use as a template of included features for any software bid.

Without your tool I could have never been so accurate so quickly, involved so many employees, given such a clear and concise presentation and saved the company time and money."
- Bertram R. Martin, consultant, VRT

TEC's ERP selection tool was at least 50% different than we would have chosen without the use of your product. This is now leading to the best possible match between the hundreds of available ERP packages and our company's ERP requirements."
- Greg Cruzan, chief technology officer, Racal Instruments Inc.

"At one stage of our evaluations, the TEC process was performed before issuing RFPs to the top vendors. After reviewing RFP responses from 8 vendors during stage two we found that the top three we brought in for demonstrations were the top 3 ranked by TEC in stage one. This was a strong validation of the TEC tools."
- Nick Robson, IT program manager, Pillar to Post

Established in 1993, Technology Evaluation Centers, Inc. (TEC) is the first web-native technology research enterprise. TEC provides decision support systems (DSS) that enable stakeholders to objectively identify the software products that best fit their company's unique business and systems requirements, and that contribute most effectively to superior business performance.