Our research shows that because most planned deployments of business intelligence  software do not take into account the unique information needs organizations have in managing modern supply chains and their processes, there is confusion about which applications can address this problem best. Notwithstanding, those proposing BI implementations must be able to present a convincing business case that proves that the desired technology platform can capture enterprise-level data and deliver information to support the specific needs of their global manufacturing or distribution company and that it will be able to grow with them. Ventana Research recommends that you assess your supply chain business intelligence maturity and take steps to improve it.

Research and Education News:

Reserach Finds Manufacturing Analytics Falling Short (July 29, 2011)

New Research Shows Shows Comprehensive Analytics is Key for Manufacturing (July 14, 2011)

Disaster, Risk Management and the Supply Chain

Applications:
Epicor - Covered
IBM Cognos - Covered
Infor - Covered
JDA - Covered
John Galt Solutions - Covered
Kinaxis - Covered
Maxager - Covered
M-Factor - Covered
Oracle - Covered
River Logic - Covered
Salient - Covered
SAP - Covered
SAP Business Objects - Covered
SAS - Assessing
Symphony-Metreo - Covered
Teradata - Covered

Product Information Management:
DataFlux - Covered
Heiler Software - Covered
Hybris - Assessing
IBM - Covered
Informatica - Covered
Oracle  - Covered
Pindar - Assessing
Riversand - Assessing
Stibo Catalog - Covered
Zyme Solutions - Covered

Overall Information Management:
DataFlux - Covered
IBM - Covered
Informatica - Covered
Microsoft - Covered
Oracle  - Covered
Teradata - Covered
Trillium Software  - Covered
Zycus - Covered

BI:
Actuate - Covered
SAP Business Objects - Covered
IBM Cognos - Covered
Information Builders - Covered
Microsoft - Covered
MicroStrategy - Covered
Oracle - Covered
SAS - Assessing


* Vendors Dropped in 2009