What does EBIS stand for?

No huge investments in hardware, staff and other resources are required to get a scalable, end-to-end enterprise BI solution delivering results on the first day of business," said Peter Relan, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Sibblingz and CrowdStar.

The combination of Tagetik's executive-level reporting and Information Builders' enterprise BI capabilities will provide financial services firms with a single solution to enhance their financial reporting, planning, forecasting and corporate governance.

Its simplified BI environment improves user adoption, enables better decision-making, and provides a robust foundation for departmental BI and enterprise BI.

SAS Enterprise BI Server, one of the first major enterprise business intelligence solutions released capable of operating on a 64-bit architecture, continues to offer the widest choice of operating systems and hardware by any BI vendor for companies looking for a flexible deployment environment that is able to meet their business needs now and in the future.

Enterprise 6 also includes a new modular enterprise data warehouse--called BusinessObjects Warehouse--that collects data from disparate systems and makes it usable for enterprise BI applications.

Key competitors: Business Objects, Brio, Information Builders, Microsoft, Oracle, Hyperion Infoconomy comment: Cognos has lagged its competitors in providing an enterprise BI suite.

The resulting need for more efficient use of BI solutions is prompting organizations to turn to vendors like Noetix that offer an effective approach to BI content generation and operational reporting that ultimately maximizes their enterprise BI investments.

By parsing and transforming such existing enterprise content into live, customized BI, Datawatch is ushering in a new holistic approach to enterprise BI, which fits squarely into the growing Enterprise Information Management (EIM) market.