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Will Cognos a Microstrategy make a move???
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Will Cognos a Microstrategy make a move??? -
07-24-2003
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"ya" <john (AT) doe (DOT) com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:McYTa.70428$zwL.18035 (AT) news04 (DOT) bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com... So, I thought I would start a little thread, it may or may not interest everyone. With all of the recent buyouts in the BI sector do you think Cognos and Microstrategy are next? Just some speculation and just my personal opinion: In my estimation MicroStrategy is more of a candidate for an acquisition than Cognos. MicroStrategy firstly is relatively small, has a focus on analysis and reporting on relational databases and has a relatively aggressive marketing. A possible buyer could be a relational data base vendor. The only I can think of is Oracle: Oracle has a relatively aggresive marketing, too and their reporting and analysis clients have limitations. The problem I see is that Oracle also needs a tool to directly provide R&A-capabilities in an easy-to-use front-end on top of Analytic Workspace. Using views on AW cannot be the ideal way to use a multidimensional data base and Excel doesn't deliver for production reporting. Impromptu and PowerPlay in contrary could accomplish both data stores but would require Oracle to implement an interface to or from the data base (in the end a "proprietary" interface to Oracle like OLE DB for OLAP). Oracle would buy tools though providing ETL, Planning, MDDB and BI Portal which they already have to a certain or full extend. Cognos could be more interesting to SAP since the original strategic agreement was made with Crystal Decisions to provide "formatted" production reporting. SAP is working on new front-ends but it would take quite a while until their tools would be as functional as the established players' ones. With Powerplay they would get an already certified tool to access SAP BW and with Impromptu Cognos directly reports on the data base structures underneath SAP BW. SAP also doesn't have strong functionality for data integration but Cognos' functionality isn't very good compared to other tools in this either. - BO bought Crystal (overpaid I think, and the products overlap too much) In my opinion BO provides more functionality for ad-hoc reporting and crystal more functionality for production reporting. The first tool targets more to end users, although there are many people who don't like it, but Crystal Reports definitely is more technical. Another point is the different regional spread of the companies giving BO more possibilities in new or original weak markets. Maybe an acquisition of a vendor with capabilities in planning would have contributed more in favor to become a complete BPM vendor. - Hyperion bought Brio (I like this one...) Me too. What's everyone's take on the recent developments? This is what I am interested in, too. Regards, Joerg |
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Actually, I believe Actuate is a candidate for an acquisition by Cognos. Why? Cognos doses not offer an Report Management System like Actuate. If Cognos is going to compete with Business Objects, they will have to purchase a product like Actuate. Microstrategy? I could see a firm like Oracle or IBM acquiring Microstrategy. J "Joerg Narr" <n_o_s_p_a_m_joerg_narr (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:bfqsu8$hqiim$1 (AT) ID-25239 (DOT) news.uni-berlin.de... "ya" <john (AT) doe (DOT) com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:McYTa.70428$zwL.18035 (AT) news04 (DOT) bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com... So, I thought I would start a little thread, it may or may not interest everyone. With all of the recent buyouts in the BI sector do you think Cognos and Microstrategy are next? Just some speculation and just my personal opinion: In my estimation MicroStrategy is more of a candidate for an acquisition than Cognos. MicroStrategy firstly is relatively small, has a focus on analysis and reporting on relational databases and has a relatively aggressive marketing. A possible buyer could be a relational data base vendor. The only I can think of is Oracle: Oracle has a relatively aggresive marketing, too and their reporting and analysis clients have limitations. The problem I see is that Oracle also needs a tool to directly provide R&A-capabilities in an easy-to-use front-end on top of Analytic Workspace. Using views on AW cannot be the ideal way to use a multidimensional data base and Excel doesn't deliver for production reporting. Impromptu and PowerPlay in contrary could accomplish both data stores but would require Oracle to implement an interface to or from the data base (in the end a "proprietary" interface to Oracle like OLE DB for OLAP). Oracle would buy tools though providing ETL, Planning, MDDB and BI Portal which they already have to a certain or full extend. Cognos could be more interesting to SAP since the original strategic agreement was made with Crystal Decisions to provide "formatted" production reporting. SAP is working on new front-ends but it would take quite a while until their tools would be as functional as the established players' ones. With Powerplay they would get an already certified tool to access SAP BW and with Impromptu Cognos directly reports on the data base structures underneath SAP BW. SAP also doesn't have strong functionality for data integration but Cognos' functionality isn't very good compared to other tools in this either. - BO bought Crystal (overpaid I think, and the products overlap too much) In my opinion BO provides more functionality for ad-hoc reporting and crystal more functionality for production reporting. The first tool targets more to end users, although there are many people who don't like it, but Crystal Reports definitely is more technical. Another point is the different regional spread of the companies giving BO more possibilities in new or original weak markets. Maybe an acquisition of a vendor with capabilities in planning would have contributed more in favor to become a complete BPM vendor. - Hyperion bought Brio (I like this one...) Me too. What's everyone's take on the recent developments? This is what I am interested in, too. Regards, Joerg |
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Actually, I doubt this highly. Have a look at Cognos' new product ReportNet. "James L. Smith" <lavell (AT) bway (DOT) net> wrote Actually, I believe Actuate is a candidate for an acquisition by Cognos. Why? Cognos doses not offer an Report Management System like Actuate. If Cognos is going to compete with Business Objects, they will have to purchase a product like Actuate. Microstrategy? I could see a firm like Oracle or IBM acquiring Microstrategy. J "Joerg Narr" <n_o_s_p_a_m_joerg_narr (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:bfqsu8$hqiim$1 (AT) ID-25239 (DOT) news.uni-berlin.de... "ya" <john (AT) doe (DOT) com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:McYTa.70428$zwL.18035 (AT) news04 (DOT) bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com... So, I thought I would start a little thread, it may or may not interest everyone. With all of the recent buyouts in the BI sector do you think Cognos and Microstrategy are next? Just some speculation and just my personal opinion: In my estimation MicroStrategy is more of a candidate for an acquisition than Cognos. MicroStrategy firstly is relatively small, has a focus on analysis and reporting on relational databases and has a relatively aggressive marketing. A possible buyer could be a relational data base vendor. The only I can think of is Oracle: Oracle has a relatively aggresive marketing, too and their reporting and analysis clients have limitations. The problem I see is that Oracle also needs a tool to directly provide R&A-capabilities in an easy-to-use front-end on top of Analytic Workspace. Using views on AW cannot be the ideal way to use a multidimensional data base and Excel doesn't deliver for production reporting. Impromptu and PowerPlay in contrary could accomplish both data stores but would require Oracle to implement an interface to or from the data base (in the end a "proprietary" interface to Oracle like OLE DB for OLAP). Oracle would buy tools though providing ETL, Planning, MDDB and BI Portal which they already have to a certain or full extend. Cognos could be more interesting to SAP since the original strategic agreement was made with Crystal Decisions to provide "formatted" production reporting. SAP is working on new front-ends but it would take quite a while until their tools would be as functional as the established players' ones. With Powerplay they would get an already certified tool to access SAP BW and with Impromptu Cognos directly reports on the data base structures underneath SAP BW. SAP also doesn't have strong functionality for data integration but Cognos' functionality isn't very good compared to other tools in this either. - BO bought Crystal (overpaid I think, and the products overlap too much) In my opinion BO provides more functionality for ad-hoc reporting and crystal more functionality for production reporting. The first tool targets more to end users, although there are many people who don't like it, but Crystal Reports definitely is more technical. Another point is the different regional spread of the companies giving BO more possibilities in new or original weak markets. Maybe an acquisition of a vendor with capabilities in planning would have contributed more in favor to become a complete BPM vendor. - Hyperion bought Brio (I like this one...) Me too. What's everyone's take on the recent developments? This is what I am interested in, too. Regards, Joerg |
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