The Forrester Wave™: Advanced Data Visualization (ADV) Platforms, Q3 2012

Summary: Enterprises find advanced data visualization (ADV) platforms to be essential tools that enable them to monitor business, find patterns, and take action to avoid threats and snatch opportunities. In Forrester’s 29-criteria evaluation of ADV vendors, we found that Tableau Software, IBM, Information Builders, SAS, SAP, Tibco Software, and Oracle led the pack due to the breadth of their ADV business intelligence (BI) functionality offerings. Microsoft, MicroStrategy, Actuate, QlikTech, Panorama Software, SpagoBI, Jaspersoft, and Pentaho were close on the heels of the Leaders, also offering solid functionality to enable business users to effectively visualize and analyze their enterprise data.

For more please refer : http://www.sas.com/news/analysts/Forrester_Wave_Advanced_Data_Visualization_Platforms_Q3_2012.pdf

The Forrester Wave™: Self-Service Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2012

Summary: In Forrester’s 31-criteria evaluation of self-service business intelligence (BI) vendors, we found that IBM, Microsoft, SAP, SAS, Tibco Software, and MicroStrategy led the pack due to the breadth of their selfservice BI functionality offerings. Information Builders, Tableau Software, Actuate, Oracle, QlikTech, and Panorama Software were close on the heels of the Leaders, also offering solid functionality to enable business users to self-serve most of their BI requirements.

For More Refer : http://spotfire.tibco.com/~/media/content-center/articles/forrest-self-service-bi-wave-q212.ashx

ETL Tool Evaluation Criteria

There are various ETL tools in the market such as Informatica, IBM DataStage, AbInitio, SAP BODI, Pentaho Kettel, Microsoft SSIS, Oracle ODI.. etc. Finalizing the righ data integration tool is critical success factor for any Organization.
ETL Tool Evaluation is based on following Parameters
• Architecture
• Metadata Support
• Ease of Support
• Transformations
• Performance /Management
• Data Quality & MDM
• Support for Growth
• Advance Data Transformation
• 3rd Party Compatibility
• License and Pricing
• Vendor Information

For more detail Please refer mentioned below link:

http://www.slideshare.net/asismohanty/etl-tool-evaluation-criteria