Reporting tools
Almost every company, large or small needs one: a reporting tool. To measure performance, for financial consolidation, for evaluation of strategies and policies and sometimes just for plain reporting.
Reporting tools differ from BI tools
Reporting tools are not the same as Business Intelligence, in general reporting tools tell us where we have been, they are necessary to provide information to regularatory authorities but they are not very good at telling us where we are going.
They contain not any intelligence
Almost all Business Intelligence solutions contain a reporting tool but almost no reporting tools contain any intelligence, our suggestion is that if you think you need a reporting tool look further and consider a Business Intelligence tool.
List of BI products that contain a reporting tool
The following BI products which include reporting tools were thoroughly examined on 70 criteria considered important for high productivity and reporting systems that actually add value to your organization. In random order.
| No. | BI & Reporting tool | Version | Vendor |
| 1. | Oracle Enterprise BI Server | 7.8 | Oracle |
| 2. | SAP Business Objects Enterprise | XI r2 | SAP |
| 3. | SAP NetWeaver BI | 7.0 | SAP |
| 4. | SAS Enterprise BI Server | 9.2  |
SAS Institute |
| 5. | Microsoft BI reporting platform* | 2008/2010 | Microsoft |
| 6. | IBM Cognos Series 8 | 8.4 | IBM |
| 7. | Board Management Intelligence Toolkit | 7.1 |
Board International |
| 8. | BizzScore Suite | 7.2 | EFM Software |
| 9. | WebFocus | 7 | Information Builders |
| 10. | QlikView | 9 |
QlikTech |
| 11. | Microstrategy | 9 |
Microstrategy |
| 12. | Oracle Hyperion System | 9 | Oracle |
| 13. | Actuate | 9.1 | Actuate |
* In the BI Tool Survey the following collection of Microsoft BI Products is evaluated: SQL Server Analysis Service (SSAS), SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS) in combination with Excel and Excel Services, where relevant accessed by SharePoint (MOSS 2010).
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If your reporting tool is not on the list above and you would like it to be included. Please e-mail us and we will take a look at it as soon as possible.