Executive Summary This is the Brightwork Research & Analysis software rating series. We rate both the software and estimate the risk of implementing each application. MUFI Rating & Risk for SAP Business Objects MUFI: Maintainability, Usability, Functionality, Implement ability Vendor: SAP (Select For Vendor Profile) Introduction SAP with SAP BI, SAP Crystal Reports and SAP Business Objects…
Executive Summary This is the Brightwork Research & Analysis software rating series. We rate both the software and estimate the risk of implementing each application. MUFI Rating & Risk for Oracle BI MUFI: Maintainability, Usability, Functionality, Implement ability Vendor: Oracle (Select For Vendor Profile) Introduction Oracle BI is rebadged Hyperion, which was acquired by Oracle in 2007….
Executive Summary This is the Brightwork Research & Analysis software rating series. We rate both the software and estimate the risk of implementing each application. MUFI Rating & Risk for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne MUFI: Maintainability, Usability, Functionality, Implement ability Vendor: Oracle (Select For Vendor Profile) Oracle second-largest ERP software vendor with 13% of the ERP market. Unlike…
Executive Summary Oracle has the most aggressive sales model in enterprise software, and it is highly negative for its customers. We refer to the Oracle Sales Model to describe problematic sales in other vendors. The Oracle Software Sales Model Oracle maintains a hyper-aggressive and deeply embedded software sales culture of factual misrepresentation, which unfortunately infects…
Executive Summary This article is part of our honest vendor series, which is one of the only ratings of vendors rather than applications. The vendor quality is critical to the decision making process as software purchases have a high long term involvement by the software vendor. Introduction Teradata is one of the older BI Heavy…
Executive Summary This article is part of our honest vendor series, which is one of the only ratings of vendors rather than applications. The vendor quality is critical to the decision making process as software purchases have a high long term involvement by the software vendor. Introduction Oracle is generally considered the most disliked vendor…
Introduction Business intelligence or BI was initially meant to mean the applications that could be accessed by business users. However, the term has morphed into a catchall term that covers a variety of technologies, which include reporting, OLAP, analytics, data mining, among others. The BI field is filled with different techniques and subdivisions, which makes…
Introduction Business intelligence or BI was initially meant to mean the applications that could be accessed by business users. However, the term has morphed into a catchall term which covers a variety of technologies which include reporting, OLAP, analytics, data mining, among others. The BI field is filled with different technologies and subdivisions, which makes…
Executive Summary This is the Honest Vendor Rating for SAP. SAP ranks as one of our lowest-rated vendors in topics ranging from SAP’s sales tactics to their value. Introduction SAP is the world’s largest enterprise software company. However, as a company, like the most significant consumer software company in the world, Microsoft, SAP lives in…
Executive Summary Forecasting changed enormously after computerization. We cover some of the significant differences in the eras. Introduction Forecasting can be divided very neatly into pre and post-computerization. The earliest computerized forecasting systems were simplified examples of what we have today. Demand planning systems can be seen to have the following components: The associative data…