I’m evaluating 3 products for a company, and I was hoping to get some help. I found topics on the 3 abovementioned tools, but most were rather old.
We’re looking at
BO
Hyperion Essbase (analyzer, and the excel add-in)
Cognos powerplay and inpromptu.
can anyone comment on the following? …and anything else you can think of would be great!
- report distribution to field sales team
- creating reports
- is the excel add in for hyperion THAT great? company has never had a reporting tool so of course the excel add-in to them, would seem easier…
- forecasting capabilities ( i know BO has none)
- creation of variables and group variables,
- do the other tools have more available canned calculations?
- ease of updating the ‘meta data’ and reports should we add new fields to the datamart
- setting up user security
thanks a bunch!!!
trinawong (BOB member since 2003-01-09)