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Comparison of Tools - BO, Hyperion, Cognos

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)

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Chris Pohl :us: (BOB member since 2002-06-18)