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Presented By:
Bouayad Mehdi & Bouzoubaa Marouane
Outline
Introduction
What is Business Intelligence
Selection Critieria Definition.
Products Comparison.
1. BI Platform Strategies.
Conclusion
BI platform / Partnerships / Packaging and Pricing
2. Comparing BI databases
3. Comparing OLAP
4. Comparing Data Mining
5. Comparing Interfaces
6. Comparing Build and Manage Capabilities
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Goals
Evaluates and compares the business
Outline
Introduction
What is Business Intelligence
Selection Critieria Definition.
Products Comparison.
1. BI Platform Strategies.
Conclusion
BI platform / Partnerships / Packaging and Pricing
2. Comparing BI databases
3. Comparing OLAP
4. Comparing Data Mining
5. Comparing Interfaces
6. Comparing Build and Manage Capabilities
Bouayad & Bouzoubaa
Business Intelligence
Had been used synonymously with decision
Outline
Introduction
What is Business Intelligence
Selection Critieria Definition.
Products Comparison.
1. BI Platform Strategies.
Conclusion
BI platform / Partnerships / Packaging and Pricing
2. Comparing BI databases
3. Comparing OLAP
4. Comparing Data Mining
5. Comparing Interfaces
6. Comparing Build and Manage Capabilities
Bouayad & Bouzoubaa
Selection Criteria
BI Platform Strategies.
BI platform
Partnerships
Packaging & Pricing
BI databases
OLAP
Data Mining
Interfaces
Build and Manage Capabilities
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OLAP
Critical business intelligence platform component.
Most widely used approach to analysis.
Business intelligence platforms must provide:
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Data Mining.
Critical to business intelligence platform
capability.
Platforms should include data mining
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Interfaces.
BI platforms should provide open interfaces to
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Build capabilities
Should include the implementation of:
flexible.
Predefined transformations should be packaged. ( &
extensible through programming languages.)
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Manage capabilities
Should cover all platform resourcesusers,
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Outline
Introduction
What is Business Intelligence
Selection Critieria Definition.
Products Comparison.
1. BI Platform Strategies.
Conclusion
BI platform / Partnerships / Packaging and Pricing
2. Comparing BI databases
3. Comparing OLAP
4. Comparing Data Mining
5. Comparing Interfaces
6. Comparing Build and Manage Capabilities
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Product Comparison
1. Microsoft SQL Server 2000
2. IBM DB2
3. Oracle 9iAS
4. Hyperion Essbase 6.5
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Platform Strategy
Comparison
Platform
Partnerships
Packaging & Pricing
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Microsoft
BI platform
Based on SQL Server 2000 and Office XP.
Deliver a comprehensive (all in one) business
intelligence platform :
Advanced data warehousing techniques
Great analytic functionality
Good performance and scalability across all
platform components.
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Microsoft
BI platform
platform:
Push business intelligence to the edges of the
enterprise
Make business intelligence dominant within
the corporation
Make business intelligence more reachable for
more users and more types of users
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Microsoft
BI platform
elements:
Fast implementation
Ease of learning and ease of use
Low cost and high value
Fast return on investment (ROI)
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Microsoft
Partnerships
Ms BI Platform is built in Microsoft technology
Microsoft controls all aspects of it design,
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Microsoft
Partnerships
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Microsoft
Packaging and Pricing
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Oracle
BI platform
Oracle 9i AS
Object/relational database management
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Oracle
BI platform
two toolsets:
OS Independent
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Oracle
Partnerships
Do not play a major role within Oracles
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Oracle
Partnerships
Oracle uses partnerships for business platform
tools and applications.
Although the firm currently competes with these
partners with its own business intelligence tools
and applications.
Oracles BI platform does not include partner
technology Oracle has the important
advantage of control over the platforms
components, technology, and integration.
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Oracle
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IBM
BI platform
Based on DB2
The DB2 Universal Database (UDB) provides
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IBM
BI platform
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IBM
Partnerships
IBM relies on a set of partners to assemble it
BI platform.
The most critical partnership : Hyperion
Solutions.
Partners also provide ETL and data cleansing
The partnership with Hyperion:
gave IBM OLAP capabilities instantly
allows IBM to compete in an important market
where it had no previous presence and where it
had made no investment in R&D.
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IBM
Partnerships
At long term: disadvantage to IBMs business
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IBM
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IBM
for the 3.
For advanced relational build and manage
capabilities:
DB2 Warehouse Manager : $10,600 per processor.
SUM = $138,600 without external ETL and data cleansing tools
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Hyperion
BI Platform
The technology platform for Hyperions performance
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Hyperion
BI Platform
additional platform components not offered by
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Hyperion
Partnerships
Hyperion must partner in order to expand
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Hyperion
elements:
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Product Comparison
Platform Strategy
Comparison
Comparing BI databases
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Comparing BI databases
Microsoft
SQL Server 2000
All of the Microsofts BI platform technologies and products are
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Comparing BI databases
Oracle9i
Object/relational database that has long packaged
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Comparing BI databases
Oracle9i
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Comparing BI databases
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Comparing BI databases
DB2 (UDB):
Not tightly integrated within the IBM business intelligence
platform.
Requires separate build and manage tools and Data
mining supported till last version.
July 2001, IBM acquired the database technology of
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Customers are confused.
They
need direction from IBM.
Comparing BI databases
Hyperion
Hyperion does not include a BI database.
Hyperion should be embedded into a
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Product Comparison
Platform Strategy Comparison
Comparing BI databases
Comparing OLAP
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Comparing OLAP
Microsoft
SQL Server Analysis Services OLAP functionality
includes:
processing capabilities
In addition, user-defined functions are supported and
Analysis Services provides the documentation and
tools for developing them. Thats good power and
flexibility.
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Comparing OLAP
Oracle
Many innocations:
a multidimensional storage model through 9is Abstract
Data Type (ADT) object technology features
OLAP query and analytic processing functions within the
database provides access to those functions through
a set of programming interfaces.
OLAP resources integrated within its metadata and
management frameworks.
Oracle9i OLAPs storage management and interfaces
appear to be brand new.
OLAP resources can be managed with the same tools as
relational and object
resources.
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Comparing OLAP
Oracle
Advantage: OLAP, relational, and object resources are
Comparing OLAP
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Comparing OLAP
Server V8.1
Hybrid Analysis allows administrators to define a
multidimensional cube that stores its high-level
(aggregated or summary) members within a
multidimensional store and its low level (detail)
members within a relational store.
The OLAP Server accesses and prepares the relational
data and presents this data to the application as if it
were native multidimensional data.
It adds HOLAP (Hybrid OLAP) support to the OLAP
storage model of IBMs BI platform.
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Do You know?
The difference between
MOLAP
cubes
ROLAP cubes
HOLAP cubes
Aggregations
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Product Comparison
Platform Strategy Comparison
Comparing BI databases
Comparing OLAP
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Microsoft
Microsoft includes data mining capabilities to the
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Oracle
Delivered through Oracle 9i Data Mining, a
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IBM
IBM has been active in data mining much
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IBM
All three are separately priced and packaged.
The strengths of DB2 Intelligent Miner are the
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Comparing OLAP
IBM
uses a single statistical algorithm to discover
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Comparing OLAP
IBM
OLAP Server Miner, unlike Intelligent Miner, does not
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Product Comparison
Platform Strategy Comparison
Comparing BI databases
Comparing OLAP
Comparing Interfaces
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Interfaces
Microsoft
Oracle
Relational
Interfaces
SQL
Transact/SQL
ODBC & JDBC
OLE DB
ADO
ADO.NET
OLAP
Interfaces
MDX
OLAP DML
Essbase API
DSO
Java OLAP API
Pivot Table Service SQL and PL/SQL
XML for Analysis
Data
mining
Interfaces
IBM
DSO
Oracle9i Data
Pivot Table Service
Mining API
Wizards
(Java)
Hyperion
NA
Essbase
API
Intelligent Miner NA
C++
SQL
Visual tools
DB2 OLAP
Miner
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Essbase API
Product Comparison
Platform Strategy Comparison
Comparing BI databases
Comparing OLAP
Comparing Interfaces
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IBM
IBM
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Oracle
IBM
Hyperion None
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ETL execution
Oracle
IBM
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ETL implementation
Oracle
IBM
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Data cleansing
Oracle
IBM
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Outline
Introduction
What is Business Intelligence
Selection Critieria Definition.
Products Comparison.
1. BI Platform Strategies.
Conclusion
BI platform / Partnerships / Packaging and Pricing
2. Comparing BI databases
3. Comparing OLAP
4. Comparing Data Mining
5. Comparing Interfaces
6. Comparing Build and Manage Capabilities
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Conclusion
Microsoft provides a comprehensive business
intelligence platform.
Build and manage capabilities, OLAP
capabilities, and application interfaces are its
key strengths.
Data mining is very new, although data
mining integration and data mining tools are
quite good.
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Conclusion
Oracle provides a comprehensive business
intelligence platform.
This platform has a complete set of
components, OLAP and data mining
capabilities are unproven, but promising.
Data mining tools are low level, and build and
manage capabilities are not consistently
implemented for relational and OLAP data
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Conclusion
IBM provides a comprehensive business intelligence
platform.
Relational data warehousing and data mining are key
strengths.
OLAP capabilities are very good
The platform is not well integrated because theyre
OEMed from Hyperion.
Build and Manage capabilities require too many
toolsets and theres a disconnect between managing
relational data and managing OLAP data.
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Conclusion
Hyperion occupies a niche within business
intelligence platforms
its OLAP technology is a critical component of
IBMs business intelligence platform.
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Conclusion
Price
Microsoft
$19,999
Oracle
$95,000
All BI Platform
IBM
Hyperion
$56,000
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Grading
Microsoft
Oracle
IBM
OLAP
Data Mining
Interfaces
Integration
Easy To learn
Support
Expected Lifetime
Quality/Price
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Total
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Q&A
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References
Green Hill Analysis: A Comparison of Business Intelligence Strategies
and Platforms
Gartner Group
www.oracle.com
www.microsoft.com
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