Business Intelligence Vendors - Arcplan

Vendor Comments : arcplan

arcplan's marketing strategy is to position itself as a platform that provides process-driven BI functionality. The vendor has also begun selling packaged analytical applications like the CFO Cockpit, a financial dashboard for Hyperion Financial Management. In 2006, arcplan received increased market traction demonstrated by a significant number of customers that selected it for big deployments based on this process-driven message. The company's process-driven BI capabilities focus primarily on performance management solutions that require simultaneous analysis of, and write-back to, multiple sources of operational and analytical data, which it can do very well. Customers also give arcplan high marks for ease of use, based on its visual development capabilities, which offer a wizard-driven approach for connecting to data sources and for building analytical applications.

While arcplan provides most of the 12 BI platform capabilities, it lacks predictive modeling and office integration. It is positioned in the Niche Players quadrant because it lacks a large number of references for certain key BI capabilities such as BI metadata and ad hoc query. Moreover, as a small vendor, arcplan lacks the sales channels and market presence of its larger competitors.

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