DBMS Buyer's Guide

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Query, Reporting, and Analysis

Interactive tools for retrieving, analyzing (including OLAP and data mining), and presenting data. Includes tools geared to nontechnical end users as well as developer utilities.

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4Thought
Actuate Reporting System
Adaytum Planning
Advance
Advanced Decision Support Option
AlphaBlox Enlighten
Aperio
Arbor Wired for OLAP
ArcView
Atlas GIS
Brio Enterprise
Brio Enterprise Server
BusinessMiner
BusinessObjects
BusinessQuery
Companion
Comshare Decision
Comshare DecisionWeb
CorVu Web Server
CrossGraphs
Crystal Info
Crystal Info for Essbase
Crystal Reports
Cyberprise InfoPublisher
Cyberprise Report, Query, and Cube Designer
Data Clustering Engine
Data Mining Suite
dbProbe
dbProphet
DecisionSuite
Delta Solutions ALEA
DI-Atlantis
DI-Diver
DI-WebDiver
Discoverer
DSS Agent
DSS Executive
DSS Server
DSS Web
English Wizard
Esperant
EspressChart
Essbase Objects
Essbase OLAP Server
Essbase Web Gateway
Express Analyzer
Express Objects
Express Server
Express Web Publisher
Financial Analyzer
Fiscal
Focus
Gentia Excel Add-in
Gentia Visual Development Environment
Gentia WebSuite
GentiaDB
GQL
Holos
IDEA for Windows (Interactive Data Extraction and Analysis)
Impromptu
Impromptu Web Query
InfoBeacon
InfoMaker
inSight
InSqribe
Integrated Business Intelligence Suite
Intelligent Decision Server
Intelligent Miner
Iodbc
IQ/LiveWeb
IQ/Objects
IQ/SmartServer
IQ/Vision
IW*Manager
Knosys Analysis Suite
Lansa/Client
MarketPulse
Matryx98
MatryxAccess
Media/M
Media/MR
MetaCube ROLAP Option
Model 1
ModelQuest MarketMiner
Navimark
NewView
Nomad
Nuggets
O2 OQL Interpreter and Optimizer
Omnidex
Omnidex Client/Server
Omnidex for Data Warehousing
Omnidex for the Web
Oracle Reports
PaBLO
Pattern Recognition Workbench
PolyAnalyst
PolyAnalyst Knowledge Server
PolyAnalyst Lite for Win95
PowerPlay
PowerPlay Server Web Edition
PowerSqribe
PulsePoint
Query Management Facility
QuickChart Enterprise
R/olapXL
Raima Report Writer
Renaissance Balanced Scorecard - Powered by Gentia
ReportMart
Sales Analyzer
SAS Data Mining Solution
SAS Software
Scenario
SmartViewer
SNAPpacks
SpaceOLAP
SpaceSQL
SPSS for Windows
SQL Ace
SQL-Commander
SQR Server
SQR Workbench
SSA-Name3
Statit
SuperNova/Decision Query
SuperQuery
Synchrony Enterprise
The Ant Colony
The Data Mining Suite
The Knowledge Access Suite
Thoroughbred Query-IV
TM1 Server
ValEX
Vision:Clearaccess
Vision:Journey
Visualizer Workstation
WebFocus
WebIntelligence
WebSqribe
WizWhy
Zanza Web Reports

4Thought
Cognos Inc.
Burlington, MA; 800-426-4667
www.cognos.com
4Thought is a modeling and forecasting tool that detects the underlying influences, relationships, and trends in business data that are often undiscovered by traditional analysis. 4Thought imports information from spreadsheets and databases to create business models with real predictive power essential for forecasting and quantifying "what if" situations.

Actuate Reporting System
Actuate Software Corp.
San Mateo, CA; 800-914-2259, 650-638-2000
www.actuate.com
The Actuate Reporting System is designed to facilitate enterprisewide reporting. Actuate provides an adaptable development environment for quick deployment and secure and efficient distribution to support large user populations. ReportCast focuses the Internet delivery of reports, maximizing awareness while minimizing the impact of their distribution.

Adaytum Planning
Adaytum Software
St. Paul, MN; 800-262-4445, 612-698-7624
www.adaytum.com
Adaytum Planning is a business planning system built for complex budgeting, planning, forecasting, and management reporting. Designed to overcome the problems of inflexible spreadsheet or legacy systems, it dramatically reduces your budgeting and planning cycles. It lets users rapidly build models to fit their precise requirements and just as easily change them with no programming or IS support. Adaytum offers a seamless migration from a single user to an integrated enterprise system.

Advance
Lighten Inc.
Berkeley, CA;
www.lighten.com
Advance provides an intuitive data structure for building quantitative business models and analyzing multidimensional data from your corporate database. It combines spreadsheet and database functionalities to give you a flexible modeling environment. Drag and drop to create multiple views of your model.

Advanced Decision Support Option
Informix Software Inc.
Menlo Park, CA;
www.informix.com
Advanced Decision Support Option extends the base functionality of Informix Dynamic Server to support complex and analytical decision support processing. The Advanced Decision Support Option offers a set of high-end data warehousing features to enable fast data access; analysis, and management; delivers the performance and scalability needed to effectively handle increasingly complicated decision support operations; scales from the smallest data mart to the largest data warehouse; and provides optimized performance across parallel hardware architectures-from symmetric multiprocessing clusters to the largest massively parallel processing systems.

AlphaBlox Enlighten
AlphaBlox Corp.
Mountain View, CA;
www.alphablox.com
AlphaBlox Enlighten provides immediate access, interactive analysis, and customized application of enterprise information on the Web. A complete system of ready-to-run building blocks (Blox), AlphaBlox Enlighten provides tools to improve response time with Dynamic Application Assembly instead of development and lets end users "self-serve" personalized analysis applications.

Aperio
Influence Software
Sunnyvale, CA;
www.influencesw.com
Aperio is a Web-based suite of Business Intelligence products. Within its Web browser, Aperio OLAP allows decision-makers to analyze business information from anywhere and at any time. Aperio also creates a secure repository where any information (SAP reports, Excel, Word, Aperio OLAP or other vendor's reports) is easily accessible to users.

Arbor Wired for OLAP
Arbor Software Corp.
Sunnyvale, CA;
www.arborsoft.com
Arbor Wired for OLAP is an enterprise-class OLAP-centric analysis and reporting tool. It supports a broad range of applications, including sales analysis, product profitability, and key performance. It is suitable for a wide range of users -- from analysis-intensive knowledge workers to top executives -- and offers an out-of-the-box solution with no programming.

ArcView
Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.
Redlands, CA; 800-447-9778, 909-793-2853 x11640
www.esri.com
ArcView GIS, a desktop mapping and geographic information system software, places mapping and spatial analysis capabilities at your fingertips.

Atlas GIS
Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.
Redlands, CA; 800-447-9778, 909-793-2853 x11640
www.esri.com
Atlas GIS software for the desktop turns your statistical and geographic data into meaningful information for decision making and presentation purposes. Advanced database design lets you query client/server SQL databases using the built-in Q+E query builder. Atlas GIS provides a variety of presentation capabilities from extensive color and pattern palettes to wall-size print capability.

Brio Enterprise
Brio Technology Inc.
Palo Alto, CA;
www.brio.com
Brio Enterprise delivers client/server and Web-enabled enterprise business intelligence. Whether connected to the database, working offline, or via the Web, all users query, analyze, and create reports using Brio's consistent, intuitive user interface. Brio's "push" and "pull" servers enable queries over the Web, automatic report distribution, zero-administration clients, and Adaptive Reporting.

Brio Enterprise Server
Brio Technology Inc.
Palo Alto, CA;
www.brio.com
The Brio Enterprise Server includes two modules and a unified administration tool. This scalable server suite offers comprehensive push and pull technologies that let organizations deploy a business intelligence solution to the widest array of user types, across all computing enviroments. The OnDemand Server is a Web application server that enable querying over the Web, zero-administration clients, report-level security and Adaptive Reports. The Broadcast Server is a query server that schedules and automates query processing and report distribution via email, networks, printers, and the Web.

BusinessMiner
Business Objects
San Jose, CA; 800-527-0580, 408-953-6000
www.businessobjects.com
BusinessMiner is a desktop data mining tool that helps users find previously undetected relationships in their business data. Using intuitive decision-tree technology, BusinessMiner performs discovery, modeling, segmentation, visualization, and what-if analysis to uncover hidden relationships in data.

BusinessObjects
Business Objects
San Jose, CA; 800-527-0580, 408-953-6000
www.businessobjects.com
BusinessObjects is a query, reporting, and OLAP tool that lets business users access and analyze data stored in corporate databases, data warehouses, and packaged applications and gives IS the tools to deploy applications enterprisewide. New features include intelligent agents, read and drill controls, customized reporting and analysis, and expanded Web publishing.

BusinessQuery
Business Objects
San Jose, CA; 800-527-0580, 408-953-6000
www.businessobjects.com
BusinessQuery for Excel is an add-in for Microsoft Excel that gives users easy access to corporate data, allowing them to populate their spreadsheets with information from corporate databases, data warehouses, and packaged business applications. With BusinessQuery for Excel, the data is immediately retrieved and copied into the spreadsheet where users can format and analyze it and create reports.

Companion
Cipher Systems Ltd.
Calgary, Alberta Canada; 800-661-9961, 403-256-8877
www.ciphersys.com
Companion is a report writer that allows easy retrieval of data from any Cobol files.This report generator was designed to allow for flexible ouptut of data in the user's choice of graphs, reports, screen queries, spreadsheets, or other databases. Companion is written in Cobol. Companion is also the only report writer that provides the option of generating reports in either compiled or interpretive mode for maximum flexibility. Runs on Unix, DOS, Windows, and OS/2.

Comshare Decision
Comshare Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI;
www.comshare.com
Comshare Decision is Comshare's software for client/server performance measurement applications. Its advanced "Guided Analysis" leads users to areas of opportunity or potential problems in large OLAP databases where additional investigation may be required.

Comshare DecisionWeb
Comshare Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI;
www.comshare.com
Comshare DecisionWeb is a thin client for delivery of performance measurement applications over the Web. It provides dynamic ad hoc reporting and analysis for Web-enabled decision-support applications with cross-platform support on the desktop and remote and global access over intranets, extranets, and the Internet. When a user picks a DecisionWeb page, the required Java applets are downloaded to the client machine automatically.

CorVu Web Server
CorVu Corp.
Eden Prairie, MN; 612-944-7777, 612-944-7447
www.corvu.com
CorVu Web Server allows users to publish information results on the Web, perform interactive analysis, create reports, and review performance scorecards from a browser.

CrossGraphs
Belmont Research
Cambridge, MA; 800-775-9616, 617-868-6878
www.belmont.com
CrossGraphs data visualization software presents multidimensional data in arrays of graphs, one graph per subset, to help people visualize, explore, and report complex data in analysis databases and data warehouses.

Crystal Info
Seagate Software Inc.
Vancouver, BC Canada; 800-877-2340, 604-681-3435
www.seagatesoftware.com
Seagate Crystal Info provides enterprise-level infrastructure, scalability, and manageability for delivering queries, reports, and OLAP cubes throughout an organization. It includes the reporting technology of Seagate Crystal Reports and integrated OLAP technology from Seagate Holos. All this comes in a multitier architecture that lets users share information, whether they're using a Windows desktop or a Web browser.

Crystal Info for Essbase
Arbor Software Corp.
Sunnyvale, CA;
www.arborsoft.com
Crystal Info for Essbase integrates the production report writer, reporting server, and scheduling system with the power of Arbor Essbase OLAP Server to deliver a comprehensive reporting system for enterprise OLAP applications.

Crystal Reports
Seagate Software Inc.
Vancouver, BC Canada; 800-877-2340, 604-681-3435
www.seagatesoftware.com
Crystal Reports is a client/server report writer that lets you design a wide variety of reports and integrate them into database applications. Its Web reporting technology enables immediate access to presentation-quality, information-rich reports through the Web, using ActiveX, Java or HTML. Creates subreports and conditional, form-style, multiple summary cross-tab, multiple detail section, and BackOffice reports. Works with most popular PC and SQL databases and distributes reports through communication infrastructures such as the Internet, Lotus cc:Mail, Microsoft Mail, Lotus Notes, and Microsoft Exchange.

Cyberprise InfoPublisher
Wall Data Inc.
Westborough, MA; 508-366-1122
www.cyberprise.com

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Cyberprise InfoPublisher provides end-user Web browser access to predefined or user prompted reports and queries utilizing single or multiple data sources simultaneously. Users can view, edit, print, and export reports and queries from their Web browser.

Cyberprise Report, Query, and Cube Designer
Wall Data Inc.
Westborough, MA; 508-366-1122
www.cyberprise.com

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The Cyberprise Report, Query, and Cube Designer provides reporting, querying, and dynamic cube solutions. Users can design and publish predefined or user-prompted reports and queries. The designer can manipulate, drill down, and navigate throughout the cube. The cubes are published to the Cyberprise InfoPublisher for browser-based viewing and manipulation using the Cyberprise Cube Option.

Data Clustering Engine
Search Software America
Old Greenwich, CT; 203-698-2399
www.searchsoftware.com
Data Clustering Engine matches and groups records using name, address, and other identification data. Regardless of the error and variation in the data, without the need to clean or scrub, with no risk of data corruption, the software matches data from any country in any language or character set.

Data Mining Suite
Information Discovery Inc.
Hermosa Beach, CA; 310-937-3600
www.datamining.com
The Data Mining Suite is an integrated set of products that enables enterprise-wide decision support and data mining. The system works directly on very large SQL repositories with no need for sample or extract files and delivers results on the Web.

dbProbe
InterNetivity Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario Canada;
www.internetivity.com
dbProbe is a Web-based decision-support tool that offers enterprisewide access to, and analysis of, multidimensional data over the Web. dbProbe implements full client-based data analysis via the Web using a Java client. Multidimensional data cubes are placed inside an HTML page on a Web server, and users simply point their Java-enabled browser to the corresponding URL to download the page and analyze data inside the dbProbe client, which downloads automatically.

dbProphet
Trajecta
Austin, TX; 800-250-2242, 512-326-2411
www.trajecta.com
Trajecta's data mining tool, dbProphet, is a neural network-based predictive modeling tool designed to handle large databases and produce nonlinear models. It uses adaptive algorithms to create multidimensional models. It can accommodate 50 million or more data records to model complex relationships and create accurate models and allows users to interact and pose questions of modeling outputs.

DecisionSuite
Information Advantage Inc.
Eden Prairie, MN; 612-833-3700
www.infoadvan.com
DecisionSuite is a scalable, enterprise OLAP software application and toolset for data warehouses and data marts. WebOLAP, DecisionSuite's codeless desktop, gives users the ability to perform OLAP analysis over the Internet or a corporate intranet. DecisionSuite Server is a relational OLAP engine. DecisionSuite also consists of DecisionSuite Workbenches, OLAP administration desktops and an open API for IT; DecisionSuite Connections, open connections to complementary OLAP and productivity tools; and DecisionSuite DB Drivers, native and ODBC VLDB drivers.

Delta Solutions ALEA
MIS AG
Florham Park, NJ; 800-647-3177, 973-765-0536
www.mis-ag.de

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ALEA is a compact OLAP database that uses Excel as a front end. Its data storage efficiency allows you to manipulate, pivot and consolidate millions of numbers on a standalone PC or in a client/server environment. The complete functionality of ALEA (database design, reporting, and data input) can be accessed from Excel.

DI-Atlantis
Dimensional Insight Inc.
Burlington, MA;
www.dimins.com
DI-Atlantis is a datamart and data warehouse analysis and reporting solution. With a server engine, networked to an intuitive graphical interface (DI-Diver or DI-WebDiver). DI-Atlantis provides the functionality for a workgroup or enterprise to understand critical business information and trends.

DI-Diver
Dimensional Insight Inc.
Burlington, MA;
www.dimins.com
DI-Diver is a data visualization, analysis, and reporting solution with the capability to extract and provide views of data from virtually any source.

DI-WebDiver
Dimensional Insight Inc.
Burlington, MA;
www.dimins.com
DI-WebDiver is an interactive Web client for data visualization, analysis, and reporting. DI-WebDiver resides on the Web server, acting as a bridge between a Java-enabled Web browser on the client workstation and the data residing on the server or elsewhere on the network. DI-WebDiver offers ad hoc analysis capability.

Discoverer
Oracle Corp.
Redwood Shores, CA; 650-506-7000, 1-800-542-1170
www.oracle.com
Oracle Discoverer, a key component of Oracle's solution for decision support, is an ad hoc query, reporting, and analysis tool. It lets end users access data warehouses, data marts, and online transaction processing systems.

DSS Agent
MicroStrategy Inc.
Vienna, VA; 703-848-8765, 703-848-5041
www.strategy.com
DSS Agent brings integrated query and reporting, powerful analytics, and decision support workflow to every desktop. Even complex reports are easy to create; they can be viewed in a host of presentation formats, polished into production reports, distributed to other users, and extended through a host of features including Drill Everywhere and Data Surfing.

DSS Executive
MicroStrategy Inc.
Vienna, VA; 703-848-8765, 703-848-5041
www.strategy.com
DSS Executive is a design tool for developing EIS applications without any coding. The advanced reporting capabilities of DSS Agent can be harnessed to create executive briefing books and dynamic newspapers or to pave out the guided paths for sequential reporting that step users through key business processes.

DSS Server
MicroStrategy Inc.
Vienna, VA; 703-848-8765, 703-848-5041
www.strategy.com
DSS Server is a scalable, relational OLAP server supporting high performance applications in a wide range of industries. It lets users ask business-critical, analytically intense questions of a data warehouse in an asynchronous, interactive environment. DSS Server also supports creation and maintenance of data marts from the data warehouse.

DSS Web
MicroStrategy Inc.
Vienna, VA; 703-848-8765, 703-848-5041
www.strategy.com
DSS Web provides a Web interface for decision-support tasks. It lets users access a data warehouse over the Internet using a standard Web browser. Applications are server based, allowing rapid system deployment and efficient, centrally administered maintenance. It provides an extensible development environment for HTML and Java-based applications. DSS Web is compatible with most Web browsers and servers running on Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, Macintosh, and Unix.

English Wizard
Linguistic Technology Corp.
Littleton, MA; 800-425-8200, 610-325-7500
www.englishwizard.com
English Wizard is an ad hoc database access tool that lets you use plain English to access relational databases via ODBC. You can implement English Wizard as a standalone query tool, as an add-in to your favorite report writer, as an embedded component within your client/server application, or as part of your Internet/intranet server to support ad hoc database access over the Web. English Wizard is available for all versions of Windows and comes in Client, Web/Server, and SDK editions.

Esperant
Speedware Corp.
Toronto, Ontario Canada; 514-747-7007, 514-747-7007
www.speedware.com
Esperant is a managed query and reporting tool with ROLAP features that lets business professionals create their own reports and analyses against any RDBMS or data warehouse. Patented SQL Expert ensures semantically correct results. SQL generator addresses a wide range of business queries. The product provides centralized administration of Esperant Data Views, security, and resource governors.

EspressChart
Quadbase Systems Inc.
Santa Clara, CA; 408-982-0835
www.quadbase.com
EspressChart lets you create and publish dynamic charts on the Web. Data can be drawn from any ODBC or JDBC database or text data files. The design wizard offers a unique rapid chart design feature. Webmasters, developers, or end users can develop 2D or 3D charts with only a few mouse clicks and key strokes. A flexible Java API is available for Java developers. All data is encrypted for transmission over the Web.

Essbase Objects
Arbor Software Corp.
Sunnyvale, CA;
www.arborsoft.com
Essbase Objects are integrated, OLAP-aware ActiveX controls for data access, visual data display, navigation, data selection, and layout. Essbase Objects lets developers create sophisticated OLAP applications, including, management reporting, enterprise information systems, balanced scorecards, budgeting, planning, and forecasting.

Essbase OLAP Server
Arbor Software Corp.
Sunnyvale, CA;
www.arborsoft.com
Arbor Essbase OLAP Server represents a breakthrough for enterprise OLAP (online analytical processing) software. Arbor Essbase achieves unmatched performance and scalability to enable a new class of cross-enterprise OLAP applications. Designed and optimized for information delivery within an enterprise data warehousing strategy, Arbor Essbase provides a strategic platform for management reporting, planning, and analysis applications across all business functions.

Essbase Web Gateway
Arbor Software Corp.
Sunnyvale, CA;
www.arborsoft.com
The Arbor Essbase Web Gateway makes it easy to develop and deploy intranet and Internet-based, Web-enabled applications for ad hoc analysis, management reporting, enterprise information systems, budgeting, and sales forecasting. Arbor Essbase and the Arbor Essbase Web Gateway allow you to deliver OLAP applications directly from operational systems or within an overall data warehousing architecture.

Express Analyzer
Oracle Corp.
Redwood Shores, CA; 781-768-5600
www.oracle.com
Express Analyzer is an object-oriented tool for navigating, accessing, and analyzing Express Server data. Providing a graphical environment that makes it easy to access data and create briefings, Express Analyzer reduces the IS backlog of requests for custom reports, data formatting, and report distribution.

Express Objects
Oracle Corp.
Redwood Shores, CA; 781-768-5600
www.oracle.com
Express Objects is a development environment for creating graphical, client/server, OLAP applications. Bringing together object-oriented technology and the multidimensional capabilities of Express Server, Express Objects facilitates the creation and deployment of robust OLAP applications throughout the organization.

Express Server
Oracle Corp.
Redwood Shores, CA; 781-768-5600
www.oracle.com
Express Server delivers powerful OLAP capabilities that include forecasting, what-if scenarios, and financial modeling. Flexible data access capabilities enable true hybrid MOLAP and ROLAP and sophisticated analyses over corporate intranets and the Internet.

Express Web Publisher
Oracle Corp.
Redwood Shores, CA; 781-768-5600
www.oracle.com
The Express Web Publisher option to Express Objects and Express Analyzer is a tool that makes it simple to build live, interactive, data-driven OLAP Web sites. It provides a graphical environment for creating and deploying Web briefings containing data aware reports and charts that support drilling, paging, and pivoting.

Financial Analyzer
Oracle Corp.
Redwood Shores, CA; 781-768-5600
www.oracle.com
Financial Analyzer is a distributed application for financial reporting, analysis, budgeting, and planning. Integrating a central source of management data with analytical tools, the system lets organizations meet their critical financial objectives -- to control costs, analyze performance, evaluate opportunities, and formulate future direction.

Fiscal
Lingo Computer Design Inc.
Toronto, Ontario Canada;
www.lingocd.com
Fiscal is an open client/server-based architecture for online management reporting, budgeting and planning, and executive dashboards. Fiscal features a multidimensional OLAP server that runs on Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, or DB relational database management systems, on any system hardware. The multidimensional client module runs on Windows, Presentation Manager, Macintosh, or X-Windows workstations.

Focus
Information Builders Inc.
New York, NY; 800-969-4636
www.ibi.com
Focus can create reports from virtually any database, relational or legacy. Focus reports and applications are portable and scalable to more than 35 operating systems, so users on multiple computer platforms throughout an enterprise can run the same consistent reports.

Gentia Excel Add-in
Gentia Software Inc.
Wakefield, MA; 781-224-0750, 781-224-0750
www.gentia.com
The Gentia Microsoft Excel Add-in enables rapid retrieval and storage of your dimensional data directly into your spreadsheet.

Gentia Visual Development Environment
Gentia Software Inc.
Wakefield, MA; 781-224-0750, 781-224-0750
www.gentia.com
Gentia's Visual Development Environment is designed for rapidly building business intelligence applications. It includes object reuse, easy application maintenance, cross-platform support, an on-screen calculation facility, color coding of exceptions, scenario creation for budgeting and forecasting, automated exception alerting, and textual commentary

Gentia WebSuite
Gentia Software Inc.
Wakefield, MA; 781-224-0750, 781-224-0750
www.gentia.com
WebSuite's visual development environment allows almost instant Web application creation with no tediously hand-crafted HTML. WebSuite applications take advantage of the power of Java applets to deliver enhanced functionality at the client browser. This functionality -- including user-defined thresholding, data scenario creation, and text annotation -- is seamlessly integrated into your Web applications. With Gentia WebSuite, you can combine data on a page from any source, whether it's multidimensional, SQL tables or text.

GentiaDB
Gentia Software Inc.
Wakefield, MA; 781-224-0750, 781-224-0750
www.gentia.com
GentiaDB is a multidimensional database server that combines aspects of both OLAP and relational databases. As an OLAP database, it lets you share, access, and analyze data using an unlimited number of dimensions such as time, customer, distribution channel, region, or product. But like a relational database, it offers scalability, support for large data volumes, rapid response times, and data integrity.

GQL
Andyne Computing Ltd.
Kingston, Ontario Canada;
www.andyne.com
Andyne GQL is a query and reporting tool for relational data stored in data warehouses and data marts. GQL's intuitive graphical interface lets end-users build sophisticated queries with a few mouse clicks. GQL's built-in report writer, GQL Reports, helps users produce and distribute reports with tables, charts, and maps.

Holos
Seagate Software Inc.
Vancouver, BC Canada; 800-877-2340, 604-681-3435
www.seagatesoftware.com
Holos is an application development tool for a wide range of business intelligence systems incorporating EIS, DSS, and OLAP technology. It lets users access, analyze, report, and perform multidimensional modeling on data stored in relational data warehouses or legacy systems. Holos works with Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and Rdb for transparent data access. It eliminates the need for creating and maintaining a proprietary multidimensional database. Applications exist in a three-tier client/server architecture.

IDEA for Windows (Interactive Data Extraction and Analysis)
Audimation Services Inc.
Houston, TX; 888-641-2800, 281-345-2800
www.audimation.com
IDEA for Windows is a productivity tool for data processing professionals, auditors, accountants, and financial managers who need to display, analyze, manipulate, sample, or extract data from computer system data files, right on your desktop.

Impromptu
Cognos Inc.
Burlington, MA; 800-426-4667
www.cognos.com
Impromptu is a query and reporting tool for databases, data warehouses, and data marts. Designed for enterprise desktop deployment, Impromptu leaves control of data access, security, and network impact to IS managers, while letting users create their own queries and interactive reports, without requiring knowledge of SQL.

Impromptu Web Query
Cognos Inc.
Burlington, MA; 800-426-4667
www.cognos.com
Impromptu Web Query is a browser-based tool for querying relational data. Impromptu Web Query uses user familiarity with the intuitive navigation model of the Web; users query and then navigate to related information using context-sensitive hyperlinks in which the product automatically embeds the query results.

InfoBeacon
Platinum Technology Inc.
Oakbrook Terrace, IL; 800-890-7528, 630-620-5000
www.platinum.com
Platinum InfoBeacon is a decision-support product that provides advanced OLAP capabilities for data warehouse environments. The product creates a virtual multidimensional view on top of the relational database. It gives end users analysis facilities such as drill-down, pivoting, ranking, ratios, complex exception, and date handling without requiring the organization to store and manage data redundantly in a proprietary multidimensional database. The application server can take advantage of hardware and operating system parallelism (symmetric multiprocessing and multithreading). A multiserver navigator feature supports distributed heterogeneous data warehouse environments by parceling a single logical request into parallel queries to disparate database servers.

InfoMaker
Sybase Inc.
Emeryville, CA; 800-395-3525, 508-287-1500
www.sybase.com
InfoMaker is a complete data access, management, reporting, and analysis tool designed to leverage client/server and data-warehousing applications for a wide variety of DBMSs. InfoMaker lets end users create queries and reports without programming. InfoMaker's Data Pipeline capability lets users transfer a data subset onto laptop computers for mobile use. InfoMaker includes a standalone version of Sybase SQL Anywhere, a full-featured, 32-bit relational database that lets users get up and running without connecting to a back-end database.

inSight
arcplan Inc.
Radnor, PA;
www.arcplan.com
inSight is a front-end application for your individual reporting and analysis requirements with direct access to SAP R/3, Oracle Express, Informix MetaCube, Essbase, RDBMS, and ODBC-compliant systems.

InSqribe
Sqribe Technologies
Menlo Park, CA; 800-505-4399
www.sqribe.com
InSQRIBE seamlessly integrates server-based enterprise reporting through ActiveX into Windows environments. With InSqribe, IS can reduce network traffic, centrally manage reports, and support a wide range of end-user applications. The benefits to end users include the ability to view, print, and execute SQR reports either locally or remotely. InSqribe also frees users from needing to know where data is located and how to access it.

Integrated Business Intelligence Suite
CorVu Corp.
Eden Prairie, MN; 612-944-7777, 612-944-7447
www.corvu.com
The Integrated Business Intelligence Suite is designed to help organizations capture the strategic and competitive value of their information storehouses. It consists of several modules. Executive Alerts lets executives graphically monitor key performance indicators, providing immediate information regarding the health of the enterprise. Forecasting lets users anticipate and analyze future business trends. Graphical Query and OLAP lets the user perform multidimensional ad hoc analysis and create impressive graphics and powerful end-user reports. Impact Analysis provides "what-if" analysis for simulated business modeling, letting users test business plans and measure the impact prior to implementation. Report Writer is a reporting engine providing the ability to produce reports.

Intelligent Decision Server
IBM Corp.
White Plains, NY; 800-426-4968, 520-574-4600
www.ibm.com
Intelligent Decision Server (IDS) helps users discover, analyze, and make sense out of massive amounts of data in an enterprise. Data analysis applications on IDS can be accessed from universally available clients including Web browsers, Lotus Notes, and many other applications running on platforms such as Windows, OS/2 Warp, AIX, and Sun. Building on IBM's Capsule technology, IDS supports a three-tiered architecture that allows shared application and business logic to be managed in servers independent of the end user's client.

Intelligent Miner
IBM Corp.
White Plains, NY; 800-426-4968, 520-574-4600
www.ibm.com
Intelligent Miner lets users identify hidden correlations in data by performing predictive modeling, database segmentation, link analysis, and deviation detection using a variety of data mining techniques. It extends the analystical capabilities available to data analysts. Its data-driven discovery features lets users analyze large amounts of data. Intelligent Miner runs on AIX, OS/400, and OS/390 platforms, and it supports clients on AIX, Windows, and OS/2.

Iodbc
FFE Software Inc.
El Cerrito, CA; 510-232-6800
www.firstsql.com
Iodbc is a console utility that runs SQL and DDL commands against an ODBC database. It produces columnar listings for queries. Iodbc is used by Perl programmers. Runs on Windows 95 and Windows NT and provides portability to Windows 3.1, Unix, and Macintosh.

IQ/LiveWeb
IQ Software Corp.
Norcross, GA; 800-458-0386, 770-446-8880
www.iqsoftware.com
IQ/LiveWeb provides on-demand access, analysis, reporting, and publishing of information from corporate databases on Web servers. It lets corporations tap the Internet infrastructure for information access and dissemination using standard Internet browsers.

IQ/Objects
IQ Software Corp.
Norcross, GA; 800-458-0386, 770-446-8880
www.iqsoftware.com
IQ/Objects is an object-based query/reporting tool that lets users query, integrate and consolidate data from multiple sources and reuse its intelligent objects as building blocks for additional queries. It supports parent/child reporting, composite outputs, conditional reporting, dynamic value translation, user-defined functions via DLLs, and automatic creation of if-then-else statements for conditional logic. Coupled with IQ/SmartServer, IQ/Objects provides a three-tier architecture for superior performance, scalability and improved resource utilization. It runs on Windows platforms.

IQ/SmartServer
IQ Software Corp.
Norcross, GA; 800-458-0386, 770-446-8880
www.iqsoftware.com
IQ/SmartServer provides a three-tier architecture for partitioning data access and reporting functions among clients, application servers and database servers. It provides a facility for scheduling and processing queries and reports on a server. IQ/SmartServer includes tools for job monitoring and tracking, automatic notification of task completion, deletion of scheduled tasks, configuration options to restrict job submission access, error handling and control over the number of concurrent queries. It runs on Windows NT and Unix servers.

IQ/Vision
IQ Software Corp.
Norcross, GA; 800-458-0386, 770-446-8880
www.iqsoftware.com
IQ/Vision is a programming-free multidimensional analysis solution with two modules: IQ/VisionServer that uses IQ/SmartServer to populate a multidimensional cube transparently and the IQ/Vision client module that maps onto the IQ/VisionServer for interactive multidimensional and drill-down data analysis.

IW*Manager
Tanning Technology Corp.
Denver, CO; 888-301-0219
www.tanning.com
IW*Manager (Information Warehouse) lets users actively manage, control, and load balance queries that access corporate data warehouses. It cost-analyzes queries, then prioritizes and schedules the queries based on user priority levels and system use. IW*Manager also gathers statistics for charge backs, tracking, and monitoring.

Knosys Analysis Suite
Knosys Inc.
Boise, ID; 208-344-1630
knosysinc.com
The Knosys Analysis Suite is a complete, integrated set of software tools for building business analysis data marts. It provides business decision makers with easy access to business data while giving them sophisticated tools for value-added analysis of their business data.

Lansa/Client
Lansa Inc.
Oak Brook, IL; 630-472-1234
www.lansa.com
Lansa/Client is a Windows-based query, reporting, and charting tool for the AS/400. Data from DB2/400 can be copied to popular spreadsheets or other PC tools for analysis. It provides extensive graphical data-presentation facilites and reduces application backlogs by letting end users create their own reports.

MarketPulse
Computer Corporation of America
Framingham, MA;
cca-int.com
MarketPulse provides online segmentation of the complete database in seconds, as well as automatically maintaing complete promotion history. These capabilities lets users analyze and input data more quickly and cost effectively than from any other system.

Matryx98
Stone, Timber, River
Fair Haven, NJ; 732-224-9174
www.matryx.com
Matryx98 is a Microsoft Excel add-in developed in Visual Basic. Matryx98 can access any ODBC-compliant database (Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase, MS Access). Queries are launched from a simple selection screen and results are returned directly to an Excel Pivot Table for multidimensional analysis or to an Excel Auto Filter for list management and static reports.

MatryxAccess
Stone, Timber, River
Fair Haven, NJ; 732-224-9174
www.matryx.com
MatryxAccess is OLAP for Microsoft Access. A Microsoft Excel add-in developed in Visual Basic, MatryxAccess empowers the user with multidimensional data analysis for the Access database. Queries are launched from a simple selection screen and results are returned directly to an Excel Pivot Table for multidimensional analysis or to an Excel Auto Filter for list management and static reports.

Media/M
Speedware Corp.
Toronto, Ontario Canada; 514-747-3380, 514-747-7007
www.speedware.com
Media/M is a multidimensional OLAP tool that accesses data from its own multimatrix multidimensional database, which is compact and consumes little disk space. This data is presented in colorful charts and graphs to facilitate analysis and assist in daily decision making.

Media/MR
Speedware Corp.
Toronto, Ontario Canada; 514-747-3380, 514-747-7007
www.speedware.com
Media/MR is a hybrid OLAP tool that rapidly accesses high-level aggregates from the Media multidimensional database and vast amounts of detailed data directly from any relational database. This data is presented in colorful charts and graphs to facilitate analysis and assist in daily decision making.

MetaCube ROLAP Option
Informix Software Inc.
Menlo Park, CA;
www.informix.com
MetaCube ROLAP Option delivers an extensible and customizable business analysis environment for Informix-based data warehouses or data marts. It combines a comprehensive ROLAP environment with the performance and scalability of Informix Dynamic Server, letting customers maximize the return on their overall data warehouse investment. The MetaCube ROLAP Option provides an intuitive, easy-to-navigate multidimensional view of warehouse data, allows for full advantage of Informix Dynamic Scalable Architecture's core parallelism for optimal ROLAP performance.

Model 1
Unica Technologies Inc.
Lincoln, MA; 781-259-5900
www.unica-usa.com
Model 1 is a family of software modules, each designed to address a different database marketing problem. With an intuitive interface, Model 1 automates the model-building process so that users can build, evaluate, understand, and deploy data mining solutions. Model 1 generates models using a full suite of data mining algorithms (RFM, CHAID, linear regression, logistic regression, backpropagation, and neural networks) and automatically keeps the best ones.

ModelQuest MarketMiner
AbTech Corp.
Charlottesville, VA; 804-977-0686 x129
www.abtech.com
ModelQuest MarketMiner is an automated data mining tool designed for direct marketers to acquire, retain, and satisfy customers. It features a host of standard and advanced modeling algorithms including AbTech's own StatNet Expert. ModelQuest MarketMiner also includes data analysis and marketing reports.

Navimark
Naviant Technology Solutions
West Conshohocken, PA;
www.naviant.com
Naviant has integrated tools from MicroStrategy and Exchange Applications to create Navimark. By offering a prepackaged total solution and systems integration capabilities, Naviant can implement an enterprisewide, one-to-one marketing solution in a fraction of the time IT projects of this magnitude typically take.

NewView
SPSS Inc.
Chicago, IL;
www.spss.com
NewView is an analytical reporting tool used by marketing and sales managers, analysts, and HR managers for data analysis and reporting. The product offers complete functionality in data access, data management, graphics, presentation, and report distribution.

Nomad
Aonix
San Francisco, CA; 203-383-4600, 415-543-0900
www.aonix.com
Nomad's refined fourth-generation language technology and query and production reporting capabilities make it a solution for mainframe reporting needs.

Nuggets
Data Mining Technologies Inc.
Melville, NY;
www.data-mine.com
Nuggets is a data mining program that runs under Windows 95 and Windows NT in either single or multiuser mode. It uses a new rule induction engine to bulid a model of the patterns in your database or data warehouse. It comes complete with a suite of tools to predict new data, segment your data, validate your model, or perform market basket analysis, affinity analysis, risk assessment, and model validation.

O2 OQL Interpreter and Optimizer
Ardent Software Inc.
Westboro, MA; 800-864-3282, 303-294-0800
www.ardentsoftware.com
The O2 OQL Interpreter is an ODMG-compliant query processor and optimizer for the Object Query Language. OQL can be used interactively or embedded in a C++ or Java application. Recursive nesting of query expressions, extensible types, and method invocations are supported. The optimizer improves query performance through algebraic rewriting.

Omnidex
Dynamic Information Systems Corp.
Boulder, CO; 303-444-4000
www.disc.com/home
Omnidex is information access technology that delivers fast response times to user queries by augmenting the native database access methods. Based on sophisticated indexing, Omnidex enhances numerous databases (including Oracle, Sybase, and Informix) with a keyword search engine and multidimensional and aggregation indexes.

Omnidex Client/Server
Dynamic Information Systems Corp.
Boulder, CO; 303-444-4000
www.disc.com/home
Omnidex Client/Server enhances databases with unlimited multidimensional analysis, high-speed dynamic aggregations, and fast keyword searches. Users see an up-front qualifying count and can drill down, allowing them to identify only the information they need before retrieval. This minimizes network traffic, eliminates the "runaway queries" prevalent with ODBC, and guarantees optimal performance.

Omnidex for Data Warehousing
Dynamic Information Systems Corp.
Boulder, CO; 303-444-4000
www.disc.com/home
Omnidex for Data Warehousing provides a solution for lackluster query performance in data warehouses and data marts. Omnidex Multidimensional and Aggregation Indexes provide instant access to information and can reduce query times in large databases.

Omnidex for the Web
Dynamic Information Systems Corp.
Boulder, CO; 303-444-4000
www.disc.com/home
Omnidex on the Web allows data from multiple databases and platforms such as data warehouses and online applications, as well as documents to be available from a company's Web site. Using the Omnidex database search engine, users immediately obtain the information they need, with one consistent method to access data across the enterprise.

Oracle Reports
Oracle Corp.
Redwood Shores, CA; 800-542-1170, 650-506-7000
www.oracle.com
Oracle Reports is a publishing and reporting tool that lets organizations disseminate information across their corporate intranet or the Internet. The multitier deployment environment provides the ability to centralize report execution in a manageable, scalable architecture that requires no complex install of software on users' PCs. Dynamic Web-based reports in either HTML, HTML cascading style sheets and Adobe's portable document format allow report availability from anywhere on the corporate intranet or the internet. Oracle Reports includes Translation Builder, allowing reports to be translated into one of more than 40 foreign languages.

PaBLO
Andyne Computing Ltd.
Kingston, Ontario Canada;
www.andyne.com
PaBLO is a desktop OLAP client, fully integrated with GQL, which lets users access and analyze corporate data from multiple perspectives. Using PaBLO, users can explore multidimensional data stored in a desktop HyperCube, relational cube, relational OLAP server, or multidimensional database system. PaBLO includes CubeCreator, a utility that builds compressed, high-speed, summarized HyperCubes with the click of a mouse.

Pattern Recognition Workbench
Unica Technologies Inc.
Lincoln, MA; 781-259-5900
www.unica-usa.com
Pattern Recognition Workbench integrates the components necessary to perform multistep process required for pattern recognition projects. These components include data spreadsheets, experiment managers, and session control. Once data is prepared in a data spreadsheet, Experiment Manager helps guide users step by step through setting up experiments, configuring algorithms, and performing automated searches for best set of inputs or optimal algorithm parameter settings.

PolyAnalyst
Megaputer Intelligence Inc.
Bloomington, IN; 812-325-3026, 812-339-1646
www.megaputer.ru
PolyAnalyst is an advanced multistrategy data mining system. It automatically discovers relations between numerical, logical, and categorical variables, presenting results in explicit symbolic form. It builds predictive models, performs classification and clustering, furnishes data cleansing and visualization, and uses unique KDD.

PolyAnalyst Knowledge Server
Megaputer Intelligence Inc.
Bloomington, IN; 812-325-3026, 812-339-1646
www.megaputer.ru
PolyAnalyst Knowledge Server is an enhanced version of PolyAnalyst NT for a larger corporate environment. It uses the client/server architecture. PolyAnalystKS is best suited for larger institutions with a number of analysts performing data exploration simultaneously. It can take advantage of symmetric multiprocessor machines, and can be integrated in any local or wide area network. Several clients can use the same server, and a client can use several servers simultaneously.

PolyAnalyst Lite for Win95
Megaputer Intelligence Inc.
Bloomington, IN; 812-325-3026, 812-339-1646
www.megaputer.ru
PolyAnalyst Lite is a generic version of the system, working under Windows95, with the same GUI and majority of exploration engines of PolyAnalyst. The FindLaws exploration engine cannot be supported by Win95. The user still takes the full advantage of the Classify, FindDependencies, Cluster, Discriminate, and MLR engines and extensive data visualization and report generating capabilities.

PowerPlay
Cognos Inc.
Burlington, MA; 800-426-4667
www.cognos.com
PowerPlay is OLAP client software that provides graphical navigation of multidimensional data. Users conduct their own analysis of corporate data by exploring the data in a variety of graphical formats that instantly reveal otherwise obscured information.

PowerPlay Server Web Edition
Cognos Inc.
Burlington, MA; 800-426-4667
www.cognos.com
PowerPlay Server Web Edition brings PowerPlay's OLAP capabilities to the Web and lets users across the enterprise navigate multidimensional data. With PowerPlay Server Web Edition, charts and crosstabs can be explored interactively from a browser.

PowerSqribe
Sqribe Technologies
Menlo Park, CA; 800-505-4399
www.sqribe.com
PowerSqribe is a Java OLAP Web reporting application that distributes information and analysis for end users. It is designed for mass deployment and integrated with Sqribe's enterprise reporting framework.

PulsePoint
Quadbase Systems Inc.
Santa Clara, CA; 408-982-0835
www.quadbase.com
PulsePoint is a third-generation decision support tool implemented as a Web-based, thin client application. It lets users make queries, reports, and graphic charts against popular relational databases using Java-enabled Web browsers. Its three-tier architecture provides access to databases located anywhere on the Internet. Its graphical interface supports a simple point-and-click approach to designing charts and reports.

Query Management Facility
IBM Corp.
White Plains, NY; 800-426-4968, 520-574-4600
www.ibm.com
Query Management Facility (QMF) is a query and reporting tool for DB2 databases with features that run in workstation and mainframe environments. QMF lets you choose from three query methods: Prompted Query, SQL, and Query-By-Example. You can display reports in a wide variety of formats, including tabular, matrix, free format, and graphical, and a wide variety of charts.

QuickChart Enterprise
InterApps Inc.
Hermosa Beach, CA;
www.interapps.com
QuickChart Enterprise draws and maintains chartbooks of your business information. QuickChart works with all ODBC compliant data sources, SQL database engines, the Superbase database file format, and all DBF files.

R/olapXL
Intranet Business Systems Inc.
Pasig City Philippines;
www.intranetsys.com
R/olapXL lets business users draw data directly into Microsoft Excel worksheets from any dimensional data warehouse or data mart that resides on an ODBC-compliant database without knowledge of SQL. Its intuitive interface lets users define queries, drill down for detail, and slice and dice through data.

Raima Report Writer
Raima Corp.
Seattle, WA; 800-327-2462, 206-557-0200
www.raima.com
Raima Report Writer provides GUI-based database access and reporting tools and facilities for graphical query definition, interactive browsing, and the production of detail (band) reports. It supports relational databases, pointer-based network databases, star schemas, and dynamic bitmap indexing. The product includes an expression builder that supports the use of stored summary data. It supports standard datatypes, including structures, arrays, and BLOBs; built-in and user-defined functions; and realtime collaborative processing with external agents.

Renaissance Balanced Scorecard - Powered by Gentia
Gentia Software Inc.
Wakefield, MA; 781-224-0750
www.gentia.com
The Balanced Scorecard is an approach to strategic management that imbeds the long-term strategy into the management system through the mechanism of measurement. With full customization capabilities, comprehensive analytics, and automatic assessment and feedback loops, organizations can deploy "personal" scorecards for communicating vision and aligning strategic objectives at all levels of the enterprise.

ReportMart
Sqribe Technologies
Menlo Park, CA; 800-505-4399
www.sqribe.com
ReportMart, a Java-based system, provides executable access to all critical business information. ReportMart enables intranet-based access of all reports across all platforms and lets companies leverage any server-based information asset including data warehouses, business intelligence tools, and corporate intranets.

Sales Analyzer
Oracle Corp.
Redwood Shores, CA; 781-768-5600
www.oracle.com
Sales Analyzer is a decision-support application that gives businesses the tools they need to analyze sales and marketing data. It combines a central, integrated information source with the OLAP capabilities of Express Server, letting users access, analyze, and distribute information from their enterprise data warehouse or data mart.

SAS Data Mining Solution
SAS Institute Inc.
Cary, NC; 916-677-8000
www.sas.com
The SAS Data Mining Solution streamlines the process of data mining. The solution integrates seamlessly with enterprise data warehouses, data marts, and business intelligence tools such as OLAP to ensure end-to-end coverage of the virtual data mining cycle -- from the business problem to its final solution. All the necessary aspects of a data mining project are integrated into a clear process flow, based on the iterative SEMMA (sample, explore, modify, model, and assess) stages.

SAS Software
SAS Institute Inc.
Cary, NC; 919-677-8000
www.sas.com
SAS software is an integrated suite of decision-support and data warehousing software. It includes tools and capabilities for data warehousing; business intelligence, including OLAP; analytical tools, including data mining; and vertical and horizontal business solutions for financial management, IT service management, and more.

Scenario
Cognos Inc.
Burlington, MA; 800-426-4667
www.cognos.com
Scenario, a statistical analysis tool, automates the discovery and ranking of critical factors and exposes hidden relationships within corporate data. Scenario's interface displays the information it uncovers in an easy-to-grasp graphical format. Scenario makes data mining more readily accessible to analysts.

SmartViewer
SPSS Inc.
Chicago, IL;
www.spss.com
SmartViewer is an electronic publishing tool that lets report creators publish live results that can be pivoted and reformatted and immediately delivered through the Web or via email.

SNAPpacks
Information Builders Inc.
New York, NY; 800-969-4636
www.ibi.com
SNAPpacks are integrated suites of software tools designed for companies who use SAP R/3, J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft, Baan, and other packaged applications. SNAPpack Data Migrator is an end-to-end migration tool to help migrate legacy data to SAP R/3. SNAPpack Power Reporter makes it easy for users of SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, and others to create their own logical views of data using everyday business terminology

SpaceOLAP
Infospace Inc.
San Mateo, CA;
www.infospace-inc.com
SpaceOLAP is a Java environment fthat allows server access and publishing of data stored in OLAP servers and multidimensional database management systems. SpaceOLAP gives users browser-based ad hoc access to multidimensional data sources and the ability to design and publish interactive presentations to other users over an intranet. Maintenance is centralized at the server with browser-based administration.

SpaceSQL
Infospace Inc.
San Mateo, CA;
www.infospace-inc.com
SpaceSQL is a Java-based SQL query, reporting, and charting tool for Web access to relational databases. It integrates graphical reporting with an intuitive, Web-based point-and-click interface for direct access to Oracle, Informix, Sybase, and other relational databases over an intranet. Maintenance is centralized at the server with browser-based administration.

SPSS for Windows
SPSS Inc.
Chicago, IL;
www.spss.com
SPSS for Windows is a statistical software package, featuring statistics, high-resolution graphics,and reporting and distributing capabilities

SQL Ace
Coad Solutions
Austin, TX;
www.coadcorp.com
SQL Ace is an ad hoc productivity tool for use by database development and support personnel. It provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface for execution of one or more SQL statements against ODBC-compliant databases.

SQL-Commander
Platinum Technology Inc.
Oakbrook Terrace, IL; 800-890-7528, 630-620-5000
www.platinum.com
SQL-Commander is a Windows-based query and editing tool for Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft SQL Server databases. By using a GUI, SQL-Commander simplifies the query process by allowing users to build multitable, multidatabase queries without writing complex SQL commands. It runs on all Windows platforms.

SQR Server
Sqribe Technologies
Menlo Park, CA; 800-505-4399
www.sqribe.com
SQR Server provides extraction, transformation,and reporting capabilities. With a single pass of the database, SQR produces multiple reports, Web pages, or datasets without degrading network or server performance. With SQR, you write one operation that can be deployed against more than 85 native OS and database combinations.

SQR Workbench
Sqribe Technologies
Menlo Park, CA; 800-505-4399
www.sqribe.com
SQR Workbench lets IS professionals access enterprise databases and create reports, Web pages, and datasets. Developers user SQR Workbench to define reports on Windows graphically and then deploy them against virtually any database and OS combination without recompiling. Web reports can be created from new or existing SQR reports with no programming, customized formatting, or viewer plug-ins required.

SSA-Name3
Search Software America
Old Greenwich, CT; 203-698-2399
www.searchsoftware.com
SSA-Name3 is a set of customizable name search tools and algorithms. It significantly improves the quality and performance of users name-search and matching applications and allows your systems to compensate for errors in spelling, phonetics, transcription, and word sequence as well as problems with foreign names, company names, common names, abbreviations, and missing words.

Statit
Statware Inc.
Corvallis, Oregon;
www.statware.com
Statit is a modular, interactive data-analysis system that lets users extract and analyze existing data, produce customer reports, and graphically display the analysis. It provides advanced statistics functions, including time series, regression, and ANOVA procedures. Statit exchanges and updates data in SQL databases and runs on Windows 95 and NT as well as most major Unix platforms.

SuperNova/Decision Query
SuperNova Inc.
New York, NY; 212-686-2650
www.supernova.com
SuperNova/Decision Query is a decision-support and management information tool for end-user and enterprise reporting in a multi-information and multiplatform environment. SuperNova/Decision Query lets end users intuitively create reports as well as a range of different business graphics based on a business view of the available data.

SuperQuery
Azmy Thinkware Inc.
Fort Lee, NJ; 201-947-1881
www.azmy.com
SuperQuery draws graphs, calculates statistics, and discovers important patterns hidden in your data. Using SuperQuery Wizards, you can read, query, summarize, drill down, classify, and organize your data. SuperQuery Office Edition analyzes data from Microsoft Excel and Access, and Discovery Edition analyzes data from most data sources.

Synchrony Enterprise
if...
Alameda, CA;
www.iftime.com
Synchrony Enterprise gives the full-scale enterprise data warehouse the ability to create complex queries, analyze changing dimensions over time, build change studies and drill across for sophisticated, in-depth analysis and reporting of business issues. Synchrony's ease of use and intuitive interface provide end users ad hoc query capability as well as creation of result sets to be used in subsequent reports.

The Ant Colony
Geppettos Workshop LLC
Hinsdale, IL; 630-986-8700
www.geppetto.com
The Ant Colony is a multidimensional (OLAP/DSS) access tool designed to access relational databases. End users create and run queries in an intuitive environment. Rapid analysis during the decision making process is possible because the Ant Colony selects the required tables based on the user's input dimensions.

The Data Mining Suite
Information Discovery Inc.
Hermosa Beach, CA; 310-937-3600
www.datamining.com
The Data Mining Suite is an integrated set of products for large-scale enterprisewide decision support and data mining. The system works directly on very large SQL repositories with no need for sample or extract files and delivers results on the Web.

The Knowledge Access Suite
Information Discovery Inc.
Hermosa Beach, CA; 310-937-3600
www.datamining.com
The Knowledge Access Suite provides business users with a gateway to knowledge that has been predistilled from data and is stored in a pattern base. Business users need not perform data analysis but simply query explainable knowledge on the intranet that has been automatically premined. The products in the Knowledge Access Suite are entirely Web based, making use of Java and JavaScript technologies, delivering knowledge through intuitive user interfaces on the corporate intranet.

Thoroughbred Query-IV
Thoroughbred Software
Somerset, NJ; 732-560-1377
www.tbred.com
Thoroughbred Query-IV is an extended SQL window that includes pick-and-choose windows; the ability to simplify database through use of schemas, save, retrieve and execute existing databases and access queries with report writer Thoroughbred Report-IV; and complete data definition through Thoroughbred Dictionary-IV, a fourth-generation language-based with complete integration to Thoroughbred IDOL-IV.

TM1 Server
Applix
Westboro, MA; 800-827-7549, 508-870-0700
www.applix.com
Applix provides Web access to the multidimensional engine, TM1 Server, in two phases. Phase one lets users connect to and navigate through data in a TM1 cube via any browser. Phase two allows realtime calculation and workgroup collaboration.

ValEX
Exchange Applications
Boston, MA; 617-737-2244
www.exapps.com
ValEX software provides an integrated suite of marketing and campaign-management applications that automates and accelerates an organization's entire marketing process -- from data mining and customer segmentation to idea generation and campaign execution, evaluation, and refinement.

Vision:Clearaccess
Sterling Software Inc.
Dallas, TX;
www.sterling.com
Vision:Clearaccess is a workstation-based information access, analysis, and rendering tool. Using wizard technology, users can build and distribute information ranging from simple queries to complex charts and multidimensional views of their business.

Vision:Journey
Sterling Software Inc.
Dallas, TX;
www.sterling.com
Vision:Journey is an intelligent data retrieval interface providing point-and-click query menus for database access and file management. Vision:Journey is a client system that works in conjunction with Vision:Inform, Vision:Results, and Vision:Inquiry on the enterprise server and enables users to access and download enterprise server data from multiple heterogeneous databases

Visualizer Workstation
Computer Science Innovations
Melbourne, FL;
www.csihq.com
Visualizer Workstation provides high-end cognitive engineering tools to probe complex datasets. Visualizer is used to wade through masses of data to discover nonintuitive characteristics and extract embedded information. It facilitates evaluation and communication of calculated and derived information through analysis of data in N-dimensional feature space.

WebFocus
Information Builders Inc.
New York, NY; 800-969-4636
www.ibi.com
WebFocus is a server-based reporting and analysis engine for publishing data and ad hoc reports via dynamic Web pages. WebFocus allows embedded links between existing HTML pages and dynamic data resident in any database. WebFocus exploits EDA middleware for access to more than 70 databases on more than 35 platforms.

WebIntelligence
Business Objects
San Jose, CA;
www.businessobjects.com
WebIntelligence is a multitier, thin-client decision-support system that provides ad hoc query, reporting, and analysis of information stored in data warehouses, data marts, and packaged applications. Its distributed architecture provides a cost-effective way to deploy DSS capabilities throughout the enterprise and beyond via intranet and extranet applications.

WebSqribe
Sqribe Technologies
Menlo Park, CA; 800-505-4399
www.sqribe.com
WebSqribe is a thin-client interface that runs within any standard Web browser. WebSqribe provides end-users the ability to locate and view any report or information object. Its familiar user interface and simple point-and-click operation give end users easy access to enterprise reports and information.

WizWhy
WizSoft Inc
Syosset, NY;
www.wizsoft.com
WizWhy is a data mining and pattern recognition tool that reads and analyzes data in ODBC-compliant databases. It reveals all if-then rules and mathematical formulas and calculates a significant level for each. WizWhy predicts new cases based on these discoveries.

Zanza Web Reports
Zanza Software Inc.
Redwood City, CA; 888-449-2692, 650-780-0600
www.zanza.com
Zanza's Web-based reporting tool is a Java solution for delivering live database reports as dynamic Web pages. It satisfies the information delivery requirements of those users who need easy-to-use, secure access to live data from corporate repositories running in relational databases like Oracle and who need customized and parameterized reports delivered to their browser. The thin-client Java and HTML solution means Zanza can be deployed economically on a scale of thousands of users to any platform -- including a network computer.

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