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There are 9 vendors on the core list for 2008, same number as last year. This may surprise some people after all of the mergers and resulting consolidation of 2007. The fact is that some vendors that were not on this list before have now made it because of their acquisitions. Therefore, while the number is the same, the names of the vendors on the list have changed quite a bit. In addition, some smaller vendors that have been around for awhile have broadened their product set or customer base or both and now merit inclusion. Here now, in alphabetical order, are the core performance management vendors for 2008.

Adaptive Planning
Clarity Systems
IBM/Cognos
Infor
Longview systems
Microsoft
Oracle
SAP
SAS

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Six months later, the former prediction seems to have prevailed. Microsoft-centric integrators and IT pros are highly enthused about the PerformancePoint product: many are already working with it — some in production environments — while others are anxious to put it through its paces in their own environments.

“Combining PerformancePoint Server with Reporting Services and Excel provides a delivery mechanism that encompasses just about everyone in the organization. I find it to be an incredibly powerful tool,” Craig Utley, a mentor with Solid Quality Mentors and a former program manager with the SQL Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft, told Enterprise Strategies. Like many PerformancePoint boosters, Utley is a big proponent of Microsoft’s all-in-one BI stack.

“I find the current Microsoft BI stack to be the most comprehensive suite out there. Integration Services serves many needs beyond just BI, but for BI it’s incredibly flexible. It contains a number of powerful transformations and the ability to write custom transformations in .NET makes it virtually unlimited,” he comments.