Analytics & Reporting

WINNER

Composite Software Inc.
Composite Information Server 3.0

With IT systems yielding ever-more real-time data, analytics and reporting tools are no longer the province of back-office gnomes.

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Front-line managers want to take advantage of up- to-the-minute info, in the context of previous levels and trends, to make their decisions before opportunities fade. Theyre not prepared, though, to rip out and replace their database investments or redesign their business around any IT vendors monolithic approach.

Superior response to this strategic mandate earned Composite Software (www.compositesw.com) its first trip to the eWEEK Excellence Awards winners circle, where the companys Composite Information Server took top honors for its combination of convenience for the developer and performance for the user.

"It took our ODBC sources, integrated them and produced a JDBC [Java Database Connectivity] source that was easily consumed, with just a configuration change rather than an application change," said user Gary Lien, IT architect at Life Time Fitness Inc., in Eden Prairie, Minn.

FINALISTS

Cognos Inc.
Cognos Enterprise Planning 7.2

IT has a crucial role in meeting rising expectations for corporate governance. Timeliness, accuracy and insight are more essential than ever to both internal staff and outside directors. Cognos Cognos Enterprise Planning aids both the forward-looking perspective of real-time operations and the backward-looking scrutiny of Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance. Cognos Enterprise Planning is a component of the suite that includes 2003 Excellence Awards finalist Cognos Metrics Manager.

Offering both browser and spreadsheet access to powerful data views, Cognos Enterprise Planning offers hope to those charged with putting data into a coherent picture. More information is at www.cognos.com.

Informatica Corp.
PowerExchange 5.2.1

Data-intensive systems demand the ability to notice and report change, rather than getting bogged down in repetitive trips through static records. PowerExchange features a Changed Data Capture facility that detects data updates and delivers them via real-time or batch interactions, with minimal need for custom code. That agility earned Finalist honors for this product from Informatica, whose Application 5 suite was an Excellence winner three years ago (www.informatica.com).

Judges liked the products ability to draw from mainframe, relational database or file-based data sources; its robust recovery from network faults and standards-based security also make PowerExchange well suited to the modern IT environment.

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