Advanced Analytics: Cognos vs. BOBJ?

[Doug Heywood]

Can anyone tell me who has the best OLAP capability?

On the BOBJ side, your have:

• Voyager - Explore OLAP data using a tool designed specifically for financial and business analysts—one that delivers a full range of functions to analyze multi-dimensional data sets.
• Set Analysis - Define, track, and analyze segments, such as good customers, bad suppliers, and at-risk customers, impact your business.
• Predictive Workbench - Predictive Workbench integrates with your existing business intelligence (BI) environment allowing for efficient discovery of interesting and predictive findings.

And COGNOS has:

• Business Intelligence Analysis - Analysis enables the guided exploration of information that pertains to all dimensions of your business, regardless of where the data is stored. Analyze and report against online analytical processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational sources.
• BI Analysis for Microsoft Excel - For those who want to explore and perform multidimensional analysis on IBM Cognos 8 BI data in their spreadsheet.
• TM1 - TM1 software provides a real-time approach to consolidating, viewing, and editing enormous volumes of multidimensional data. Using a patented, 64-bit, in-memory OLAP server.

So who wins today?

[dflaks]

Hi Doug
Obviously a little biased here working for Cognos/IBM.....but if I were you I would grab some reading material from the analyst firms such as OLAP Report, Gartner etc. They are talking about In-Memory solutions as the way of the future and the only one that fits that category below is TM1.
regs
Dave

[Doug Heywood]

Thanks for the tip dflaks!

I went and looked into Gartner's BI research (of which there is a lot) and found some useful stuff. TM1 seems to have a long standing and enthusiastic user community. I am not sure I can afford to look at in-memory yet as that means I have to go through an IT Infrastructure process which takes months , but I will look at alternatives.

I'm trying to start-up a little 'clandestine' project rather than formally apply for funding - that could change but not yet.

The search continues ...