In 2004, companies will grade CPM solutions based on a suite’s ability to provide integration among modules, strong enterprise reporting, advanced planning capabilities, OLAP, and easy-to-deploy dashboards. Successful vendors will be those that satisfy the checklist and offer customers flexibility in licensing components of their suites. The likes of Cognos and MicroStrategy have a short-term integration advantage over their competitors that still need to overcome the product integration hurdle. Hyperion’s acquisition of Brio and Business Objects’ acquisition of Crystal Decisions present a product integration limitation in the shorter term.”]
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