Project Management Software Systems: Requirements, Selection Process and Products
Updated in April 2013, the seventh edition of BARC's successful "Project Management Software Systems" report is a comprehensive guide for companies undertaking a project management software selection program.
If you are planning to purchase project management software for your organization, this report from BARC puts the facts at your fingertips to help you select the best tool to match your requirements. As well as containing detailed reviews of 26 leading products on the market, this report will give you all the background information you need to conduct a swift and successful evaluation and selection project.
Each product evaluated in this report is assessed or scored on the same criteria so that product comparisons can be made easily. A 'product assessment' and 'assessment summary' at the end of each review gives you an easily digestible overview of the strengths and weaknesses of the tool.
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The BI Survey 12: The ultimate end-user review of the BI market
And for the first time ever, we are making the survey data available via an iPad App, a powerful and portable analysis tool that enables you to run your own product comparison reports on-the-go. Our web-based analysis tool The BI Survey Analyzer also returns this year. The BI Survey Analyzer allows you to create numerous custom reports and charts including:
- A breakdown of the responses for each question in the survey
- Comparisons of leading BI products across a number of key criteria
- Crosstab analyses displaying the summary of results from two separate survey questions
If you are planning, or embarking on, a business intelligence selection project, this unique resource will give you invaluable insights into how the products on your shortlist stack up against each other. And for organizations operating in the BI industry, The BI Survey 12 provides priceless market research data revealing what end-users really think about your product.
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The Dashboard Verdict by Wayne Eckerson
The way in which dashboards typically allow business users to quickly consume information on their own terms has attracted many organizations to dashboard tools. Most vendors now offer dashboarding capabilities and the assortment of functionality, interfaces and data architectures available is wide-ranging.
The Dashboard Verdict eases buyers through the market by clearly explaining the various types of dashboard software available, enabling you to quickly draw up a shortlist of products that match your business requirements. In the second half of the report, six popular dashboard tools are put through their paces in a series of detailed, vendor-independent product reviews.
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The BI Verdict: BI software evaluations and tool selection advice
Subscribers gain access to vendor independent evaluations of around 40 BI products, a series of in-depth analyses and insightful commentaries to support your BI project, and a summary of the key findings from The BI Survey.
The BI Verdict combines expert opinion with real-world end-user feedback to provide a rounded perspective which will help to ensure you choose the solution to match your requirements and deliver business benefits. Many hours of consulting time and internet research would not yield anything close to the amount and quality of vendor-independent information and advice that The BI Verdict provides.
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Big Data Survey Europe: Usage, Technology and Budgets in European Best-Practice Companies
This study is based on an empirical survey exploring the usage of big data in European companies. 274 business and IT decision-makers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and the UK completed the online survey in the second half of 2012.
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