iTechNote

The Intelligent Enterprise Readers’ Choice Awards is an industry benchmark on how technology products are perceived and valued by users. It serves as good hints on which product to recommend to your customers.

There are 37 categories ranging from Business Intelligence Suite, ERP Software to DBMS. You won’t be surprised the most category winners are IBM and Microsoft on a tie with nine titles. The complete list is published on Intelligent Enterprise web site.

Few relatively unknown companies manage to get a title. If we concentrate only on the winners, they are WebTrends, SAS, NCR Teradata, Fair Isaac and BMC.

• WebTrends - Best Web Analytics Winner
• SAS - Best Data Mining or Statistical Analysis Winner
• NCR Teradata - Best Data Warehouse/BI Appliance Winner
• Fair Isaac - Best Business Rules Engine Winner
• BMC - Best Application Change Management Software Winner

Let’s look at each of them and get a brief idea of what they are offering.

WebTrends, a company that rides on the development of Web 2.0 offers search marketing automation. To market successfully on the Internet via search engines such as Google, sophisticated data analysis needs to be carried out on both traffic and customer data. WebTrends provides tools to bridge the business decisions making to the statistical nature of the data collected on a web site.

SAS is a leader in business intelligence software and services. BI is a set of concepts and methods to improve business decision making by using fact-based support systems. SAS offers the power to know the insight of your business today and tomorrow using BI techniques.

NCR Teradata, winner of the data-warehousing category, provides a single, integrated view to businesses. It provides the foundation for data mining a business’s past transactions and data.

Fair Isaac is the leading provider of decision management solutions powered by advanced analytics. The focus of the Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) solution is to enable precise, consistent and agile decision-making.

BMC is selling the concept of Business Service Management (BSM), the most effective approach for managing IT from the perspective of the business. IT managers that find it more difficult to meet executive demands will find the solution useful. The idea is to put business before technology.