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- Oracle
- Microsoft
- IBM - Cognos
Oracle
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company, and the first to commercialize relational database technology.
IBM - Cognos
Business intelligence & corporate performance management software for better business decisions. All data, reports, plans, & scorecards- one view.
People + technology for your best decisionsGood decisions are the building blocks of great business performance. The performance management system from Cognos integrates software, services, best-practices, and partners.
The result – a common understanding and accountable actions based on answers to your performance management questions:
How are we doing?
Measuring and monitoring performance with scorecards and dashboards tracks your key metrics.
Why?
Reporting and analysis let you see data, gain context, understand trends, and spot anomalies.
What should we be doing?
Planning, budgets, and forecasts let you set and share a reliable view of the future.
Cognos identifies best-practice decision areas, or information sweet spots by business function:
- Finance
- Product Development
- Operations
- Human Resources
- Information Technology
- Customer Service
- Marketing
- Sales
- Executive Management
Microsoft
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Microsoft Corporation is a public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions.
For the 2010 fiscal year, Microsoft had five product divisions: Windows & Windows Live Division, Server and Tools, Online Services Division, Microsoft Business Division, and Entertainment and Devices Division.
Windows & Windows Live Division, Server and Tools, Online Services Division
The company's Client division produces the flagship Windows OS line such as Windows 7; it also produces the Windows Live family of products and services. Server and Tools produces the server versions of Windows, such as Windows Server 2008 R2 as well as a set of development tools called Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Silverlight, a web application framework, and Systems Management Server, a collection of tools providing remote-control abilities, patch management, software distribution and a hardware/software inventory. Other server products include: Microsoft SQL Server, a relational database management system, Microsoft Exchange Server, for certain business-oriented e-mail and scheduling features, Small Business Server, for messaging and other small business-oriented features; and Microsoft BizTalk Server, for business process management.
Microsoft provides IT consulting ("Microsoft Consulting Services") and produces a set of certification programs handled by the Server and Tools division designed to recognize individuals who have a minimal set of proficiencies in a specific role; this includes developers ("Microsoft Certified Solution Developer"), system/network analysts ("Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer"), trainers ("Microsoft Certified Trainers") and administrators ("Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator" and "Microsoft Certified Database Administrator"). Microsoft Press, which publishes books, is also managed by the division. The Online Services Business division handles the online service MSN and the search engine Bing. As of December 2009, the company also possesses an 18% ownership of the cable news channel MSNBC without any editorial control; however, the division develops the channel's website, msnbc.com, in a joint venture with the channel's co-owner, NBC Universal.
