The BI Survey 10 confirms arcplan again

For the seventh time in a row - Leading 3rd party
BI front end

The BI Survey 10 has again confirmed arcplan as a leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions for companies with a heterogeneous systems infrastructure. This is especially true for SAP, Oracle and IBM environments. 

Especially in SAP environments arcplan Enterprise proves its sustainability because it was named the leading 3rd party frontend for the seventh time in a row.

The survey verifies arcplan’s leading position in the market for frontends for multidimensional databases. Over the last year, utilization of arcplan grew especially for IBM Cognos TM1 and Oracle Essbase environments. For the latter, 32 percent of Essbase users responded that they use arcplan for their reports and analysis, up from 13 percent in last year’s survey. This makes arcplan Enterprise by far the most essential third-party frontend to Essbase, besting many of Oracle’s own frontends. Prominent organizations such as Turner Broadcasting, Wegmans, Sodexo, IMAX, and Deutsche Telekom are using arcplan Enterprise to analyze their Essbase data, solidifying its top spot in this year’s ranking.

Thirteen percent of SAP BW users replied that they use arcplan for their reports, reconfirming arcplan as the leading third-party frontend for the 7th time in a row and demonstrating its popularity in some cases over SAP’s own tools.

As for being named the BI tool with the broadest connectivity to server platforms, arcplan’s customers are seeing value from its wide array of communication interfaces. New partnerships in 2011 have yielded even greater access to data sources like Teradata and Oracle OLAP via Simba Technologies’ MDX Provider.  

Moreover the study proves that customers employ arcplan Enterprise on more data bases than other software vendors and that arcplan is ahead of Information Builders, Oracle and IBM.

“In SAP environments we’ve been enormously successful for several years now as a certified third-party BI front end provider,” said Roland Hoelscher, arcplan’s CEO. “Our scores in The BI Survey 10, which ranks us as number one for the sixth year in a row, are based on statements from multiple customers who rely on arcplan Enterprise every day.”

The BI Survey 10 is published bei the Business Application Research Centers (BARC) and analyses the answers of 3.000 customers globally. More details about the study can be found at www.bi-survey.com.