Enterprise Reporting Tools Brick

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Description

An enterprise reporting tool is one that allows NIH to gain a better understanding of its operations by putting critical information in the hands of all those who need it – employees, managers, partners, and the public.

An enterprise reporting tool must be configurable to meet the needs of its user base, capable of accessing information assets in the enterprise based on access rights, and must support wide-scale deployment.

Enterprise reporting tools as defined above generally contain several types of functionality, from generic reporting capabilities (including report design) to robust ad hoc querying and online analytical processing (OLAP) capabilities or business intelligence (BI).

Brick Information
Tactical (0-2 years)	Strategic (2-5 years)
Lightweight (Reporting) Adobe Acrobat 6.0 (Non-Web) BusinessObjects Crystal Enterprise 9.5 (Web) FileMaker (MAC) MS Office 2002 / 2003 (Non-Web) Heavyweight (Reporting, Ad-Hoc Querying, Analysis - BI) BusinessObjects or Microstrategy 7I Statistical Reporting SAS	Lightweight (Reporting) BusinessObjects Crystal Enterprise 10+ (Web) MS Office OR Adobe Acrobat (Non-Web) Heavyweight (Reporting, Ad-Hoc Querying, Analysis – BI)
Retirement (To be eliminated)	Containment (No new development)
	Cognos (C/S) Crystal Reports Hummingbird BI Query KnowledgeStorm Actuate Server 6/7i MS Office 2000 Neon Shadow PDF.Lib SPSS
Baseline (Today)	Emerging (To track)
Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Business Objects Crystal Enterprise 8.5, 9.5 Cognos Cognos (Client Server) Cognos PowerPlay Crystal Report 8 FileMaker (MAC) Hummingbird BI Query (Report/Query Focused) InfoMaker(PowerBuilder) InetSoft Style Report KnowledgeStorm Actuate Server Software 6/7i Microstrategy 7I MS Office 2000, 2002, 2003 Neon Shadow Oracle 9I App Server PDF.Lib SAS (Strong Stat Analysis) SPSS (Stat Analysis)	Merging vendor capabilities, such as Crystal Reports and Business Objects Future reporting/business intelligence vendor products, such as Microstrategy Report Svcs/BII, Cognos ReportNet/Powerplay, and MS SQL Server Reporting Services Future PDF-based products, such as Adobe Lightweight tools with strong 508 capabilities, such as Infragistics Net Advantage BI Platforms, such as ProClarity and SpotFire Lightweight embedded reporting tools, such as InetSoft Style Report

Comments

Vendors listed above must be Section 508 compliant by October 1, 2004 and must have completed a valid VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template - http://www.itic.org/archives/ITI%20Voluntary%20Product%20Accessibility%20Template.htm) form.
Vendors with outstanding Section 508 compliance issues have been placed in Containment.
Products with industry leading BI capabilities have been included as heavyweight querying/analysis Tactical options.
Products with strong lightweight non-web and web reporting capabilities have been included in Tactical and Strategic.
Tactical and Strategic products were selected to leverage NIH's investment in products that are a proven fit for NIH's known future needs. Leveraging baseline products in the future will minimize the operations, maintenance, support and training costs of new products.
Some baseline products have been designated retirement and containment. These products are either not as widely or successfully deployed at NIH, or they do not provide as much functionality, value, or Total Cost of Ownership as the selected tactical and strategic products.