Industry Analyst References

 

Gartner

Bill Hostmann
VP & Research Director, BI
Kurt Schlegel
Program Director, BI

Ventana Research

Mark Smith
CEO & EVP of Research 
Robert Kugel
CFA, VP & Research Director, Financial Performance Management

IDC

Dan Vesset
Research Director, Analytics

The Data Warehousing Institute

Wayne Eckerson
Research Director 
Philip Russom
Senior Manager of Research and Services

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Analyst Quotes

 

IDC

"As Performancesoft enhances the Views solution, the commitment to customer satisfaction is clear, as they continually incorporate features their users require into new product releases. The latest version of Views includes: state of the art enterprise deployment capabilities, an impressive and intuitive user interface, and advanced integration to back end systems. With Views Version 7.0, Performancesoft delivers the next generation of Performance Management capabilities that complements the enterprise information infrastructure of most organizations."

Kathleen Wilhide, Research Director, Compliance and Business Performance Management

Centre for Business Performance, Cranfield School of Management

"With enhanced web functionality, Views Version 7.0 once again raises the bar of Performance Management solutions from Performancesoft. By seamlessly integrating data administration into its Web capabilities, Views delivers true Performance Management results by empowering enterprises, regardless of the size and complexity of their initiatives, to manage, and act upon, right time performance data."

Bernard Marr, Research Fellow

Butler Group

"Performancesoft approaches Corporate Performance Management from the point of view of supporting the needs of business users. This has resulted in an interface and series of capabilities that deliver an extremely rich user experience, blending different views of data together with a level of dimensionality that I have not seen in other solutions."

Ian Charlesworth, Senior Research Analyst

IDC

"Version 6.0 adds an exciting new element to the Performance Management offering from Views. The new Performance Maps feature facilitates the ability for users to navigate from strategic to operational measures in a concise and integrated fashion. In true Views style, the flexibility of Performance Maps provides not only Strategy Maps, but capabilities such as: Cause-and-Effect Mapping, Business Flow Charting and Geographical Measurements; while also providing access to the underlying detail in Views' intuitive Briefing Book and Performance Views displays."

Henry Morris, Group VP, Applications and Information Access