MPC Scores Highest in Performance Management Vendor and Product Scorecard
The Ventana Research Scorecard provides a rating for each vendor’s and product’s compliance to the Ventana Research PerformanceCycle™ methodology. Based on the research and assessment methodology, we ranked the vendors to determine the best fit for enabling Performance Management. Here is a summary of the findings for the overall ranking as well as rankings for the Align, Optimize and Understand steps.

Overall – Summary of Results
The overall winner was MPC Corporate Performance Management bundle 7.0, which had 97.3% compliance to the questions. It was followed by SymphonyRPM 4.5 at 90.1% and Cognos 8 BI Professional at 89.8%. The following vendors’ products round out the top 10 positions (including ties) by rank: Business Objects EPM Enterprise Premium bundle, 85.3%; Oracle Business Intelligence 10g and OutlookSoft Everest 4 both 82.9%; Actuate 8 Enterprise Reporting Platform, 79.8%; Corporate Radar 7.0 and arcplan dynaSight, both 79.1%; Epistemic, 78.4%; Pilot Software PilotWorks and Siebel Systems Business analytics, 78.1%, and Hyperion Essbase 7, 77.4%. The remaining vendors are ranked in the Participating Vendors and Compliance Percentage section of this report.

Align – Summary of Results
This step makes sure that actions and plans are directly related to reaching the goals, objectives and initiatives set out by executives and management. It enables you to align the workforce to performance goals and ensure they clearly define, communicate and coordinate targets, score performance, and provide appropriate rewards and incentives. This step includes defining targets and rewards while setting up automated notifications of the scores to the workforce.
The overall winner for this category was MPC Corporate Performance Management bundle 7.0, which had 96.6% compliance to the questions. It was followed by Cognos 8 BI Professional at 88.6% and SymphonyRPM 4.5 at 86.4%. The following vendors round out the top 10 (including ties) by rank: Pilot Software PilotWorks Winter 2005, 84.1%; Business Objects EPM Enterprise Premium Bundle, 80.7%; arcplan dynaSight, 78.4%; Corporate Radar 7 and OutlookSoft Everest 4, both 77.3%; Siebel Systems Business Analytics Performance Scorecard, 76.1%; Longview Khalix 3.4.3, 73.9%; and Information Builders WebFocus Reporting Server and Tools 5.3, 72.7%. The remaining vendors are ranked in the Participating Vendors and Compliance Percentage section of this report.

Optimize – Summary of Results
This step prepares for future actions and decisions to define the goals, objectives and initiatives as set out in the Align step. It enables an organization to determine through planning and collaborating how the workforce and operations can improve their value to the organization. This step includes projecting the potential through forecasting and planning, collaborating on actions, and integrating recommended actions to improve performance.
The overall winner for this category was MPC Corporate Performance Management bundle 7.0, which had 95.4% compliance to the questions. It was followed by SymphonyRPM 4.5 at 90.8% and Oracle Business Intelligence 10g at 87.7%. The following vendors round out the top 10 (including ties) by rank: arcplan dynaSight 4, 83.1%; Cognos 8 BI, 78.5%; Business Objects EPM Enterprise Premium Bundle, 76.9%; Hyperion Essbase 7X, 73.8%; Epistemic Analytic Visibility Suite 2.0, 72.3%; OutlookSoft Everest 4, ProClarity Power User Client bundle and QlikView Enterprise 6, all at 70.8%; and Cartesis ES Magnitude, 69.2%. The remaining vendors are ranked in the Participating Vendors and Compliance Percentage section of this report.

Understand – Summary of Results
This step reviews the historical performance of people and processes. It enables you to understand how results impact the organization. This step enables management to access information and analysts to iterate through modeling, discovery and interactions on the information, the measurement of performance and ongoing monitoring.
The overall winner for this category was MPC Corporate Performance Management Bundle 7.0, which had 98.6% compliance to the questions. It was followed by Cognos 8 BI Professional and Oracle Business Intelligence 10g, both at 95.7%, and Actuate Enterprise Reporting Platform 8.0 at 94.2%. The following vendors round out the top 10 (including ties) by rank: Corporate Radar 7, 92.8%; SymphonyRPM 4.5 and OutlookSoft Everest 4, both 92.1%; CA CleverPath Forest & Trees r7.1, Hyperion Essbase 7X and QlikView Enterprise 6, all at 88.5%; Applix TM1 Planning v8.3 and ,Vanguard Solutions GPS Power User, 87.8%; Epistemic Analytic Visibility Suite 2.0, 87.1%; Cartesis ES Magnitude and Siebel Business Analytics – Siebel Answers 7.7, 842%; and Silvon Stratum Suite 4.1, 83.5%. The remaining vendors are ranked in the Participating Vendors and Compliance Percentage section of this report.