Oracle has acquired Hyperion, a leading provider of performance management software. Hyperion solutions enable customers to measure results and gain new insights on their business within the market. The transaction extends Oracle's business intelligence capabilities to offer the most comprehensive system for enterprise performance management.

URL: www.hyperion.com

Microsoft is an international company that delivers analytical tools and solutions that enable organizations to learn from the past, understand what is happening today, and anticipate the future in order to manage it effectively. SQL Server 2005 is an end-to-end business intelligence solution for the Windows platform that enables customers to quickly implement analytical solutions to meet their current and future business intelligence needs.

URL: www.microsoft.com

The world's largest enterprise software company, Oracle is the only vendor to offer solutions for every tier of your business from database, middleware, enterprise performance management, enterprise resource planning, and business intelligence. Leading the way from an Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence perspective, Oracle delivers applications and technology that provide organizations the tools to greatly improve business processes and gain valuable insight into organizational performance metrics.

URL: www.oracle.com

IBM is a global leader in information technology solutions and services. In the Business Intelligence market, IBM delivers powerful software to provide a fast, scalable database built for today's complex requirements, integrated, easy-to-use data warehousing tools to get started quickly, and industry-leading analytical tools to gain the insights that can make a difference to the bottom line.

URL: www.ibm.com

ProClarity solutions assist companies to convert data assets into usable information and business insight. Such analytical solutions enable companies to fully understand their customers, markets, and business operations.

URL: www.proclarity.com