Feature Comparison Checklist
BIQ Others
Flexible Deployment
Over the web
Behind the firewall
On a personal laptop
Multiple servers/mixed mode
Power
Sub-second drill times on 20M+ transactions
Supports 100M+ transaction datasets
Builds a Global 1000 dataset in minutes
Instant changes to hierarchies and rules
No hours-long "cooking" or "pre-calculation" or "publishing"
Multi-threaded engine
Multiple datasets per server
Analysis & Reporting
Treemaps
Graphs
Crosstabs
Without server degradation
Multidimensional crosstabs
Automatic Excel pivot table generation
Ad hoc reporting and Excel model population
Sensitive to drill position
Multidimensional extracts
Booked (paged) reports by dimensional values
Ability to change dataset structure instantly to support
   new views
All analysis results can be exported to common formats
Creating and Modifying Datasets
Powerful input file translation tool
Index linkage
Index to index linkage
Real-time dimension and hierarchy editing
Real-time rules generation and editing
Real-time dimension creation/cloning
Complete dataset rebuild in minutes
All tools operable by business users
Create sub-dataset from filter(s)
Collaboration tools for multiple updates
Auto reconciliation on refresh
Data Display & Filtering
No awkward "pivoting"
Multiple measures
Alternate measures (from filter)
Dimensional measures
Alternate names
Sorting by any name or measure
Stored filters
Real-time filter modification
Stack-based filter history
Free form filter history
"All others" nodes
Mark & filter
Retain marks across display sets
Retain marks across filters
Filter impact
Search
Search by exact match
Search by pattern matching (regex)
Fuzzy search
Search within block
Filter on search
Mark on search
Search from dimension editor
Search and mark
Search, mark, and sweep