Comments regarding some of the most common third-party report writers for matter management systems

Representatives from Mosaic Consulting attended Mitratech’s Interact 2011 Conference. Some of their material referred to the category of “Business Intelligence” software. I asked about it and the Mosaic folks, Chris Wilson in particular, told me that he believes Business Objects has the most presence. He pointed out that both TeamConnect of Mitratech and TyMetrix’s 360 have that package built into their offering.

Second would probably be Crystal, which Business Objects has acquired. Third would be Cognos followed by Actuate. I have written before about report writer packages (See my post of Dec. 18, 2006: five ways to obtain reports from matter management systems; Dec. 12, 2007: Pfizer and Business Objects for its dashboard; Feb. 15, 2009: matter management systems and report writers, with a few others listed from an ILTA survey;