Competition

AZMY
Thinkware, Inc


		Competition Comparison
Competition		Unlike other software applications, you can use more than one Data Analysis and Mining tool. The more analysis power you have in your tool set, the more knowledge you can extract from your data. Here is a comparison with other leading Desktop Data Mining products.

Company	Product	URL	Price
AZMY Thinkware, Inc.	SuperQuery Discovery Edition	www.azmy.com	$450
AZMY Thinkware, Inc.	SuperQuery Office Edition	www.azmy.com	$50
Business Objects	BusinessMiner	www.businessobjects.com	*$995
Cognos	SCENARIO	www.cognos.com	$695
Wizsoft	WizWhy	www.wizsoft.com	$3995

Data Source	AZMY SuperQuery Discovery	AZMY SuperQuery Office	Business Objects BusinessMiner	Cognos Scenario	WizSoft WizWhy
Open Microsoft Excel and Access	ü	ü	Additional tool (1)	Additional tool (2)	?
Open xBASE, Paradox, and Text files directly	ü		Additional tool (1)	Additional tool (2)	?
Open most databases using ODBC drivers.	ü		Additional tool (1)	Additional tool (2)	?

Query and analysis	AZMY SuperQuery Discovery	AZMY SuperQuery Office	Business Objects BusinessMiner	Cognos Scenario	WizSoft WizWhy
Visual Query Creation -- no programming or SQL required.	ü	ü	Additional tool (1)	Additional tool (3)
Quick Filters	ü	ü
Easy Indexing of data tables.	ü	ü	Additional tool (1)	Additional tool (3)
Automatically create graphs that shows common values, exceptions, high, and low values	ü	ü
Automatically create Total, Min, Max, Average, etc.. for values in the current column.	ü	ü

OLAP	AZMY SuperQuery Discovery	AZMY SuperQuery Office	Business Objects BusinessMiner	Cognos Scenario	WizSoft WizWhy
Clustering numerical data	ü	ü		ü
Classifying data by performing comprehensive criteria.	ü	ü	Additional tool (1)	ü
Textual analysis	ü	ü
Visual creation of formula and calculations.	ü		Additional tool (1)	Additional tool (3)

Multi-Table analysis	AZMY SuperQuery Discovery	AZMY SuperQuery Office	Business Objects BusinessMiner	Cognos Scenario	WizSoft WizWhy
Open and link multi-table	ü		Additional tool (1)	Additional tool (3)
Synchronize related views of linked tables.	ü

Multi-Dimensional analysis	AZMY SuperQuery Discovery	AZMY SuperQuery Office	Business Objects BusinessMiner	Cognos Scenario	WizSoft WizWhy
Create Summaries and grouping data.	ü	ü	?	Additional tool (3)
Drill Down analysis on the summarized data	ü	ü

Data Mining	AZMY SuperQuery Discovery	AZMY SuperQuery Office	Business Objects BusinessMiner	Cognos Scenario	WizSoft WizWhy
Intelligent Fact finding engine (No preparation is required for the data)	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Find Facts (rules or patterns) and Exceptions or Errors.	ü	ü			ü
Report facts in an easy to read " If...then" rules or "All / Most" statements.	ü	ü			ü
Report facts as a Table so that you can re-analyze the Factbase itself.	ü
Drill Down analysis on the discovered facts	ü
Uses Rule Induction technique	ü	ü			ü
Supports Decision Tree			ü	ü
Predicts the values of future cases					ü
Advanced options to control the search process.	ü

Organizing data	AZMY SuperQuery Discovery	AZMY SuperQuery Office	Business Objects BusinessMiner	Cognos Scenario	WizSoft WizWhy
Organize your views into tabs.	ü	ü
Create new tabs	ü	ü
Create new tab levels and tabs within tabs		ü

Reporting	AZMY SuperQuery Discovery	AZMY SuperQuery Office	Business Objects BusinessMiner	Cognos Scenario	WizSoft WizWhy
Facts and Rules	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Graphs				Additional tool (3)
Queries	ü	ü		Additional tool (3)

Ease of use	AZMY SuperQuery Discovery	AZMY SuperQuery Office	Business Objects BusinessMiner	Cognos Scenario	WizSoft WizWhy
Wizards to help user reading and analyzing data	ü	ü	Additional tool (1)
Online help	ü	ü	ü	ü	ü
Tutorials	ü	ü		ü

* $495 if bought with BusinessObjects

Additional tool (1) BusinessObjects

Additional tool (2) Using Impromput $895

Additional tool (3) Using PowerPlay $695

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