IBM Cognos is a suite of business intelligence and performance management software, that includes dashboards, reports, forecasting, visualization & automation.
SAP Business Intelligence is a SAP product which majorly focuses on providing its customers/organizations with a user friendly and very useful form of representing data that could be helpful for analyses purpose and making business decisions.
Tableau Software is a business intelligence and analytics solution that offers a range of integrated products to help users visualize and understand their data.
IBM Planning Analytics is a cloud-based solution that promises to automate planning, budgeting and forecasting processes for organizations of any size.
The Windows Azure Platform enables businesses to run critical applications with a higher performance-price ratio by running them on the services platforms data centers on a pay-as-you-go basis.