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U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Senior Software Applications Analyst Tad W. Piper recently released a new in-depth report, entitled Business Intelligence and Analytical Applications: What Gets Measured, Gets Done. In the report, Piper examines the drivers causing growth in the business intelligence and analytical applications industry, as well as the technology differences between business intelligence and analytical applications. In addition, the report details the competitive landscape within the industry, including the innovators, the leaders and the struggle between pure-plays and major infrastructure or enterprise resource planning (ERP) players entering the market. To examine the trends facing the business intelligence industry, Piper recently hosted the Business Intelligence and Analytics Symposium in New York. The highly successful event featured four panel discussions with representatives from the leading business intelligence and analytical applications vendors, including industry experts and executives from Actuate Corp. (ACTU, not rated, $2.82), Alphablox Corp., Ascential Software Corp (ASCL, not rated, $23.77), Cognos Incorporated (COGN, Outperform, $32.66), Informatica Corporation (INFA, not rated, $10.40), Information Builders, Hyperion Solutions Corporation (HYSL, Strong Buy, $30.97), ProClarity Corporation, Siebel Systems (SEBL, Market Perform, $13.44) and SPSS Inc. (SPSS, not rated, $18.40).