We evaluated Birst and SplashBI.

As far as the application layer goes, reporting-wise, SQL Server Reporting Services and Crystal Reports are the ones that we're looking at, if we move from Oracle BI.

The only other thing that we're really looking at is what platforms they're available on. One of our goals is that it has to be on a Linux platform. Moving forward, as far as the end-user is concerned, we're looking for the lowest overhead for them. Because we already have BI, that already has its advantages built into it because the learning curve is lower for that versus other applications.

I don't know whether other options were evaluated; I am just the implementer.