Saturday, November 24, 2007

End of the best of breed in BI software firms

Business Intelligence software is hot. This year, three of the best-known BI companies have been scooped by the giants. Oracle acquired Hyperion, SAP is buying Business Objects and IBM this announced this month, that it is adding Cognos to its string of acquisitions.
The software industry is now dominated by these giants - Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle (excellent Business Week piece). Only SAS, Microstrategy and Teradata are left among the best of breed BI companies.

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