Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms 2008
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Well, this is nearly a month old piece of news that was released by Gartner. Nevertheless its very interesting and I had my own take-aways from this article.
Do read to get a grip of how the vendors are aligned to each other in the competing race for Business Intelligence Supremacy !!
From the Gartner article, Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008 -
Megavendors are beginning to dominate the BI market — in less than one year, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and IBM will have gone from accounting for a quarter of the market to owning over two-thirds of it. As such, the “Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008″ reflects the tipping point at which the market moves away from being led by independent BI vendors like Business Objects and Cognos, to one where the megavendors rule. Future BI investment decisions will be tethered much more closely to strategic sourcing and stack-led factors, and will be more influenced by organizational relationships with application and infrastructure vendors.
During the same period, “flattening” factors — including the maturing of Microsoft’s BI portfolio, the adoption of Web 2.0 techniques, the growth of open-source BI and the continued emergence of software as a service (SaaS) offerings — have made BI capabilities more accessible and affordable than they have ever been. As a result, this Magic Quadrant includes commentary on some emerging vendors which, while not yet meeting the inclusion criteria for the Magic Quadrant itself, offer a viable alternative for some BI use-cases.
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