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From Informatica Press Release, this is an important win for Informatica.

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading independent provider of data integration software and services, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders’ quadrant in the 2008 Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools report.

Ted Friedman and Andreas Bitterer, authors of the report state, “leaders in the market demonstrate strength across a complete range of data quality functionality, including profiling, parsing, standardization, matching, validation and enrichment. They exhibit a clear understanding and vision of where the market is headed, including recognition of noncustomer data quality issues and the delivery of enterprise-level data quality implementations. Leaders have an established market presence, significant size and a multinational presence.”

According to the report, “growth, innovation and volatility (via mergers and acquisitions) continue to shape the market for data quality tools. Investment on the part of buyers and vendors is increasing as organizations recognize the value of these tools in master data management and information governance initiatives.” The complete report, including the quadrant graphic, is available on the Informatica web site at http://www.informatica.com/dq_mq/.

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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.