A’dam – October, 7th 2007 – SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) and Business Objects S.A. (Nasdaq:BOBJ) (Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 – BOB) today announced that the companies have reached an agreement that will bring together two of the information technology industry’s leaders, resulting in an unmatched offering for Business Users, enabling timely and accurate decision-making. [Read more...]
Business Intelligence Software Growth Shows Dramatic Drop In U.S.
January 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Revenue for BI software exceeded $5.1 billion worldwide last year, Gartner said in a report released Thursday. Oracle, SAP, IBM, and Microsoft, meanwhile, have gone from making up just one-fifth of the market to owning two-thirds of it in a year, Gartner noted. That’s largely because Oracle acquired Hyperion, SAP nabbed Business Objects, and IBM acquired Cognos. Microsoft continues to grow in BI primarily from in-house developed software plus a few important smaller acquisitions, such as ProClarity.
Source: www.intelligententerprise.com
Business Intelligence Teams Up With SaaS
January 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Now that both established vendors and upstarts offer BI applications as on-demand services, more customers are saying yes to SaaS – gaining faster deployment, and speedier access to reporting data.
Ask Dennis Hernreich, COO and CFO of Casual Male Retail Group, what his life was like before he switched to an on-demand business intelligence reporting application, and he remembers the frustration all too easily.
BI: The Year in Review
January 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
by Stephen Swoyer, a technology writer based in Athens, Ga.
Despite the tumult in the global financial markets, 2008 was relatively calm for BI professionals. In contrast to 2007, when the three biggest BI pure-play vendors (Hyperion, Business Objects, and Cognos) were acquired by larger, non-BI vendors, the year past was a sleepy one. There were the requisite acquisitions, to be sure, but nothing comparable to the domino-toppling wave of consolidation that swept the industry in 2007.
