A’dam – January, 6th 2008 – As the amount of stored information increases further, the year 2008 will be the start of a slugfest among business intelligence software providers. Among the protagonists, not surprisingly, are IBM, Oracle and SAP. [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
IBM’s Cognos Upgrades Business Intelligence Software Suite
January 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
One theme of the release is ensuring the consistency and quality of data that resides throughout a company and is used for BI. The upgraded suite includes integration with IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary, which contains standard business terms defined by a company; another feature lets data modelers trace back the lineage of data using InfoSphere master-data management technology. They could see where data warehouse information used in a Cognos report came from, for example, and where that warehouse got the data from.
See the full article at Information Week.
