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                                                               Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2007 Vendor
                                                               Shares: Query, Reporting, Analysis and Advanced
                                                               Analytics Markets Stable in the Face of Economic Turmoil
                                                               (Excerpt from IDC #212921)
                                                               Dan Vesset                            Brian McDonough


                                                               IN THIS EXCERPT
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                                                               The content for this excerpt was taken directly from the IDC Competitive Analysis
                                                               Report, Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2007 Vendor Shares: Query,
                                                               Reporting, and Analysis, and Advanced Analytics Markets Stable in the Face of
                                                               Economic Turmoil, by Dan Vesset and Brian McDonough (Doc # 212921). All or part
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                                                               of the following sections are included in this excerpt: IDC Opinion, In This Study,
                                                               Methodology, Situation Overview, Future Outlook, and Essential Guidance. Also
                                                               included are Tables 1-4 and Figure 1-5.
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                                                               IDC OPINION
                                                               In 2007, the business intelligence (BI) tools market remained an attractive investment
                                                               for software vendors and one of the top investment priorities for end-user
                                                               organizations. Driven by the need to support all decision makers, provide faster
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                                                               access to a wider set of information, and optimize business processes, the market will
                                                               continue to experience healthy investment levels. In 2007, the BI tools market was
                                                               characterized by the following trends:

                                                                    The market grew 12.1% to reach $7.05 billion in worldwide software revenue.

                                                                    The advanced analytics segment of the BI tools market grew faster than the
                                                                    query, reporting, and analysis (QRA) segment.

                                                                    Three large, and several smaller, acquisitions were announced or completed in
                                                                    2007 that significantly impacted the composition of the largest suppliers of BI
                                                                    tools. Following a spike in merger and acquisition activity over the past two
                                                                    years, IDC expects that an influx of new, innovative start-ups focused on various
                                                                    niches of the BI market will occur over the next 2–5 years.

                                                                    The definition of what constitutes BI software has begun to evolve. While IDC is
                                                                    not expecting to change the taxonomy of the specific software tools included in
                                                                    the BI software market, certain content analysis tools are beginning to be viewed
                                                                    as part of the overall BI architecture.

                                                                    Business decision makers showed a growing awareness about the potential
                                                                    benefits of BI technology. This trend is signaling the beginning of a broader shift
                                                                    in decision-making power for BI technology purchases from IT to business.



                                                               Filing Information: June 2008, IDC #212921e, Volume: 1
                                                               Special Reports: Excerpt
IN THIS STUDY
This IDC study examines the BI tools market for the period from 2005 to 2007.
Worldwide market size is provided for 2007, with trends from 2005. Revenue and
market share of the leading vendors is provided for 2007. This study also provides
profiles of leading vendors and identifies the characteristics that vendors will need to
be successful in the BI market, and the considerations that end users should evaluate
to assure successful BI projects.

The vendor shares and competitive analysis contained herein update those found in
Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2006 Vendor Shares (IDC #207422, June
2007).


Methodology

See the Learn More section for a description of the data collection and analysis
methodology employed in this study.

In addition, please note the following:

    The information contained in this study was derived from IDC's Software Market
    Forecaster database as of June 10, 2008.

    All numbers in this document may not be exact due to rounding.

    For more information on IDC's software definitions and methodology, see IDC's
    Software Taxonomy, 2008 (IDC #210828, February 2008).


Business Intelligence Tools Market Definition

IDC defines the BI tools market as being made up of two market segments: end-user
query, reporting, and analysis (QRA) and advanced analytics:

    End-user query, reporting, and analysis. End-user QRA software includes ad-
    hoc query and multidimensional analysis tools as well as dashboards and
    production reporting tools. Query and reporting tools are designed specifically to
    support ad hoc data access and report building by either IT or business users.
    This category does not include other application development tools that may be
    used for building reports but are not specifically designed for that purpose. Multi-
    dimensional analysis tools include both online analytical processing (OLAP)
    servers and client-side analysis tools that provide a data management
    environment used for modeling business problems and analyzing business data.
    Packaged data marts, which are pre-configured software combining data
    transformation, management, and access in a single package, usually with
    business models, are also included in this functional market.

    Advanced analytics. Advanced analytics software includes data mining and
    statistical software. It uses technologies such as neural networks, rule induction,


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and clustering, among others, to discover relationships in data and make
     predictions that are hidden, not apparent, or too complex to be extracted using
     query, reporting, and multi-dimensional analysis software. This market also
     includes technical, econometric, and other mathematics-specific software that
     provide libraries of statistical algorithms and tests for analyzing data. This market
     also includes a specialized form of statistical software focused on functional
     areas, such as the industrial design of experiments, clinical trial testing,
     exploratory data analysis, and high-volume and real-time statistical analysis.

The BI tools market includes both stand-alone packaged software and embedded BI
tools provided by database management software vendors. An example of the latter
is Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services that comes embedded in the SQL Server
database, or AlphaBlox Builder and Cubing Services of IBM's Information
Warehouse.

In IDC's software taxonomy, these BI tools are part of the broader market called
business analytics, which is depicted in Figure 1.




FIGURE 1

IDC's Business Analytics Software Taxonomy, 2008

                                              Business Analytics Software

                                     Performance Management Tools and Applications

      Financial Performance                 CRM Analytic Applications            Business Intelligence tools
      & Strategy Management                 Sales -, Customer Service -,
      Applications                          Contact Center -, Marketing -,       Query, Reporting, Analysis
      Budgeting, Planning,                  Web Site Analytics, Price            includes dashboards,
      Consolidation, Profitability          Optimization                         production reporting, OLAP,
      Mgmt/ABC, Scorecards                                                       ad-hoc query

      Other Supply Chain                    Services Operations
                                                                                 Advanced Analytics
      Analytic Applications                 Analytic Applications
                                                                                 includes data mining &
      Related to procurement,               Operational analytics in financial
                                                                                 statistics
      logistics, inventory,                 services, education,
      manufacturing.                        government, healthcare, etc.



            Workforce Analytic                Supply Chain Production            Analytic Spatial Information
              Applications                           Planning                        Management tools



                                          Data Warehouse Platform
                          DW management and DW generation (ETL + portions of Data Quality)



Source: IDC, 2008




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SITUATION OVERVIEW

The Business Intelligence Market in 2007

As shown in Table 1, in 2007, the BI tools market grew 12.1% to reach $7.05 billion in
worldwide license and maintenance revenue. This growth was in the expected range
of IDC's forecast as published in Worldwide Business Analytics Software 2007–2011
Forecast Update and 2006 Vendor Shares: Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing,
and Analytics Applications Forecasts Point to Continued Strength (IDC #208699,
September 2007), and in the updated forecast in Worldwide Business Intelligence
Tools 2008–2012 Forecast: Limited Impact of Short-Term Economic Uncertainty (IDC
#211327, March 2008).

Table 1 also shows the different sizes and growth rates of the two primary segments
of the BI tools market: QRA and advanced analytics. The latter market segment had
an especially strong year in 2007.

2007 was marked by the completion or announcement of three major acquisitions in
the BI tools market. However, these corporate events did not seem to slow down the
overall market. In an IDC and InfoWorld survey conducted in 2008, only 18% of
organizations indicated that Oracle's purchase of Hyperion, SAP's purchase of
Business Objects, and IBM's purchase of Cognos would have a delaying effect on
their BI software purchases.

Despite the number of acquisitions, in the beginning of 2008, IDC identified over 200
BI tools and data warehousing platform vendors worldwide. We expect continued
robust competition among these software vendors to accelerate software
development cycles and present end users with more price negotiation power when
evaluating BI technology options.




    TABLE 1

    Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools Revenue by Segment, 2005–2007

                               Revenue ($M)                      Share (%)

                                                                                         2005–2006    2006–2007
                        2005       2006         2007     2005      2006      2007        Growth (%)   Growth (%)

                     4,538.9     5,071.7      5,675.4     80.6      80.6      80.5         11.7          11.9
    Query,
    reporting,
    and analysis

                     1,093.4     1,218.0      1,378.1     19.4      19.4      19.5         11.4          13.1
    Advanced
    analytics

    Total            5,632.2     6,289.6      7,053.5    100.0     100.0     100.0         11.7          12.1

    Source: IDC, June 2008




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Performance by Geographic Region in 2007
Figure 2 shows the geographic breakdown of the BI tools market. The Americas
region continues to be the largest market, followed by Europe, the Middle East, and
Africa (EMEA), and Asia/Pacific (AP). However, the Americas region lost share in
2007 partly due to a weak U.S. economy and the weak U.S. dollar. Further details
and analysis of specific regional and country-level trends and market shares are
available from IDC.


FIGURE 2

Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools Revenue Share by
Region, 2005–2007


        60

        50

        40
  (%)




        30

        20

        10

         0
                         2005                2006                     2007
               Americas
               EMEA
               Asia/Pacific

Source: IDC, June 2008



Performance of Leading Vendors in 2007
Table 2 displays 2005–2007 worldwide revenue, growth, and market share of the top
15 BI tools vendors.

Table 3 displays 2005–2007 worldwide revenue, growth, and market share of the
leading vendors competing in the QRA segment of the BI tools market.

Table 4 displays 2005–2007 worldwide revenue, growth, and market share of the
leading vendors competing in the advanced analytics segment of the BI tools market.

As in other steadily maturing markets, the share of the top 10 BI tools vendors
continues to increase, as shown in Figure 3.




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TABLE 2

    Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools Revenue by Vendor, 2005–2007

                                    Revenue ($M)                          Share (%)

                                                                                              2005–2006    2006–2007
                         2005           2006         2007      2005         2006      2007    Growth (%)   Growth (%)

                        854.2           918.6      1,001.0     15.2          14.6      14.2       7.5          9.0
    Business
    Objects

    SAS                 582.4           678.9       791.4      10.3          10.8      11.2     16.6          16.6

    Cognos              583.2           645.2       714.9      10.4          10.3      10.1     10.6          10.8

    Oracle              460.2           510.5       564.6          8.2        8.1       8.0     10.9          10.6

    Microsoft           374.5           480.0       554.8          6.7        7.6       7.9     28.1          15.6

    Subtotal          2,854.5         3,233.2      3,626.7     50.8          51.4      51.4     13.3          12.2

    Other             2,777.7         3,056.4      3,426.8     49.2          48.6      48.6     10.0          12.1

    Total             5,632.2         6,289.6      7,053.5    100.0         100.0     100.0     11.7          12.1

    Source: IDC, June 2008


    TABLE 3

    Worldwide Query, Reporting, and Analysis Tools Revenue by Vendor,
    2005–2007

                                    Revenue ($M)                          Share (%)

                                                                                              2005–2006    2006–2007
                             2005        2006         2007     2005         2006      2007    Growth (%)   Growth (%)

    Business             854.2           918.6      1,001.0        18.8      18.1      17.6       7.5          9.0
    Objects

    Cognos               582.9           644.9       714.6         12.8      12.7      12.6      10.6         10.8

    Oracle               451.7           501.5       555.6         10.0       9.9       9.8      11.0         10.8

    Microsoft            361.4           461.6       532.8          8.0       9.1       9.4      27.7         15.4

    SAS                  241.6           297.2       351.6          5.3       5.9       6.2      23.0         18.3

    Subtotal           2,491.8         2,823.8      3,155.6        54.9      55.7      55.6      13.3         11.8

    Other              2,047.1         2,247.9      2,519.8        45.1      44.3      44.4       9.8         12.1

    Total              4,538.9         5,071.7      5,675.4    100.0        100.0     100.0      11.7         11.9

    Source: IDC, June 2008




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TABLE 4

 Worldwide Advanced Analytics Tools Revenue by Vendor, 2005–2007

                                 Revenue ($M)                           Share (%)

                                                                                              2005–2006    2006–2007
                         2005        2006         2007       2005        2006       2007      Growth (%)   Growth (%)

 SAS                     340.8       381.7       439.8           31.2     31.3       31.9       12.0         15.2

 SPSS                    151.5      174.0        204.9           13.9     14.3       14.9       14.8         17.8

                          38.7        41.7        45.5            3.5      3.4        3.3         7.5          9.3
 Visual
 Numerics Inc.

 Microsoft                13.1        18.3        22.0            1.2      1.5        1.6       40.0         20.0

 Teradata                 18.4        19.7        20.3            1.7      1.6        1.5         7.0          3.0

 Subtotal                562.5       635.4       732.5           51.5     52.1       53.2       13.0         15.3

 Other                   530.9       582.6       645.6           48.5     47.9       46.8         9.7        10.8

 Total              1,093.4        1,218.0      1,378.1      100.0       100.0      100.0       11.4         13.1

 Source: IDC, June 2008




FIGURE 3

Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools Combined Revenue
Share of Top 10 Largest Vendors, 2003–2007


         80
         70
         60
         50
  (%)




         40
         30
         20
         10
         0
                  2003                2004                2005          2006           2007


Source: IDC, June 2008




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Vendor Profiles

This Excerpt includes the following paragraphs highlighting the performance of the
top BI tools vendors.


Business Objects, an SAP Company
Business Objects continued as the leader in the BI tools market in 2007. Although the
company's share dropped a bit, it held a share advantage of 3% points over its
closest competitor. Also notable was the fact that 2007 marked the first year that a
vendor reached the $1 billion revenue mark in BI tools.

During the year, Business Objects saw continued adoption of the Business Objects XI
release 2 platform and extended its product portfolio through three acquisitions,
including Cartesis for financial performance management, Inxight for content analysis,
and Fuzzy Informatik for data quality management. Note that Business Objects BI
tools revenue excludes revenue from these related software markets. As a result of
acquisitions in 2007 and 2006, Business Objects has been in the process of
transforming itself from a pure BI tools vendor to one that provides tools and
applications in the broader business analytics software market.

On October 7, 2007, SAP announced its intent to acquire Business Objects. The deal
was completed in January 2008; IDC therefore lists the two companies separately for
the calendar year 2007. For more information on SAP acquisition of Business
Objects, see SAP to Acquire Business Objects: Impact on Business Analytics
Solutions Buyers and Providers (IDC #209205, October 2007).


SAS
SAS was again the second-largest BI tools vendor in 2007. The company continued
its above market growth rate of 17% to increase its share of the BI tools market to
11.2%. SAS' $791 million revenue in BI tools includes both advanced analytics and
QRA tools. Although best known for its advanced analytics tools — a market where it
holds the leadership position — the QRA tools now represent 44% of the SAS' BI
tools revenue. However, IDC believes that there are substantial untapped
opportunities for SAS to expand its footprint within exiting customer organizations that
often underutilize SAS software. Note that SAS analytic applications, data integration,
and data management software revenue is not listed in the current study.

In 2007, SAS made a significant partnership announcement with Teradata. The joint
initiative is expected to increase the efficiency of data management and SAS analytic
models execution within Teradata data warehouses. SAS continues on an
evolutionary path of its BI product development. One area where the company could
show more rapid improvement is in the user interface of its QRA tools.


Cognos, an IBM Company
Cognos again held the third place in the BI tools market. With $715 million in revenue,
the company had 10% market share. Like other mature BI vendors, Cognos has a
broad portfolio of QRA tools to address the needs of multiple user groups within client
organizations. In October 2007, Cognos completed the acquisition of Applix. The


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Applix technology will contribute to both Cognos' performance management
applications and BI tools. Applix's in-memory OLAP engine, TM1, has especially
strong potential as an enabling technology for improved ad hoc query and analysis
functionality.

In November 2007, IBM announced its intent to acquire Cognos. The deal was
completed on January 31, 2008; IDC therefore lists the two companies separately for
the calendar year 2007. For more information on the IBM acquisition of Cognos, see
IBM to Acquire Cognos: Impact on Business Analytics Solutions Buyers and
Providers (IDC #209685, December 2007).

Following the acquisition, IBM has the opportunity to expand the Cognos BI platform
with content analysis technology. Joint IBM and Cognos customers are also likely to
benefit from tighter integration between the Cognos BI platform and the data
integration and data warehousing software offered by IBM.


Oracle
2007 was the first full calendar year that Oracle was marketing and supporting
Hyperion's BI products. The company's BI tools revenue growth rate in 2007 was
below that of the market average. This performance was in line with IDC expectations
because 2007 was predicted to be a transition year with the Hyperion acquisition and
the introduction of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI EE) as
short-term disruptive events. The integration and rationalization of Hyperion
technology is well on its way and Oracle is well-positioned for increased growth in
2008 and beyond. IDC would not be surprised if Oracle made another BI-related
acquisition to further improve its BI tools user interface with better data visualization
and interactivity. Hyperion's product served the needs of financial analysts looking for
OLAP technology and production reporting needs (through former Brio products), but
there remains room for improvement for highly interactive and visual ad hoc query
and analysis functionality.


Microsoft
Microsoft was the fifth-largest BI tools vendor in 2007, with $555 million in software
revenue. Microsoft's BI tools revenue growth rate was again above that of the total
market, but there was a reduction in the growth rate from 2006. We believe this is due
primarily to the overall economy slowing and Microsoft's larger size (over $500
million) in the BI market, which usually signals a slowdown in growth to average
market levels.

In the BI tools market, IDC allocates revenue to Microsoft based on the performance
of SQL Server Analysis and Reporting Services, which are embedded components of
the SQL Server database product. Also, 2007 was the first full calendar year since
Microsoft's acquisition of ProClarity. Note that IDC does not include revenue from
Microsoft PerformancePoint Server or MS Office in the company's BI tools revenue.
However, the fact that MS Excel remains the most widely used tool for BI tasks is
reinforced annually by IDC's end-user surveys.




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FUTURE OUTLOOK
End-user surveys conducted by IDC in 2008 continue to show few signs of a short-
term decrease in budgets for BI tools. Although an early 2008 survey showed a
decrease in the rating of BI as a short-term (12-month) priority compared with the
same results in early 2007, BI remains a high long-term (3–5 year) priority. For more
details on recent IDC survey results, see Business Intelligence and Analytics Survey,
2008: What Do Buyers Want? (IDC #211323, March 2008).

The BI tools market has changed substantially in the past six years. With market
maturity, a greater portion of the software revenue is coming from maintenance,
which helps smooth out the annual fluctuation in total software revenue. As more
SaaS solutions emerge, the shift to subscription-based revenue streams for vendors
will continue.

In the long-term context, the BI tools market is still in the early stages of what IDC
believes is the third major 15-year cycle for this software market. Barring a prolonged
worldwide recession, the demand for BI tools is expected to continue in the 10–12%
range. A lot of work remains to be done in improving decision-making processes at
most organizations. In addition, the trend toward more automated business process
optimization will bode well for BI tools.

Figure 4 shows historical BI tools market size from 1993 to 2007. Although the
worldwide economy is experiencing a slowdown affecting overall IT spending, IDC
does not expect a slowdown in the BI tools market similar to that of 2001–2003.

The resulting trends point toward growing evidence that BI tools are finally entering a
mass market — a prelude to the next market cycle that will lead to what IDC calls
pervasive business intelligence.




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FIGURE 4

Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools Revenue, 1993–2007


                  8,000                                                                                 35
                  7,000                                                                                 30
                  6,000                                                                                 25
   Revenue ($M)




                                                                                                             Growth (%)
                  5,000
                                                                                                        20
                  4,000
                                                                                                        15
                  3,000
                                                                                                        10
                  2,000
                                                                                                        5
                  1,000
                     0                                                                                  0
                          1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

                              BI tools

                              Growth


Source: IDC, June 2008




Market Context

Vendor shares were last published for the BI tools market in Worldwide Business
Intelligence Tools 2006 Vendor Shares (IDC #207422, June 2007). The differences in
the vendor shares shown in this study and the earlier study are due to additional
market intelligence gained since the release of last year's study.

IDC's most recent forecast of the BI tools market was published in Worldwide
Business Intelligence Tools 2008–2012 Forecast: Limited Impact of Short-Term
Economic Uncertainty (IDC #211327, March 2008). An updated forecast will be
shown in Worldwide Business Analytics Software 2008–2012 Forecast and 2007
Vendor Shares (forthcoming).



ESSENTIAL GUIDANCE
In order to reach pervasive adoption, BI technology must be able to support a
spectrum of end-user requirements that fall between the two categories, as shown in
Figure 5:

           The upper left corner of Figure 5 represents the needs of, and technology for,
           business analysts and power users who support other decision makers in an
           organization. They are experts in data analysis and the data itself, having a
           strong understanding of business metrics and data definitions. Yet, these



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software users are neither developers nor statisticians. The QRA technology
     provided to these users should be highly intuitive, with the right mix of graphical
     and tabular interfaces; it should be interactive and flexible, enabling a highly
     visual method for deriving data selections, and enabling aggregations, sorting,
     filtering, drill down, and automation of information sharing with line-of-business
     decision makers. The reason most power users like to use MS Excel is its
     flexibility and intuitive user interface. The reason organizations don't like the use
     of standalone MS Excel is the lack of data governance and automation of BI
     solutions based on spreadsheets. Packaged QRA tools must be able to strike a
     balance between these two conflicting requirements.

     The upper right corner of Figure 5 represents the needs of, and technology for,
     quantitative analysts. They are experts in statistical modeling and data mining. The
     advanced analytics technology provided to users must streamline and automate,
     as much as possible, the most manual and therefore expensive tasks, such as data
     integration and cleansing and deployment of tested models into production
     applications. The highest value-add of quantitative analysts comes from model
     development and testing as well as descriptive and predictive analysis that serves
     as the basis for decision processes of operational employees.

     The lower right corner of Figure 5 represents the needs of, and technology for,
     operational employees who can benefit from using the output of statistical
     models in their ongoing or project-based decision making. These could be
     marketers, actuaries, quality control engineers, fraud prevention officers, or other
     operational employees with highly analytics-dependent tasks. They use various
     applications that can benefit from having embedded advanced analytics
     functionality to support scenario planning, forecasting, and decision optimization
     through automated techniques that don't necessarily require deep knowledge of
     underlying statistical models. A challenge facing many traditional BI tools
     vendors, when seeking to incorporate more advanced analytics functionality into
     a BI platform or other applications, is that while some prepackaging of advanced
     analytics functionality is possible to make it more user friendly for business
     analysts, too much simplification of such tools will negate the potential benefits
     that can be derived from applying predictive analytics to various decision-making
     processes. Statistical analysis requires specialized skills lacking in most business
     analysts. Nevertheless, there will be some organizations that will be looking for
     good enough advanced analytics tools. They may have the necessary skills
     and at the same time be unwilling to pay higher prices for alternative software
     options.

     The lower left corner of Figure 5 represents the needs of, and technology for,
     operational employees. The use cases here can involve simply finding
     information on a corporate intranet, searching for previously developed reports or
     for specific information within a report, producing operational or statutory reports
     with strictly defined formatting requirements, or monitoring performance through
     dashboards. The QRA tools needed to address these use cases should be able
     to support pixel-perfect reporting, search and/or natural language query, alerting,
     and dashboards. The software should be deployable anywhere, including portals,
     mobile devices, within operational applications, as gadgets on the desktop
     screen, and other available points of access.



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The examples depicted in the segmentation shown in Figure 5 deal with internal
technology users and decision makers. However, a parallel evaluation can be made
for various external users, be they suppliers, B2B clients, consumers, or regulatory
agencies that require access to the BI assets of an organization.

End-user organizations evaluating their BI requirements should conduct a thorough
review of the specific needs of individual user groups. Rather than asking end users
what data they require, IT developers and information management staff should be
analyzing the decision processes of each user group to assure that the technology
will support the varying needs of each population.

Vendors should be highly aware of their position in the market. Instead of blanketing
prospects with marketing hype about enterprisewide BI, seamless end-to-end
integration, closed-loop applications, and other such ill-defined terms, vendors should
emphasize their core competencies. There is nothing wrong with being a specialist in
one or two areas of the market. It is these specialist vendors that often drive
innovation that is later subsumed into the broader BI solutions of larger vendors. In
fact, only a few of the largest vendors have the resources to address all four use case
and technology groups. Today, few of these large vendors, if any, can claim a BI
technology platform that on the one hand provides the necessary flexibility to address
each of the four corners of the market, and at the same time provides a unified
architecture that optimizes technology deployment, maintenance, and administration.




FIGURE 5

Business Intelligence Tools Market Development Trends

                                                               Business Intelligence Tools

                                             Query, Reporting, Analysis                Advanced Analytics

                                                                               • Number and type of algorithms
                             Ad hoc/     • Data visualization
  End-User Requirements




                                                                               • Model life-cycle management
                          exploratory    • In-memory processing
                                                                               • Automation of the data
                           query and     • Content categorization, search,
                                                                                 preparation and model testing
                             analysis      navigation
                                                                                 processes
                          Operational
                                                                               • In-database model execution/
                          information    • Self-service production reporting
                                                                                 scoring
                            access or      and search
                                                                               • Application-embedded
                           embedded      • Application embedded guided
                                                                                 deployment through guided
                             analytics     analytics
                                                                                 analytics
                                         • Contextual information delivery
                                                                               • Decision optimization

Source: IDC, 2008




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IDC Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2007 Vendor Shares Query, Reporting, Analysis And Advanced Analytics Markets Stable In The Face Of Economic Turmoil (Excerpt From Idc #212921)

  • 1. EXCERPT Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2007 Vendor Shares: Query, Reporting, Analysis and Advanced Analytics Markets Stable in the Face of Economic Turmoil (Excerpt from IDC #212921) Dan Vesset Brian McDonough IN THIS EXCERPT www.idc.com The content for this excerpt was taken directly from the IDC Competitive Analysis Report, Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2007 Vendor Shares: Query, Reporting, and Analysis, and Advanced Analytics Markets Stable in the Face of Economic Turmoil, by Dan Vesset and Brian McDonough (Doc # 212921). All or part F.508.935.4015 of the following sections are included in this excerpt: IDC Opinion, In This Study, Methodology, Situation Overview, Future Outlook, and Essential Guidance. Also included are Tables 1-4 and Figure 1-5. P.508.872.8200 IDC OPINION In 2007, the business intelligence (BI) tools market remained an attractive investment for software vendors and one of the top investment priorities for end-user organizations. Driven by the need to support all decision makers, provide faster Global Headquarters: 5 Speen Street Framingham, MA 01701 USA access to a wider set of information, and optimize business processes, the market will continue to experience healthy investment levels. In 2007, the BI tools market was characterized by the following trends: The market grew 12.1% to reach $7.05 billion in worldwide software revenue. The advanced analytics segment of the BI tools market grew faster than the query, reporting, and analysis (QRA) segment. Three large, and several smaller, acquisitions were announced or completed in 2007 that significantly impacted the composition of the largest suppliers of BI tools. Following a spike in merger and acquisition activity over the past two years, IDC expects that an influx of new, innovative start-ups focused on various niches of the BI market will occur over the next 2–5 years. The definition of what constitutes BI software has begun to evolve. While IDC is not expecting to change the taxonomy of the specific software tools included in the BI software market, certain content analysis tools are beginning to be viewed as part of the overall BI architecture. Business decision makers showed a growing awareness about the potential benefits of BI technology. This trend is signaling the beginning of a broader shift in decision-making power for BI technology purchases from IT to business. Filing Information: June 2008, IDC #212921e, Volume: 1 Special Reports: Excerpt
  • 2. IN THIS STUDY This IDC study examines the BI tools market for the period from 2005 to 2007. Worldwide market size is provided for 2007, with trends from 2005. Revenue and market share of the leading vendors is provided for 2007. This study also provides profiles of leading vendors and identifies the characteristics that vendors will need to be successful in the BI market, and the considerations that end users should evaluate to assure successful BI projects. The vendor shares and competitive analysis contained herein update those found in Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2006 Vendor Shares (IDC #207422, June 2007). Methodology See the Learn More section for a description of the data collection and analysis methodology employed in this study. In addition, please note the following: The information contained in this study was derived from IDC's Software Market Forecaster database as of June 10, 2008. All numbers in this document may not be exact due to rounding. For more information on IDC's software definitions and methodology, see IDC's Software Taxonomy, 2008 (IDC #210828, February 2008). Business Intelligence Tools Market Definition IDC defines the BI tools market as being made up of two market segments: end-user query, reporting, and analysis (QRA) and advanced analytics: End-user query, reporting, and analysis. End-user QRA software includes ad- hoc query and multidimensional analysis tools as well as dashboards and production reporting tools. Query and reporting tools are designed specifically to support ad hoc data access and report building by either IT or business users. This category does not include other application development tools that may be used for building reports but are not specifically designed for that purpose. Multi- dimensional analysis tools include both online analytical processing (OLAP) servers and client-side analysis tools that provide a data management environment used for modeling business problems and analyzing business data. Packaged data marts, which are pre-configured software combining data transformation, management, and access in a single package, usually with business models, are also included in this functional market. Advanced analytics. Advanced analytics software includes data mining and statistical software. It uses technologies such as neural networks, rule induction, 2 #212921e ©2008 IDC
  • 3. and clustering, among others, to discover relationships in data and make predictions that are hidden, not apparent, or too complex to be extracted using query, reporting, and multi-dimensional analysis software. This market also includes technical, econometric, and other mathematics-specific software that provide libraries of statistical algorithms and tests for analyzing data. This market also includes a specialized form of statistical software focused on functional areas, such as the industrial design of experiments, clinical trial testing, exploratory data analysis, and high-volume and real-time statistical analysis. The BI tools market includes both stand-alone packaged software and embedded BI tools provided by database management software vendors. An example of the latter is Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services that comes embedded in the SQL Server database, or AlphaBlox Builder and Cubing Services of IBM's Information Warehouse. In IDC's software taxonomy, these BI tools are part of the broader market called business analytics, which is depicted in Figure 1. FIGURE 1 IDC's Business Analytics Software Taxonomy, 2008 Business Analytics Software Performance Management Tools and Applications Financial Performance CRM Analytic Applications Business Intelligence tools & Strategy Management Sales -, Customer Service -, Applications Contact Center -, Marketing -, Query, Reporting, Analysis Budgeting, Planning, Web Site Analytics, Price includes dashboards, Consolidation, Profitability Optimization production reporting, OLAP, Mgmt/ABC, Scorecards ad-hoc query Other Supply Chain Services Operations Advanced Analytics Analytic Applications Analytic Applications includes data mining & Related to procurement, Operational analytics in financial statistics logistics, inventory, services, education, manufacturing. government, healthcare, etc. Workforce Analytic Supply Chain Production Analytic Spatial Information Applications Planning Management tools Data Warehouse Platform DW management and DW generation (ETL + portions of Data Quality) Source: IDC, 2008 ©2008 IDC #212921e 3
  • 4. SITUATION OVERVIEW The Business Intelligence Market in 2007 As shown in Table 1, in 2007, the BI tools market grew 12.1% to reach $7.05 billion in worldwide license and maintenance revenue. This growth was in the expected range of IDC's forecast as published in Worldwide Business Analytics Software 2007–2011 Forecast Update and 2006 Vendor Shares: Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and Analytics Applications Forecasts Point to Continued Strength (IDC #208699, September 2007), and in the updated forecast in Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2008–2012 Forecast: Limited Impact of Short-Term Economic Uncertainty (IDC #211327, March 2008). Table 1 also shows the different sizes and growth rates of the two primary segments of the BI tools market: QRA and advanced analytics. The latter market segment had an especially strong year in 2007. 2007 was marked by the completion or announcement of three major acquisitions in the BI tools market. However, these corporate events did not seem to slow down the overall market. In an IDC and InfoWorld survey conducted in 2008, only 18% of organizations indicated that Oracle's purchase of Hyperion, SAP's purchase of Business Objects, and IBM's purchase of Cognos would have a delaying effect on their BI software purchases. Despite the number of acquisitions, in the beginning of 2008, IDC identified over 200 BI tools and data warehousing platform vendors worldwide. We expect continued robust competition among these software vendors to accelerate software development cycles and present end users with more price negotiation power when evaluating BI technology options. TABLE 1 Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools Revenue by Segment, 2005–2007 Revenue ($M) Share (%) 2005–2006 2006–2007 2005 2006 2007 2005 2006 2007 Growth (%) Growth (%) 4,538.9 5,071.7 5,675.4 80.6 80.6 80.5 11.7 11.9 Query, reporting, and analysis 1,093.4 1,218.0 1,378.1 19.4 19.4 19.5 11.4 13.1 Advanced analytics Total 5,632.2 6,289.6 7,053.5 100.0 100.0 100.0 11.7 12.1 Source: IDC, June 2008 4 #212921e ©2008 IDC
  • 5. Performance by Geographic Region in 2007 Figure 2 shows the geographic breakdown of the BI tools market. The Americas region continues to be the largest market, followed by Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and Asia/Pacific (AP). However, the Americas region lost share in 2007 partly due to a weak U.S. economy and the weak U.S. dollar. Further details and analysis of specific regional and country-level trends and market shares are available from IDC. FIGURE 2 Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools Revenue Share by Region, 2005–2007 60 50 40 (%) 30 20 10 0 2005 2006 2007 Americas EMEA Asia/Pacific Source: IDC, June 2008 Performance of Leading Vendors in 2007 Table 2 displays 2005–2007 worldwide revenue, growth, and market share of the top 15 BI tools vendors. Table 3 displays 2005–2007 worldwide revenue, growth, and market share of the leading vendors competing in the QRA segment of the BI tools market. Table 4 displays 2005–2007 worldwide revenue, growth, and market share of the leading vendors competing in the advanced analytics segment of the BI tools market. As in other steadily maturing markets, the share of the top 10 BI tools vendors continues to increase, as shown in Figure 3. ©2008 IDC #212921e 5
  • 6. TABLE 2 Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools Revenue by Vendor, 2005–2007 Revenue ($M) Share (%) 2005–2006 2006–2007 2005 2006 2007 2005 2006 2007 Growth (%) Growth (%) 854.2 918.6 1,001.0 15.2 14.6 14.2 7.5 9.0 Business Objects SAS 582.4 678.9 791.4 10.3 10.8 11.2 16.6 16.6 Cognos 583.2 645.2 714.9 10.4 10.3 10.1 10.6 10.8 Oracle 460.2 510.5 564.6 8.2 8.1 8.0 10.9 10.6 Microsoft 374.5 480.0 554.8 6.7 7.6 7.9 28.1 15.6 Subtotal 2,854.5 3,233.2 3,626.7 50.8 51.4 51.4 13.3 12.2 Other 2,777.7 3,056.4 3,426.8 49.2 48.6 48.6 10.0 12.1 Total 5,632.2 6,289.6 7,053.5 100.0 100.0 100.0 11.7 12.1 Source: IDC, June 2008 TABLE 3 Worldwide Query, Reporting, and Analysis Tools Revenue by Vendor, 2005–2007 Revenue ($M) Share (%) 2005–2006 2006–2007 2005 2006 2007 2005 2006 2007 Growth (%) Growth (%) Business 854.2 918.6 1,001.0 18.8 18.1 17.6 7.5 9.0 Objects Cognos 582.9 644.9 714.6 12.8 12.7 12.6 10.6 10.8 Oracle 451.7 501.5 555.6 10.0 9.9 9.8 11.0 10.8 Microsoft 361.4 461.6 532.8 8.0 9.1 9.4 27.7 15.4 SAS 241.6 297.2 351.6 5.3 5.9 6.2 23.0 18.3 Subtotal 2,491.8 2,823.8 3,155.6 54.9 55.7 55.6 13.3 11.8 Other 2,047.1 2,247.9 2,519.8 45.1 44.3 44.4 9.8 12.1 Total 4,538.9 5,071.7 5,675.4 100.0 100.0 100.0 11.7 11.9 Source: IDC, June 2008 6 #212921e ©2008 IDC
  • 7. TABLE 4 Worldwide Advanced Analytics Tools Revenue by Vendor, 2005–2007 Revenue ($M) Share (%) 2005–2006 2006–2007 2005 2006 2007 2005 2006 2007 Growth (%) Growth (%) SAS 340.8 381.7 439.8 31.2 31.3 31.9 12.0 15.2 SPSS 151.5 174.0 204.9 13.9 14.3 14.9 14.8 17.8 38.7 41.7 45.5 3.5 3.4 3.3 7.5 9.3 Visual Numerics Inc. Microsoft 13.1 18.3 22.0 1.2 1.5 1.6 40.0 20.0 Teradata 18.4 19.7 20.3 1.7 1.6 1.5 7.0 3.0 Subtotal 562.5 635.4 732.5 51.5 52.1 53.2 13.0 15.3 Other 530.9 582.6 645.6 48.5 47.9 46.8 9.7 10.8 Total 1,093.4 1,218.0 1,378.1 100.0 100.0 100.0 11.4 13.1 Source: IDC, June 2008 FIGURE 3 Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools Combined Revenue Share of Top 10 Largest Vendors, 2003–2007 80 70 60 50 (%) 40 30 20 10 0 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Source: IDC, June 2008 ©2008 IDC #212921e 7
  • 8. Vendor Profiles This Excerpt includes the following paragraphs highlighting the performance of the top BI tools vendors. Business Objects, an SAP Company Business Objects continued as the leader in the BI tools market in 2007. Although the company's share dropped a bit, it held a share advantage of 3% points over its closest competitor. Also notable was the fact that 2007 marked the first year that a vendor reached the $1 billion revenue mark in BI tools. During the year, Business Objects saw continued adoption of the Business Objects XI release 2 platform and extended its product portfolio through three acquisitions, including Cartesis for financial performance management, Inxight for content analysis, and Fuzzy Informatik for data quality management. Note that Business Objects BI tools revenue excludes revenue from these related software markets. As a result of acquisitions in 2007 and 2006, Business Objects has been in the process of transforming itself from a pure BI tools vendor to one that provides tools and applications in the broader business analytics software market. On October 7, 2007, SAP announced its intent to acquire Business Objects. The deal was completed in January 2008; IDC therefore lists the two companies separately for the calendar year 2007. For more information on SAP acquisition of Business Objects, see SAP to Acquire Business Objects: Impact on Business Analytics Solutions Buyers and Providers (IDC #209205, October 2007). SAS SAS was again the second-largest BI tools vendor in 2007. The company continued its above market growth rate of 17% to increase its share of the BI tools market to 11.2%. SAS' $791 million revenue in BI tools includes both advanced analytics and QRA tools. Although best known for its advanced analytics tools — a market where it holds the leadership position — the QRA tools now represent 44% of the SAS' BI tools revenue. However, IDC believes that there are substantial untapped opportunities for SAS to expand its footprint within exiting customer organizations that often underutilize SAS software. Note that SAS analytic applications, data integration, and data management software revenue is not listed in the current study. In 2007, SAS made a significant partnership announcement with Teradata. The joint initiative is expected to increase the efficiency of data management and SAS analytic models execution within Teradata data warehouses. SAS continues on an evolutionary path of its BI product development. One area where the company could show more rapid improvement is in the user interface of its QRA tools. Cognos, an IBM Company Cognos again held the third place in the BI tools market. With $715 million in revenue, the company had 10% market share. Like other mature BI vendors, Cognos has a broad portfolio of QRA tools to address the needs of multiple user groups within client organizations. In October 2007, Cognos completed the acquisition of Applix. The 8 #212921e ©2008 IDC
  • 9. Applix technology will contribute to both Cognos' performance management applications and BI tools. Applix's in-memory OLAP engine, TM1, has especially strong potential as an enabling technology for improved ad hoc query and analysis functionality. In November 2007, IBM announced its intent to acquire Cognos. The deal was completed on January 31, 2008; IDC therefore lists the two companies separately for the calendar year 2007. For more information on the IBM acquisition of Cognos, see IBM to Acquire Cognos: Impact on Business Analytics Solutions Buyers and Providers (IDC #209685, December 2007). Following the acquisition, IBM has the opportunity to expand the Cognos BI platform with content analysis technology. Joint IBM and Cognos customers are also likely to benefit from tighter integration between the Cognos BI platform and the data integration and data warehousing software offered by IBM. Oracle 2007 was the first full calendar year that Oracle was marketing and supporting Hyperion's BI products. The company's BI tools revenue growth rate in 2007 was below that of the market average. This performance was in line with IDC expectations because 2007 was predicted to be a transition year with the Hyperion acquisition and the introduction of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI EE) as short-term disruptive events. The integration and rationalization of Hyperion technology is well on its way and Oracle is well-positioned for increased growth in 2008 and beyond. IDC would not be surprised if Oracle made another BI-related acquisition to further improve its BI tools user interface with better data visualization and interactivity. Hyperion's product served the needs of financial analysts looking for OLAP technology and production reporting needs (through former Brio products), but there remains room for improvement for highly interactive and visual ad hoc query and analysis functionality. Microsoft Microsoft was the fifth-largest BI tools vendor in 2007, with $555 million in software revenue. Microsoft's BI tools revenue growth rate was again above that of the total market, but there was a reduction in the growth rate from 2006. We believe this is due primarily to the overall economy slowing and Microsoft's larger size (over $500 million) in the BI market, which usually signals a slowdown in growth to average market levels. In the BI tools market, IDC allocates revenue to Microsoft based on the performance of SQL Server Analysis and Reporting Services, which are embedded components of the SQL Server database product. Also, 2007 was the first full calendar year since Microsoft's acquisition of ProClarity. Note that IDC does not include revenue from Microsoft PerformancePoint Server or MS Office in the company's BI tools revenue. However, the fact that MS Excel remains the most widely used tool for BI tasks is reinforced annually by IDC's end-user surveys. ©2008 IDC #212921e 9
  • 10. FUTURE OUTLOOK End-user surveys conducted by IDC in 2008 continue to show few signs of a short- term decrease in budgets for BI tools. Although an early 2008 survey showed a decrease in the rating of BI as a short-term (12-month) priority compared with the same results in early 2007, BI remains a high long-term (3–5 year) priority. For more details on recent IDC survey results, see Business Intelligence and Analytics Survey, 2008: What Do Buyers Want? (IDC #211323, March 2008). The BI tools market has changed substantially in the past six years. With market maturity, a greater portion of the software revenue is coming from maintenance, which helps smooth out the annual fluctuation in total software revenue. As more SaaS solutions emerge, the shift to subscription-based revenue streams for vendors will continue. In the long-term context, the BI tools market is still in the early stages of what IDC believes is the third major 15-year cycle for this software market. Barring a prolonged worldwide recession, the demand for BI tools is expected to continue in the 10–12% range. A lot of work remains to be done in improving decision-making processes at most organizations. In addition, the trend toward more automated business process optimization will bode well for BI tools. Figure 4 shows historical BI tools market size from 1993 to 2007. Although the worldwide economy is experiencing a slowdown affecting overall IT spending, IDC does not expect a slowdown in the BI tools market similar to that of 2001–2003. The resulting trends point toward growing evidence that BI tools are finally entering a mass market — a prelude to the next market cycle that will lead to what IDC calls pervasive business intelligence. 10 #212921e ©2008 IDC
  • 11. FIGURE 4 Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools Revenue, 1993–2007 8,000 35 7,000 30 6,000 25 Revenue ($M) Growth (%) 5,000 20 4,000 15 3,000 10 2,000 5 1,000 0 0 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 BI tools Growth Source: IDC, June 2008 Market Context Vendor shares were last published for the BI tools market in Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2006 Vendor Shares (IDC #207422, June 2007). The differences in the vendor shares shown in this study and the earlier study are due to additional market intelligence gained since the release of last year's study. IDC's most recent forecast of the BI tools market was published in Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2008–2012 Forecast: Limited Impact of Short-Term Economic Uncertainty (IDC #211327, March 2008). An updated forecast will be shown in Worldwide Business Analytics Software 2008–2012 Forecast and 2007 Vendor Shares (forthcoming). ESSENTIAL GUIDANCE In order to reach pervasive adoption, BI technology must be able to support a spectrum of end-user requirements that fall between the two categories, as shown in Figure 5: The upper left corner of Figure 5 represents the needs of, and technology for, business analysts and power users who support other decision makers in an organization. They are experts in data analysis and the data itself, having a strong understanding of business metrics and data definitions. Yet, these ©2008 IDC #212921e 11
  • 12. software users are neither developers nor statisticians. The QRA technology provided to these users should be highly intuitive, with the right mix of graphical and tabular interfaces; it should be interactive and flexible, enabling a highly visual method for deriving data selections, and enabling aggregations, sorting, filtering, drill down, and automation of information sharing with line-of-business decision makers. The reason most power users like to use MS Excel is its flexibility and intuitive user interface. The reason organizations don't like the use of standalone MS Excel is the lack of data governance and automation of BI solutions based on spreadsheets. Packaged QRA tools must be able to strike a balance between these two conflicting requirements. The upper right corner of Figure 5 represents the needs of, and technology for, quantitative analysts. They are experts in statistical modeling and data mining. The advanced analytics technology provided to users must streamline and automate, as much as possible, the most manual and therefore expensive tasks, such as data integration and cleansing and deployment of tested models into production applications. The highest value-add of quantitative analysts comes from model development and testing as well as descriptive and predictive analysis that serves as the basis for decision processes of operational employees. The lower right corner of Figure 5 represents the needs of, and technology for, operational employees who can benefit from using the output of statistical models in their ongoing or project-based decision making. These could be marketers, actuaries, quality control engineers, fraud prevention officers, or other operational employees with highly analytics-dependent tasks. They use various applications that can benefit from having embedded advanced analytics functionality to support scenario planning, forecasting, and decision optimization through automated techniques that don't necessarily require deep knowledge of underlying statistical models. A challenge facing many traditional BI tools vendors, when seeking to incorporate more advanced analytics functionality into a BI platform or other applications, is that while some prepackaging of advanced analytics functionality is possible to make it more user friendly for business analysts, too much simplification of such tools will negate the potential benefits that can be derived from applying predictive analytics to various decision-making processes. Statistical analysis requires specialized skills lacking in most business analysts. Nevertheless, there will be some organizations that will be looking for good enough advanced analytics tools. They may have the necessary skills and at the same time be unwilling to pay higher prices for alternative software options. The lower left corner of Figure 5 represents the needs of, and technology for, operational employees. The use cases here can involve simply finding information on a corporate intranet, searching for previously developed reports or for specific information within a report, producing operational or statutory reports with strictly defined formatting requirements, or monitoring performance through dashboards. The QRA tools needed to address these use cases should be able to support pixel-perfect reporting, search and/or natural language query, alerting, and dashboards. The software should be deployable anywhere, including portals, mobile devices, within operational applications, as gadgets on the desktop screen, and other available points of access. 12 #212921e ©2008 IDC
  • 13. The examples depicted in the segmentation shown in Figure 5 deal with internal technology users and decision makers. However, a parallel evaluation can be made for various external users, be they suppliers, B2B clients, consumers, or regulatory agencies that require access to the BI assets of an organization. End-user organizations evaluating their BI requirements should conduct a thorough review of the specific needs of individual user groups. Rather than asking end users what data they require, IT developers and information management staff should be analyzing the decision processes of each user group to assure that the technology will support the varying needs of each population. Vendors should be highly aware of their position in the market. Instead of blanketing prospects with marketing hype about enterprisewide BI, seamless end-to-end integration, closed-loop applications, and other such ill-defined terms, vendors should emphasize their core competencies. There is nothing wrong with being a specialist in one or two areas of the market. It is these specialist vendors that often drive innovation that is later subsumed into the broader BI solutions of larger vendors. In fact, only a few of the largest vendors have the resources to address all four use case and technology groups. Today, few of these large vendors, if any, can claim a BI technology platform that on the one hand provides the necessary flexibility to address each of the four corners of the market, and at the same time provides a unified architecture that optimizes technology deployment, maintenance, and administration. FIGURE 5 Business Intelligence Tools Market Development Trends Business Intelligence Tools Query, Reporting, Analysis Advanced Analytics • Number and type of algorithms Ad hoc/ • Data visualization End-User Requirements • Model life-cycle management exploratory • In-memory processing • Automation of the data query and • Content categorization, search, preparation and model testing analysis navigation processes Operational • In-database model execution/ information • Self-service production reporting scoring access or and search • Application-embedded embedded • Application embedded guided deployment through guided analytics analytics analytics • Contextual information delivery • Decision optimization Source: IDC, 2008 ©2008 IDC #212921e 13
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