Today I was wondering about how different BI vendors are doing in the market!
Here's one survey that could provide one glimpse at one slice of the market. This survey aws done by Intelligent Enterprise and they have released one of the slides to the public in their own public website (the rest are in a report that you need to buy from them- if this is this informative, the others would be even more useful I am guessing)!
Intelligent Enterprise - Hear BI Survey Results, Plus Donald Farmer
http://intelligent-enterprise.informationweek.com/blog/archives/2010/01/hear_bi_survey.html;jsessionid=GSCMYDDT4UFOJQE1GHPCKHWATMY32JVN
A few interesting observations jump right out at you:
-- The fact that Microsoft is so prevalent among surveyed members. The article also raises the important point about the use of Excel either for itself or in conjunction with a BI solution!
-- Cognos, Business Objects all doing very well also.
-- People evaluating SAS, SPSS and Actuate deciding to go with it much more than others! Must be very convincing BI solutions.
-- The small percentage of surveyed members that have not either evauluated or using or rejected Microsoft BI solutions - Microsoft throws in a lot of free BI stuff with SQL server database management systems. This could be one big factor - if it satisfies their BI needs, they may not be looking elsewhere. I am guesssing a lot of Medium sized and Small companies may be using Microsoft BI by default!
This slide does not show any Open Source BI vendors and I am guessing they are gaining a lot of ground since the date of this article - Jan 2010 - The survey must be older than this also.
Interesting results giving one peek at one set of aspects of BI vendors in the market currently.
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away - Eudora Welty.
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