Top BI Vendors

Business Intelligence from its introduction in 1990 has made many IT Vendors to emerge and produced state of the Art BI Tools with big names like IBM, Oracle, Microstrategy, Microsoft, etc…

According to Gartner survey in December 2008 1527 CIOs worldwide observed that IT investment trend is moving towards Business Intelligence solution, realizing the importance of Business Intelligence in an organization and needs of information at right time, right place to the right people

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Following are top vendors in the business intelligence market

SAP

SAP with its acquisition of Business Objects, which was already among top market leader move to top of Business Intelligence vendors list. Before acquisition of BO, it has SAP BW but now with BO it took a giant step as a BI Leader.

Current Market Share: 24%
Estimated Revenue: $2.1 billion

SAS

SAS since its creation in 1970’s was focusing on Statistical analysis system, but since BI market emerged SAS has enhanced its competence to deliver a BI solution. SAS BI offers an integrated, robust and flexible solution with SAS Analytics capabilities, including statistics, predictive analytics, data and text mining, forecasting, and optimization – all integrated within the business context for better, faster decision making.

Current Market Share: 14.6%
Estimated Revenue: $1.286 billion


Oracle

Oracle with its complete suite of OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence) has acquired Hyperion in September 2007 to further penetrate into the BI market and increase their market share.

Current Market Share: 14.6%
Estimated Revenue: $1.284 billion

IBM

IBM with its strategic move of acquiring market leader product “Cognos” in 2007 has enhanced its capabilities and with recent acquisition of statistics software vendor SPSS, it has really enhanced its BI competency and continuously improving to become market leader.

Current Market Share: 11.3%
Estimated Revenue: $996.5 million

Microsoft

Microsoft was among the late mover to the BI market, but with great improvement in Microsoft OLAP (Analysis Services), acquisition of Proclarity, improving Sharepoint to give single access point to business users for everything with complete BI dashboards and scorecards and improving excel capabilities has given Microsoft an edge among the BI vendors.

Current Market Share: 7.7%
Estimated Revenue: $681.5 million

Microstrategy

Since 1989, MicroStrategy has been working continuously to improve its BI competency. MicroStrategy Business Intelligence platform offers an integrated solution to all business data query, reporting and advanced analytical needs.

Current Market Share: 4.1%
Estimated Revenue: $280 million