How they stack up: IDC on Business Analytics

So here is intelligent enterprise on the latest IDC rankings on Business Intelligence and Business Analytics vendors. If you ever wondered how big the bog boys were- read it at

Citation:

http://www.intelligententerprise.com/info_centers/ent_dev/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=QL4IYMWB1MSIHQE1GHPSKHWATMY32JVN?articleID=219401120

In 2008, Oracle led the overall market, followed in order by SAP, IBM, SAS and Microsoft, the report said. Rounding out the top 10 were Teradata, Fair Isaac, Informatica, Infor and MicroStrategy, respectively

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IDC divides the business analytics software market into four primary segments: analytic applications, business intelligence tools, data warehousing platform software and spatial information analytics tools.

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Fourth-place SAS’ broad portfolio spans all business analytics market segments and is exclusively dedicated to this market. “The company leads in the advanced analytics tools segment and is within the top two vendors in two other market segments,”IDC said.

It’s a brilliant analysis and survey. IDC and Intelligent Enterprise- thanks a tonne for letting us know.

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