There just might be another 800-lb gorilla in the Business Intelligence market. In a year.
The popular cult book "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" by Douglas Adams defines space as ". . . big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. . ." There are no better words to describe the size and the opportunity of the business intelligence market. Not only is it "mind-bogglingly big," but over the last few decades we've only scratched the surface. Recent Forrester research shows that only 12% of global enterprise business and technology decision-makers are sure of their ability to transform and use information for better insights and decision making, and over half still have BI and analytics content sitting in siloed desktop-based shadow IT applications that are mostly based on spreadsheets.
The opportunity has provided fertile feeding ground to more than fifty vendors, including: full-stack software vendors like IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP, each with $1 billion-plus BI portfolios; SAS Institute, a multibillion BI and analytics specialist; popular BI vendors Actuate, Information Builders, MicroStrategy, Qlik, Tableau Software, and Tibco Software, each with hundreds of millions in BI revenues; as well as dozens of vendors ranging from early to late stage startups.
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