BI Solution Marketplace

BI Solution Market Streams

Customer demand and competitive vendor pressures are dividing the BI solution market into four pillars:

Specialization

Specialization involves best-of- breed ETL, BI and analytic applications software vendors. These companies have a deep focus on the

Currently, these specialty vendors are showing little interest in moving into the business analytics market, being outside their traditional core expertise.

Packaged Solutions

Focus on packaged analytic applications involves BI vendors (e.g., Cognos, SAS, Business Objects, Hyperion and SPSS), ETL vendors (Informatica) and ERP vendors (SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle) that are increasingly providing prepackaged analytic applications.

Integrated Database-Analytics Platforms

Integrated database platforms for analytics are evolving from relational database management system [DBMS] vendors that dominate the DW management market segment, mainly:

Relational database vendors are embedding both BI and DW generation functionality into their databases, creating analytic platforms that include:

• Basic ETL
• Database management tools and utilities
• Support for multidimensional analysis and data mining

This provides a complete platform layer for developing analytic applications. Read more on datawarehouse solutions.

Analytic Application Development Platforms

Analytic application development platforms are emerging from partnerships between BI and ETL vendors. This includes:

These vendors are now offering development platforms that incorporate ETL and BI tools along with development templates and related systems administration tools.

Their target is analytic application developers who build custom or packaged analytic applications to suit the specific needs of end users.

Some vendors also provide their own packaged analytic applications.

On Demand [SaaS] BI

On Demand business intelligence in becoming a popular choice with small and medium businesses. Often these organisations do not have the resources to deploy expensive BI solutions, yet still need predictive insight to remain competitive.

Cloud computing [a form of SaaS] widens the onDemand offering to the platform level, wrapping a tighter security framework around sensitive corporate data.

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