Business intelligence market analysis

Table of Contents

Key messages

• BI continues to be CIO priority
• Further market consolidation within the independent BI sector
• Data integration, pricing and ease of use - prohibitors to mass BI adoption
• Operational BI - brings new demands for vendors
• BI and search - a small step towards convergence
• Early days in the SaaS BI market
• Open source BI - a realistic enterprise alternative?

Market definition

BI market drivers

• Reducing exposure to risk
• Cost reduction
• Competitive advantage
• Market characteristics
• Independents versus infrastructure

Inhibitors to mass adoption and market growth

• Data integration layer
• Pricing pressure
• Ease of use

Market trends

• Operational BI - brings new demands for vendors
• BI and search - closing the data gap
• Search and BI - why so long?
• Visualisation - coming of age
• Early days in the SaaS BI market
• Open source BI - a realistic alternative?