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March 28, 2010 from Datamation – “The business intelligence software market is shaping up as a David vs. Goliath struggle. Behemoths like Microsoft, Oracle and IBM offer feature-rich BI suites along with their many other enterprise software products. Meanwhile, pure-play vendors – such as MicroStrategy, QlikTech and Tableau – have avid followers and are competitive, especially when it comes to innovating around new features and adjusting quickly to the shifting marketplace.
The pure-play vendors, for instance, have aggressively pioneered interactive data visualization features, while also more readily adopting open-source software and the SaaS model. They also tend to garner higher “satisfaction” ratings in independent surveys polling customers.
That said, the Davids in this battle have a long way to go. The top five BI vendors control about 75% of the market, according to research and projections from IDC and Gartner.
The top five vendors below are ranked in terms of market share. The remaining five are ranked by the extremely unscientific measure of how likely I think they are to challenge the leaders…”
180 View – We bet you won’t guess the top 2 vendors.
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