Gartner's Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant Dominated by Acquisitions ...
Notable among those acquisitions is the Oracle buy-out of Siebel and Hyperion, SAP and Business Objects, and the IBM purchase of Cognos. In all cases assets and technologies were incorporated into the relevant technology portfolios.
Parallel TrendsBut it seems like the market has a way to go in this respect, and acquisitions still abound. In 2011, for example, Oracle acquired Endeca , and IBM purchased Algorithmics , and has already announced a number of analytics related acquisitions since the beginning of this year.
The larger vendors also bring wide-reaching experience with thousands of customers that help shape their development experience with mobile applications and in-memory platforms.
Running in parallel with this is the work and development being done by speciality vendors that tend to develop one or two areas of BI, like predictive analytics, advanced visualization, geospatial analysis or cloud analytic platforms.
They tend to develop packages for specific verticals like healthcare, consumer or financial services, creating packages that can then be built on to broaden their appeal.
Although everyone speaks of team effort, it is the CEO's face that is the company's face, and, more important, it is the CEO's brain that leads company strategy. For this, they are paid way too much, in many cases reminding global citizens of Roman-era
