Gaining Intelligence
TECHwatch Articles
Tim Jennings - Published 07/11/2007
Further consolidation seems inevitable within the Business Intelligence (BI) sector, following SAP’s US$6.8 billion acquisition of Business Objects, which I believe will herald the start of a new phase in the BI market. I think that this has been a shrewd, long-term move on SAP’s part, despite the view of some that it was born more of short-term expediency in response to Oracle’s takeover of Hyperion. For some time now, Butler Group has been highlighting the trend towards the embedding of BI capabilities…