There is currently a link to a Top 10 Business Intelligence
Vendors report that is viral on the EPM groups on LinkedIn. It is has been prepared by a company called CompareBusinessProducts.com. If you check LinkedIn, you’ll find a link
easily.
I have a few problems with this report.
Over half of the paper is graphing revenues and market share
for 10 BI companies.
Comparing
revenues and market share of vendors does not necessarily bear any resemblance
to how good the products are.For example, most people agree other phones are better in functionality than the iPhone but the iPhone is still the benchmark in smart phones.
Just because a
big vendor has the capability to discount heavily or secures business off the
back of large ERP implementations, where often the BI licence is given away for
free. Point is, don't confuse the Top 10 with product functionality and
performance.
The notes at the
end are interesting but my advice would for a more detailed review would be to
get hold of the Gartner reports which you can easily find on the net.
Finally, what use
is a report that compares 2008, 2009 and 2010?
Don’t they know it’s 2013 now J
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