List of Business Intelligence (BI) tools/Major Players in BI Tool

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Oracle Enterprise BI Server Business Objects Enterprise XI Microsoft BI tools (integrated BI offering*) SAS Enterprise BI Server Microstrategy IBM Cognos Series 10 QlikView Board Management IntelligenceToolkit BizzScore Suite

Version Company
11g1 r4 Oracle SAP

2008/2010 Microsoft 9.2 9 10.1 11 7.1 7.3 8 9 7.3 9.1 11 4 6.1 SAS Institute Microstrategy IBM QlikTech Board International EFM Software Information Builders Oracle SAP Actuate InetSoft Pentaho TableauSoftware

10. WebFocus 11. Oracle Hyperion System 12. SAP NetWeaver BI 13. Actuate 14. Style Intelligence 15. Pentaho BI suite (open source) 16. Tableau Software

List of mergers and acquisitions by IBM

August 31, 2011

i2

Intelligence Analytics

September 20, 2010

Netezza

Data warehousing and analytics

June 15, 2010

Coremetrics

Web Analytics

September 22, 2009

RedPill Solutions

Analytics and Optimisation

July 28, 2009

Ounce Labs

Source code analysis

July 28, 2009

SPSS Inc.

Statistical analysis software

May 5, 2009

Exeros Assets

Data Discovery Software

January 31, 2008

Cognos

Business Intelligence

January 18, 2008

AptSoft Corporation

Business Intelligence

September 10, 2007

Princeton Softech, Inc.

Business Intelligence

July 14, 2004

Alphablox Corporation

Business Intelligence

List of mergers and acquisitions by Oracle

October 18, 2011

Endeca

E-commerce & Business Intelligence

February 2011

NDevr

Environmental reporting and Business intelligence

October 2006

Sunopsis

ETL, Data Integration

June 1999

Thinking Machines Corporation

Darwin, datamining technology

August 1995

IRI Software

OLAP products

OTHERS Mergers and Acquisitions

Oracles purchase of the Express business from IRI Software Informix buying STG MetaCube Microsofts purchase of the Panorama technology SAPs acquisition of BusinessObjects Acquisition of TM1 by IBM (via Cognos) Informixs acquisition of STG, Arbors acquisition of Hyperion Software, Seagates acquisition of Holistic Systems SPSSs acquisition of ShowCase. BusinessObjects acquisition of SRC Cognoss acquisition of Adaytum and Business Objects acquisition of Crystal Decisions

The consolidation of the fast growing market for analytical databases continues in 2011. Acquired company Vertica Aster Data Datanomic Corda Technologie s Winterheller Produc t type DBMS Data Analysi s DQM Charts Plannin g Acquirin g company HP Teradata Oracle Shacho Prevero Venture Startup Planning Product type Middleware Data Manageme nt

Date Februar y 2011 March 2011 April 2011 May 2011 June 2011

Price >$200 m $263m N/A <$10m N/A

The biggest news in 2010 was the takeovers in the area of analytical databases, with Sybase, Netezza, Kickfire and Greenplum being acquired. Acquirin g compan y Oracle Informati ca Software AG SAP IBM IBM EMC Teradata IBM IBM IBM R&D Data Manageme nt DM Storage DM DI, DQ BPM, PBI ERP, BI, DI, DQ

Date

Acquired company Silver Creeks Systems Siperian Realtime Monitoring GmbH Sybase Cast Iron Coremetri cs Greenplu m Kickfire OpenPag es Netezza Clarity

Product type

Product type

Price

January 2010 January 2010 April 2010 May 2010 May 2010 June 2010 July 2010 August 2010 Septemb er 2010 Septemb er 2010 October 2010 Novemb er 2010 Decemb er 2011

DQM/MDM MDM CEP Mobile, DBMS DI Web Analytics DBMS DBMS GRC DW Appliance Planning, Consolidati on Planning Analysis Marketing Automation

N/A $130 m <$10 m $5.2b n N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A $1.7 bn N/A

Quantrix Aprimo

IDBS Teradata

N/A $525 m