NAEEM’s Blog @ Consultaneer

Let’s look at the major vendors providing Business Intelligence Software.

IBM, Oracle and SAP makes this list.

• Novermber 2007, IBM acquired “Cognos”for $US 5.65 billion, a compnay based in Ottawa, Canada.
• April 2007, Oracle purchased “Hyperion Solutions” for $US 3.30 billion, a company based in Santa Clara, CA, U.S.A
• October 2007, SAP bought “Business Objects” for $US 6.78 billion, a company based in Paris, France

The interesting point for me by these acquisitions is, how they can fit in the ESM (Enterprise Systems Management) market. As we in ESM tend to collect tera bytes of data. How can we bring intelligence out of that humongous amount of data and how well these applications will deal with TDW data. Also how the Cognos application will integrate with TBSM (IBM Tivoli Business Services Manager) and data collected via ITM (IBM Tivoli Monitoring).