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In five years the market for business intelligence software platforms has undergone significant transformations especially for the series of major acquisitions. The following two snapshots are compared with the positions occupied by the main player on the Magic Quadrant Gartner Group in 2006 and 2011 .
Java is my language of choice and the one that closed was a very turbulent year: the acquisition of Sun by Oracle (announced in 2009 and became effective in January of the following year), the output of Gosling from Sun / Oracle, the agreement between Oracle and IBM for the joint development of OpenJDK and the new release of the language, the announcement of Steve Jobs wanted to discontinue development of the JVM from Apple, the subpoena of Google by Oracle for infringement of copyright.
Among all these changes that will happen to Javaday? The Javaday changes, opens in new (and old) languages and becomes Codemotion : event dedicated to those who get excited before a few poetic lines of code or the majesty of hundreds of KLOC perfectly harmonized.
IBM has released the end of October the first real major release of Cognos Business Intelligence suite made under his leadership: release 10 (currently 10.1). In these two months have been organized web-cast and events around the world in which they were presented the main novelties introduced by Cognos 10.
The usability of reports and dashboards through smartphones and tablets (now feature a suite of strategic BI) is one of the features that have been enhanced significantly in the release of Cognos 10.
On April 16 last year was held in Rome on Cognos Finance Forum 2008 (repeated on May 6 in Milan). The event, focused on Financial Performance Management, Forecasting and Planning, has seen the contribution of different actors who have brought their own theoretical and practical experience on the merits of the issues raised.
IBM has announced the acquisition of Cognos for a value of approximately $ 5 billion. The acquisition will be completed during the first quarter of 2008 through a public offer to purchase the shares at a price of $ 58 per share.
Gives a sense of satisfaction when a prediction comes true. About 5 months ago, on the sidelines of some reflections on IBM and Business Intelligence, wrote :
The trend shown by the global giants of IT (Oracle and Microsoft in the head) is to complete by means of acquisition, its suite of products to cover all areas: dbms, back-end, front-end, metadata management , data quality, data mining, etc.. In this perspective, the most obvious omission within the IBM is in the front-end where there is no product of interactive data analysis and end-user oriented [...]
IBM (at least officially) does not seem to be of this notice and is concentrating especially in improving its offer in the infrastructure sector (DBMS) and the services connected to it. We'll see how unfounded rumors circulating about possible acquisitions (with Cognos in pole-position) from IBM.
A few days ago IDC released its comparative report on the financial results of the leading vendor of Business Intelligence products in 2006. The targeted products are grouped into two main classes:
At the launch of the new version of DB2 Data Warehouse Edition (expected for June 13), IBM has organized events in Rome and Milan to present to customers and partners, products and strategies designed by Big Blue 2.0 for the market of the Business Intelligence.
The declination of 2.0 BI from IBM part by successful completion of two of the main limitations of the Classic Business Intelligence: on-demand access and distribution of information pervasively within the corporate structure to support all work (decision-making and operational ) and the possibility to integrate sources of information structured and unstructured in the process of construction of a system for data warehousing. Both aspects are instances of innovation whose practical need is increasingly felt by the users themselves
