Jerry Held: December 2007 Archives

Consolidation within the Business Intelligence (BI) market continues. After more than a dozen acquisitions made by Business Objects, Cognos, and Hyperion over the past few years, these BI tools/analytics industry leaders were themselves snapped up in a matter of months by SAP, IBM, and Oracle respectively. But economies of scale enabled by consolidation is just one of the two primary drivers of the new economics of BI. Jerry Held explains how the other driver is economies of innovation that is a result of the continuing stream of new entrants. Continue reading "The new economics of the BI market" »