Business Objects is the business intelligence (BI) market share leader, says IDC
Business Objects has once again been named the business intelligence (BI) market share leader, according to the 2005 market share numbers issued this week by IDC. With core business intelligence software license and maintenance 2005 revenues of $795.3 million, Business Objects owns a 14% share of the business intelligence software tools market. SAS was the second-largest vendor in 2005, with $582 million in BI tools revenue and a 10.2% market share. 52% of SAS BI tools revenue comes from advanced analytics software.
In the report, IDC notes that in 2005, the BI market grew 11.5% to reach $5.7 billion in worldwide software revenues. In addition, IDC reported that Business Objects core BI revenue grew to a total of $795.3 million, which is one third greater than the next closest vendor. Business Objects leads the end-user query, reporting, and analysis tools category, the largest segment of the BI market, capturing more than 17% of the market.
In 2005, the BI market grew 11.5% to reach $5.7 billion in worldwide license and maintenance revenue. As Table 1 shows, the database-embedded BI server market experienced a higher growth rate (19.9%) than did standalone BI software (10.7%). The query, reporting, and analysis market outgrew the advanced analytics market in 2005. We had anticipated a higher growth rate for advanced analytics. One of the reasons for the lower-than-expected performance of this market segment was a larger-than-expected shift in revenue to query, reporting, and analysis tools as well as to packaged analytic applications by SAS, the largest advanced analytics tools vendor.