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Information access applications will drive growth for the business intelligence (BI), search, and discovery markets, according to a recent IDC study. The study finds that organizations have discovered wide gaps in their business intelligence, and increasingly require unified access to all of their information. The recent rise in demand for unified access to information has spawned the creation of new, innovative software applications that combine data and content from multiple sources.

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A recent report by AMR Research found that performance management (PM) spending will increase to nearly $23B in 2006.  Survey respondents indicate they will purchase more business intelligence (BI) and dashboards and less analytic applications. The dashboard and scorecard segment will grow to $5.22 billion in 2006—corresponding with a growth rate of 26%.

The dashboard and scorecard segment is on fire as companies strive to expand the use of PM across the business, dashboards are appearing in all manner of forms, from dedicated products to components of other applications.

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TDWI 2006 poster:

Data profiling, data integration, and data quality are three key data management practices that go together. After all, they address related issues in data assessment, acquisition, and improvement. For example, data integration projects ferret out quality issues. Likewise, data quality projects depend on integration technologies to access and enhance corporate data. Data profiling—though sometimes neglected—is required as a planning task when designing data quality and data integration projects, as well as a recurring task that tracks data improvement over time. And the three practices are inherently related through a common goal, namely: to add value to information continuously.

The symbiotic cycle illustrated in this TDWI poster reveals some of the relationships among data profiling, integration, and quality. It also shows how associated tasks recur over time—in a more or less consistent order—although some repetitions of the cycle may skip some steps. Every organization’s solution will differ, but this model can be a starting point for data management professionals hoping to integrate the three practices of data profiling, integration, and quality.

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IDC tracker research on the Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Performance Management/Financial Analytics (BPM) market estimated that the Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) size for 2005 was nearly US$340 million. This represented a healthy annual growth rate of 22.5%. The market is expected to remain on the fast growth track with a 5-year CAGR of 13.5%, reaching US$639 million by 2010.

“The early adopters of BI and BPM software were those with the largest amounts of data, have a relatively mature deployment of enterprise applications, and require increasingly real-time insight on their business operations. The need for industry compliance, as well as increased global competition, also pressured such companies to invest in software that provides better insight into a company operations, and that supports decision making,” says Sharon Tan, Senior Market Analyst, Asia/Pacific Application Tools Software Research, IDC Asia/Pacific.

In 2005, the Singapore BI and BPM market was valued at US$19.54 million and is anticipated to enjoy a 5-year CAGR of 12.7%. On the other hand, the Hong Kong market was estimated at US$16.43 million in 2005 and predicted to breach the US$25 million dollar mark before the end of the decade.

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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.

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Ventana Research 2006 Performance Management Vendor and Product Scorecard results show that Extensity was ranked as the overall leader as a software vendor with technology capabilities to enable Performance Management and tied for top position in areas of Optimizing and Understanding performance. Cognos ranked in first place for Aligning performance while SymphonyRPM was tied for top spot in Optimizing and Understanding performance and Actuate tied for top spot in Understanding performance.

The scoring was broken down into the categories of Align, Optimize and Understand.  These three steps are the foundation of Ventana Research’s Performance Management methodology, PerformanceCycleTM.  The scorecard is independent and objective research that is based on factual analysis of vendors and their products, and is not sponsored.

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