Cognos Off The Table
Bringing an end to the speculation on who would buy Cognos, IBM has announced that it will pay $5 Billion in cash to buy the Business Intelligence leader. Earlier, SAP bought Business Objects. Cognos is IBM’s 27th acquisition since 2006.
Business Intelligence is a hot space right now, which we have been covering in a fair bit of detail. Aberdeen Group analyst David hatch has written a number of pieces on the topic, highlighting the major trends:
* On-Demand BI – Not Just for SMB highlights the on-demand BI trend, and observes that Enterprises are embracing on-demand for a different reason. Find out why.
* Serving the Underserved: Is On-Demand BI the Answer? addresses the lack of adoption of BI amongst business users, arguably the ones who should be using it the most.
* Making Sense of Unstructured Information discusses unstructured data as a major source of business intelligence.
* Performance: The Role of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is a survey of how companies use KPIs.
* “BI Appliances” are Entering the Fray and Why BI Appliances? discuss the emerging BI trend.
* Marketers Are Driven by Inward-Facing Pressures reveals some surprising facts about how marketers are using BI.
Finally, there is a very interesting company that we have covered, called Lucidera, which may be a next-up acquisition target for its compelling on-demand BI offering.
You may also want to look at Pentaho … a RedHat and ElasticPath type model leveraging open-source components … blended with paid support and premium products … thus delivering a very cost effective solution in the BI-Reporting space.
[...] grew 16% to $3.8 billion and Information Management software grew 27% including growth from the Cognos acquisition that was completed in the [...]
[...] Software was the strongest segment with revenue up 12% to $5.2 billion. Middleware Products revenue grew 12% to $4.1 billion, Operating Systems revenues grew 5% to $594 million, and Information Management software revenue grew 26%, helped by the Cognos acquisition. [...]