Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2004-2008 Forecast Update and 2003 Vendor Shares

SUMMARY

This IDC study examines the business intelligence (BI) tools market for the period 2001-2008, with vendor revenue trends and market growth forecasts. Worldwide market sizing is provided for 2003, with trends from 2001, and a five-year growth forecast is shown for 2004-2008. A vendor competitive analysis, with the revenue and market shares of the leading vendors, is provided for 2003. This study also includes profiles of leading vendors and identifies the characteristics that vendors will need in order to be successful in the future.

"The structure of the BI tools space indicates a continued maturation of this software market, which is leading toward increasing adoption of BI tools throughout organizations of varying sizes. However, the increased adoption is offset by price pressures and other structural trends that will keep the growth rate of the market at a CAGR of 4.7% over the next five-year period." -- Dan Vesset, research director, Analytics and Data Warehousing

TABLE OF CONTENTS

IDC Opinion

In This Study

Methodology

Business Intelligence Tools Market Definition

• Query, Reporting, and Analysis
• Data Mining Software
• Packaged Data Mart/Data Warehouse Products

Situation Overview

Business Intelligence Tools Market in 2003

• Performance of Leading Vendors in 2003
• Performance by Geographic Region in 2003
• Performance by Operating Environment in 2003
• Table: Worldwide Business Intelligence Revenue by Vendor, 2001-2003 ($M)

Vendor Profiles

• Business Objects
• Cognos
• SAS Institute
• Hyperion
• Microstrategy
• Actuate
• Information Builders
• SAP
• IBM
• Oracle
• Microsoft

Future Outlook

Forecast and Assumptions

• Table: Key Forecast Assumptions for the Worldwide Business Intelligence Market, 2004-2008
• Business Intelligence Tools Forecast, 2004-2008
• Worldwide
• By Geographic Region
• By Operating Environment
• Table: Worldwide Business Intelligence Revenue by Segment, 2001-2008 ($M)
• Table: Worldwide Business Intelligence Revenue by Region and Operating Environment, 2003-2008 ($M)

Essential Guidance

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Appendix A: Technical Data Analysis

• End-User Query, Reporting, and Analysis
• Table: Worldwide End-User Query/Reporting/Analysis Revenue by Vendor, 2001-2003 ($M)
• Data Mining
• Table: Worldwide Data Mining Revenue by Vendor, 2001-2003 ($M)
• Packaged Data Mart/Warehouse
• Table: Worldwide Packaged Data Mart/Warehouse Revenue by Vendor, 2001-2003 ($M)
• Technical Data Analysis
• Table: Worldwide Technical Data Analysis Revenue by Vendor, 2001-2003 ($M)
• Table: Worldwide Technical Data Analysis Revenue, 2003-2008

Appendix B: Methodology

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