Business Intelligence Vendors and Products (2010)

As of the end of 2010, the business intelligence (BI) software marketplace is in a state in which there are clear leaders or as Gartner, Inc puts it, “megavendors” that own roughly two-thirds of the $6 billion market.  In addition the rest of the BI vendors are more commonly referred to as “niche” or “pure-play” vendors.  These “niche” vendors each produce and sell viable business intelligence software products, but they do not encompass the breadth of complimentary technologies that the “megavendor” produces.  Regardless of the size of the vendor, both the “megavendors” and “pure-play” vendors do provide very capable and feature-rich software solutions.

Even though many of vendors listed below produce a number of related products, this list is only focused on business intelligence software products.

BI Software Vendors and Products (2010)

The following companies are currently known as megavendors …

• IBM

• Microsoft

• Oracle

• SAP

And the following companies are now known as niche or pure-play vendors …

• MicroStrategy

• Information Builders

• Actuate

• LogiXML

• QlikTech

• Pentaho

• Jaspersoft

• Panorama Software

• Tibco Software (Spotfire)

• Tableau Software

• Targit

• arcplan

• Board International