Gartner: Weltweite BI Ausgaben wachsen 2008 um 11 Prozent

“Despite BI being a top priority for 2009 and beyond, we expect a downward-sloping growth projection because of product and vendor consolidation, which will be offset somewhat by larger sales forces behind some of the products,” Mr. Sommer said. “Commoditisation of BI across the board, but in particular for query, online analytical processing and reporting, will drive price points down. This will be partially offset by newer, innovative BI capabilities, as well as the general proliferation of BI, allowing it to reach more users within organisations.”

2007 saw a turbulent shakeout of BI vendors, with Microsoft growing its capabilities, and Business Objects (SAP), Cognos (IBM) and Hyperion (Oracle) being the most notable acquisitions of the year, resulting in a new playing field, dominated by these megavendors. Growth in 2007 has been partly inflated by Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), in which the strong euro has caused a boost of global growth rates when reporting in dollar terms. Overall for 2007, in dollar terms, EMEA and Asia/Pacific displayed stronger growth rates than North America, and they are expected to do so again in 2008.

Given the recent weakness of the U.S. economy, the technology market in North America is expected to see low growth for the first half of 2008. Much of the early weakness will be from organisations exercising caution in spending their budgets being prepared for a quick pullback should the economic situation decline more rapidly or severely than currently expected.

Additional information is available in the Gartner report "Forecast: Business Intelligence Platforms, Worldwide, 2007-2012.” The report is available on Gartner's Web site at

http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?ref=g_search&id=623345&subref=simplesearch.

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