Revenue Growth in Analyst Reports Signals Momentum for Microsoft BI
Nice article on how Microsoft is performing within BI Country.
From : http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.asp?Feed=PR&Date=20060922&ID=6045101&Symbol=US:MSFT
Key messages :
- Microsoft Corp. MSFT today announced that Gartner's "BI Platforms Market Share, Worldwide, 2005" report, published this week, documented a 35.9 percent revenue growth rate for Microsoft Corp.'s business intelligence platform in 2005.
- In July's IDC report, "Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2005 Vendor Shares," Microsoft's BI tools revenue growth was more than twice that of the other leading database management systems (DBMS) and legacy pure-play BI vendors
- Microsoft also ranked No. 1 in The OLAP Report's annual OLAP Survey
- Microsoft made substantial forward movement, moving from the Challenger quadrant onto the line between the Leader and Challenger quadrants, on Gartner's 2006 Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems.
- and a number of customer/partner quotes.
