SAP AG bought Business Objects SA in 2008. The acquisition is designed to accelerate SAP's growth with the addition of thousands of new customers and a new product line to address the fast-growing market for business intelligence (BI) software. As SAP had its own BI product (NetWeaver BI), the...

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company who delivers the technology-related insight necessary for its clients to make the right decisions, every day. The Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms report presents a global view...

By acquiring Hyperion Solutions in 2007, Oracle consolidated its position as a leader on the BPM Market. Released in the July 2008, the new BPM platform is called Oracle EPM System and includes a number of innovations and capabilities to improve business insights and decision-making. Oracle EPM...

BPM is a software category that offers information at a high level of synthesis so that management can take strategic decisions that draw tendencies and orientations for the enterprise. The goal of a BPM initiative is to steer the entire organization in the same direction, enabling the...

Microsoft acquired DATAllegro in July 2008 and is preparing the new release of its BI platform for 2010. Projects "Gemini" and "Madison" are extensions to Microsoft's business intelligence strategy: a new version of Analysis Services and data warehousing functionality from DATAllegro,...