Worldwide business intelligence (BI), corporate performance management (CPM) and analytics applications/performance management software revenue totalled $13.1 billion in 2012, a 6.8 per cent increase from 2011 revenue of $12.3 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. Tough macro conditions and confusion related to emerging technology terms led to more muted market growth than in previous years.
"After a few historic banner years of spend in the BIsoftware market, which culminated in more than 17 per cent growth in 2011, growth was more subdued in 2012, at seven per cent," said Dan Sommer, principal research analyst at Gartner. "While this seems like a dramatic drop, it was in line with our forecasts published during 2012."
Gartner identified five key market dynamics that affected BI software spend and growth in 2012. The first two of these — challenging macro economics and term confusion around "analytics," "big data" and "BI" — had a negative impact on market growth while the third — BI spending moving outside of IT, causing the semantic layer to go into maintenance mode — had a neutral effect. However, the fourth and fifth dynamics — data discovery becoming a mainstream architecture and software as a service (SaaS), while still emerging, being the preferred option for granular analytics — were drivers of market growth.
While all five of the top five BI software vendors retained their top five status, IBM and SAS exchanged places to move IBM into third position and SAS into fourth (see Table 1). IBM grew 9.9 per cent in 2012, with revenue of $1.6 billion. The top five vendors together accounted for 70 per cent of the total BI software market revenue.
In first place, SAP once again had significantly higher revenue than any other vendor at $2.9 billion with 22.1 per cent of the market, although this was up by just 0.6 per cent from 2011. Second-place Oracle's revenue grew by 2.0 per cent from 2011 to reach $1.9 billion. Fifth-place Microsoft enjoyed the highest growth of the top five vendors in 2012, with revenue rising by 12.2 per cent compared with 2011, to reach $1.2 billion.
Table 1. Top 5 BI, CPM and Analytic Applications/Performance Management Vendors, Worldwide, 2011-2012 (Millions of Dollars)
Company |
2012 |
2012 |
2011 |
2011-2012 Growth (%) |
SAP |
2,902.5 |
22.1 |
2,884.0 |
0.6 |
Oracle |
1,952.1 |
14.9 |
1,913.5 |
2.0 |
IBM |
1,625.6 |
12.4 |
1,478.8 |
9.9 |
SAS |
1,599.7 |
12.2 |
1,542.9 |
3.7 |
Microsoft |
1,189.3 |
9.1 |
1,059.9 |
12.2 |
Others |
3,861.90 |
29.3 |
3,416.00 |
13.0 |
Total |
13,131.1 |
100.0 |
12,295.1 |
6.8 |
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