Hitesh Shah
15th October 2007, 13:21
Here is a good article on how existing user of a pure data warehouse only finds DW
capabilities of SQL 2k5 very interesting .

Do u need a data warehouse (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Design/doyouneedadatawarehouse/2460/)

There is good price comparision in favour of SQL 2k5 done in this link .

Flying high with BI (http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167100274&pgno=1)

Even Oracle too has OLAP DW features but are available only in its enterprise edition
whereas SQL 2005 offers good data warehousing capabilities in it's standard edition
itself . OLAP / BI capabilities of SQL 2k5 has been one reason for increasing dominance
of MSSQL in both database market (relational as well as multi-dimensional).

Increasing influence of large BI vendors (in comparision to pure play BI
vendors ) had been predicted by Gartner this year .
Business Intelligence market growth in 2007 (http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=500680)

And its acknowledged in current year's magic quandrant.

Microsoft is Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of Latest Magic Quadrant for Data Warehousing (http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQF021A12102007-1.htm)

Probably the increasing dominance of MS SQL can be a reason behind recent takeovers of hyperion
(by oracle ) and business objects (by SAP).

Hitesh Shah
19th October 2007, 08:33
Here are the latest actual magic quadrants and surveys to enable one to get actual big picture of BI and DW market .

Actual gartner magic quadrant for data warehouse dated sept 2007
http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/article19/article19.html

BI platform capability matrix dated April 2007
http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/cognos/vol2/article1/article1.html

Gartner BI Magic Quadrant dated Jan 2007 . Recent takeovers of BO and Hyperion will change the picture drastically.
http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/oracle/145507.html

IBM data warehouse satisfaction survey in October 2007.
http://www.datawarehouse.com/article/?articleid=7443

Hitesh Shah
19th November 2007, 14:19
Infor Named Top Performance Management Vendor by Ventana (http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202602851&pgno=1)

IBM Aims for the Business Intelligence Endgame With Cognos (http://www.gartner.com/resources/153400/153478/ibm_aims_for_the_business_in_153478.pdf)