On October 6 and 7 we had the Palo Open 2009 in Frankfurt, the annual meeting of users and partners of our software Palo. Applications and solutions that use Palo were introduced, and the 2009 Palo Award was conferred. Ranked most highly on participants’ feedback forms was the keynote of OLAP-Guru Nigel Pendse. The software analyst and publisher of BI Survey criticised large producers of Business Intelligence software.
Based on the feedback from Business Intelligence users, Pendse demonstrated that BI products and services of large providers performed well below average. Pendse explained that Business Intelligence is simply not the core business of large software companies. Large providers’ ongoing acquisition politics reflects the poor quality of their product portfolio. According to Pendse, nothing positive can currently be expected from the large providers in terms of BI, since they are overly concerned with integrating their many new acquisitions. Pendse advised corporate BI users to choose the best products on the market, which generally are offered by smaller providers.
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I agree with Nigel. Particularly SAP and Oracle seem to have considerable product overlaps. Microsoft and Cognos don’t do much better. Clients don’t like to pay for products that are dropped within a few years. These developments in the market might help small vendors like Jedox. Our projects – and our clients – get bigger on average year by year.
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