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IBM Adds Predictive Analysis To BI Software Line: Page 2 of 2

IBM said that it is adding predictive analytics capabilities to its lineup of enterprise business intelligence software, which studies business process and IT operations to see where changes should be made to improve the business. With these new offerings, IBM seeks to maintain its leading role in the BI and analytics market, where, according to research from Gartner, it is among the top five BI software vendors in the space, although behind SAP, Oracle and SAS Institute.
October 17, 2011

While these announcements, made in early October, are for on-premise networks, last week the company introduced IBM SmartCloud Monitoring, which provides some of the same IT resource monitoring in both physical and virtual environments, he says. IBM touted a Tech CEO Council report, which indicated that Fortune 500 companies waste $480 billion every year on inefficient business processes.

The BI and analytics market has been active in recent months with companies launching new products and services--sometimes for monitoring IT performance, other times for monitoring business performance and sometimes both.

At Oracle OpenWorld 2011 earlier this month, company CEO Larry Ellison unveiled the Exalytics appliance, which combines Oracle software and hardware to optimize business analytics. In September, Quantivo, which has roots in IBM, emerged to provide analytics to companies that may not be the biggest businesses but still have "big data" needs. And last week, Narus said it is adding analytics tools to not only to identify network trouble but to provide intelligence on the source of the trouble.

Gartner’s study from April reported that the software market for BI, analytics and corporate performance management grew by 13.4% in 2010 to $10.5 billion. The top five vendors and their market share in 2010 are: SAP (23%); Oracle (16%); SAS Institute (13%); IBM (12%); and Microsoft (9%). The companies' rankings were unchanged from 2009.

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