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BI Becomes the Jewel in SOA's Crown
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High-tech vendor consolidations often take place in waves. Sometimes, consolidations are just a matter of too much restless capital searching for the next big score, regardless of whether there's a business rationale.
Other times, however, a sudden storm of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) signals the coming of a new industry order, with far-reaching consequences for business users everywhere.
That is the case with the rash of headline-grabbing M&A deals in the business intelligence (BI) arena over the past year. In rapid succession, we've seen Oracle acquire Hyperion, SAP snatch up Business Objects, and IBM take over Cognos -- not to mention acquisitions of smaller BI and corporate performance management (CPM) application vendors by most of those firms
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Posted: Friday, January 25, 2008
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