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SAP acquired Business Objects: what is in your mind Larry?

I would like to be Mickey Mouse in Larry Ellison’s house when yesterday afternoon he heard about the announcement of SAP regarding the 4.8 billion Euro they put on the table to acquire Business Objects.
We are all actually waiting for a reaction. It could be:
- No way! I don’t want this deal to be closed! I put 10 billion on the table!
- No problem! I will buy another BI vendor! Call me Cognos CEO!
- OK Henning! You want to play that game! I will buy you next month!

More seriously, this acquisition is a sign. A sign of a new consolidation step in Business Intelligence market. A sign of a new race! If you are a BI vendor you should very quickly find an exit for your company. In a couple of years they will be only one place or two for an independent BI vendor. All the other majors will be acquired by Enterprise Framework Vendors (EFV – a new acronym I just invented…). Targets will be Cognos, Information Builders, Microstrategy, perhaps Teradata… and smaller like QlickTech. Big players will be IBM, HP, Oracle and a couple of others.
Two many BI vendors for a small number of EFV… Be the first to join or run after the train…

  Posted by pnieuwbourg on October 8, 2007 3:42 PM |

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