METAspectrum Business Intelligence Leaders

David Folger

1 April 2003

This week, META Group announced the results of the Business Intelligence (BI) Tools and Platforms METAspectrum. Market leaders in the METAspectrum are Cognos, Business Objects, SAP, and SAS Institute. A large collection of vendors in this relatively mature market scored just below the leaders, but also represent good vendor alternatives. Our analysis indicated that the BI market is one of the healthiest software segments, showing 5%-10% growth in 2002, with similar growth expected in 2003.