Nigel Pendse Comments on Smaller Vendor Innovation
Nigel Pendse of the OLAP Report has never been known to sugar coat his opinions. He’s just come out with BI Survey 7 and it sounds like it’s chalk full of interesting market analysis and real-world customer input. This article, Exploding the Myths: the Business Intelligence Market Laid Bare, includes a brief summary of the survey and this Nigel nugget:
“We have found that some of the big-name vendors and the most expensive products are not delivering the same business benefits or level of support achieved by some of their lesser-known counterparts. There are smaller vendors out there producing cheaper and all-round better solutions than some industry giants.”
posted by Darren Cunningham at 11:39 am
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Darren Cunningham
Posted on 22nd February, 2008
BTW, check out this great quote from Nigel in this article: http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=174154
“So, if one of your performance management software vendors is acquired, be cautious. But if the acquirer is itself acquired, be prepared to abandon ship.”
Ken Rudin is the VP of Market Development at LucidEra. He co-founded the on-demand business intelligence company in 2005. Ken is a veteran of the rapidly growing software as a service industry with over 7 years of experience as an executive with leading on-demand software vendors. These include roles at Salesforce.com, at Netsuite (as an advisor), and at Siebel's on-demand division.
Darren Cunningham is the Director of Product Marketing at LucidEra. Prior to joining LucidEra he was the Category Director for salesforce.com AppExchange Analytics and Data Management. Before joining the on-demand world, he spent over 7 years at Business Objects.
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