IBM acquires Cognos. The proprietary game is -almost- over in the BI field.
IBM announced today the acquisition of Cognos. It has been a long time rumor, since Cognos was the obvious missing link in the BI offer of IBM. IBM and Cognos has been long term partners and the acquisition of BO by SAP has probably accelerated the deal.
What is really interesting is that this deal is closing the loop: no more pure player in the Business Intelligence field. Well, almost. Informatica will be the last one (if acquired). No more proprietary software vendors. Even if their offer is very young and immature, I am eager to see how will Pentaho or Greenplum benefits from that convergence?
The software market has been concentrating around the TOP 4: IBM, SAP, Microsoft & Oracle. They are now ruling the IT field. It is pretty sure for everyone that the open source pure players will not change that. I am not convinced. The market is more and more commoditized. The Top 4 will have to sacrifice sooner or later their cash caws: application server, Core ERP, CRM, databases, portal. Let’s see how they will handle that.
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