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Oracle

Oracle's acquisitions have given the company a large, heterogeneous applications and infrastructure installed base. These customers need an integrated way to access, analyze and deliver information and insight from multiple business applications. While Oracle's customers have invested in non-Oracle BI platforms, the newly branded Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition from the Siebel acquisition — which Gartner previously rated as visionary — has given Oracle a new opportunity to create a compelling BI platform strategy and become a significant BI platform and applications vendor in 2007 and beyond.

However, there are still product road maps and product integration issues that remain to be delivered over the next 18 months (see "Acquired Siebel Products Will Play a Key Role in Oracle's BI Strategy"). Enterprise reporting has historically been a weakness for both Oracle and Siebel. The new BI Publisher goes a long way toward closing the reporting gap and appears to be a viable technology base for further developing reporting capabilities to complement the platform.

We think that, over the next few years, Oracle's Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition and Oracle Analytic Applications — different but related products — will be adopted much more broadly, given the products' comprehensive capabilities, pricing, and integration into the Oracle collection of business applications. We expect that Oracle will be very visible in its marketing and sales execution in 2007 and beyond as it executes on its expanded BI strategy. We also expect to see Oracle among the top three BI platform vendors, in terms of market share, by 2012.

Source: http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/oracle/145507.html