$14.4B was spent worldwide on Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics enterprise software in 2013, increasing 8% from $13.3B in 2012. SAP continues to solidify its market leadership in BI and analytics, generating $3.1B in BI and analytics revenue in 2013, increasing 5.3% from 2012. Oracle was the second-largest vendor, generating $1.9B in 2013 sales, which is an increase of 2.1% over 2012.
These and other insights are available in the Gartner report Market Share Analysis: Business Intelligence and Analytics Software, 2013 published today.
Key take-aways from the market share analysis include the following:
- Worldwide business intelligence (BI) and analytics software, consisting of BI platforms, corporate performance management (CPM) suites, analytic applications and advanced analytics, totaled $14.4 billion in 2013, an 8 percent increase from 2012 revenue of $13.3 billion.
- SAP is dominating the BI and analytics market with 21.3% market share in 2013 based on $3.1B in revenues, followed by Oracle with 13.9% market share and $1.9B in sales. IBM attained 12.7% market share on $1.8B of sales in 2013.
- Gartner reports that half of BI and analytics spend will be business driven. Their analysis also shows half of new license spend will be driven by data discovery requirements.
- Big Data investments are happening outside traditional BI in experimental silos, infrastructure and services. I’m seeing manufacturers continue to invest in analytics to gain greater insights into the financial implications of supply chain, operations and fulfillment data on financial performance.
- Gartner reports that IT budgets are flat and IT-led traditional BI tools are over-bought. Leading vendors including SAP continue to target potential prospects in sub-market growth opportunities.
- 50% of organizations will consider deploying BI in the cloud from a tactical standpoint.
- Analytics are moving beyond being a siloed, singular tool and is becoming more strategic, embedded in a variety of applications and infrastructures according to Gartner’s market share report. Despite the 8% market growth from 2012 to 2013, Gartner contends that these dynamics are leading to analytics being the highest priority investment for this and future years.
- Analytic Applications and Performance Management generated $2B in revenue in 2013, representing 13.9% market share. BI platforms were the majority of sales in 2013, generating $8.5B in revenues and a 59% market share. The table below provides a breakout of each subsegment from the report.
Source: Gartner Says Worldwide Business Intelligence and Analytics Software Market Grew 8 Percent in 2013
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