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Article: MicroStrategy: BI Consolidation? No Worries; Independent BI software vendor MicroStrategy says market consolidation only makes it stronger.
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- eWeek
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- December 18, 2007
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The business intelligence story of 2007 was consolidation.
Large players have acquired specialty houses to shore up their BI strategies. This year alone, SAP acquired Business Objects, Oracle acquired Hyperion, and IBM acquired Cognos--which all followed Microsoft's acquisition of ProClarity last year.
MicroStrategy remains an independent BI software provider, but that doesn't mean they have been written out of the plot, said Sanju Bansal, chief operating officer at MicroStrategy.
Bansal sat down recently with eWEEK senior editor Darryl K. Taft to explain why the company is in a unique position to take advantage of the changes in the BI marketplace.
Q: With all the consolidation in the ...