Timo Elliot has posted a rather nice visualisation of Gartner’s 2008 BI market share research as reported by Information Week. Timo has, not surprisingly, used Xcelsius and although I’m not quite sure why IBM/Cognos is seemingly struggling to keep up with the pack (when Microsoft actually has the smallest share) it clearly illustrates the staggering 24% market share held by SAP/BusinessObjects. Bear in mind that these vendors collectively have 64.5% of the market.
You can see Timo’s full post here, complete with a more readily interpreted, but not so pretty, bar chart
