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Server-based query and reporting tools • Server-based on-line analytical processing tools • ERP-based reporting tools • Portals • Packaged management information systems, such as human resources information systems
Steve Williams • The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence

IBM, Oracle, Sybase, and SQL Server dominate the RDBMS market. Teradata, a proprietary database management system, is also widely used in the industry.
Steve Williams • The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
Ab Initio Software, IBM, and Informatica.
Steve Williams • The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
When IBM has spent close to $20 billion on analytics-related acquisitions, it’s a permanently changed ball game.
Thomas H. Davenport • Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities
IBM acquired The Weather Company for about $2 billion
Sunil Gupta • Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business
IBM, as well plugged into the corporate world as anyone, has organized its growth strategy around providing analytics to companies.
Pedro Domingos • The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
RDBMSs across as many IT uses as possible, including BI uses. Therefore, this key technology product is often managed as a shared service to support transactional systems, enterprise applications, and BI applications.
Steve Williams • The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
technology investments are made by companies to support BI initiatives, including data profiling tools, metadata repositories, and DW monitoring software,