The two ranking criteria are “completeness of vision” and “ability to execute”. Moving the household name ahead of Business Objects and Cognos on one of the two ranking criteria involved in the study, Gartner asserts that Microsoft’s business intelligence platform holds a very strong position on the increasingly populous business intelligence vendor list. The latest BI Platform Report from Gartner placed Microsoft in the “Leaders” quadrant for the first time. Not having made a detailed comparison between what can be accomplishe with the SQL 2008 CDC feature and the Cloud9 product’s feature, I can’t say for sure, but I would guess that a BI professional could implement a solution using SQL Server 2008 and deliver the same information produced by Cloud9. One of these is called “change data capture” (CDC). Microsoft SQL Server 2008 does have features that allow programmers to do something similar. I’m not sure if it truly measures up to the claim of being a “business intelligence” product if that claim is meant to imply that Cloud9 will deliver everything people have come to expect from a business intelligence platform the term has a history of loose usage, however, and the Cloud9 product certainly falls within that more inclusive sphere. I think that this is an interesting approach to reporting.
This company’s product crawls the contents of a database to report on change in the database. I assume that it does this by keeping a copy of the results of its last crawling somewhere and comparing the current db to that one as it crawls.
This company does have an interesting approach to BI – it seems to utilize some of the technology that has (fairly) recently come onto the scene (at least compared to BI and database technology itself), namely web-crawling technology such as that used by search engines. However you feel about, you know that when a product begins to infliltrate the low-end pricing of the SaaS space, it truly has reached commodity status. Today, to underscore the idea that BI is becoming commoditized, I ran across an article about a startup business intelligence vendor with a BI product designed specifically for (although it can be utilized for other applications as well).
My last post explored some of the effects of the commoditization of BI and the way Microsoft has reacted to / influenced that commoditization.
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