By Nathan Luck
IDC has named SAP the leader in the global BI tools market based on
software license and maintenance revenue, reporting the company has
grown faster than the worldwide market for financial performance and
strategy management (FPSM) applications for the fifth consecutive year.
On the result, Steve Lucas, general manager, Business Analytics, SAP,
said, “Our momentum continues to grow as we focus heavily on delivering
customer success by executing on our business analytics roadmap,
bringing to market new and innovative releases of our BI, EIM, EPM and
GRC solutions.”
SAP leads the worldwide BI market with revenues of $1,866.4 million and a
21 per cent market share, while revenue for FPSM was $629 million
constituting a 24.9 pe rcent market share, according to the two IDC
analyses – Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools 2010 Vendor Shares and
Worldwide Financial Performance and Strategy Management Applications
2010 Vendor Shares.
For the period 2009 to 2010, SAP outperformed the worldwide market
growth in each category, expanding by 19.9 per cent compared to the
total market growth of 11.4 per cent in BI tools, and 17.5 per cent
compared to the total market growth of 9.2 per cent for FPSM
applications.
