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Independent BI vendors in a consolidated market: the case of Microstrategy
IntroductionIn the last decade the business intelligence market has been relatively fragmented with a lot of different vendors offering open solutions, which were designed to operate with a large variety of different databases, data-sources (ERP, CRM, SCM …), operating systems, portal technologies and web/application servers. Consolidation in the BI market had been forecasted and rumored for many years, but finally happened with a vengeance in 20