Some researchers made a point that BI is not the core business of large Enterprise Software vendors, indicating a below average feedback by many of their BI and Performance Management users, and I say, this is true, to some extent, being able to put hands on almost every BI solution in the market, and from a very Middle-Eastern, GCC point of view, none of the big, medium and small vendors have even put a clean, clear, sharp roadmap for their offerings yet. Those acquisition voracious giants, and I am talking Oracle and SAP are looking first to enlarge their portfolios and offering, eliminate and shrug off competition, without a definite focus on the business intelligence vertical applications, and their overlapping products, are simply disgusting to certain users who are in the process of researching the market, simply in this case, bigger is not always better! Read More

Software giant Oracle Corp is making a big bet on Web-based computer programs, a fast-growing segment of the tech sector that it has been slow to enter.

Senior company executives said on Thursday that the world’s No. 2 maker of business software will release a suite of 43 Web-based software modules to help corporations manage tasks from accounting and human resources to sales and procurement.

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Going Vertical

Now that no one has evidently acquired a majority in a certain vertical, obviously the big two players Oracle and SAP will offer more vertically focused applications in the coming few years. More…