In the short term at least. Acquisitions can kill R&D funding and unfocus company direction during the internal integration process. Then there is all the time and effort spent on a new company message announcing the "new" product and service offerings - marketing, architectures, training.
Thank you Fayu for sending in this IT Week article about acquisitions in BI will stem innovation.
As well, it could be that during the Oracle, SAP, and IBM acquisition/integration efforts, it may create a vacuum while these big three BI vendors (geez I guess they are now) focus on internal integration. This downtime vacuum may open up a space in the market for the entrepreneurially minded. I hope it does!
Sure business for the acquired (BO, Cognos, Hyperion) will continue to sell licenses. However I agree with the article that behind the scenes people are going to be pulled into committees, working groups and potentially let go, okay, re-shuffled.
This all equates to not pushing the envelope nor being laser-focused on customer needs and the competition. Unfortunate for them... Opportunity for others!
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If your business moves to fast without R&D your are dead from my point of view. You can spend 3-6 months integrating a paid solution and then see it is absolute.
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Thanks Fayu for this article about the positives & negatives from the IBM - Cognos acquisition.
We think so! Your readers may find our 2008 predictions useful:
http://www.lucidera.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/02/whats-in-store-for-business-intelligence-in-2008/
We make the point that for the big "applistructure" companies BI will stand for bloated integration for some time.
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