Forrester's Wave on Business Intelligence players 2010

In Forrester’s 145-criteria evaluation of enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform vendors, we

found that IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects, Oracle, Information Builders , SAS, Microsoft, and MicroStrategy led the pack because of the completeness of not just BI, but overall information

management functionality. Actuate came out as a Strong Performer on the heels of the Leaders offering equal — or in some cases superior — BI functionality, but it mostly relies on partners for the rest of its information management capabilities. TIBCO Spotfire also came out as a Strong Performer offering top choices for analytics, even surpassing other Strong Performers in the overall information management arena based on its traditional strength in middleware and application integration. Last but not least,QlikTech and Panorama Software moved up from Contenders and into the Strong Performers category based on the continuous improvements in their analytical capabilities.

Top 10 CIO Priorities – Gartner Survey 2010

Gartner conducted survey of world’s top 1600 CIOs and here is what came out of it.  Top 10 priorities for CIOs were

1.       Improving business processes
2.       Reducing Enterprise Costs
3.       Increasing use of Information/Analytics
4.       Improving enterprise workforce effectiveness
5.       Attracting and retaining new customers
6.       Managing change initiatives
7.       Creating new products and services
8.       Targetting customers and markets more effectively
9.       Consolidating business operations
10.   Supporting regulation reporting and compliance

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Vendor Profile - Lawson Software

Lawson did USD 736 million in the year 2010. This by any means is a very good figure for standalone pure-play ERP player.

Lawson added 93 new customers in 2010 and also 1000 new products were adopted by various customers. This is significant especially when the larger players like SAP and Oracle, they are struggling to acquire new customers.


Launched 42 new products including:  Cloud Console, Transaction Archive  Management, Analytics for Equipment Service  Management and Rental, Analytics for Fashion, Business Process Warehouse for S3, Cloverleaf  Integration Services, Succession Management  and Performance Management.

Lawson's new Human Capital Management Solution, got 1400 customers and is already 100 million USD business