How BI market consolidation affects SAP customers[From SearchSAP.com]
In recent months, three large business intelligence (BI) vendors have been acquired. SAP bought Business Ojbects, Oracle acquired Hyerion and IBM made an offer for Cognos. Since many SAP customers also use software from these acquired companies, SearchSAP.com spoke with Paul Hamerman, a principal analyst for Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research, to get his thoughts on the future of the BI market, which company got the best BI deal, and what it all means for SAP customers. [@more@]Is this th