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  :: EDITOR'S NOTE ::                                  April 30, 2008
While four software giants — IBM, SAP, Oracle and Microsoft — are promoting the concept of business intelligence as part of an integrated software stack, BI specialists say such an idea is more wishful thinking than reality.
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To hear some folks tell it, the number of business intelligence options are dwindling fast. While four software giants — SAP, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft — now account for nearly half of the annual $7 billion BI market, there are still plenty of standalone BI specialists out there. In fact, those companies say they will produce new innovations while the big guys are focused on integrating their newly-purchased technologies. The specialists appear to be gaining fans among the constituency that may ultimately count the most: business users.
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