Microsoft's share increased a full percentage point to 7.7 in 2006, according to a new report by IDC, while its BI revenue grew 28.1% to $480 million.
Market leader Business Objects, meanwhile, moved backwards. Its share dropped from 14.9% to 14.3% last year, and its revenue grew 7% to $893.6 million. Not too impressive, considering the overall BI market grew 11.5% to $6.25 billion. IDC defines the market as query reporting and analysis tools, which make up the largest share, plus advanced analytics such as data mining and statistics.
The market's No. 2 vendor, SAS, fared much better, with its share of the market rising from 10.4 to 10.9 and revenue up 16.6% to $678.9 million. But No. 3 Cognos also lost share, moving from 10.1 to 10.0. And, like Business Objects, it did not keep up with the industry average on sales, with its revenue increasing just 9.8% to $622.3 million.
IDC broke out Hyperion and Oracle as separate vendors in the report, even though Oracle recently completed the $3.3 billion acquisition. Hyperion came in No. 4 after Microsoft with 5.2% of the market, barely moving since last year's 5.1% share, and revenue up 12.3% to $322.3 million. But combined with Oracle's market share of 3.3, flat over last year, Oracle/Hyperion would push out Microsoft to be ranked No. 4 in the market with an 8.5% share. Separate from Hyperion, Oracle BI kept pace with the market's overall growth, with revenue up 11.7% to 206.2 million.