Wednesday, 8 August 2007

IDC Names Oracle as Leader in Data Warehouse Platform Tools

Analyst firm IDC has reportedly named Oracle as the leading data warehouse platform tools vendor in its recent report “Worldwide Data Warehouse Platform Tools 2006 Vendor Shares.”

The study, which was done based on 2006 software revenues saw the software goliath rake in some 1.87 billion dollars, giving it a 33 percent market share. In addition, Oracle’s data warehouse platform tools software revenue grew at 13.1 percent -- faster than the overall category growth rate of 12.5 percent.

The analyst firm classifies the data warehousing tools software market as being comprised of Data Warehouse Generation and Data Warehouse Management tools.

“The future of the data warehouse market remains strong as companies look to integrate and analyze structured, and increasingly unstructured, content across the enterprise,” said Dan Vesset, vice president of Business Analytics Research at IDC.

“Oracle is well positioned to deliver the platform tools and new capabilities such as Spatial Information Management that companies need in order to drive better visibility within their organizations.”

Oracle Data Warehouse products consist of Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Data Warehouse Builder, Oracle Partitioning, Oracle Data Mining and Oracle OLAP.