Briefs

Christina Steensboe wrote an interesting article in DM review on European business intelligence and build versus buy analytic applications.

"Large global companies -- mostly U.S.-based -- dominate the Western European business intelligence and analytics markets. However, two European-based vendors, SAP and Business Objects, are among the market leaders in most countries across Europe, and vendors such as Armstrong-Laing, Cartesis, CODA, Frango, Kalido and MIS AG play important roles in the analytics markets in specific Western European countries.

The players in the European business intelligence and analytics markets come from various backgrounds:

Business intelligence tools
Databases
Enterprise applications
Analytic applications

Here is the rest of the story.