SAP is No.1 in BI with 22.4% market share

Gartner has designated SAP as the market leader in business intelligence (BI), analytics and performance management software. The SAP BusinessObjects portfolio enjoys 22.4 % share of the worldwide market.

Gartner says the BI market grew 4.2 % from 2008 to reach $9.3 billion in 2009. BI platforms had 64.2 % market share of total worldwide BI software revenue. Corporate performance management (CPM) suites had a 20.8 % market share, and analytic applications and performance management software had 15 % market share.

In 2009, SAP BI software earned $2.1 billion from all of these segment types combined.