Mumbai, August 8, 2007
Oracle has announced that it has been named the leading data warehouse platform tools vendor based on 2006 software revenues by analyst firm IDC.
Oracle extended its lead in this market with nearly 33% market share and almost $1.87 billion in software revenue for 2006, according to IDC's report, "Worldwide Data Warehouse Platform Tools 2006 Vendor Shares." In addition, Oracle's data warehouse platform tools software revenue grew at 13.1% faster than the overall category growth rate of 12.5%.
The analyst firm classifies the data warehousing tools software market as being comprised of Data Warehouse Generation and Data Warehouse Management tools.
IDC also determined Oracle was the leading vendor in the Data Warehouse Management category with nearly 41% (40.9%) market share and close to $1.8 billion in revenues for 2006. Its nearest competitor in the Data Warehouse Management tools market trailed by almost half, with 22.8% market share and approximately $997.4 million in revenues. |
