Gartner lists Microsoft India as leading vendor of BI

Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd. Today announced that as per Gartner's Asia Pacific software revenue estimates, it has emerged as the leading vendor of Business Intelligence solutions in the country.    

The Gartner "Market share: Business Intelligence Platform Software, Asia Pacific and Japan, 2007" report (1) estimates that with a growth rate of 40.5 per cent, the Business Intelligence software revenues in India were $19.4 million during 2006-07.    

As per the study, Microsoft is also ahead of the competition in the overall APAC Business Intelligence (BI) platform market for a second consecutive year.

The study highlights that in APAC, Business Intelligence software revenues grew a healthy rate of 26.1 percent and in value terms the market stood at $339.7 million during 2006-2007.    

Microsoft has maintained its last year's position as the market leader with a current 20.13 per cent market share, growing by 25.5 percent to reach software revenues worth $68.4 million in the Asia pacific BI market.     

"This is a strong testament to our commitment to providing customers with the end-to-end BI platform and software solutions they need to excel in an increasingly dynamic IT environment. We expect 2008 to be another exciting and productive year for Microsoft BI and our customers. We have seen tremendous momentum around our server software solutions since the wave Launch in Asia Pacific in general, and in the area of BI in particular, and are confident about further driving our leadership position with the upcoming launch of Microsoft SQL Server 2008," said Pallavi Kathuria, Director, Server Business Group, Microsoft India.