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Wish you all Very Very Happy New year

Hello, Wish you all and your Family Very Very Happy New Year 2010. May all your dreams come true and life filled with Happiness this year.

I am sure this year is going to be a wonderfully hectic on work front. Now sometimes yes hectic is not so wonderful, but most of the times I enjoy it. We all know that the analytics industry is all buzzing and getting matured after long learning curve. Till 2 years back, supply chain analytics or spend analysis was game of more nische players whereas big guns looking at it as "something that we dont have to do", "its not our thing" attitude. Big ERP players was more into application integrated with their systems and data management activities was always service delivery thing with speciality companies doing good like - Ariba, Zycus, Emptoris, Bravo to name few. Now 2008 and 2009 saw sudden changes in that landscape. As economy was fragile and people started looking at optimization as the solution, everybody including big ERP players got convinced that there is a money in "spend" and started taking it seriously. So SAP taking over business objects, acquiring analytics and actively marketing different enterprise performance management solutions, Oracle launching new spend classification solution, IBM acquiring exeros data profiler and consolidating the infosphere and MDM products suite and so on are all related to that phenomenon.

So whats going to be next? Already industry saw enough consolidation in last 2 years in the analytics and data management solutions space - so I dont think there are going to any major take over in coming times other than few minor tools and applications integrations with existing tool set like data profiling tools, adapters to integrate with multiple systems, automated classification tooset integrated with dashboards etc. 

I will continue on this next week..........

Prashant Mendki (pmendki@gmail.com)

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