IBM Trumpets Data Warehouse Lead.IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp is bandying around a sheaf of market research which puts it at the head of the data warehouse market. World Research Inc estimates IBM's share of the worldwide market was 20% and worth $4.25bn in 1998, up 77% on 1997. Andersen Consulting See Accenture. claimed the leading integration spot with a 29%, $550m share. The business intelligence and data warehousing See data warehouse.data warehousing - data warehouse market is reckoned to be growing by more than 50% a year. Meanwhile, a new Meta Group study estimates the number of data warehouses with over 1Tb data will rise by 30% through this year. It reckons the server vendors will be the primary beneficiaries and should capture 40% of the associated revenue. Software should account for 35% and services 25%. Meta give IBM a 30% share of the data warehouse market and 24% of departmental data marts. NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers has 6% and 1% respectively, Sun 15% and 21% and HP 14% and 13%. |
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