Recent Acquisitions in the Business Intelligence field together with a longer view list

Within the past week, we’ve seen the acquisitions of the two biggest players in the modern BI landscape, Looker and Tableau. And if you broaden your view to the entire analytics tech stack, it’s bigger: here are the major acquisitions over the past year:

• Stitch. Acquired by Talend on 11/7/2018 for $60m.
• Alooma. Acquired by Google on 2/19/19 for an undisclosed amount.
• Periscope. Acquired by Sisense on 5/14/19 for an undisclosed amount.
• Looker. Acquired by Google on 6/6/19 for $2.6b.
• Tableau. Acquired by Salesforce on 6/10/19 for $15.7b.

Wow - who is next?? It's obviously big business.

SLIDESHOW: 14 top platforms for data integration by David Weldon via @infomgmt

Informatica, Talend and Oracle are among the leaders in this space, according to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.

Interesting list and a few surprises for me too.

Data integration essential for maximising business value and performance with Big Data

This article by +Attunity, Inc. discusses the fact that one of the key problems with all the data that organisations now have is that they need to be integrated in order to provide some value.

I would so recommend looking at this page on the +Talend  website as their open source data integration software can be used with Hadoop.

This Whitepaper from +TDWI  looks at it from the Agile Information and Integration Governance (IIG) angle.

What all these links tell us is that data needs to be correctly integrated to provide value and that you will be more successful the greater your level of IIG maturity.