January 2019

BI & Big Data Market Landscape – Q4 2018

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Analytics is a hot topic in M&A right now, but is sometimes confusing considering the word “analytics” encompasses so many different variations. One way to segment analytics is as follows: descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive. This report hones in on the world of descriptive and diagnostic analysis, two of the four main segments. In these categories of analytics lies business intelligence (BI) and big data, which for this report’s purposes will be described as follows:

Business Intelligence: Visualization of business data points

Big Data: Capturing and utilizing large set of information

Within this ecosystem of analytics we focus on:

1. The top service providers
2. The technology vendors they prefer
3. Strategic buyers
4. Notable M&A transactions
5. Trading multples
6. Top conferences to attend