Craig Schiff has a short analysis of the impact PerformancePoint is going to have on the BPM Market.
Unfortunately for the rest of the BPM vendors, I believe that the Microsoft impact will be larger and be felt sooner than expected
From my position I have to agree. I would have expected the other players in the market to be establishing a more vocal and competitive position now in order to head off the competition. Hoping that Microsoft wont get it right does not seem to me to be a sound long term survival strategy.
How this will all turn out is anybody’s guess, but it is certainly going to be an exciting time in the BPM world.
[...] Following up on several earlier posts by Charlie Maitland and probably soon to appear all around the BI-related blogosphere, the CTP for PPS is available now! At least I can see it through the Microsoft Connect program. Can’t wait to install a copy and start exploring what’s there – Microsoft seems to be up to something really big here. [...]
By: Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 CTP available now « Stéphane-Robert Langer on Wednesday 22 November, 2006
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