The history of Business Intelligence & Performance Management

1995	June	Oracle acquires Information Resources Express-software
1996	October	Microsoft acquires Panorama OLAP technology, rebranding to Analysis Services
	November	Applix acquires TM1 Software (Sinper Corporation)
1998	May	Arbor Software (Olap-vendor, Essbase) acquires Hyperion, rebranding of merger to Hyperion
	December	SPSS acquires Clementine, datamining technology
		Cognos acquires Relational Matters, ETL Technology which became DecisionStream
1999	February	Brio acquires Sqribe, production reporting technology
	June	Oracle acquires Darwin, Datamining technology
2000	February	Great Plains acquires FRX Software, financial reporting technology
	March	Cognos acquires Lex 2000, which became Cognos Finance
	June	SAS acquires DataFlux, data quality software
	August	Accrue acquires Pilot from Platinum Equity Holdings
	September	Gemplus acquires SLP InfoWare, scoring & Analytical CRM technology
		Accrue Software acquires Pilot Software, business intelligence technology
	December	SPSS acquires Showcase, an AS/400 Business Intelligence specialist
2001	January	NetIQ acquires WebTrends Corporation, website analytics technology
		Informix Business Solutions, an operating company of Informix Corporation, announces it has changed its name to Ascential Software
	March	Ascential acquires Vality, data quality technology
		SAS acquires Intrinsic, Operational CRM technology, following the merger of Intrinsic with Marketic not going through
		SAP acquires Toptier, BI & portal technology
	June	Microsoft acquires Israelian Maximal Innovative Intelligence and rebrands their OLAP viewer as Data Analyzer
	October	SPSS acquires CustomerCentric Solutions (former Netgenesis), web analytics technology
	November	Ascential Software acquires Torrent Systems, high end data integration technology
2002	January	Open Ratings acquires Gentia Software, business intelligence technology
		Peoplesoft acquires Annuncio, marketing automation solutions
	February	SPSS acquires Lexiquest, text mining technology
	March	Ascential acquires Vality, data quality technology
		SAS acquires ABC Technologies, activity based costing/management technology
	April	Lawson acquires Keyola, event driven Business Intelligence technology
		Ascential Software acquires the rights for MetaRecon, data profiling technology from Metagenix
	May	FairIsaac merges with HNC Software, predictive analytics & analytical CRM solutions
		Pilot Software Acquisition Corporation repurchases Pilot Software from Accrue
	June	SPSS acquires Netexs, OLAP technology
	July	Business Objects acquires Acta Technology, ETL-technology
	November	SAS acquires Verbind, Analytical CRM technology
2003	January	Cognos acquires Adaytum, planning software
		DataMirror acquires SmartSales, sales force automation solutions
	March	Hyperion acquires Alcar, financial modeling expertise
	April	Group 1 software acquires Sagent Technology, smaller BI vendor
	July	Geac acquires Comshare, Budgeting & Consolidation software
		Business Objects acquires Crystal Decisions, production reporting specialist
		Hyperion acquires Brio Software, business intelligence (query, reporting & analysis) technology
	August	Ascential Software acquires Mercator Software, real-time integration technology
		Pervasive acquires Data Junction, data integration technology
	September	Informatica acquires Striva, mainframe data integration technology
	October	Systems Union Group acquires MIS AG, German BI vendor
		CDC Software acquires Executive Suite from CIP-Global ApS
	November	SPSS acquires Data Distilleries, analytical CRM
2004	February	Harte-Hanks acquires Avellino Technologies, data profiling technology
	May	Microsoft acquires ActiveViews
	July	IBM acquires Alphablox
		Hyperion acquires QIQ Solutions, dashboarding software
	August	Cognos acquires Frango, European Consolidation specialist
	September	Sage acquires IntelligentApps, UK based vendor of MS Analysis Services add-on
2005	January	Activant Solutions acquires Speedware (Media)
	March	IBM acquires Ascential, leading ETL-vendor
	June	Cartesis acquires Inea Corporation, Planning software
	July	Business Objects acquires SRC Software, Planning & Budgeting software
		Similarity Systems acquires Evoke Software, data quality software
		Oracle acquires ProfitLogic, Retail Profit Optimisation Software
		Coda acquires Simple Concepts AB, Consolidation & Treasury Software
	September	Oracle acquires Siebel (Siebel Analytics)
	October	Business Objects acquires Infommersion, data visualisation software (XCelsius)
2006	January	Actuate acquires performancesoft (PBViews)
		Business Objects acquires Firstlogic, data quality software
		Informatica acquires Similarity Systems
	April	Microsoft acquires ProClarity
	May	Hyperion acquires Upstream, financial data quality management
	June	Applix acquires Temtec (Executive Viewer)
	August	Infor acquires Extensity (Geac) and Systems Union (MIS Decisionware)
	September	Business Objects acquires ALG Software (Armstrong Laing Limited), ABC software vendor
	October	OpenText acquires Hummingbird for its Enterprise Content Management Solutions
	November	Business Objects acquires Nsite Software, a Software-as-a-Service (Saas) provider
2007	January	Cognos acquires Celequest, operational dashboarding software
		Hyperion acquires Decisioneering, Crystalball risk analysis software
	February	SAP acquires Pilot Software, operational performance management
	March	Oracle acquires Hyperion, leading CPM vendor
	April	Business Objects acquires Cartesis, leading consolidation vendor
	May	SAP AG acquires Outlooksoft, CPM - vendor
		Tibco acquires Spotfire
		RocketSoftware (enterprise infrastructure products) acquires CorVu Corporation
	July	IBM acquires DataMirror
	September	Cognos acquires Applix (TM1), CPM vendor
		Business Objects acquires Fuzzy Informatik, data quality software
		Exact Software acquires Longview Solutions, CPM vendor
	October	SAP AG acquires Business Objects, complete Performance Management suite
	November	IBM acquires Cognos, complete Performance Management suite
2008	March	SAS Institute acquires Teragram Corporation, natural language processing
2009	May	IBM acquires Exeros, data discovery software
	July	IBM acquires SPSS, advanced anaytics software
	September	Informatica acquires Agent Logic, data-driven event management software
2010	January	Oracle acquires Silver Creek Systems, Datalens, product Master Data software
		Informatica acquires Siperian, Master Data Management software
	June	SAS acquires Memex, law enforcement and national security software
		IBM acquires Coremetrics, Web analytics software
	July	EMC acquires Plumtree, datawarehousing database technology
	September	IBM acquires Netezza, Datawarehousing Appliances
	October	IBM acquires Clarity Systems, Financial Reporting & Compliance and Planning & Budgeting software
		IBM acquires Open Pages, governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions
2011	February	HP acquires Vertica, Analytic, high-performance RDBMS systems
2013	September	SAP acquires KXEN, predictive analytics technology