This IDC study examines the key trends and forecasts for the BI Services market within the Australia and New Zealand geographies. Jenna Griffin, market analyst, Services, IDC New Zealand, says, "The BI market is expected to undergo a period of consolidation within the vendor ecosystem, in a similar manner to that seen in recent years with enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) tools.

"Platform consolidation and application convergence are also beginning to make an impact within the vendor space ? clearly handing the advantage to those vendors capable of providing a single touch point for all enterprise applications. Increased performance within the analytics component is producing results in real time and increasing the value proposition for BI adoption, upgrades and enhancements."