360DegreeIndex - Sizing the BI and Data Management Market

7. May 2008 by Rick Abbott.

I “launched” a new web site today, 360DegreeIndex, that will provide market sizing information for the business intelligence and data management vendor space.  “Launched” meaning I pressed the button in FrontPage to populate the site.  It’s not the most aesthetically pleasing site, but I’ll work on that in subsequent releases.  My initial focus is on getting the data published.

The initial version lists data for the following areas:

• “BI25″ - index and market capitalization for the largest (by adjusted market cap) publicly listed vendors
• Vendor count by corporate type (e.g., Listed, Venture Backed, Partnership)
• Venture capital sizing including the number of VC firms (currently 218) with investments in this space, the number of vendors with venture backing (currently 135), and the total estimated current amount of venture capital invested in this space (currently $1.4B)

I plan on updating this data on a monthly basis, and will include month-over-month changes to these figures to provide a view into the trends, which is really the most important part of this exercise. I’m also developing some additional metrics from the 360DegreeVendor database which I will add to the site.

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