Microsoft OLAP by Mosha Pasumansky : OLAP Market Shares for 2006 - Microsoft is clear leader

Microsoft OLAP by Mosha Pasumansky : OLAP Market Shares for 2006 - Microsoft is clear leader: "Nigel Pendse published his analysis for the OLAP market shares in 2006. The market overall grew at about 16%, but Microsoft OLAP again grew faster than the market. This time much faster - at about 30%, and as a result the Microsoft's share jumped up 4 points, (while pretty much everybody else lost market share, except for Microstrategy and Applix). Microsoft's numbers include all OLAP related income, such as portion of Excel's PivotTable and Business Scorecard Manager, but it is clear, that the main contributor behind such phenomenal growth was Analysis Services 2005. Released just before 2006 started, quickly followed by SP1 in April 2006 which fixed many known issues that were too risky to squeeze before RTM. In fact, work on SP1 started as early as August 2005, couple of month before AS2005 was even launched. Therefore it was SP2, (released 4 days ago), which provided the fixes for the previously unknown real-world problems encountered by the customers - both performance and functionality wise. Additionally, SP2 truly enabled Excel 2007 . So with AS2005 SP2 I feel really good about Analysis Services. Of course, there still will be some problems, and there will be fixes for them, and eventually sometime there will be SP3, but AS2005 SP2 is a mature, solid and proven piece of technology, and I expect it to do very well in 2007. "