With three of the largest competitors in the field taken over by software giants, you'd think that the best days of the business intelligence market were over. You'd be wrong.

Far from heralding the death of BI, the loss of Business Objects, Cognos and Hyperion to SAP, IBM and Oracle may well signal <A HREF="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/28/52FE-underreported-bi_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/28/52FE-underreported-bi_1.html">"agolden age for business intelligence,"</A> says AMR Research analyst John Hagerty.