Architectural analysis of business intelligence products in Japan

We aim to identify the key success factors of the Japanese business intelligence (BI) market, by analyzing the “product architectures” of the winners´ BI software and consulting services. Market share is used as the definition of win. Results highlight the following features of winners´ architectures: the software and consulting services´ architectures were “closed” at first, and consulting services´ architecture changed from “closed” to “open” first, followed by that of the software. The losers´ product architectures had the opposite dynamics: the software´s architecture became “open” first, followed by that of the consulting services. These results indicate that differences in the dynamics of product architectures could be the dominant success factors in the BI market.