This IDC study provides a top-down sizing of the business analytics services market in 2007 and a 2008–2012 forecast for this market. Historical and forecast revenue data is shown for the total worldwide market. This study does not contain vendor-specific revenue, market shares, or vendor profiles.

"The business analytics services market is expected to continue to grow through 2012. While we expect the downturn in the economy to impact the market in the second half of 2008 and into 2009, the reduction in forecast growth reflects a minor impact. We will not see the kind of reduction in spending that impacted the market in 2001 and 2002," said Brian McDonough, research manager of business analytics at IDC.