 The Forrester Wave applied 22-criteria evaluation to enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms which also have cloud deployment options, and identified the 15 most significant ones as BOARD International, IBM, Information Builders, Looker, MicroStrategy, OpenText, Panorama, Pyramid Analytics, Qlik, SAP, SAS, Sisense, Tableau Software, TIBCO Software, Yellowfin As a result of its research, analysis and scoring, a new Report compiled will help businesses working on BI initiatives make the right choice of BI platforms. Leaders are: MicroStrategy, IBM, TIBCO Software, Qlik High Competitors are: Information Builders, Looker, Pyramid Analytics, Tableau Software, SAP, Open Text, Yellowfin, Sisense, SAS The vendor segmentation that Forrester used in 2012 and 2015 to evaluate BI platform capabilities no longer holds. Forrester have completely realigned its BI platforms evaluation. Forrester now "Treats enterprise versus self-service and agile BI as one category. For about three decades until approximately two years ago, enterprise BI platforms (e.g., IBM Cognos and SAP BusinessObjects), while highly scalable, required technology professionals to develop most of the BI content. Conversely, end-user-focused BI platforms, which became popular in the early 2000s (e.g., Qlik and Tableau), empowered business users to produce most of their own BI content (reports, dashboards) with little to no reliance on tech pros. These newer platforms, however, did not scale beyond workgroups and departments. Vendors in these two categories did not sit on their laurels: Over the last several years they’ve addressed most of the missing functional and technology requirements in their product portfolios. As a result, all earlier-generation enterprise BI vendors now offer end-user-centric capabilities (built into the same platform or as separate tools). And the newer end-user-focused vendors innovated on acquired technologies and capabilities that let them scale across large enterprises. "Do not consider data visualization as a separate market segment. Until a few years ago, Forrester saw a clear differentiation between BI platforms with mostly static reporting and visualization features and those with more advanced, dynamic, highly interactive data visualization.This is no longer the case - all leading BI vendors have acquired or developed advanced data visualization capabilities. Forrester now sees advanced data visualization as one of many capabilities of BI platforms, not a separate market segment. "Do not consider cloud BI as a separate market segment. While some of the enterprise and agile BI platforms Forrester evaluated in 2015 had single-tenant cloud-hosting capabilities, they were not based on modern, cloud-native, multitenant architectures. Conversely, some of the cloud BI platforms evaluated in 2015 had very basic on-premises deployment capabilities. While most of the vendors evaluated in this Forrester Wave still deploy their BI platforms on-premises, they have developed modern cloud architectures and have some customers (albeit still less than 50%) deploying BI platforms in the cloud. "Assess only differentiated BI platform features. Forrester now sees many BI platform features as table stakes and no longer uses them as evaluation criteria —including querying and reporting, data visualization, descriptive analytics, end user self-service, scalability, administration, and database connectivity. " Read more on why >> |
