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Gartner is pay to play. In other words, if you don't pay Gartner a fee, they won't include your product in the MQ.
There are many companies in this space, and the larger are represented, spending their marketing dollars for branding using the MQ.
We use PowerBI, SAS, Matlab, SAP, Tableau, Informatica, which are determined by our customers for best fit. No tool will provide you everything you need, so kick the tires before you buy.
In my experience, I've found Gartner to be of little value in the BI sphere. I believe this is partly due to the very fractured nature of BI offerings and trends with a surprisingly wide range of functionality. It's hard to come up with groups of products/vendors to compare. I would struggle to compare Qlik with SAP, for instance. They satisfy very different but partially overlapping needs in very different ways.
I've been reading Gartner reports in this general area since the mid-90s and often disagreed with their evaluations and found their implied predictions to be frequently incorrect. Again, partly because there are an awful lot of dead BI products covering different elements out there and crystal ball gazing in this space is very difficult.
The BARC offerings are based on surveys of what actually is occurring and tend to offer more value IMO.
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Microsoft PBI grew and improved a lot. Tableau and Qlik are very easy and interesting but, all 3 solutions are very expensive.
If you are starting, you may try using OBIIE (an Oracle free solution for some type of licenses), Pentaho or any version of Hadoop-Like platforms.
It's important to remember that standard GMQ21 represents a general score/vision and in some cases, it's important you re-setup geographical, costs and business variables inside the Gartner platform.
Not everybody understands Gartner's Magic Quadrant. The X axis represents completude of vision and the Y axis represents the ability to deliver what is supposed to.
Choices should be made upon your business needs and not Gartner´s opinion.
@Evgeny Belenky, I get it.
Although Google acquired Looker, they also have the "Google Data Studio".
The same thing happened to Tableau who was acquired by Salesforce.
Previously, Salesforce had Einstein Analytics that recently changed its name to Tableau CRM. Therefore, they placed this tool in the market as a niche tool for marketing and sales data accessing the Salesforce database.
Amazon has QUICKSIGHT. This tool is not such a strong player in BI sector but Amazon is a big player in the market like Google and Microsoft and they have recently acquired NICE. So, in the years to come, major players will keep investing hard in BI and AI and pretty soon, platforms will embrace all aspects of a Self Service BI and AI tool.
ETL or Data Virtualization, Data Visualization, Machine Learning algorithms, Data storage, collaboration, natural language, etc, ... They are already doing this. Alteryx for instance emerged as an AI and ETL tool but it has improved a lot in terms of Data Visualization. Alteryx and tableau have always been partners but I have seen them more like competitors in recent years.
As Claudine said, to be included in the MQ you have to pay with a lot of the ranking based on the volume of software sold.
Not one single tool will cover all use cases within an enterprise (even Gartner say that) and I have customers using various tools. However, ThoughtSpot and its self-service search capability is extremely popular especially via our managed service platform because you can start small and grow.
IBM Cognos is still popular however it is being challenged by Power BI and ThoughtSpot with Qlik and Tableau still seen as pixel-perfect visual tools. I didn't really come across the others on the list.
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Gartner is pay to play. In other words, if you don't pay Gartner a fee, they won't include your product in the MQ.
There are many companies in this space, and the larger are represented, spending their marketing dollars for branding using the MQ.
We use PowerBI, SAS, Matlab, SAP, Tableau, Informatica, which are determined by our customers for best fit. No tool will provide you everything you need, so kick the tires before you buy.
@Claudine Beron I agreed. Right now, vendors probably can buy for sitting on MQ.
Unfortunately, this is in Portuguese (pt-BR), but it's worth reading (even via Google Translator).
That vision can change your all future decisions forever. One day, I translate it into English.
"When Gartner's Magic Quadrant isn't the best option for your company": https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...
In my experience, I've found Gartner to be of little value in the BI sphere. I believe this is partly due to the very fractured nature of BI offerings and trends with a surprisingly wide range of functionality. It's hard to come up with groups of products/vendors to compare. I would struggle to compare Qlik with SAP, for instance. They satisfy very different but partially overlapping needs in very different ways.
I've been reading Gartner reports in this general area since the mid-90s and often disagreed with their evaluations and found their implied predictions to be frequently incorrect. Again, partly because there are an awful lot of dead BI products covering different elements out there and crystal ball gazing in this space is very difficult.
The BARC offerings are based on surveys of what actually is occurring and tend to offer more value IMO.
Microsoft PBI grew and improved a lot. Tableau and Qlik are very easy and interesting but, all 3 solutions are very expensive.
If you are starting, you may try using OBIIE (an Oracle free solution for some type of licenses), Pentaho or any version of Hadoop-Like platforms.
It's important to remember that standard GMQ21 represents a general score/vision and in some cases, it's important you re-setup geographical, costs and business variables inside the Gartner platform.
Not everybody understands Gartner's Magic Quadrant. The X axis represents completude of vision and the Y axis represents the ability to deliver what is supposed to.
Choices should be made upon your business needs and not Gartner´s opinion.
@Evgeny Belenky, I get it.
Although Google acquired Looker, they also have the "Google Data Studio".
The same thing happened to Tableau who was acquired by Salesforce.
Previously, Salesforce had Einstein Analytics that recently changed its name to Tableau CRM. Therefore, they placed this tool in the market as a niche tool for marketing and sales data accessing the Salesforce database.
Amazon has QUICKSIGHT. This tool is not such a strong player in BI sector but Amazon is a big player in the market like Google and Microsoft and they have recently acquired NICE. So, in the years to come, major players will keep investing hard in BI and AI and pretty soon, platforms will embrace all aspects of a Self Service BI and AI tool.
ETL or Data Virtualization, Data Visualization, Machine Learning algorithms, Data storage, collaboration, natural language, etc, ... They are already doing this. Alteryx for instance emerged as an AI and ETL tool but it has improved a lot in terms of Data Visualization. Alteryx and tableau have always been partners but I have seen them more like competitors in recent years.
As Claudine said, to be included in the MQ you have to pay with a lot of the ranking based on the volume of software sold.
Not one single tool will cover all use cases within an enterprise (even Gartner say that) and I have customers using various tools. However, ThoughtSpot and its self-service search capability is extremely popular especially via our managed service platform because you can start small and grow.
IBM Cognos is still popular however it is being challenged by Power BI and ThoughtSpot with Qlik and Tableau still seen as pixel-perfect visual tools. I didn't really come across the others on the list.
does alteryx not get included?
@Mark Hunt no, it isn't included. Would you recommend it? Why?
Thanks.
Hi @Okay Akdeniz , @Dawn McClure , @Tony Moore and
@Ariful Mondal. What are your thoughts on this selection?
Thanks.