Magic Quadrant: Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms

Data discovery capabilities are dominating new purchasing requirements, even for larger deployments, as alternatives to traditional BI tools. But "governed data discovery" — the ability to meet the dual demands of enterprise IT and business users — remains a challenge unmet by any one vendor.

Source: Gartner (February, 2015)

Gartner defines BI and analytics as a software platform that delivers 17 capabilities across 3 categories, namely: information delivery, analysis and integration.

The 17 categories are as listed below: 

Information Delivery Reporting Dashboards Ad hoc report/ query Microsoft office integration Mobile BI

Analysis Interactive Visualization Search based data discovery Geospatial and location intelligence Embedded advanced analytics Online analytical processing (OLAP)

Integration BI Infrastructure and administration Metadata management Business user data mashup and modeling Development tools Embeddable analytics Collaboration Support for big data sources

Read the complete research report at Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms