Thursday, October 15, 2015

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.

Magic quadrant graphic for 2015
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

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