I tend to go out of my way to point out my bias on Microsoft. Each axis ("ability to execute" and "completeness of vision") had its own winner, and that for the former is Microsoft. Let's run through the trends evident in this year's report.Īs I did with the DW report, I'll start with the "winners" in this MQ.
The very reason this blog is called Big on Data (and not just "Big Data") is in anticipation of such unification. These worlds will likely become like neighborhoods in the same city, even if today they seem like loosely federated states. In fact, in the near future, we may find that distinguishing between DW, BI and Big Data markets will be a contrived endeavor. But there are Open Source BI players, and three of them - Pentaho, Jaspersoft and Actuate - make a significant showing in this year's BI MQ.Īnd speaking of the Big Data world, you will see in the BI MQ report, as you did in the DW MQ, that partnerships and connectors to major Hadoop distributions, and the beginnings of standardization on the R programming language for statistics and predictive analytics, is starting to take place. The Big Data world is dominated by Open Source technologies the BI world, not so much. One of them - involving interactive visualization for data exploration and discovery, has crowned its own kings: Tableau is chief among them, QlikTech's QlikView is right behind it and Tibco's Spotfire is there too. There are major pure plays on the BI MQ side, too: just as Teradata is a specialist vendor in the DW space, but a substantial force nonetheless, so too are a certain vendors in the BI world, including SAS and MicroStrategy.īI has more subcategories than does the DW space. One thing to keep in mind as you consider both the BI MQ and DW MQ reports, is that the "MISO" vendors (Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle) figure prominently in both. Image Credit: Gartnerīefore covering those trends, though, some background on the BI vendor lineup may be in order.
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As before, I will recommend you read the full report in any case, and will instead concentrate on some of the trends and themes that evidenced themselves in the report that were not explicitly spelled out. The BI MQ has many more vendors than does the DW MQ (with all of last year's vendors retained and three new ones added to this year's MQ), and so I'm not going to each vendor included in the report.
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