But, before they do so, we suggest they direct their attention to some of the “planning assumptions” highlighted on the document’s first page. You’ll find copies of the Magic Quadrant on some of the vendors’ sites and we’re sure your team is looking forward to going through the 60+ page-document. Register for our Monthly Demo Are You Getting Value?! What has changed this year? Is this because MicroStrategy announced that they were opening their semantic layer to the rest of the BI tools? Is Gartner seeing this move as a force that could potentially challenge the industry in a new direction?! Huh?! The Challenger box was empty in 20. New in 2018: *MicroStrategy* (NASDAQ: MSTR) is a Challenger.Oracle, which had been taken out of the quadrant in 2016 and got resurrected in 2017, is still in the Niche box… Out of the Quadrant this year: Alteryx, ClearStory Data, ZoomData, Datameer and Pentaho.If you’re wondering why Qliktech made a dramatic ‘visionary’ jump after being acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2016 and losing their CEO in 2017, this might be a good webinar to join… The same 3 vendors made the Leaders box this year as they did for the last 3 years: Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Tableau (NASDAQ: DATA) and Qliktech.the big are getting bigger, some of the visionaries got absorbed (or disappeared) and few ‘trend-setters’ graduated up. Take a look at our 3-year-movement analysis table below: we see a pretty consistent story, e.g. Not exactly: the market has evolved….and in a pretty predictable way actually. This year, the Magic Quadrant only lists 20 vendors…that’s a 16% quadrant reduction.
There were 24 vendors in the firm’s quadrant in 20. It is THE document of reference for buyers of Business Intelligence technology.Īt face value, not much seems to have changed…BUT, if you take a closer look, you’ll notice that some of the biggest changes in the history of the Magic Quadrant just occurred…įor the first time in 3 years, Gartner dropped a significant amount of vendors off its quadrant. The MQ research for BI has been in existence for close to a decade. Yesterday, Gartner published the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence.