Overview of the global enterprise BI & analytics platforms market in 2023

The ninth edition of BARC Score Enterprise BI & Analytics Platforms evaluates the most important international manufacturers of modern enterprise business intelligence and analytics platforms on the basis of an extensive criteria catalog and customer evaluations.

Overview

The market for enterprise business intelligence (BI) and analytics platforms is continuously evolving at pace. Business user empowerment through augmented analytics and ML is pursued by all relevant market players. Even established platform vendors with strong governance as their sweet spots are investing heavily in modernization for better business user orientation. On the other hand, BI & analytics specialists originally focused on business users have entered the market targeting buyers from line of business who were frustrated by IT-controlled and central BI environments. 

This report analyzes the strengths and challenges of the leading vendors that offer significant value to customers wanting to implement a ‘modern’ enterprise BI & analytics platform.

BARC SCORE: ENTERPRISE BI & ANALYTICS PLATFORMS

Authors: Larissa Seidler, Robert Tischler, Patrick Keller and Christian Fuchs
PDF report: €500
Publication: April 28, 2023

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BARC Score Enterprise BI & Analytics Platforms 2023

Vendors evaluated

Vendor

Product(s)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Amazon QuickSight
AWS Glue DataBrew
Analytics-related services such as SageMaker

Dimensional Insight

Diver Platform

Domo

Domo Data Experience Platform

Google Cloud Platform (Google)

Looker
Looker Studio
Analytics-related services such as Vertex AI

ibi

WebFOCUS
IBM IBM Cloud Pak for Data
IBM Cognos Analytics
IBM Watson Studio
insightsoftware Dundas BI
Logi Analytics
Atlas
CXO
Hubble
Jet Reports
Spreadsheet Server
Wands
Angles

Microsoft

Power BI
Power BI paginated Reports
Analytics-related services such as Data Explorer and Machine Learning

MicroStrategy

Analytics Platform

Oracle

Oracle Analytics Cloud
Oracle Analytics Server
OCI Data Science

Pyramid Analytics

Pyramid

Qlik

Qlik Active Intelligence Platform

SAP

SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform

SAS

SAS Visual Analytics
SAS Visual Statistics
SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning
SAS Data Preparation
SAS Visual Forecasting
SAS Visual Text Analytics

Sisense

Sisense Fusion Platform

Tableau

Tableau Desktop
Tableau Server
Tableau Prep
Tableau Data Management
Tableau Server Management
Tableau Mobile
Tableau Cloud

TARGIT

TARGIT Decision Suite

ThoughtSpot

ThoughtSpot

TIBCO

TIBCO Spotfire
TIBCO Data Science

Yellowfin

Yellowfin BI

Zoho

Zoho Analytics

Selection of vendors

There are two categories of inclusion criteria for this BARC Score: The first is associated with a vendor’s products and the other is linked to the financial results relating to those products. To be evaluated in this BARC Score, a vendor must have a strong focus on providing BI & analytics functionality and supply four out of five technologies from the following functional portfolio:

  • –– Formatted reports
  • –– Dashboards
  • –– Analysis and ad hoc query
  • –– Advanced and predictive analytics
  • –– Self-service BI and analytics

In addition, the vendor must generate a minimum of 15 million Euros in license revenue per year with the above product set, spread across at least two separate geographical regions. Furthermore, the product set must have a significant number of implementations and license revenues across different geographical regions to be considered as global. 

We consider the following as individual geographical regions:

  • –– Europe, Middle East and Africa
  • –– North America
  • –– Latin America
  • –– Asia/Pacific