

Out of the Leaders’ Quadrant: IBM, Information Builders, MicroStrategy, SAP and SAS.All are large and publicly traded companies. Only 3 vendors made the Leader cut this year: Qliktech (NASDAQ:QLIK), Microsoft(NASDAQ: MSFT) and Tableau (NASDAQ: DATA) are leaders this year.That’s a lot of vendors for a technology buyer to have to assess! Gartner acted upon this feedback and made some drastic changes this year, which include: Understandably so – the document assessed 24 vendors last year, 9 of which were labelled as “Leaders”. The Ugly: Quadrant Recalibration?įor years, the BI community has been complaining that the Quadrant was too crowded. However, if you take a closer look at this year’s Quadrant and compare it to last year’s, you’ll notice that some of the biggest changes in the history of the Magic Quadrant just occurred. It is THE document of reference for buyers of Business Intelligence technology.Īt face value, not much seems to have changed. The MQ research for BI has been in existence for close to a decade. Yesterday, Gartner published the 2016 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence.
