Review of Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms - Feb 2012
Gartner spends a lot of time reviewing the major Business Intelligence platform vendors and talking to the users of BI to come up with the updates in the Magic Quadrant. Here is the latest one released in Feb 2012. As you can see the notables in the Leaders Quadrant are Oracle taking the top stop in ability to execute with OBIEE and BI Applications (OBIA) and IBM establishing itself as the visionary with Cognos and related offerings. Look at my similar posting from Jan 2010 here ( http://oraclebiwasig.blogspot.com/2010/01/gartner-2010-magic-quadrant-for.html ) The BI Platform leaders in Jan 2010 were Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, SAS, Microstrategy, SAP (Business Objects) and Information Builders. Compared to 2010, now QlikTech has entered the leaders quadrant. Gartner quotes "QlikTech is a marketing juggernaut; it has brand recognition many times more prominent than a firm with its current market share would expect." I have heard of QlikView when Oracle talks of visuali