Data Quadrant Awards 2017

Business Intelligence

SoftwareReviews names MicroStrategy BI, BOARD, Tableau, IBM Advanced Analytics, and Qlik as Business Intelligence Data Quadrant Award Winners.

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Business Intelligence

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emotional connection to products

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Software Experience

When distilled down, the software experience is shaped by both the experience with the software and the relationship with the vendor. Evaluating enterprise software along these two dimensions provides a comprehensive understanding of the product and helps identify vendors that can deliver on both.

Product Features and Satisfaction

The satisfaction is captured in the overall satisfaction score, which is driven by the likelihood of users to recommend the software, combined with user satisfaction across top product features.

Vendor Experience and Capabilities

The vendor relationship is calculated in a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) as well as emotional response ratings toward the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Gold Medalists

35Reviews

IBM

IBM Advanced Analytics

Watson Analytics helps you enjoy the benefits of advanced analytics without the complexity. Discover relationships. Test correlations. Develop outlooks that can guide you to your next great achievement. IBM® SPSS Statistics® is leading statistical software used to solve a variety of business and research problems.

8.4

Composite
Score

+87

Emotional
Footprint

73%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend

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116Reviews

Tableau

Data prep for messy spreadsheets, instant analytics, and improved performance. It's smart meets fast.

8.3

Composite
Score

+80

Emotional
Footprint

79%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend

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22Reviews

BOARD International

BOARD

Within one single product BOARD offers all the functionalities needed to build any Business Intelligence Software and Corporate Performance Management application solutions without the use of any programming. Its revolutionary toolkit approach as well as delivering unrivalled speed in BI and CPM application building, customisation and maintenance, provides end-users with an advanced interactive interface. This unique capability turns the self-service creation of any report or analysis into the simplest of tasks.

7.9

Composite
Score

+72

Emotional
Footprint

81%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
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64Reviews

Qlik

Qlik is a leader in data discovery delivering intuitive solutions for self-service data visualization and guided analytics.

7.8

Composite
Score

+74

Emotional
Footprint

76%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend

26Reviews

MicroStrategy

MicroStrategy BI

MicroStrategy 10 meets the needs of both business and IT. Make sense of large data volumes, get answers in an instant, build stunning visualizations, and ensure a single version of the truth securely, at any scale, on every device.

7.7

Composite
Score

+70

Emotional
Footprint

77%

Likeliness to
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Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

IBM Advanced Analytics

Breadth of Features

IBM Advanced Analytics

Business Value Created

SAS BI

Ease of Customization

IBM Advanced Analytics

Ease of Data Integration

IBM Advanced Analytics

Ease of IT Administration

IBM Advanced Analytics

Ease of Implementation

SAS BI

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

IBM Advanced Analytics

Quality of Features

IBM Advanced Analytics

Usability and Intuitiveness

Tableau

Vendor Support

IBM Advanced Analytics

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

IBM Advanced Analytics

Breadth of Features

IBM Advanced Analytics

Business Value Created

SAS BI

Ease of Customization

IBM Advanced Analytics

Ease of Data Integration

IBM Advanced Analytics

Ease of IT Administration

IBM Advanced Analytics

Ease of Implementation

SAS BI

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

IBM Advanced Analytics

Quality of Features

IBM Advanced Analytics

Usability and Intuitiveness

Tableau

Vendor Support

IBM Advanced Analytics

Other Evaluated Vendors

119Reviews

Microsoft

Microsoft BI

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services.

7.3

Composite
Score

+56

Emotional
Footprint

77%

Likeliness to
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27Reviews

SAS

SAS BI

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market.

7.3

Composite
Score

+62

Emotional
Footprint

75%

Likeliness to
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23Reviews

TIBCO Software

TIBCO Business Intelligence

TIBCO Software Inc. is a global leader in infrastructure and business intelligence software. Whether it's optimizing inventory, cross-selling products, or averting crisis before it happens, TIBCO uniquely delivers the Two-Second Advantage® - the ability to capture the right information at the right time and act on it preemptively for a competitive advantage.

7.2

Composite
Score

+65

Emotional
Footprint

69%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
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34Reviews

IBM

IBM Cognos Platform

The IBM® Cognos® platform is an open, enterprise-class platform that can provide your users with the business intelligence (BI) and performance management content they need to understand your business and help improve results.

6.9

Composite
Score

+55

Emotional
Footprint

75%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend

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39Reviews

Oracle

Oracle BI Solutions

Oracle Business Analytics can help, with new ways to gain business insights through the simplicity of the cloud and data visualization. Sift through any data using visual analytic tools. Pinpoint what matters, then put together a story of your data-driven conclusion. Create powerful data mash-ups and have an actual "conversation" with your data. With visual analytics and data discovery tools, the possibilities are limitless.

6.5

Composite
Score

+39

Emotional
Footprint

70%

Likeliness to
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63Reviews

SAP

SAP BI

Empower your people with 24/7, user-friendly access to the business intelligence (BI) and Big Data mining tools they need to make faster, more informed decisions. Our BI software and solutions – including ad hoc reporting, self-service data visualization and dashboards, predictive analytics, mobile apps, and more – can help business users improve performance and become more effective in everything they do.

6.4

Composite
Score

+45

Emotional
Footprint

66%

Likeliness to
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SoftwareReviews Gold Medal Awards recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace as evaluated by their users. Gold Medals are the capstone of an in-depth software evaluation report, and awarded using a proprietary, transparent methodology based on a composite satisfaction score that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend. The Net Emotional Footprint Score measures user emotional response ratings of the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Software Reports present comprehensive evaluations of software vendors on the above elements. Software buyers can use this data to make more informed, data-driven software purchasing and renewal decisions.