Gartner recently released its 2017 BI Magic Quadrant which reinforces the Gartner’s view that BI is now focused on visual data discovery, as evidenced by Tableau, Microsoft and Qlik’s continued leadership in the ranking:
Looking at last year’s ranking, we can see how Microsoft and Tableau have broken from the pack, and how Microsoft is catching up with Tableau. On the other hand, Qlik stepped back as the company transitioned QlikView to the new QlikSense platform.
Considering that Gartner stated that “by 2020, natural-language generation and artificial intelligence will be a standard feature of 90% of modern BI platforms”, Microsoft will continue to further its lead given its investment in both areas (within PowerBI and outside of it).
“What is new this year, is that traditional BI vendors that were slow to adjust to the “modern wave of disruption” (such as IBM, SAP, Oracle and MicroStrategy) and struggled to remain relevant during the market transition, have finally matured their modern offerings enough to appeal to many in their installed bases already using these”, Gartner stated.
