managed file transfer gartner magic quadrant 2016

No SaaS BI…yet? Okay, just throwing that in.I haven’t heard of Board International (name needs work), Targit, Salient,or Bitam, but congratulations to them as well. What direction are they moving? Congrats to LogiXML for making the cut this year. These guys have been around for a long time. Corda, arcPlan and Accuate are still in business.I’m not sure if this is so bad given the bottom left position of fellow open-source BI vendor JasperSoft. In this just the on-going sea-saw with Cognos, was it the Cognos 10 release that helped them get so far ahead? How will SAP counter? What am I missing here? Who’s running analyst relations over there? This can’t have gone over well with my friends in BI marketing at SAP. SAP (Business Objects) is in such a weak position.Why aren’t the newer vendors who are innovating and disrupting given more credit on vision? Their execution is clearly impressive. From all accounts QlikTech and Tableau are disrupting the market and growing at a phenomenal rate (albeit from a smaller base). This is what I don’t get about this (and most other) quads. QlikTech and Tableau not further ahead on vision.The optics of the current location certainly play in their favor for the casual observer. Information Builders name should have been in the top left.Congrats to them on their latest release. IBM (Cognos) way out on vision (but seems to be overshadowed by the vendors above them).Is there a separate BI sales organization these days or is this also mainly sold an add-on? This is less surprising given the Siebel and Hyperion technology they provide, but I didn’t realize their story had come together to this extent.

Do they break out BI Platform revenue? Are they displacing SAP/ Business Objects and Cognos/ IBM in the enterprise? Really? Last I heard they blew up the core BI team and this was primarily an Excel + Sharepoint play. I’ve been out of the pure BI market for a couple of years and I have to say I’m a little surprised by the results. Thanks to the folks at Tableau for publishing the latest Gartner BI Magic Quadrant.

Managed file transfer gartner magic quadrant 2016