Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms 2012

The 2012 edition of the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, published by analyst firm Gartner, has been published, and like earlier years, is authored by Rita L. Sallam, James Richardson, and John Hagerty.  Bill Hostmann is not an author this year.

Oracle has the highest "Ability to Execute" rating among all BI vendors in this year's Magic Quadrant.

Some other notable notings from the research report:
"Oracle is deployed most broadly (in respect of global deployment) of any vendor in this Magic Quadrant, with average user populations nearing 3,000 and data volumes of more than 5 TB, and it is considered the BI standard for nearly 70% of firms surveyed."

On Oracle's Endeca acquisition, the notes states "Gartner believes that this is a forward-looking acquisition that will have significant impact on the company's business analytics future (see "Endeca Buy Extends Oracle's Ability to Support and Discover Diverse Data" for a more detailed opinion of the acquisition)."

"Additionally, customers indicated that they valued the products' ability to support large numbers of users."

"In October 2011, the company announced an engineered system — Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine — that leveraged assets across the Oracle stack. The integrated hardware/software analytics solution features a package of OBIEE with new in-memory capabilities (based on Oracle's acquisition of TimesTen), optimized Oracle Essbase to support the range of traditional BI (reporting, dashboards and analysis), and dynamic planning, what-if and scenario analysis, as well as interactive visualization and data discovery capabilities."

It continues to be an exciting time to be in the world of analytics. It continues to be an even more exciting time to be at Oracle, working on analytics. Our customers make us successful, and we strive, every day, to meet those high standards and expectations from our customers.

Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites 2011

Analyst research firm Gartner has published a new report titled " Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites", (Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00210145), dated March 8, 2011, authored by Neil Chandler and John E. Van Decker.

Oracle has been ranked the highest along the "Ability to Execute" dimension, and the second highest along the "Complete of Vision" dimension.

Some excerpts from the research note:

• Oracle remains the best recognized brand in finance offices and continues to appear in the majority of CPM evaluations.
• Oracle has a strong customer base, and the company is a strong vendor capable of competing on price, product features, performance and geographic presence.
• Hyperion Data Relationship Management  (PDF Data Sheet) continues to sell well...
• Oracle released Hyperion Financial Close Management (PDF Data Sheet) and Hyperion Disclosure Management (PDF Data Sheet) in 2010, making it the first large CPM vendor to offer this functionality

For more head over to the Gartner link above, or to the EPM and BI site at Oracle.com

Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms 2011

Gartner, a well-recognized information technology research and advisory company, published its Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms (link to Oracle reprint, this is the permanent link) for 2011, Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00210036, authored by Rita L. Sallam, James Richardson, John Hagerty, and Bill Hostmann.

Oracle, unsurprisingly, continues to be positioned in the "Leaders Quadrant", for the fifth year running.

Here are some excerpts from the Gartner Research Note (emphasis mine):

Oracle customers indicate they deploy the Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) platform to support among the most complex deployments in our survey. Their scope of deployments tends to be the widest across an enterprise — regionally/nationally and globally deployed versus in a single or multiple departments — while OBIEE supports, on average, among the largest numbers of users, the highest data volume, broadest product functionality use, and highest complexity of analytic workload.

Oracle's OBIEE platform is considered the BI standard in more of its customers' organizations (survey respondents) than any other vendor's platform (considered a standard in 85% of their organizations compared to the survey average of 56%).

Some links on Oracle BI:
Oracle.com/bi
Business Intelligence Foundation
Enterprise Performance Management
BI Publisher
Essbase

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2010

In my last post, Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms 2010, I wrote that Oracle had been positioned in the 'Leaders' quadrant, for the fourth year in a row.

The link to the Gartner Research Note is now available, on the Gartner site, at Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms

Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms 2010

Analyst firm Gartner published its Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms for 2010 (Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00173700) last week. The full report can be accessed on Gartner's web site here.

Some salient points from the research note:

• Oracle has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant.
• Oracle has established the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) platform as the "BI standard" in 82% of the references that responded to our Magic Quadrant survey. It also has the widest range of BI platform capabilities employed (for example, reporting, dashboards, ad hoc query).
• Oracle was one of the top three vendors for product quality.