Posted by Gilles on 02/02/2010 under Articles, News | 
I just received a link from William (@williamvanlith) through twitter (@gillespol) about Gartner’s Magic Quadrant 2010. I’ve been following Gartner’s magic quadrants on BI and datawarehousing for quite some time now and something struck me immediately. THERE ARE NO VISIONAIRIES ANYMORE!! Even Qlikview isn’t a visionary anymore. I consider that as a bad thing, it looks like nobody is really innovative anymore. This reflects some of the conclusions from Nigel Pendse in his BI Verdict. Another comment I’ve read at Jos van Dongen’s blog, is that it could mean that BI software is (finally) maturing. Read more of this article »
Posted by Gilles on 03/02/2009 under Articles |
A few days ago I discovered (through a press release of qliktech) that their product became champion in the Aberdeen Axis. I heard about Aberdeen before, but didn’t know they made comparisons of performance management comparisons just like Gartners magic quadrants or forrester waves. I didn’t take this to serious, thought it might be heavily sponsored by Qliktech self just like IDC reports.
Just yesterday David Raab of the Customer Experience Matrix blog published an article about the Aberdeen Axis and he has some nice comments on this Axis. You can read his comments here! David Raab is also the author of an article wich we posted earlier about what makes qlikview so good.
On the 16th of january Gartner published a new magic quadrant as of Q1 2009 where we saw qlikview move further up to the leaders quadrant. I’m trying to find time to write about that, but you can read Gartner’s piece here: Gartners Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms