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WEBINAR Use Forrester’s 10-Step Methodology For Shortlisting BI Vendors

WEBINAR Use Forrester’s 10-Step Methodology For Shortlisting BI Vendors. Boris Evelson, Vice President, Principal Analyst. February 24, 2016. Call in at 10:55 a.m. Eastern time. Most organizations say they use products from just a few BI vendors.

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WEBINAR Use Forrester’s 10-Step Methodology For Shortlisting BI Vendors

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  1. WEBINARUse Forrester’s 10-Step Methodology For Shortlisting BI Vendors Boris Evelson, Vice President, Principal Analyst February 24, 2016. Call in at 10:55 a.m. Eastern time

  2. Most organizations say they use products from just a few BI vendors . . . . . . but anecdotal evidence does not support such a rosy picture. Source: “Benchmark Your BI Environment For Continuous Improvement” Forrester report

  3. Reasons for multiple BI platforms • Legacy platforms • M&A • Shadow IT

  4. BI vendor landscapes are often ineffective • IT-centric versus user-centric is no longer a differentiator. • Data visualization is a feature of all BI platforms. • BI versus analytics differentiation is disappearing. A B D C

  5. Source: “Vendor Landscape: Forrester's 10-Step Methodology For Shortlisting BI Vendors” Forrester report

  6. Representative vendors IBM, Infor, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, and SAP

  7. Representative vendors Information Builders and SAS

  8. Representative vendors OpenText Actuate and MicroStrategy

  9. Representative vendors Advizor Solutions, BOARD Int’l, Panorama Software, Qlik, Tableau Software, Tibco Spotfire, and Sisense

  10. Representative vendors 1010data, Adaptive Insights, Bime, Birst, GoodData, DataHero, Domo, Klipfolio, Matillion, Rosslyn Analytics, and Salesforce Wave (in addition to the cloud deployment options from most of the vendors in the other categories)

  11. Representative vendors BPM-Conseil Vanilla, Pentaho, SpagoBI Labs, and Tibco Jaspersoft

  12. Representative vendors just right Alteryx, Birst, Datawatch, Lavastorm Analytics, OpenText Big Data Analytics, Prognoz, Rosslyn Analytics, and Sisense

  13. Representative vendors Exago, InetSoft Technology, JReport (Jinfonet Software), LogiAnalytics, Looker Data Sciences, Yellowfin International, as well as OSS BI vendors

  14. Representative vendors Native Hadoop BI platforms: Arcadia Data, Datameer, Kyvos Insights, Platfora, Treasure Data, and Zoomdata Structured/unstructured data BI platforms: Attivio, IBM Watson Explorer, and Oracle Big Data Discovery Cognitive BI: BeyondCore and IBM Watson Analytics

  15. Leverage Forrester Waves for vendor evaluation and selection The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q1 2015 The Forrester Wave™: Agile Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2015

  16. Minimum practical number of BI platforms • Enterprise BI platform • Agile BI • Embedded BI • Finance: budgeting and planning • Off-the-shelf BI applications ~5

  17. Recommendations: best practices for managing multiple BI platforms • Deploy BI on BI to eliminate redundant and unused objects. • Consolidate/rationalize the data management layer of the BI stack. Data virtualization • Consolidate the metrics management layer of the BI stack. • Deploy a single mobile BI platform. • Build and deploy BI knowledge management application/portal.

  18. Boris Evelsonbevelson@forrester.com http://www.forrester.com/Boris-Evelson http://blogs.forrester.com/boris_evelson https://www.linkedin.com/in/bevelson https://www.facebook.com/ForresterBI Twitter: @bevelson

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