Modern Analytics Platforms: Product Profiles and Market Trends
A modern analytics platform (MAP) is a software environment that is a proverbial one-stop shop for decision making that supports all modes of business intelligence (BI) and all types of business users. It is designed from the ground up to run on modern computing platforms: the Web, cloud, and mobile devices. It boasts a rich application programming interface (API) that supports a community of third-party developers who contribute add-ons, extensions, and utilities that enrich the MAP well beyond the resources and imagination of the platform vendor.
This report focuses on the market for modern analytics platforms or MAPs--which support all styles of business intelligence (BI) and all types of business users in an open, integrated, and extensible environment that balances self-service and governance.
The purpose of this report is to help BI and analytics professionals understand the different types of MAPs on the market It profiles nine products that we think represent the ideal of a MAP: Domo, Dundas, Looker, MicroStrategy 10, Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Sense, Tableau, Yellowfin, and Zoomdata.
You Will Learn:
- The definition of a modern analytics platform
- Trends and developments in this market segment
- How products compare in eight quantitatively defined dimensions
- Key differentiators and use cases for each product
- Recommendations for selecting products