Microsoft and Tableau vs all others. I do feel like most others, including Looker, are niche players with none really gaining enough market share to make the top two sweat. Microsoft's strength is really the completeness of platform (data+viz) where Tableau has been trying bolt on pieces over time. I think it's too bad that there isn't more competition as I feel like innovation in BI is stalling. Overall BI is becoming commoditized while adjacent Data Engineering and Data Science/Analytics are surging. Some of the up-and-comers have interesting approaches. I'd like to see more around. Multi-channel BI (portal, push, stream) BI/Data API interfaces (not strictly reporting/viz) GraphDB support More robust cross datasource joining (more like data federation including db, nosql/json, api) Real-time reporting Context aware embedded BI As a side note I find it sad that MicroStrategy is investing $300M in Bitcoin. It's like seeing your Uncle get hooked on meth. Answer from flerkentrainer on reddit.com
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The 2021 Gartner BI Magic Quadrant is Broken for Cognos Analytics
February 21, 2021 - The 2021 Ryan Dolley BI Magic Quadrant is available free of charge! Gartner really got completeness of vision wrong. This is where Cognos Analytics shines. No other BI platform on Earth combines the breadth of present day capabilities with the ...
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r/cognos - My response to the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant - they done us wrong again!
January 2, 2018 - Topics explained in depth include: Leveraging Social Media, the Influence Pyramid, the creation of Magic Quadrants, responding to the MQ Questionnaire, the analyst day, the analyst inquiry, and the analyst briefing. Each chapter is informed with the author's personal experience - both as an analyst and as a marketer at a major IT vendor. It contains the first ever publication of the author's guerrilla techniques for influencing analysts." ... Big failure for IBM marketing team. They are not doing a great job for Cognos Analytics, when the product is getting better with each upgrade and it has a real advantage for enterprise level implementations.
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What’s Changed: 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms
March 1, 2021 - In this Magic Quadrant, Gartner evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 20 providers that it considers most significant in the marketplace, and provides readers with a graph (the Magic Quadrant) plotting the vendors based on their ability ...
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Relative Dates are a powerful feature of Cognos Analytics data modules that enable quick and flexible comparisons between time periods. For example, comparing revenue for the current year version the previous year, or the current week of the month vs the same week last month. These comparisons are popular across all lines of business but […] ... It’s that time of year again – time for the Gartner BI Magic Quadrant.
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r/BusinessIntelligence on Reddit: Gartner Magic Quadrant 2021 results are in. Thoughts?
January 18, 2020 -

Read the report here: https://www.qlik.com/us/gartner-magic-quadrant-business-intelligence

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Microsoft and Tableau vs all others. I do feel like most others, including Looker, are niche players with none really gaining enough market share to make the top two sweat. Microsoft's strength is really the completeness of platform (data+viz) where Tableau has been trying bolt on pieces over time.

I think it's too bad that there isn't more competition as I feel like innovation in BI is stalling. Overall BI is becoming commoditized while adjacent Data Engineering and Data Science/Analytics are surging.

Some of the up-and-comers have interesting approaches. I'd like to see more around.

  • Multi-channel BI (portal, push, stream)

  • BI/Data API interfaces (not strictly reporting/viz)

  • GraphDB support

  • More robust cross datasource joining (more like data federation including db, nosql/json, api)

  • Real-time reporting

  • Context aware embedded BI

As a side note I find it sad that MicroStrategy is investing $300M in Bitcoin. It's like seeing your Uncle get hooked on meth.

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The companies that list links to the Magic Quadrant have all paid a lot of money for this privilege. They also pay a lot of money for cross-marketing services that Gartner and the many brands (Capterra, SoftwareAdvice, GetApp, and more) they own provide.

Second, they make money by writing about hot topics like AI, ML, Big Data, etc., even when only 1% of BI implementations utilize these. Boring old BI best-practices (e.g. user adoption, semantic modeling, etc.) do not get much clicks.

With that, I do think the analysis is pretty good. Microsoft's ability to execute is solid, however I would say it's not visionary - there aren't many/any features that many of the traditional BI providers have. Tableau is awesome, but not "enterprise-BI", meaning there are few medium+ organizations that can use it as their main BI tool. Qlik has excellent ability to execute, but is really old tech under the covers. They were bought by private equity firms that are milking it's value until they retire it - oldest trick in the private equity book. Having used Yellowfin, it should probably be higher. Oracle should be dead last. IBM should be lower on ability to execute, but much higher on completeness of vision. One of my main critiques is that IBM Cognos tries to do too much, making it inaccessible to regular users.

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Gartner
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Top IBM Cognos Analytics Likes & Dislikes 2025 | Gartner Peer Insights
Learn more about the top IBM Cognos Analytics likes and dislikes by our reviewers. Read the latest reviews and find the best Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms software.
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Cognos in leaders quadrant in new analyst report on business intelligence
BURLINGTON, Mass., Dec. 2, 2004 -- Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced it has again been positioned in the leaders quadrant of Gartner's Enterprise Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant(1). According to Gartner, Inc., ...
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Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms
Gartner clients failed to rebound in 2020, judging from their inquiries and searches. ... IBM Cognos Analytics’ touchpoints with organizations that might invest in the platform. ... Infor is a Niche Player in this Magic Quadrant.
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This limits IBM Cognos Analytics’ · touchpoints with organizations that might invest in the platform. ... Information Builders is a Niche Player in this Magic Quadrant. Its WebFOCUS Designer is of most · interest to its installed base and not often evaluated in competitive sales cycles of which Gartner is
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The Gartner Magic Quadrant: Cognos BI – Is the Magic Still There?
IBM has managed to successfully integrate Cognos into the fold, maintaining and improving its position in the BI market while leveraging the Cognos acquisition into a broader position in the expanding analytics market as Big Data overtakes this space in terms of hype if not reality. One measure of this success is the annual report card on the BI market that Gartner puts out and is referred to as the Gartner "Magic Quadrant”. This is a simple and effective way to measure a broad range of players, their role in the market and how they rank relative to other players.
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What’s Changed: 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms
February 26, 2021 - In this Magic Quadrant, Gartner evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 20 providers that it considers most significant in the marketplace, and provides readers with a graph (the Magic Quadrant) plotting the vendors based on their ability ...
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Should we forget Gartner? | DeeperThanBlue Blog
April 9, 2025 - However, as is usual with Gartner’s findings, look behind the quadrant and you will see a significantly different picture. And it’s one that we at DeeperThanBlue Analytics have been promoting for some time. Source: 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms
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This Magic Quadrant includes 14 market leaders – BlackLine, Board International, Fluence Technologies, IBM, Insightsoftware, Jedox, LucaNet, OneStream, Oracle, Planful, Prophix, Solver, Vena and Wolters Kluwer.
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IBM Recognized as a Visionary in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ ...
March 28, 2022 - Connect, learn, and share with thousands of IBM Cognos Analytics users · IBM is named a visionary in 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms
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Board vs IBM Cognos Analytics 2025
Find the top Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms with Gartner. Compare and filter by verified product reviews and choose the software that’s right for your organization.
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Analytics India Magazine
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8 Business Intelligence & Analytics Tools To Check Out In 2021
December 31, 2024 - According to Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant, Yellowfin is a visionary. ... Automated data discovery and operationalised data science models. Bi-directional workflows and low-code deployment. Predictive and prescriptive analytics with embedded workflows and actions. Check out the tool here. A web-based business intelligence suite developed by IBM, Cognos Analytics is fueled by artificial intelligence and supports an organisation’s entire analytics cycle.
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A Critical Analysis of the Gartner's Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms Magic Quadrant - Brightwork Research & Analysis
December 10, 2021 - Gartner produces a large number of Magic Quadrants highly. Curiously, while these Magic Quadrants are prevalent topics of discussion and determine many purchase decisions, each one that we have evaluated has significant problems that make us question the validity of this highly popular product. The following is the 2021 version of Gartner’s Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms Magic Quadrant.
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r/BusinessIntelligence on Reddit: Our team compiled 11 years of Gartner magic quadrant to better visualized the rise and fall of BI Tools
October 2, 2022 - Search gartner bi tools + year in google images they'll all come up ... I’m almost certain the magic quadrant is an annual intern project that gets shot up to the manager who signs off with a “yeah, that looks right” ... The underlying scores really don't correlate with the place on the quadrant either, which is silly (at least my interpretation of it) ... Cognos was my first BI Tool and will always have a small office window in my heart.
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The Gartner Magic Quadrant is Worthless: Cognos Edition | IBM Blueview
February 22, 2021 - A big change to the Magic Quadrant this year is the return of enterprise reporting as key differentiator for what they are now calling ‘ABI platforms.’ The second differentiator is ‘augmented analytics’, which is integrated ML and AI assisted data prep and insight generation. Gartner is now calling visualization capabilities a commodity. What’s old is new again. This should be great news for Cognos Analytics!