Wave Report

The Forrester Wave™: Advanced Data Visualization (ADV) Platforms, Q3 2012

Seven Leaders, Six Strong Performers, And Two Contenders Compete For Share Of The ADV Market

July 17th, 2012
Boris Evelson, Vice President, Principal Analyst
Boris Evelson Vice President, Principal Analyst
Noel Yuhanna, VP, Principal Analyst
Noel Yuhanna VP, Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Stephen Powers , Mike Gualtieri , Brian Hopkins , Holger Kisker, Ph.D. , Jeffrey Hammond , Shannon Coyne , Sanchit Gogia

Summary

Enterprises find advanced data visualization (ADV) platforms to be essential tools that enable them to monitor business, find patterns, and take action to avoid threats and snatch opportunities. In Forrester's 29-criteria evaluation of ADV vendors, we found that Tableau Software, IBM, Information Builders, SAS, SAP, Tibco Software, and Oracle led the pack due to the breadth of their ADV business intelligence (BI) functionality offerings. Microsoft, MicroStrategy, Actuate, QlikTech, Panorama Software, SpagoBI, Jaspersoft, and Pentaho were close on the heels of the Leaders, also offering solid functionality to enable business users to effectively visualize and analyze their enterprise data.

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