News - 02 Apr: Who's Buying What in BI?

Who's Buying What in BI?

What are firms in your industry buying? What are firms of your size buying? What are IT types using and and what are business types using? When it comes to business intelligence software, you'll find answers to all these questions in Nigel Pendse's "The BI Survey 8."

As I explained, there are more than 350 charts and 490 pages in "The BI Survey 8." As one of a handful of media sponsors to the survey, Intelligent Enterprise is entitled to share just a peek at the report. To give you some sense of where the more than 2,600 respondents stand on the best-known BI product out there, I obtained approval to share these four charts:

"Reasons Given for Choosing Nominated Products Chart" shows why respondents chose the product they described as their primary BI product when completing the survey. The number of respondents for each product is shown in parentheses after the product name. Averages for all products are shown at the top of the chart. Better-than-average results are shown in green and below-average ratings are in red. If you look at QlikView, for example, it was selected more often than average for its "ease of use for end users" and "ease of use for application builders".

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