News Feature | October 31, 2016

BI Survey 16 Identifies BI Product Leaders

Christine Kern

By Christine Kern, contributing writer

Healthcare Business-Intelligence Solution

Dimensional Insight, Pyramid Analytics, prevero, Jedox, and Yellowfin are all among top BI vendors.

The results of BARC’s BI Survey 16 are in, and Dimensional Insight, Pyramid Analytics, prevaro, Jedox, and Yellowfin were among the leaders in Business Intelligence (BI) products. The 2016 BI survey is the world’s largest independent survey of users of BI tools and queried more than 3,000 participants regarding 37 different BI software products and vendors.

Dimensional Insight ranked as the leader in 14 separate KPI categories in BARCs BI Survey 16, demonstrating strength in both the dash boarding-focused and self-service reporting-focused product peer groups. Specific categories in which DI earned top billing were: Business Value; Competitive Win Rate; Customer Experience; Product Satisfaction; and Query Performance.

Yellowfin’s Business Intelligence solution ranked first for Innovation among its assigned Peer Groups for the fifth year in a row. It also has ranked first in Collaboration four years in a row, and first for ease-of-use for the third consecutive year.

Enterprise business analytics platform provider Pyramid Analytics was named the leader in three BARC BI categories for its BI Office, including Self-Service; Customer Experience; and Chosen as Standard. Jedox performed well in the product satisfaction and price-performance perception categories this year, fielding strong placement for the fifth consecutive year, according to a press statement. Jedox is top-ranked in Price-To-Value Perception; Product Satisfaction; Query Performance; Performance Satisfaction; Performance; and Project Length.

prevero, ranked first in six categories in the 2016 BI survey, ranking particularly well in terms of flexibility, agility, and ease-of-use, and the company was rated as a leader across three key peer groups for Visual Design Standards: Integrated Performance Management Products; EMEA-focused vendors; and OLAP Analysis-Focused Products. The company also ranked as a leader in Ease of Use for Integrated Performance Management Products and Competitive Win Rates for EMEA-focused vendors.