{"id":3465,"date":"2019-02-15T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T09:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2019-02-15T10:50:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T09:50:51","slug":"gartner-magic-quadrant-for-analytics-and-business-intelligence-platforms-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-analytics-and-business-intelligence-platforms-2019","title":{"rendered":"Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gartner just published its legendary Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for 2019<\/a>. It is always interesting to see how the SAP BI offering compares to its competitors. In previous years I\u2019ve been critical on this report, as most of the SAP tools were completely ignored (SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform, Lumira, etc.) and SAP Analytics Cloud was really just getting started. In the 2019 edition the BOBJ stuff is still out, but that is something I can live with as SAP clearly changed its strategy to cloud.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n

So let\u2019s have a look at the chart. SAP is seen as a visionaire, but with a low ability to execute. The big competitors Microsoft (PowerBI) and Tableau seem to be far ahead, both in vision and execution. The details on SAP are basically a repeat of my good, bad and the ugly write up on SAP Analytics Cloud in 2018<\/a>. Some quotes from the report:<\/p>\n

\n

SAP is a Visionary, its position in the Magic Quadrant being influenced by product limitations and relative weakness in terms of sales and marketing strategy. SAP still does not have the broad market momentum of the Leaders in this market. Its decision to focus on one product is beginning to improve its competitiveness, however. Reference customers for SAP Analytics Cloud report a much improved view of SAP\u2019s viability as a vendor of modern analytics and BI.<\/p>\n

SAP Analytics Cloud\u2019s integrated functionality for planning, analytical and predictive capabilities in a unified, single platform is a differentiator. SAP is one of only two vendors in the Magic Quadrant with such an offering.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I can only agree with this. The focus should not be on purely closing the functionality gap with the quadrant leaders, but on offering a more integrated, broader solution. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n

SAP Analytics Hub is intended to bridge cloud and on-premises deployments, providing a single front end for SAP and partner-originated analytic offerings. This vision is resonating \u2014 reference customers for SAP Analytics Cloud showed a bigger improvement in their view of their vendor\u2019s viability than any other group of reference customers surveyed for this Magic Quadrant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, the Hub is a strong and smart solution with an obvious purpose. But, it could have been much better than what is now being offered and I haven\u2019t seen much progress in the past year. <\/p>\n

\n

Prepackaged analytic content:\u00a0SAP offers a library of prebuilt content available online for SAP Analytics Cloud customers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Gartner sees this as a strength, but this is not going to win the war. Reporting business content is nice to get some inspiration and ideas, but is not an out-of-the-box solution. <\/p>\n

\n

Functional limitations:\u00a0<\/strong>SAP Analytics Cloud still lags behind in a number of areas,\u00a0particularly scalability and model complexity. In addition, the SAP-source-dominated data source connectivity and ingestion capability, and the ability to embed analytic content, are relatively weak.<\/p>\n

Performance is the primary limitation with regard to wider deployment of SAP Analytics Cloud, according to its reference customers. They put SAP\u2019s product support \u2014 specifically its time to respond to and resolve issues \u2014 in the bottom third of vendors in this Magic Quadrant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ouch. Still a lot of work to do here.<\/p>\n

\n

Cloud-only:\u00a0Most organizations now view cloud-based software as part of data and analytic deployments, but a significant minority still do not. For that minority, SAP Analytics Cloud isn\u2019t a good fit, although it can connect directly to on-premises SAP resources for live data and to some non-SAP data sources for data ingestion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Gartner mentions this as a weakness, I don\u2019t think it is. The live\u00a0connectivity architecture is a smart solution where the data doesn\u2019t have to leave the\u00a0company\u00a0network and doesn\u2019t go\u00a0\u201cinto the cloud\u201d, which would be the biggest point of\u00a0resistance for these customers.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s now have a look at some comments on Tableau and Microsoft PowerBI from the report.<\/p>\n

\n

Tableau:\u00a0<\/strong>Easy visual exploration and data manipulation:\u00a0Tableau enables users to rapidly ingest data from a broad range of data sources, blend them, and visualize results using best practices in visual perception. Data can be manipulated while visualizing \u2014 such as when creating groups, bins and new hierarchies \u2014 all with a high degree of ease of use.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is indeed what I\u2019ve seen and\u00a0heard from\u00a0Tableau users. It\u2019s very easy to use and extremely\u00a0flexible and feature-rich.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n

Tableau: <\/strong>Customers as fans:\u00a0Customers have a fanlike attitude toward Tableau, as evidenced by the record 17,000 users that attended its 2018 annual user conference. Reference customers placed Tableau in the top third of Magic Quadrant vendors for customer experience, and gave it high scores for achievement of business benefits. Tableau sets the industry standard for user enablement with Meetup groups, roadshows, online tutorials and availability of skills in the market.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here SAP clearly missed the boat. This Tableau community reminds me a bit of what the BusinessObjects and especially the Xcelsius community was 10 years ago. People were sharing their extremely creative ideas on how to get\u00a0everything out of the tools. The broken SAP Community doesn\u2019t help in this as well<\/p>\n

\n

Microsoft PowerBI:\u00a0<\/strong>Low-priced incumbent with positive sales experience<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Giving away PowerBI for (almost) free and bundling it with the WindowsOS is a strategy that Microsoft is known for,\u00a0and clearly seems\u00a0to work for PowerBI (which is a great, great name for a BI tool by the way! Much better than the generic SAP Analytics Cloud).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n

Microsoft PowerBI:\u00a0<\/strong>Ease of use for complex types of analysis:\u00a0Reference customers continue to recognize Microsoft for its ease of use \u2014 they gave it top-third ratings across all aspects of ease of use.Microsoft\u2019s \u201cfirst five-minute experience\u201d(it aims to have users register for a trial and be \u201cwowed\u201d within five minutes) and a robust user community contribute to this result.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve seen lots of first time BI users start out with these trial (or university) licenses in Tableau or PowerBI and get hooked to the tool. SAP Analytics Cloud has a free 30-day trial option, but needs to push this more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So in\u00a0conclusion, the report gives a good overview of where SAP Analytics Cloud stands in relation to its competitors, but I\u00a0don\u2019t read many new or unexpected\u00a0insights. Important is that the unified platform solution is clearly recognized as a\u00a0unique offering, as this could be the differentiator for SAP Analytics Cloud in the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gartner just published its legendary Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for 2019. It is always interesting to see how the SAP BI offering compares to its competitors. In previous years I\u2019ve been critical on this report, as most of the SAP tools were completely ignored (SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform, Lumira, etc.) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[299],"tags":[336,337,338,328,339],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sap-analytics-cloud","tag-gartner","tag-magic-quadrant","tag-powerbi","tag-sap-analytics-cloud","tag-tableau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKaa2-TT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3539,"url":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-analytics-and-business-intelligence-platforms-2020","url_meta":{"origin":3465,"position":0},"title":"Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms 2020","author":"Xavier Hacking","date":"February 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"It's February and as every year around this time Gartner publishes its Magic Quandrant report on Analytics and BI Platform vendors\/solutions. So it is always interesting to see how SAP is doing compared to the other big names in the industry, especially Tableau (Salesforce) and PowerBI (Microsoft) as those are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "SAP"","block_context":{"text":"SAP","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/category\/sap"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gartner2020.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gartner2020.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gartner2020.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3631,"url":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-analytics-and-business-intelligence-platforms-2022","url_meta":{"origin":3465,"position":1},"title":"Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms 2022","author":"Xavier Hacking","date":"April 5, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"It's that time of the year again: Gartner just published its holy Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence (ABI) Platforms for 2022! Our beloved SAP Analytics Cloud is SAP's offering in this area and is compared to tools as PowerBI (Microsoft), Tableau (SalesForce) and Qlik. Status Quo? When I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "SAP Analytics Cloud"","block_context":{"text":"SAP Analytics Cloud","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/category\/sap-analytics-cloud"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-2021-1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-2021-1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-2021-1.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3586,"url":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/gartner-magic-quadrant-2021","url_meta":{"origin":3465,"position":2},"title":"Gartner Magic Quadrant 2021","author":"Xavier Hacking","date":"March 3, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Aaaah, winter is almost over which means that the whole BI world is waiting for Gartner to come up with a new Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms report: The holy scoreboard of the BI Vendor Wars!\u00a0Behold! I always like to skim through the report to see how\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "SAP"","block_context":{"text":"SAP","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/category\/sap"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-2021.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-2021.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-2021.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3707,"url":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-analytics-and-business-intelligence-platforms-2023","url_meta":{"origin":3465,"position":3},"title":"Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms 2023","author":"Xavier Hacking","date":"June 4, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes it feels as we are at the end of history and nothing changes anymore. I've been reading these annual Gartner \"Magic Quadrant\" reports on the state of Analytics and Business Intelligence (ABI) for a couple of years now and every edition concludes the same, at least for the \"big\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "SAP Analytics Cloud"","block_context":{"text":"SAP Analytics Cloud","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/category\/sap-analytics-cloud"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gartner_magic_quadrant_2023.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gartner_magic_quadrant_2023.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gartner_magic_quadrant_2023.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3768,"url":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-analytics-and-business-intelligence-platforms-2024","url_meta":{"origin":3465,"position":4},"title":"Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms 2024","author":"Xavier Hacking","date":"August 31, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms has become as much a part of summer as ice creams and beach vacations. This year, however, the Quadrant is particularly noteworthy\u2014especially that crowded upper-right corner. Just how many \u201cleaders\u201d can there be? Let\u2019s dive in and explore! You can\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "SAP Analytics Cloud"","block_context":{"text":"SAP Analytics Cloud","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/category\/sap-analytics-cloud"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garnter-Magic-Quadrant-Analytics-BI-2024.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garnter-Magic-Quadrant-Analytics-BI-2024.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garnter-Magic-Quadrant-Analytics-BI-2024.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3661,"url":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/dashboards-are-dead-really","url_meta":{"origin":3465,"position":5},"title":"Dashboards are dead? Really?","author":"Xavier Hacking","date":"July 28, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I saw\u00a0this\u00a0nice discussion on LinkedIn last week on the state of dashboarding. And yes, I was as surprised as you to see a relevant, professional post on this platform in 2022, as LinkedIn has turned into some sort of Facebook lately, but okay... \ud83d\ude05\u00a0\u00a0 The premise of the post was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "SAP Analytics Cloud"","block_context":{"text":"SAP Analytics Cloud","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/category\/sap-analytics-cloud"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dashboards-are-dead-thoughspot.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3474,"href":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions\/3474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hackingsap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}