Constellation analyst Doug Henschen discusses updates to his 2024 Constellation ShortLists for #analytics and #Business Intelligence platforms, highlighting new and updated platforms such as #Amazon QuickSight, #Domo, Google Looker, #Microsoft Power BI, and ThoughtSpot.
Doug emphasizes the importance of multi-cloud options, augmented #analytics, embedded analytics, and unified #data models. He mentions dropping IBM Cognos and Spotfire due to a lack of investment.
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Hey folks, Doug Henschen of Constellation Research, and it's that time of year again, ShortList update time. Constellation publishes more than 140 shortlists. They're free guides that help you narrow your tech selections and save you time. I'm updating nine of my ShortList with this round here in August 2024 and today I will talk about four ShortLists all focused on analytics and bi, one of my favorite topics.
So let's kick it off here, and we'll start with multi-cloud analytics and business intelligence platforms. Here we're looking at analytics and BI platforms that are offered as software as a service or managed services on two or more public clouds. The multi-cloud options bring analytics to your center of data gravity, reducing the friction and costs involved in data access and data movement.
And on the list for 2024 are Domo, which is available both on AWS and Azure, Google Looker, which surprisingly, is available as software as a service on AWS and Azure, as well as Google Cloud MicroStrategy, which is a container-based managed service available on three or more public major public clouds, SaaS visual analytics, part of the viya platform, also container managed service and then thoughtspot, available as SaaS. Thoughtspot Cloud is available on AWS and Google, and also has a marketplace offering on Azure.
On this list, a drop from this list that's been on the list in the past was IBM Cognos and spot fire. Haven't seen a lot of investment from them, so they're off that ShortList for 2024 next up, augmented analytics and business intelligence.
Here we're talking about computer assistance for analysis so smart data discovery and analysis capabilities, including automated discovery, recommended tables and sources, recommended visualizations, also looking there at intent-driven recommendations based on behavior patterns seen in the use and usage and access to data and how and where it's data is being used by user, by group, by role, by permissions and item popularity and data source popularity. And then finally, integration of can escape it cutting edge generative AI capabilities. Here is it's being used for CO generation, for Data Prep and for natural language-based query analysis and explanations.
And on the short list for 2024 a new player, first time on one of my bi short list, Amazon QuickSight, which has added Gen AI in the form of Amazon Q and quick site, it was actually formally QuickSight Q, now part of the larger Amazon Q Gen AI family. This is the availability of that Gen AI service within quick site a long time. Members on the list also pursuing Gen AI would include Power BI, Microsoft's product, Oracle analytics, cloud clicks, click sense SAP analytics, cloud Tableau and thoughtspot.
Next up, let's look at embedded analytics. And here I'm I'm not talking about just embedded analytics for ISVs and software as a service companies. There are so many different types of companies now that are developing internal or customer facing software or services they don't even consider themselves to be software vendors or SaaS vendors, but here they are in need of embedded capabilities, and there we're looking at microservices architectures, fine grained REST APIs, software development kits so you can flexibly embed data, metrics, visualizations, dashboards into a range of applications and and services, and also on the more on the cutting edge is support for DevOps approaches that really bridge the gap between development and operations and help you automate continuous integration and continuous development.
So on my short list for 2024 embedded analytics would include Domo, Google Looker, Microsoft, power, bi, Qlik, sense size, Tableau and thoughtspot. And dropped from this list this time around was MicroStrategy and Oracle analytics cloud, though I did add OAC to a new list that I have in the BI analytics category, and that is embedded analytics platforms for cloud applications.
Here I'm looking at deliver a platform that has an approach for managing application data and embedding visualizations, KPIs, and dashboards into key decision points within ERP, CRM. HCM and other cloud based applications, and this gives you a unified data modeling, access control, governance approach and two way contextual interactivity between the apps and the analytics.
And on my short list here for 2024 is infor burst, and its integration with Infor Cloud suites, Microsoft Power BI and integrations with Microsoft Dynamics, 365, and Power Apps. Oracle analytics cloud and its integrations with Oracle Fusion cloud applications. SAP analytics cloud and its integrations with SAP applications, of course, Salesforce CRM analytics, obviously part of self Well, embedded within Salesforce apps. And then finally, Zoho analytics, embedding within Zoho applications.
Well, that's it for my latest analytics and BI ShortList updates. To see all of our ShortLists, visit constellationr.com/shortlist, and I wish you the best of success with your tech selections.
