About This Constellation ShortList™
Multicloud analytics and business intelligence (BI) platforms do more than just ease the burden of deploying and administering infrastructure and software across multiple clouds. These multicloud options help companies gain deep contextual insights from combinations of internal and external data. Many organizations are not only shifting more workloads into clouds but are also increasingly tapping cloud-based software-as-aservice (SaaS) apps, social networks, third-party enrichment data, and partner data sources. Multicloud and emerging cross-cloud options help bring analytics to the center of data gravity, reducing the friction and cost involved in data access and data movement.
Multicloud analytics and BI platforms enable organizations to develop and deliver rich insights where needed. Emerging cross-cloud capabilities take advantage of containerization technologies to enable organizations to shift deployments and analytic workloads from cloud to cloud in a consistent way.
IBM Cognos Analytics and Spotfire have been dropped from this ShortList due to a lack of investment in new capabilities.
Threshold Criteria
Constellation considers the following criteria for cloud-based business intelligence:
- Delivery of SaaS or managed services on two or more public clouds
- Containerization underpinnings supporting consistent streamlined deployment and scalability across multiple clouds
- Data management capabilities such as data integration and self-service data preparation
- Breadth of analysis tools, including dashboarding, data visualization, forecasting, and predictive capabilities
- Rich collaboration features for authors, analysts, and business users
The Constellation ShortList™
Constellation evaluates more than 25 solutions categorized in this market. The Constellation ShortListis determined by client inquiries, partner conversations, customer references, vendor selection projects, market share and internal research.
- DOMO
- GOOGLE LOOKER
- MICROSTRATEGY
- SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD
- SAS VISUAL ANALYTICS
- THOUGHTSPOT
Frequency of Evaluation
Each Constellation ShortList is updated at least once per year. Updates may occur after six months if deemed necessary.
Evaluation Services
Constellation clients can work with the analyst and the research team to conduct a more thorough discussion of this ShortList. Constellation can also provide guidance in vendor selection and contract negotiation.
