Why buy the BI Tool Survey?

The 100% vendor independent survey has been conducted by Passionned, a research company and consultancy, specialising in business intelligence and data integration. This will give you true insight in the strengths and weaknesses of the BI tools (list) as well as the vendors.

The BI Tool Survey 2012 does not contain any vendor bias and business intelligence vendors do not pay to be included. We have been monitoring the business intelligence market space now for many years.

1. We have validated the answers

Vendors were asked to demonstrate the product features in an environment with live data. PowerPoints were not accepted, and to leave no doubts, we validate all the answers by comparing it to the manuals and usage experiences from the user and developer community.

2. Find out the vendor’s ‘secrets’

Vendors will often tell you only the strengths of their product(s). In our survey, all the features are revealed, also the weak points.

3. Negotiate better with vendors

Using the survey, you will be in a better position to negotiate with the vendor to get better pricing and conditions for the product. The vendor comparison is made based on eight categories and about hundred criteria.

4. All the detailed survey data available

The BI Tool Survey 2012 (Full Edition) comes with all the details. At the end of the report you will find a BI tools comparison matrix with all the products compared on all the criteria.

5. Immediate insight into how the tools scored

Graphs showing you in seconds how the different BI tools have scored on different categories and subcategories. Comparison can be made very easily.

6. Compact report with clear expert opinions

Our report contains clear opinions and recommendations, no redundant information and focuses only on the things that really matter.

7. Full market coverage

With sixteen business intelligence tools (list) covered, we cover all the major BI tools and at least 90% of the market space. The niche players Arcplan, Spotfire, Talend, Actuate and Panorama software were not included, because they did not want to fill in the questionnaire and the comparison cannot be done without the vendor’s cooperation.

8. Future prospects

The business intelligence tools are not only assessed by what they have now. The survey has also attempted to measure the future prospects, unravelling the degree of innovation of the vendor one by one. Knowing that, you can see which products are most likely to survive in the future, leaving you with sustainable business intelligence solutions.

9. Clear ease-of-use opinions

Our experts evaluated the product usability, giving you a profound view of how easy-to-use (or not) the product really is. The report tells you that some products are better used by programmers, other products are also suitable for the business user.