The BI & Analytics Survey 21 Analyzer (free version)
Survey Results KPI Dashboard Product Dashboard Product Comparison Documentation
Survey Results
This screen shows the responses to a single question in The BI & Analytics Survey. You can choose the question in the dropdown box in the top left corner of the report. The filters to the left of the screen can be used to modify the chart.
Question
Products
(Premium Version Only)
Region
Industry
No. of employees
User type
Country
Which department do you work in?
N = 1189
KPI Dashboard
(Demo of the premium version. Contains dummy data.)
The KPI Dashboard allows you to compare product results by criteria (KPIs). For each KPI, values are shown for all the products in the peer group selected in the peer group filter. The peer group average is displayed as a gray bar. All products displayed above the gray bar are above average in the peer group, and those below the gray bar are below average. At the top of the screen, you can choose which KPI and peer group to analyze.
KPI filter
Peer group filter
Product Dashboard
(Demo of the premium version. Contains dummy data.)
This report shows a summary of the KPI results for a single product. The dashboard displays the results for aggregated KPIs in bold and the root KPIs in regular. Simply select a peer group and product in the filters at the top of the screen. The product filter will only display the products in the selected peer group. The peer group filter will only display the peer groups in which the selected product appears.
Product filter
Peer group filter
Product Comparison
(Demo of the premium version. Contains dummy data.)
This screen allows you to make your own short list of products and compare them directly against each other based on multiple criteria. First select a peer group that you want as the basis for the product comparison in the filter. Then select the relevant criteria (KPIs). Multiple KPIs can be selected in this filter. Finally select the products you wish to compare.
Peer group
KPI
Product
About The BI & Analytics Survey Analyzer
The BI & Analytics Survey Analyzer web app is an interactive tool that enables you to perform your own custom analysis of The BI & Analytics Survey data. The app contains results from all the questions asked in The BI & Analytics Survey 21. Product-related results based on a series of important criteria (known here as KPIs – Key Performance Indicators) are also available to view.
| Abbreviation | Question |
|---|---|
| Benefits: Accurate reporting | To what extent has the accuracy of your reporting, analysis or planning improved? |
| Benefits: Better decisions | To what extent do you now make better business decisions through better analysis? |
| Benefits: Competitive advantage | To what extent has your competitive advantage increased? |
| Benefits: Costs | To what extent have you reduced costs? (IT or non-IT) |
| Benefits: Customer satisfaction | To what extent has your customer satisfaction improved ? |
| Benefits: Data quality | To what extent has your data quality improved? |
| Benefits: Employee satisfaction | To what extent has your employee satisfaction improved? |
| Benefits: Faster reporting | To what extent has your reporting, analysis or planning become faster? |
| Benefits: Headcount | To what extent have you saved on headcount in business departments or IT? |
| Benefits: Operational efficency | To what extent has your operational efficiency improved? |
| Benefits: Increased revenues | To what extent have your revenues increased? |
| Capabilities: AI-based user support | How would you rate the capabilities of your BI & analytics product for AI-based user support? |
| Capabilities: Creating dashboards/reports | How would you rate the capabilities of your BI & analytics product for creating dashboards? |
| Capabilities: Distribution of reports | How would you rate the capabilities of your BI & analytics product for the distribution of reports? |
| Capabilities: Performing analyses | How would you rate the capabilities of your BI & analytics product for performing analyses? |
| Capabilities: Planning & budgeting capabilities | How would you rate the capabilities of your BI & analytics product for planning and budgeting? |
| Capabilities: Support of ad hoc queries | How would you rate the capabilities of your BI & analytics product for the support of ad hoc queries? |
| Demographics: Country | Country |
| Demographics: Department | Which department do you work in? |
| Demographics: Departments using BI & analytics | Which departments use BI & analytics applications? |
| Demographics: European region | European region |
| Demographics: Industry | Industry sector |
| Demographics: Number of BI & analytics product users | Number of BI & analytics product users |
| Demographics: Number of BI & analytics users | Number of BI & analytics users |
| Demographics: Number of employees | Number of employees |
| Demographics: Position | Position in company |
| Demographics: Region | Region |
| Implementation: Admin satisfaction – technical | How do you rate the level of administrator satisfaction with the implementation? |
| Implementation: Project length | How long did it take to implement the BI & analytics software? |
| Implementation: Project on-budget | Was your project completed within the budget originally specified? |
| Implementation: Project on-time | Was your project completed within the timeframe originally specified? |
| Implementation: User satisfaction | How do you rate the level of user satisfaction with the implementation of your project? |
| Product: Application age | When did your company start using the product? |
| Product: Data volume | What is the amount of data in the databases used with your product? |
| Product: Front-end product IBM Cognos TM1 | Please indicate the front-end products you use with IBM Cognos TM1. |
| Product: Front-end product Microsoft (SSAS) | Please indicate the front-end products you use with Microsoft (SSAS). |
| Product: Front-end product Oracle Essbase | Please indicate the front-end products you use with Oracle Essbase. |
| Product: Front-end product SAP BW | Please indicate the front-end products you use with SAP BW. |
| Product: Price-to-value | How would you rate the price-to-value of your BI & analytics product? |
| Product: Query response time | What is the typical query response time that end users see? |
| Product: Recommendation of product | Would you recommend others to buy your BI & analytics product? |
| Product: Tasks carried out by business users | Which tasks are carried out by business users in your company with your BI & analytics tool? |
| Product: Usage problems | What are the most serious problems you have encountered in using the product? | Sales experience: General behavior | How would you rate the vendor's general conduct during the purchasing process? |
| Sales experience: Industry knowledge | How would you rate the vendor's understanding of your industry-specific requirements during the purchasing process? |
| Sales experience: Pricing / contract flexibility | How flexible was the vendor in terms of pricing and contract? |
| Sales experience: Product evaluation / contract negotiation | How would you rate your experience with the vendor when evaluating the product and during contract negotiation? |
| Sales experience: Understanding of needs | How would you rate the vendor's ability to understand your organization's needs? |
| Sales experience: Vendor responsiveness | How timely and thorough were the vendor's responses to product-related and technical questions you had? |
| Selection: Acquired products | Which products has your organization acquired? |
| Selection: Chosen product | With which product are you most familiar? |
| Selection: Evaluated products | Which products has your organization evaluated? |
| Selection: Reasons for replacing BI & analytics systems | Reasons for replacing/abolishing BI & analytics system(s)? |
| Selection: Reasons to buy | Why was the product chosen? |
| Selection: Replaced BI & analytics systems | Has your organization replaced/abolished BI & analytics systems in the last 12 months? |
| Selection: Selection type | Did your organization conduct a formal product selection? |
| Support: Implementer support | How do you rate the support provided by the implementer? |
| Support: Vendor support | How do you rate the support provided by the vendor? |
| Tasks: Ad-hoc querying | Do you use or plan to use the application for ad-hoc querying? |
| Tasks: Advanced analysis | Do you use or plan to use the application for advanced analysis? |
| Tasks: Basic data analysis | Do you use or plan to use the application for basic data analysis? |
| Tasks: Budgeting/Planning | Do you use or plan to use the application for budgeting and planning? |
| Tasks: Dashboards/Scorecards | Do you use or plan to use the application for dashboards/scorecards? |
| Tasks: Financial consolidation | Do you use or plan to use the application for financial consolidation? |
| Tasks: Reporting | Do you use or plan to use the application for reporting? |
| Trends: BI with real-time data | Does your company use your BI & analytics tool with real-time data? |
| Trends: BlaaS and Cloud-based deployment | Does your company use BIaaS and Cloud-based deployment with your BI & analytics tool? |
| Trends: Data integration | Does your company use your BI & analytics tool for data integration? |
| Trends: Embedded BI | Does your company use your BI & analytics tool for embedded BI? |
| Trends: Mobile BI | Does your company use a mobile BI product? |
| Trends: Self-service | Does your company use self-service BI with your BI & analytics tool? |
| Trends: Spatial/Location analysis | Does your company use your BI & analytics tool for spatial/location analysis? |
| Trends: Visual analysis | Does your company use your BI & analytics tool for visual analysis? |
| Trends: Visual design standards | Does your company use your BI & analytics tool for visual design standards? |
Americas-focused vendors
Includes products from vendors that have a significant presence in - and focus on - the Americas region.
Dashboarding-focused products
Products that focus on creating advanced and highly sophisticated dashboards.
Self-service analytics-focused products
Includes products that focus on visual data discovery and advanced data visualization.
Embedded analytics-focused products
Includes reporting and analytics products that can be embedded in other business applications.
EMEA-focused vendors
Includes products from vendors that have a significant presence in - and focus on - the EMEA region.
Integrated performance management products
Includes products that provide integrated functionality for BI and performance management, especially planning and budgeting.
Large global enterprise BI platforms
Includes products equipped with functionality for enterprise deployments that focus on a broad range of BI use cases.
Large international BI vendors
Includes products from companies with annual revenues of $200m+ and a truly international reach.
OLAP analysis-focused products
Includes products that focus on analysis in dimensional and hierarchical data models.
Ad hoc reporting-focused products
Includes products that focus on self-service reporting and ad hoc analysis.
| Product | Number of answers |
|---|---|
| Bissantz | 32 |
| Board | 32 |
| CALUMO | 30 |
| Cubeware | 40 |
| cubus | 44 |
| Dundas | 33 |
| Entrinsik | 33 |
| Exago | 31 |
| IBM Cog. Analytics | 52 |
| IBM Plan. Analytics | 32 |
| Infor d/EPM | 32 |
| Information Builders | 30 |
| Jedox | 30 |
| Logi Analytics | 31 |
| Longview Analytics | 32 |
| Looker | 31 |
| MS Excel | 104 |
| MS Power BI | 162 |
| MS SSRS | 30 |
| MicroStrategy | 95 |
| Oracle Analytics Server | 31 |
| Phocas | 35 |
| Pyramid Analytics | 31 |
| Qlik Sense | 121 |
| QlikView | 114 |
| Report One | 36 |
| SAP Analytics Cloud | 44 |
| SAP BO BI | 110 |
| SAS Platform | 31 |
| Tableau | 85 |
| TARGIT | 44 |
| Yellowfin | 30 |
| Zoho Analytics | 32 |
| Aggregated KPIs | Root KPIs |
|---|---|
| Business value | Business benefits |
| Project success | |
| Project length | |
| Customer satisfaction | Price-to-value |
| Product satisfaction | |
| Vendor support | |
| Implementer support | |
| Recommendation | |
| Functionality | Dashboards |
| Distribution of reports | |
| Ad hoc query | |
| Analyses | |
| Advanced analytics | |
| Planning and budgeting | |
| Customer experience | Self-service |
| Ease of use | |
| Flexibility | |
| Query performance | |
| Performance satisfaction | |
| Sales experience | |
| Innovation | Cloud BI |
| Data preparation | |
| Visual analysis | |
| Visual design standards | |
| Location intelligence | |
| Mobile BI | |
| Operational BI | |
| Embedded BI | |
| Competitiveness | Considered for purchase |
| Competitive win rate | |
| KPI | Short explanation |
|---|---|
| Business benefits | This KPI is based on the achievement level of a variety of business benefits. |
| Project success | This KPI is based on the implementation satisfaction level and the frequency of projects completed on time and on budget. |
| Project length | This KPI is based on how quickly the product is implemented. |
| Business value | This aggregated KPI combines the ‘Business benefits’, ‘Project success’ and ‘Project length’ KPIs. |
| Price-to-value | This KPI is based on how users rate their BI tool in terms of price-to-value. |
| Recommendation | This KPI is based on how many users would recommend the product to others. |
| Vendor support | This KPI measures user satisfaction with the level of vendor support provided for the product. |
| Implementer support | This KPI measures user satisfaction with the level of the implementer’s support for the product. |
| Product satisfaction | This KPI is based on the frequency of problems encountered with the product. |
| Customer satisfaction | This aggregated KPI combines the ‘Price-to-value’, ‘Recommendation’, ‘Vendor support’, ‘Implementer support’ and ‘Product satisfaction’ KPIs. |
| Dashboards | This KPI is based on how users rate their BI tool for creating dashboards/reports (data selection, data visualization, formatting/layout). |
| Distribution of reports | This KPI is based on how users rate their BI tool in terms of its support for the distribution of reports (dispatch/publication, scheduling, formats). |
| Ad hoc query | This KPI is based on how users rate their BI tool in terms of its support for ad hoc queries (data access, drag-and-drop, suitability for business users). |
| Analyses | This KPI is based on how users rate their BI tool for performing analyses (KPI calculations, data navigation, predefined analyses). |
| Advanced analytics | This KPI is based on how many survey respondents use advanced analysis (such as predictive analysis, data mining, machine learning). |
| Planning and budgeting | This KPI is based on how users rate their BI tool in terms of its planning & budgeting capabilities (modeling, masks, workflows, plan data input). |
| Functionality | This aggregated KPI combines the ‘Dashboards’, ‘Distribution of reports’, ‘Ad hoc query’, ‘Analyses’, 'Advanced analytics' and ‘Planning & budgeting’ KPIs. |
| Self-service | This KPI is based on how many sites currently use self-service features with their BI tool. |
| Ease of use | This KPI is based on how often the product was chosen for its ease of use, and on the level of complaints about ease of use post-implementation. |
| Flexibility | This KPI is based on how often the product was chosen for its flexibility, and on the frequency of complaints about user flexibility post-implementation. |
| Query performance | This KPI is based on how quickly queries respond (adjusted by data volume). |
| Performance satisfaction | This KPI measures the frequency of complaints about the system’s performance. |
| Sales experience | This KPI is based on how respondents rate the sales/purchasing experience with the vendor. |
| Customer experience | This KPI combines the ‘Self-service’, ‘Ease of use’, ‘Flexibility’, ‘Query performance’, ‘Performance satisfaction’ and ‘Sales experience’ KPIs. |
| Cloud BI | This KPI is based on how many sites currently use the product in a cloud environment. |
| Data preparation | This KPI is based on how many survey respondents use data preparation. |
| Visual analysis | This KPI is based on how many sites currently use visual analysis with their BI tool. |
| Visual design standards | This KPI is based on how many sites currently use visual analysis with their BI tool. |
| Mobile BI | This KPI is based on how many sites currently use mobile BI with their BI tool. |
| Location intelligence | This KPI is based on how many sites currently use spatial/location analysis with their BI tool. |
| Operational BI | This KPI is based on how many sites currently use real-time data from transactional systems with their BI tool. |
| Embedded BI | This KPI is based on how many survey respondents use embedded BI. |
| Innovation | This KPI combines the ‘Cloud BI’, ‘Data preparation’, ‘Visual analysis’, ‘Visual design standards’, ‘Location intelligence’, ‘Mobile BI’, ‘Operational BI’ and ‘Embedded BI’ KPIs to measure the product’s level of innovation. |
| Considered for purchase | This KPI is based on whether respondents considered purchasing the product. |
| Competitive win rate | This KPI is based on the percentage of wins in competitive evaluations. |
| Competitiveness | This aggregated KPI combines the ‘Considered for purchase’ and ‘Competitive win rate’ KPIs. |