List of Business Intelligence Products in The BI Survey

DigDash was founded in 2006 by former Business Objects employees. Their aim was to provide enter-prises with easy-to-use software to help them in their decision-making processes by translating their data into valuable information.

humanIT Software GmbH is a software vendor founded in 1997 as a spin-off from the Fraunhofer Institute in Bonn, Germany. It is now an independent subsidiary of proALPHA Group, a provider of ERP technology. humanIT serves 19 countries from its Bonn office and has over 1,000 customers with more than 100,000 users across 20 industries.

Founded in 2009, Pyramid Analytics is a privately held software company based in the Netherlands with over 200 employees. With offices in the United States, Israel and the United Kingdom, the company has a global presence and serves over 1,000 customers.

TARGIT is a privately-owned software provider founded in 1986 with its headquarters in Aalborg, Denmark. The company serves over 8,000 customers, most of whom are in Europe and North America, while about one-third are distributed across the rest of the world.

Bissantz & Company (Bissantz) was founded in 1996 in Nuremberg, Germany. The company initially specialized in solutions for sophisticated data analysis tasks in business environments. Today, it has about 100 employees based in locations in Germany and Switzerland.

[The BI & Analytics Survey 23 results, not included in The BI & Analytics Survey 24] Founded in 2010 in American Fork, Utah, Domo launched its first BI product in 2012 as a cloud-native, full-stack BI platform. After 2015, Domo quickly earned attention in the market and went public in June 2018. The vendor currently has over 960 employees that serve more than 2,300 customers.

[The BI & Analytics Survey 23 results, not included in The BI & Analytics Survey 24] Founded in 1992, Dundas began building its reputation as an innovator in visualization software with its ‘Chart’ product, which it sold to Microsoft in 2007. Dundas BI was released in 2014 and launched the vendor into the market for all-in-one BI & analytics platforms. In 2022, insightsoftware acquired Dundas to extend its offering for embedded analytics, especially targeting software vendors that want to embed analytics into their offering.

Entrinsik is a privately held BI & analytics software company based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1984, Entrinsik joined the business intelligence market in 2002 with the development of a web-based reporting tool for customers who use MultiValue databases, such as UniVerse and UniData. MultiValue databases contain a list of values within a single field, which slows down report preparation and complicates the process. Entrinsik overcame the challenges of the denormalized structure and quickly became a successful choice for MultiValue reporting tools. The company now employs 45 people and supports distribution partners in the United Kingdom and Australia.

IBM® is one of the world’s largest vendors of IT hardware, software, cloud and services. The company has a global workforce of approximately 288,000 employees and is active in over 170 countries. In 2007, IBM purchased the BI vendor Cognos and made its software the center of its BI and analytics product offerings.

IBM is one of the world’s largest vendors of IT hardware, software and services. The company has a global workforce of approximately 300,000 employees and is active in over 170 countries.

[The BI & Analytics Survey 23 results, not included in The BI & Analytics Survey 24] Logi Analytics (Logi) is truly shaking up the embedded analytics market. Founded in 2000, the Virginia-based company initially sold development tools for building web-based applications. Logi was acquired in 2017 by Marlin Equity Partners, a private equity firm, with a view to growing the company.

[The BI & Analytics Survey 23 results, not included in The BI & Analytics Survey 24] Google (a subsidiary of Alphabet) is mostly known for its search engine and associated offerings. However, with its Google Cloud Platform, the vendor has entered the BI and analytics market with attractive data management and analytics products. To complement its self-developed data management and analytics solutions, the vendor acquired Looker in 2020. Looker was founded in 2012 in Santa Cruz, CA, and has grown quite quickly since then. About 2,000 companies now use Looker.

Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, was founded in 1975 and has become a household name primarily due to its Windows operating system and Office suite. The vendor has a broad enterprise offering too, ranging from cloud services (Azure) to database to ERP products.

Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, was founded in 1975 and has become a household name primarily due to its Windows operating system and Office suite. The vendor has a broad enterprise offering too, ranging from cloud (Azure) to database to its ERP products.

MicroStrategy is one of the best known vendors in the BI and analytics market worldwide. It was the first vendor to release a fully integrated end-to-end platform providing formatted reports, dashboards and interactive data discovery in a unified software. With its leading semantic model, scalability and multiple options to embed insights, the vendor offers comprehensive analytics capabilities for a wide variety of use cases.

MyReport SAS – formerly known as Report One – is a privately held French BI software company with approximately 95 employees and 5,000 customers. Since its foundation in 2001, which was also the year its BI product MyReport was first released, the company has expanded its presence to four offices spread across France.

Oracle is a global provider of enterprise cloud computing, offering software, platform, infrastructure and even data as a service. With over 170,000 employees, Oracle is one of the giants in the market.

[The BI & Analytics Survey 23 results, not included in The BI & Analytics Survey 24] Phocas was founded in 2001 in the UK and is now a medium-sized company with full-service offices on three continents. The company has shown continuous growth over the last ten years and currently has around 2,500 customers. Phocas now has over 91 percent recurring subscription revenue, spread fairly evenly between the UK, Australia and North America. The self-funded company is still privately held by its founders.

Qlik, originally founded in 1993 in Lund, Sweden, moved its headquarters to the United States in 2005 after raising funds from several venture capital firms. It was acquired by the current owner – private equity company Thoma Bravo – in 2016.

Qlik, originally founded in 1993 in Lund, Sweden, moved its headquarters to the United States in 2005 after raising funds from several venture capital firms. It was acquired by the current owner – private equity company Thoma Bravo – in 2016.

SAP was founded in 1972 as a business applications company. Today, the vendor has a turnover of €29.52 billion, employs more than 105,000 people, and is one of the largest business software vendors in the world.

SAP was founded in Germany in 1972 as a business applications company. The vendor now employs more than 112,000 people worldwide and had a turnover of €30.9 billion in FY2022. SAP is one of the largest business software vendors in the world.

[The BI & Analytics Survey 23 results, not included in The BI & Analytics Survey 24] Serviceware offers a portfolio of software solutions for digitalizing and automating service processes (Enterprise Service Management (ESM)). In 2019, Serviceware acquired cubus, a German CPM and analytics specialist to complement its portfolio. Within Serviceware, cubus’ former solutions are now called Serviceware Performance (for performance management) and Serviceware Performance AL (for analytics). Both are available as standalone applications or integrated in Serviceware’s ESM platform. Overall, Serviceware serves more than 1,400 customers with 500 employees in 14 European offices. Serviceware Performance itself is used by approximately 400 customers.

End-to-end platform for BI, consisting of components in the front-end (dashboards, reports, write-back) and data management area (ETL, Data Catalog and semantic layer).

Tableau Software emerged from scientific research at Stanford University and was founded in 2003. The company has achieved strong growth and is now among the best known BI and analytics vendors worldwide. Tableau was acquired by Salesforce in 2019. However, it remains a mostly independent business unit focusing on its target audience. Recently, the vendor acquired Narrative Science, a specialist in the area of natural language generation to boost its ability to provide automated insights in a written-language format that people can easily understand.

Zoho Corporation began life in 1996 as a software company called Adventnet, Inc., which focused on building network management products. The company was renamed in 2009 and now operates three distinct divisions including Zoho, which develops and sells a suite of business applications. Zoho Corporation has never accepted venture capital investment and remains privately held.