The BI Survey 18 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 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 = 2296
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 grey bar. All products displayed above the grey bar are above average in the peer group, and those below the grey 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 users to make their 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 criteria (KPIs)you whish to compare. Multiple KPIs can be selected in this filter. Finally select the products you wish to compare.
Peer group
KPI
Product
About The BI Survey Analyzer
The BI Survey Analyzer web app is an interactive tool that enables you to perform your own custom analysis of The BI Survey 18 data. The app contains results from all the questions asked in The BI Survey 18. 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? |
| Demography: Country | Country |
| Demography: Department | Which department do you work in? |
| Demography: Departments using BI | Which departments use BI applications? |
| Demography: European regions | European regions |
| Demography: Industry | Industry sector |
| Demography: Industry | Industry sector |
| Demography: Number of BI product users | Number of BI product users |
| Demography: Number of BI users | Number of BI users |
| Demography: Number of employees | Number of employees |
| Demography: Position | Position in company |
| Demography: Regions | Regions |
| Implementation: Admin satisfaction – technical | Rate the level of administrator satisfaction with the implementation of technical aspects of your project |
| Implementation: Project length | How long did it take to implement the BI 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 – business | Rate the level of user satisfaction with the implementation of business aspects of your project |
| Implementation: User satisfaction – technical | Rate the level of user satisfaction with the implementation of technical aspects 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 the BI 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: Implementation problems | What are the most serious problems you have encountered during the implementation? |
| Product: Price-to-value | How would you rate the price-to-value of your BI 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 product? |
| Product: Tasks carried out by business users | Which tasks are carried out by business users in your company with your BI 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: General behaviour | 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 systems | Reasons for replacing/abolishing BI system(s)? |
| Selection: Reasons to buy | Why was the product chosen? |
| Selection: Replaced BI systems | Did your organization replace/abolish BI 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 tool with real-time data? |
| Trends: Cloud BI/BIaaS | Does your company use BIaaS with your BI tool? |
| Trends: Cloud-based deployment | Generally, how feasible do you think a cloud-based deployment of a BI solution would be for your organization? |
| Trends: Collaboration | Does your company use your BI tool for collaboration? |
| Trends: Data preparation | Does your company use your BI tool for data preparation? |
| Trends: Embedded BI | Does your company use your BI tool for embedded BI? |
| Trends: Importance of predictive analytics | How important is it that your company's BI tool includes predictive analytics features? |
| Trends: Integration of BI and PM | Does your company use a BI product with integration of BI and Performance Management? |
| Trends: Mobile BI | Does your company use a mobile BI product? |
| Trends: Self-service | Does your company use self-service BI with your BI tool? |
| Trends: Sensor data analysis | Does your company use your BI tool for sensor data analysis? |
| Trends: Spatial/Location analysis | Does your company use your BI tool for spatial/location analysis? |
| Trends: Text data analysis | Does your company use your BI tool for text data analysis? |
| Trends: Use cases | In which BI use cases is your company investing in? |
| Trends: Visual analysis | Does your company use your BI tool for visual analysis? |
| Trends: Visual design standards | Does your company use visual design standards with your BI tool? |
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.
Data discovery-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 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 equipped with functionality for enterprise deployments that focus on a broad range of BI use cases.
OLAP analysis-focused products
Includes products that focus on analysis in dimensional and hierarchical data models.
Self-service reporting-focused products
Includes products that focus on self-service reporting and ad hoc analysis.
| Product | Number of answers |
|---|---|
| Bissantz | 71 |
| BOARD | 49 |
| CALUMO | 67 |
| Carriots Analytics | 39 |
| Cubeware | 76 |
| cubus | 60 |
| Cyberscience | 30 |
| Dimensional Insight | 38 |
| Domo | 32 |
| Dundas | 30 |
| IBM Cognos Analytics | 92 |
| IBM Planning Analytics | 49 |
| Infor BI | 42 |
| Information Builders | 42 |
| Jedox | 47 |
| Longview Analytics | 68 |
| Looker | 35 |
| Microsoft Excel | 194 |
| Microsoft Power BI | 171 |
| Microsoft SSRS | 69 |
| MicroStrategy | 116 |
| Oracle BI | 32 |
| Phocas | 32 |
| Pyramid Analytics | 31 |
| Qlik Sense | 61 |
| QlikView | 200 |
| sales-i | 34 |
| SAP Analytics Cloud | 49 |
| SAP BO Analysis | 82 |
| SAP BO BI | 199 |
| SAP BO Web Intelligence | 88 |
| SAS Enterprise BI | 42 |
| Sisense | 39 |
| Tableau | 95 |
| TARGIT | 47 |
| Unit4 prevero | 38 |
| Yellowfin | 30 |
| Aggregated KPIs | Root KPIs |
|---|---|
| Business value | Business benefits |
| Project success | |
| Project length | |
| Competitiveness | Considered for purchase |
| Competitive win rate | |
| Customer experience | Planning functionality |
| Self-service | |
| Flexibility | |
| Ease of use | |
| Sales experience | |
| Data volume | |
| Query performance | |
| Performance satisfaction | |
| Customer satisfaction | Price-to-value |
| Product satisfaction | |
| Vendor support | |
| Implementer support | |
| Recommendation | |
| Innovation | Cloud BI |
| Mobile BI | |
| Operational BI | |
| Visual design standards | |
| Location intelligence | |
| Visual analysis | |
| Data preparation | |
| Embedded BI | |
| 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’, ‘Product satisfaction’, ‘Vendor support’ and ‘Implementer support’ KPIs. |
| Self-service | This KPI is based on how many sites currently use self-service features with their BI tool. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Sales experience | This KPI is based on how respondents rate the sales/purchasing experience with the vendor. |
| Data volume | This KPI is based on the median volume of data in databases used with the BI tool. |
| 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. |
| Customer experience | This aggregated KPI combines the ‘Ease of use’, ‘Self-service’, ‘Performance satisfaction’, ‘Flexibility’, ‘Data volume’, ‘Query performance’ and ‘Sales experience‘ KPIs. |
| Cloud BI | This KPI is based on how many sites currently use the product in a cloud environment. |
| Mobile BI | This KPI is based on how many sites currently use mobile BI 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. |
| Visual design standards | This KPI is based on how many sites currently use visual design standards with their BI tool. |
| Location intelligence | This KPI is based on how many sites currently use spatial/location analysis with their BI tool. |
| Visual analysis | This KPI is based on how many sites currently use visual analysis with their BI tool. |
| Data preparation | This KPI is based on how many survey respondents use data preparation. |
| Embedded BI | This KPI is based on how many survey respondents use embedded BI. |
| Innovation | This aggregated KPI combines the ‘Embedded BI‘, ‘Cloud BI’, ‘Visual analysis‘, ‘Mobile BI’, ‘Operational BI‘, ‘Location intelligence‘ and ‘Visual design standards’ 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. |