Some of the research firms that cover BI include:
View the specific reports and papers referenced in the book.
Many vendors sponsor industry analyst reports and provide them free on their websites. Below are links to pages on a sampling of vendors' sites where you can find recent reports. (If you are a vendor with a research page not linked below feel free to let us know.)
On some sites the reports are mixed in with whitepapers:
*reports are linked individually under the product pages
Below are a few specific reports offered by vendors and others:
Business Intelligence
- Dresner Advisory Services - Mobile Computing / Mobile Business Intelligence Market Study (Microstrategy)
- Forrester Wave: Big Data Streaming Analytics Platforms 2014 (Tibco)
- Harvard Business Review - Data and Organizational Issues Reduce Confidence (Qlik)
- Cindi Howsen, BI Scorecard - 2014 Successful BI Surey (Qlik)
- Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2014 (Tableau)
- The Economist Intelligence Unit and Tableau - Fostering a Data-Driven Culture (Tableau)
- TDWI Best Practices Report | Predictive Analytics for Business Advantage (Actuate Corporation, Alteryx, Pentaho, SAP, Tableau)
- IDC - Big Data in the Enterprise: When Worlds Collide (Oracle and Intel)
Data Warehousing and BI Data
- Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems 2014
- Forrester Research - Real-Time Data Management Delivers Faster Insights, Extreme Transaction Processing, And Competitive Advantage (SAP)
Data Integration
- Aberdeen Research - Enabling Access to Big Data with Data Integration (Talend)
- Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools 2014 (Informatica)
- Ventana Research Big Data Integration Report 2014 (Pentaho)
Industry Research and Papers Referenced in the BI Guidebook
Below are links to the sources of research, articles and papers referenced in the book. Some may require registration and/or payment.
Customer Data Should Be The Lifeblood Of Your Enterprise, Forrester Research
IBM What Is Big Data? – Bringing Big Data to the Enterprise
2014 State of the CIO Survey, CIO magazine
The Deciding Factor: Big Data & Decision Making, Capgemini and the Ecomomist
Big Data: The Organizational Challenge, Bain & Company
Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity, McKinsey Global Institute
Taming the Digital Dragon: The 2014 CIO Agenda, Gartner
TechRadar™: BI Analytics, Forrester Research
BI on BI: How to Manage The Performance Of BI Initiatives, Forrester Research