MicroStrategy, a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms, has announced that the widely followed BI Scorecard has rated MicroStrategy the top vendor across all 14 of the product capabilities identified for business intelligence (BI) Platforms. This is the third year in a row that MicroStrategy has topped the list of vendors in the BI Scorecard.
Highlights from the study produced by independent analyst Cindi Howson include:
* Only vendor to achieve “Excellent” or “Good” (green) ratings in all 14 functional areas;
* Largest number of “Excellent” ratings of any vendor in eight of fourteen categories;
* Only vendor to be rated “Excellent” in the “Mobile BI” category;
* Highest rated among BI Platform vendors in the “Ease of Use” and “Visual Discovery” categories; and
* Only vendor to be rated “Excellent” in both the “Administration” and “Architecture” categories.
“The fact that MicroStrategy was the only vendor to achieve “Excellent” or “Good” ratings in all major 14 functional areas and had the largest number of “Excellent” ratings of any vendor — in eight of fourteen categories — is testament to their focus on innovation and BI Platform architecture,” said Howson, founder of the BI Scorecard.
“We agree with the BI Scorecard’s independent analysis: we are the most comprehensive BI platform with strong offerings in all of the considered categories,” says Paul Zolfaghari, president, MicroStrategy Incorporated.
“The MicroStrategy platform combines the agility and productivity of self-service visual data discovery with the security, scalability, and governance of enterprise business intelligence. We solve the toughest information challenges from personal data to Big Data, and we do it via desktop, Web, or mobile either on-premises or in the cloud.”
The BI Scorecard provides a consistent, side-by-side comparison of products from leading BI vendors. BI Scorecard evaluations are the only reviews based on hands-on product testing, digging into the details that most affect BI deployments. The scorecard approach provides a consistent comparison, grading leading products across major functional areas and approximately 300 different criteria.
Within a given feature category, 10 to 25 detailed features are considered. Summary scores are determined based on a weighted score within each category and are adjusted on a quarterly basis as vendors release new versions.
