It’s often true that “a picture is worth a thousand words” but sometimes a picture can be such an effectively communication medium that no more words are necessary. Such is the case with this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant rating of leading Business Intelligence vendors. Gartner is the undisputed authority on IT industry ratings. In years past, Microsoft was often seen as the “underdog”, the “challenger”, the “up-and-comer” and the less expensive consolation for customers who couldn’t afford the best solutions. No more…Just look at the top-most rating in the leaders/able to execute quadrant. Yea, that’s right. We bad!
I’m engaged in an on-site Oracle Exadata POC for data warehousing. This is obviously the exception, but apparently it does happen.