Dr. Carsten Bange
Founder & CEO
Dr. Carsten Bange is the founder and CEO of BARC.
Publication: June 2022
BARC Score Analytics for Business Users
With BARC Score Analytics for Business Users, you can compare 16 vendors at a glance and see how BARC analysts rank their portfolios.
To purchase the BARC Score, please contact us.
With the help of BARC Score Analytics for Business Users
- you get a detailed overview of the market for analytics software for business users.
- you will be able to assess the market position and portfolio of software vendors.
- you will have a foundation to build your long list or short list.
Further information
The third edition of BARC Score Analytics for Business Users examines the solutions of 16 major vendors in the global marketplace based on their strengths and weaknesses. It evaluates business user support for the entire analytical cycle: from data and its preparation to presentation and shared use of content across the organization.
Selection of vendors
To be included in BARC Score Analytics for Business Users, vendors and tools must meet a number of financial and technical criteria.
Products must support the complete analytics cycle covering at least ‘data preparation’, ‘visual analysis’ and ‘dashboards’. All steps of analytics content creation must be accessible and usable for business users, and seamless integration between all components is required.
In addition, the vendor must generate a minimum of 10 million Euros in license revenue per year with the above products, spread across at least two separate geographical regions. Furthermore, the product set must have a considerable number of implementations and license or subscription revenue across different geographical regions to be considered as global. All global economic regions are taken into account (i.e., Europe, Middle East and Africa, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific).
| Vendor | Product(s) |
|---|---|
| Domo | Domo Business Cloud |
| Dundas Data Visualization | Dundas BI |
| IBM | IBM Cognos Analytics |
| Microsoft | Power BI |
| MicroStrategy | MicroStrategy Analytics Platform |
| Oracle | Oracle Analytics Cloud |
| Pyramid Analytics | Pyramid |
| Qlik | Qlik Sense |
| SAP | SAP Analytics Cloud |
| SAS | SAS Visual Analytics |
| Sisense | Sisense |
| Tableau | Tableau Platform |
| ThoughtSpot | ThoughtSpot |
| TIBCO | Spotfire |
| Yellowfin | Yellowfin BI |
| Zoho | Zoho Analytics |
Software evaluation
Software providers are evaluated on two dimensions, ‘Portfolio Capabilities’ and ‘Market Execution’, each representing an axis on the chart.
In addition to BARC’s analyst opinion, user experience also plays an important role.
For our Scores in the areas of BI, analytics and business planning, we draw on the world’s largest surveys for BI & analytics and planning software, the BI & Analytics Survey and the Planning Survey, which ask companies each year about their satisfaction with software vendors and solutions.
Detailed analyst knowledge and comprehensive survey results are summarized in the BARC Score report and chart. The chart provides a clear view of each vendor’s market position and portfolio.
Authors
Larissa Baier
Senior Analyst Data & Analytics
Larissa is a Senior Analyst working in research and consulting.
Robert Tischler
Senior Analyst Data & Analytics
Robert's focus is on research and advisory. He is also responsible for BARC's business in Austria.