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BI SURVEY 14

The world´s largest survey of business intelligence software users

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Pyramid Analytics in THE BI Survey 14

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Table of contents

THE BI Survey 14 Pyramid Analytics results overview ...................................................................... 3

Pyramid Analytics in THE BI Survey 14 ............................................................................................. 5

Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 5

Pyramid Analytics overview ............................................................................................................ 5

Pyramid Analytics customer responses .......................................................................................... 5

User and use case demographics .................................................................................................. 6

Peer Groups ....................................................................................................................................... 8

The KPIs ............................................................................................................................................. 8

Summary .......................................................................................................................................... 50


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THE BI Survey 14 Pyramid Analytics results overview

Dashboard vendor

Top ranked Leading

Collaboration

Performance satisfaction

Self-service

Project success

Price-to-value perception

Competitive win rate

Chosen as standard

Recommendation

Data discovery/visualization

Operational BI

Innovation

Query performance

Performance

Product satisfaction

Vendor support

Customer satisfaction

Agility

Ease of use

OLAP analysis vendor

Top ranked Leading

Chosen as standard

Recommendation

Collaboration

Data discovery/visualization

Operational BI




Self-service

Ease of use

Project success

Proportion of employees

Big data analytics


Mobile BI

Innovation

Query performance

Performance

Vendor support

Project length

Agility


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Visual discovery vendor

Top ranked Leading

Price-to-value perception

Data volume

Chosen as standard

Collaboration

Operational BI

Query performance

Performance


Vendor support


Self-service

Agility

Project success

Proportion of employees


Recommendation


Ease of use


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Introduction

The BI Survey 14 is based on findings from the world's largest and most comprehensive survey of

business intelligence end-users, conducted earlier this year. In total, 3,224 people responded to The

Survey with 2,348 answering a series of detailed questions about their usage of a named product.

Altogether, 34 products (or groups of products) are analyzed in detail.

The BI Survey 14 examines BI product selection and usage among users in areas including business

benefits, costs, proportion of employees using the product, competitiveness, recommendation,

innovation, performance, customer satisfaction and agility.

We asked several questions that helped us measure the business benefits derived from respondents’

deployments. The combined results were then used as a calibration tool – The Business Benefits

Index (BBI) - which is widely used throughout The Survey to assess the correlation between various

factors and the achievement of benefits.

Pyramid Analytics overview

Pyramid Analytics was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Amsterdam. The privately held

company has about 100 employees. The vendor maintains offices in UK, France and USA. R&D is

based in Israel, while marketing and sales are driven out of the United States.

Pyramid Analytics has adopted a fresh approach to the BI market, with its product initially available for

Microsoft SQL Server and focused on reporting and ad hoc views.

The Pyramid Analytics BI Office Suite, based on Microsoft technology, seeks to bridge the gap

between enterprise and departmental BI tools. It features four business oriented BI tools on a common

platform. The four modules – Publisher for reporting, Dashboards, Data Discovery for ad-hoc OLAP

& tabular analysis, and Predicitive Analytics for predictive modeling and data mining – closely

resemble the Microsoft office products, not only in name but also in their design standards. Pyramid

Analytics offers tools for high-end analytics and data visualization.

While at present, Microsoft SQL Server is the most frequently used data source, the vendor can also

read from multiple data sources and the long-term plan is to support most DB vendors. Some of these

additional data sources include Excel, Access, delimited text files, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, zendesk,

salesforce, Redshift, SQL Server and SQL Azure within front-end enterprise mashups for data

visualization.

Pyramid Analytics’ customers choose the vendor’s product for its self-service capabilities, as it

supports drag-and-drop analytics queries across its modules. By extension, it is also considered the

top vendor among customers for ease of use. The vendor also leads other vendors in terms of

delivering customer satisfaction and collaborative capabilities. Customers employ Pyramid Analytics

for visual discovery, dashboarding and OLAP.

Pyramid Analytics customer responses

This is the second year that Pyramid Analytics features in The BI Survey. It appears this year with a

sample of 46 users.

Ninety-one percent of participants said they are using Pyramid Analytics version 5, and 9 percent are

using version 4.


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User and use case demographics

Product usage (n= 46)

Company size (number of employees) (n=46)

Percentage of employees

using Pyramid Analytics

Pyramid Analytics 14%

Average of all products

15%

Number of users using

Pyramid Analytics

Median 50

Mean 163

87%

72%

70%

67%

67%

57%

33%

20%

20%

17%

15%

13%

17%

20%

24%

22%

28%

46%

39%

33%

43%

70%

Dashboards

Standard/Enterprise reporting

OLAP analysis

Ad hoc query

Visual analysis/Data discovery

Operational analytics

Scorecards

Budgeting/Planning

Financial consolidation

Big data analytics

Predictive analytics/Data mining

In use Planned

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9%

70%

22%

Less than 100 100 - 2500 More than2500


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Type of license model used (n=44)

Proportion of casual and power users (n=46))

Most Pyramid deployments are in the mid-market. Overall, enterprises using Pyramid Analytics report

relatively small numbers of users, which reflects the relative sophistication of the tools and analytic

capabilities.

Pyramid Analytics is used for a range of functions – including dashboarding, enterprise reporting,

OLAP, ad hoc queries and visual analysis. Customers also intend to start employing Pyramid

Analytics for a range of more sophisticated functions in the near future as well – including predictive

analytics and data mining, as well as scorecarding and big data analysis.

Relative to other vendors covered in this survey, there is a higher level of cloud adoption of Pyramid

Analytics cited by 5 percent.

64%

25%

7%

5%

0%

Purchased licensesup-front

Part of a bundle

Yearly software fee(on-premise)

Yearly software fee(cloud solution)

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75%

25%

Power user

Casual user


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Peer Groups

The BI Survey features a range of different types of BI tools so we use peer groups to ensure similar

products are compared against each other. The groups are essential to allow fair and useful

comparisons of products that are likely to compete.

The peer groups are primarily data-driven and based on how customers say they use the product.

Pyramid Analytics features in the following peer groups:

- Dashboard

- OLAP analysis

- Visual discovery

The KPIs

The BI Survey 14 provides the reader with well-designed KPI dashboards packed with concise

information, which can be absorbed at a glance. The KPIs all follow these simple rules:

- Only measures that have a clear good/bad trend are used as the basis for KPIs

- KPIs may be based on one or more measures from The BI Survey

- Only products with samples of at least 20 - 30 (depending on the KPI) for each of the

questions that feeds into the KPI are included

- Each KPI is normalized so that the overall sample always has a value of 1.0

- The KPIs are calculated so that better-than-average products always have scores of

greater than 1.0, while less good products score less than 1.0. When viewing the peer

group KPI charts, note that the average for each peer group will usually be either higher or

lower than 1.0 because the peer groups are all subsets of the overall sample.

The products are sorted by value: the better the product the higher the value. The average is

displayed as a green bar and separates the products into two groups, those that performed better than

average and those that performed worse than aver-age.

For more details on the KPIs, see our ‘KPIs and Dashboards’ document.


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Leading dashboard vendor in project success

Based on the implementation satisfaction level and the frequency of projects completed on time and

on budget

1.19

1.10

1.10

1.10

1.08

1.05

1.04

1.04

1.03

1.03

1.02

1.02

0.96

0.95

0.83

0.79

Dimensional Insight (1)

Information Builders (2)

Tableau (3)

Pyramid Analytics (4)

arcplan (5)

Qlik (6)

BOARD (7)

Yellowfin (8)

Entrinsik (9)

Dundas (10)

Average

Evidanza (11)

MicroStrategy (12)

Tibco (13)

IBM Cognos BI (14)

Oracle BI Found. Suite (15)

Average dashboard peer group



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Leading OLAP analysis vendor in project success


on budget

1.14

1.11

1.11

1.10

1.08

1.06

1.06

1.05

1.04

1.03

1.02

1.01

0.99

0.98

0.96

0.91

0.90

0.83

0.81

prevero (1)

Bissantz (2)

Jedox (3)


Oracle Essbase (5)

Cubeware (6)

TARGIT (7)

cubus (8)

BOARD (9)

Infor (10)

Evidanza (11)

Average

IBM Cognos TM1 (12)

Microsoft SSAS (13)

MicroStrategy (14)

MS Excel & Power products (15)

Pentaho (16)

IBM Cognos BI (17)

SAP BW (18)

Average OLAP analysis peer group



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Leading visual discovery vendor in project success


on budget

Pyramid Analytics customers report above-average degrees of project success – a measure based on

implementation satisfaction level and the frequency of projects completed on time and on budget.

Pyramid Analytics’ high levels of end-to-end functionality seen across its four product modules –

including ad hoc querying, data discovery and data visualizations; dashboards, scorecards for KPIs

and performance management; predictive modeling and data mining – provide one-stop analysis

capabilities all within a single suite.

1.12

1.10

1.10

1.06

1.06

1.05

1.02

0.95

Phocas (1)

Tableau (2)


Average

TARGIT (4)

Qlik (5)

Cyberscience (6)

Tibco (7)

Average visual discovery peer group



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Leading dashboard vendor in price-to-value perception

Based on how many users buy their BI tool for its price-performance ratio

Top ranked visual discovery vendor in price-to-value perception

Based on how many users buy their BI tool for its price-performance ratio

With so much functionality packed into Pyramid Analytics’ suite, it’s no surprise that customers see the

product set offering very good price per value.

1.85

1.53

1.44

1.36

1.19

1.04

0.94

0.86

0.86

0.76

0.73

0.61

0.57

0.52

0.51

0.26

Yellowfin (1)

Entrinsik (2)

Dundas (3)


Tableau (5)

BOARD (6)

Average

arcplan (7)

Evidanza (8)

Qlik (9)


IBM Cognos BI (11)


MicroStrategy (13)


Tibco (15)



1.36

1.19

1.15

0.88

0.81

0.76

0.66

0.26


Tableau (2)

Phocas (3)

Average

TARGIT (4)

Qlik (5)

Cyberscience (6)

Tibco (7)




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Leading OLAP analysis vendor in proportion of employees

Based on the percentage of employees that use the product

Leading visual discovery vendor in proportion of employees

Based on the percentage of employees that use the product

A true sign of successful adoption for a BI and analytics tool is its degree of adoption across the

enterprise. The availability of capabilities to help decision-makers at all levels – from the CEO to the

call center representatives – is key to BI and analytics strategies. Pyramid Analytics – with its multi-

layered capabilities – is rated highly by its customers for this accessibility.

3.75

1.34

1.16

1.13

1.13

1.13

1.06

1.05

1.03

1.00

0.90

0.90

0.78

0.75

0.75

0.63

0.60

0.60

0.43


TARGIT (2)


Evidanza (4)

IBM Cognos BI (4)

prevero (4)

Average

Microsoft SSAS (7)

SAP BW (8)

BOARD (9)

Bissantz (10)

MicroStrategy (10)

Cubeware (12)

Jedox (13)

Oracle Essbase (13)

cubus (15)

Infor (16)

Pentaho (16)

IBM Cognos TM1 (18)



2.40

1.34

1.16

1.06

1.00

0.61

0.50

0.42

Phocas (1)

TARGIT (2)


Average

Qlik (4)

Cyberscience (5)

Tableau (6)

Tibco (7)




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Top ranked visual discovery vendor in data volume

Based on the median volume of data in databases used with the BI tool

Visual discovery tools need to be able to access large data sets to provide an accurate picture of

trends impacting enterprises. Pyramid Analytics is the clear leader in this category, comfortably

outpacing its nearest rival in terms of customer ratings.

1.47

1.03

0.96

0.74

0.57

0.56

0.45

0.12


Tableau (2)

Tibco (3)

Average

TARGIT (4)

Qlik (5)

Cyberscience (6)

Phocas (7)




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Leading OLAP analysis vendor in big data analytics

Based on how many sites currently use big data analytics with their BI tool

Just as Pyramid Analytics’ visual discovery capabilities are highly rated in terms of supporting large

data sets, its OLAP component is seen as a critical tool for big data analysis.

2.13

1.62

1.31

1.22

1.17

1.08

0.99

0.94

0.89

0.84

0.72

0.68

0.57

0.56

0.55

0.54

0.49

0.45

0.21

TARGIT (1)

prevero (2)

Bissantz (3)


BOARD (5)


Infor (7)

Cubeware (8)

Average

IBM Cognos TM1 (9)

MicroStrategy (10)

Evidanza (11)

cubus (12)

Microsoft SSAS (13)

SAP BW (14)

IBM Cognos BI (15)

Oracle Essbase (16)

Jedox (17)

Pentaho (18)




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Leading dashboard vendor in competitive win rate

Based on the percentage of wins in competitive evaluations

Leading OLAP analysis vendor in competitive win rate


1.45

1.36

1.31

1.26

1.02

0.97

0.88

0.85

0.83

0.79

0.79

0.78

0.77

0.76

0.73


arcplan (2)


Dundas (4)


Average

Yellowfin (6)

MicroStrategy (7)

Tibco (8)

Evidanza (9)

Qlik (10)

BOARD (11)


IBM Cognos BI (13)

Tableau (14)



1.53

1.31

1.28

1.27

1.23

1.21

1.15

1.11

0.99

0.99

0.94

0.85

0.80

0.79

0.78

0.76

0.71

0.70

0.45

cubus (1)


Microsoft SSAS (3)

prevero (4)


Bissantz (6)

TARGIT (7)

SAP BW (8)

Average

Infor (9)

Oracle Essbase (10)

MicroStrategy (11)

IBM Cognos TM1 (12)

Evidanza (13)

BOARD (14)

IBM Cognos BI (15)

Jedox (16)

Cubeware (17)

Pentaho (18)




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Leading visual discovery vendor in competitive win rate


Pyramid Analytics comes out on top in customers’ competitive evaluation across a wide breadth of

categories, including dashboards, OLAP tools, and data discovery tools. User oriented and sporting a

fresh design, the product has been implemented well, especially its OLAP analysis which has been

well received. Users feel at home with the tool. This has contributed to its excellent win rate.

1.58

1.31

1.15

1.06

0.83

0.79

0.73

Phocas (1)


TARGIT (3)

Average

Tibco (4)

Qlik (5)

Tableau (6)




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Leading dashboard vendor in chosen as standard

How often the product is chosen to standardize on by respondents at multi-product sites

Top ranked OLAP analysis vendor in chosen as standard


1.18

1.17

1.14

1.09

1.06

1.05

1.04

1.03

1.02

0.99

0.99

0.96

0.96

0.96

0.83

0.82

Entrinsik (1)


Evidanza (3)

Yellowfin (4)

IBM Cognos BI (5)

BOARD (6)



Average

MicroStrategy (9)


arcplan (11)

Qlik (12)

Tableau (13)

Tibco (14)

Dundas (15)



1.17

1.14

1.10

1.10

1.09

1.06

1.05

1.03

1.03

1.01

1.01

0.99

0.99

0.98

0.95

0.94

0.91

0.69

0.61


Evidanza (2)

SAP BW (3)

IBM Cognos TM1 (4)

Oracle Essbase (5)

IBM Cognos BI (6)

BOARD (7)

TARGIT (8)

Microsoft SSAS (9)

Cubeware (10)

Bissantz (11)

MicroStrategy (12)

Average

cubus (13)


Infor (15)

Jedox (16)

prevero (17)

Pentaho (18)




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Top ranked visual discovery vendor in chosen as standard


Just as Pyramid Analytics is seen by its customers as a strong competitor across several categories, it

also is highly regarded as setting standards across customers’ enterprises. Pyramid Analytics’ primary

customer base is among mid-size companies, a segment it clearly dominates – even being the

preferred choice over larger BI and analytics vendors, the study shows. Its visual discovery

component is especially strong.

1.17

1.12

1.04

1.03

1.02

0.96

0.96

0.83


Phocas (2)

Cyberscience (3)

TARGIT (4)

Average

Qlik (5)

Tableau (6)

Tibco (7)




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Leading dashboard vendor in recommendation

Based on how many users would recommend the product to others

Top ranked OLAP analysis vendor in recommendation


1.62

1.42

1.41

1.38

1.37

1.37

1.28

1.13

1.12

1.08

1.03

1.01

0.98

0.86

0.47

0.40


Entrinsik (2)

Tableau (3)

Yellowfin (4)


Qlik (6)


BOARD (8)

Average

Evidanza (9)

arcplan (10)

Tibco (11)

Dundas (12)

MicroStrategy (13)

IBM Cognos BI (14)




1.37

1.21

1.20

1.19

1.17

1.13

1.08

1.08

1.08

0.93

0.93

0.90

0.86

0.84

0.77

0.60

0.56

0.47

0.32


Microsoft SSAS (2)

cubus (3)

Bissantz (4)

Jedox (5)

BOARD (6)

Oracle Essbase (7)

Evidanza (8)

prevero (9)

Average

IBM Cognos TM1 (10)

TARGIT (11)

MicroStrategy (12)


Cubeware (14)

Pentaho (15)

Infor (16)

IBM Cognos BI (17)

SAP BW (18)




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Leading visual discovery vendor in recommendation


Word of mouth is the most powerful medium for advertising and sales, and Pyramid Analytics does

well in this regard. The vendor has gained a great deal of respect and confidence from its customers.

The vendor’s products are more likely than average to be recommended to peers and colleagues. In

particular, the vendor’s OLAP capabilities are more likely to be recommended to others by its

customers – even more so than Microsoft itself.

1.57

1.41

1.37

1.37

1.25

1.14

1.01

0.90

Phocas (1)

Tableau (2)


Qlik (4)

Average

Cyberscience (5)

Tibco (6)

TARGIT (7)




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Top ranked dashboard vendor in collaboration

Based on how many sites currently use collaboration features with their BI tool

Top ranked OLAP analysis vendor in collaboration


1.76

1.74

1.74

1.73

1.51

1.33

1.23

1.19

1.17

1.08

0.95

0.90

0.80

0.65

0.63

0.37


Tableau (2)

Evidanza (3)

Yellowfin (4)

Entrinsik (5)

Dundas (6)

Tibco (7)

Qlik (8)

Average

BOARD (9)

arcplan (10)


MicroStrategy (12)


IBM Cognos BI (14)




1.76

1.74

1.63

1.52

1.46

1.22

1.10

1.09

1.08

1.06

1.01

0.95

0.82

0.80

0.74

0.63

0.62

0.58

0.30


Evidanza (2)

TARGIT (3)

IBM Cognos TM1 (4)

cubus (5)


Oracle Essbase (7)

prevero (8)

BOARD (9)

Average

Bissantz (10)

Microsoft SSAS (11)

Jedox (12)

MicroStrategy (13)

Infor (14)

IBM Cognos BI (15)

Cubeware (16)

SAP BW (17)

Pentaho (18)




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Top ranked visual discovery vendor in collaboration


Pyramid Analytics adds collaboration features to its Microsoft Office-like environment, and this results

in the top ranking across all its key functional areas. Collaborative abilities are essential with today’s

complex systems and business requirements, and many enterprises see a need for much of their

critical work to be performed by dynamic teams. Thus, collaboration has become a sought-after

feature in the BI market.

1.76

1.74

1.63

1.44

1.42

1.23

1.19

1.11


Tableau (2)

TARGIT (3)

Average

Cyberscience (4)

Tibco (5)

Qlik (6)

Phocas (7)




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Leading dashboard vendor in data discovery/visualization

Based on how many sites currently use data discovery/visualization with their BI tool

Top ranked OLAP analysis vendor in data discovery/visualization

Based on how many sites currently use data discovery/visualization with their BI tool

1.99

1.68

1.62

1.58

1.58

1.54

1.32

1.21

1.18

0.97

0.95

0.84

0.83

0.76

0.73

0.57

Tableau (1)

Tibco (2)

Qlik (3)


Dundas (5)

Yellowfin (6)


Average

Entrinsik (8)

BOARD (9)

arcplan (10)


MicroStrategy (12)

Evidanza (13)

IBM Cognos BI (14)




1.58

1.56

1.08

1.04

0.98

0.97

0.94

0.92

0.87

0.83

0.76

0.74

0.73

0.66

0.60

0.57

0.57

0.56

0.51


TARGIT (2)

Bissantz (3)

Microsoft SSAS (4)

cubus (5)

BOARD (6)

Pentaho (7)


Average

MicroStrategy (9)

Evidanza (10)

prevero (11)

IBM Cognos BI (12)

Jedox (13)

Oracle Essbase (14)

SAP BW (15)

Cubeware (16)

IBM Cognos TM1 (17)

Infor (18)




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Data discovery and visualization capabilities enable decision makers to quickly digest insights on

trends through highly visual representations. Pyramid Analytics maintains excellent ratings for its

ability to support data discovery and visualization, including a top ranking in the OLAP Analysis

vendors peer group. As data grows increasingly complex, many decision makers find they can more

readily see insights and detect outliers if they are plotted in visual charts and graphs, versus being

buried in data tables.


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Leading OLAP analysis vendor in mobile BI

Based on how many sites currently use mobile BI with their BI tool

Mobile BI and analytics is an area in which Pyramid Analytics’ customers see potential for the vendor’s

OLAP tool. Mobility is built into the BI Office architecture, which supports an HTML5 web-based

interface, and includes native mobile apps on iOS, Android, and WinRT and Windows 8.1 devices.

2.25

1.55

1.35

1.23

1.10

1.00

0.87

0.86

0.83

0.82

0.80

0.57

0.57

0.40

0.40

0.26

0.17

0.15

0.00

MicroStrategy (1)

TARGIT (2)


Bissantz (4)

Evidanza (5)

IBM Cognos BI (6)


Microsoft SSAS (8)

SAP BW (9)

Jedox (10)

Average

Cubeware (11)

Infor (12)

BOARD (13)

IBM Cognos TM1 (13)

Oracle Essbase (15)

Pentaho (16)

cubus (17)

prevero (18)




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Leading dashboard vendor in operational BI

Based on how many sites currently use operational BI with their BI tool

Top ranked OLAP analysis vendor in operational BI


1.31

1.29

1.28

1.21

1.21

1.19

1.16

1.08

1.06

1.06

1.04

1.04

0.86

0.86

0.71

0.64




Evidanza (4)

Qlik (5)

Yellowfin (6)

MicroStrategy (7)

Tableau (8)

Average

IBM Cognos BI (9)

BOARD (10)

Entrinsik (11)

arcplan (12)


Dundas (14)

Tibco (15)



1.28

1.25

1.21

1.21

1.16

1.06

1.04

0.98

0.97

0.96

0.95

0.94

0.92

0.84

0.82

0.79

0.76

0.69

0.68


TARGIT (2)

Evidanza (3)

Microsoft SSAS (4)

MicroStrategy (5)

IBM Cognos BI (6)

BOARD (7)

IBM Cognos TM1 (8)

Average

Oracle Essbase (9)

Pentaho (10)

Bissantz (11)

cubus (12)

Jedox (13)

SAP BW (14)


prevero (16)

Cubeware (17)

Infor (18)




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Top ranked visual discovery vendor in operational BI


Pyramid Analytics’ sweet spot is operational BI – in which insights are derived from data coming

directly out of production systems. The vendor is considered a leader in this area by its customers,

and is well-positioned to help customers identify and implement solutions that blend archived

analytical data within operational data to be able to gain situational awareness of opportunities or

issues impacting their businesses.

1.28

1.25

1.21

1.16

1.08

1.05

0.75

0.64


TARGIT (2)

Qlik (3)

Cyberscience (4)

Tableau (5)

Average

Phocas (6)

Tibco (7)




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Leading dashboard vendor in innovation

Combines the ‘Cloud BI’, ‘Collaboration’, 'Data discovery/visualization', ‘Mobile BI’, 'Operational BI' and

‘Visual design standards’ KPIs to measure the product’s level of innovation

Leading OLAP analysis vendor in innovation

Combines the ‘Cloud BI’, ‘Collaboration’, 'Data discovery/visualization', ‘Mobile BI’, 'Operational BI' and

‘Visual design standards’ KPIs to measure the product’s level of innovation

1.98

1.61

1.30

1.26

1.24

1.13

1.13

1.11

1.10

1.10

1.07

0.98

0.88

0.74

0.74

0.66

Yellowfin (1)

Tableau (2)

Qlik (3)

Evidanza (4)


Dundas (6)

Average

arcplan (7)

Tibco (8)


MicroStrategy (10)

Entrinsik (11)

BOARD (12)


IBM Cognos BI (14)




1.34

1.26

1.24

1.24

1.11

1.07

0.95

0.94

0.89

0.88

0.88

0.87

0.84

0.83

0.79

0.75

0.74

0.72

0.65

Bissantz (1)

Evidanza (2)

TARGIT (3)



MicroStrategy (6)

Average

cubus (7)

Jedox (8)

Infor (9)

BOARD (10)

Microsoft SSAS (11)

prevero (12)

Cubeware (13)

IBM Cognos TM1 (14)

SAP BW (15)

IBM Cognos BI (16)

Oracle Essbase (17)

Pentaho (18)




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Innovation is a key advantage being sought by all types of organizations seeking to compete in today’s

global economy. BI and analytics are an essential technology in this regard, as much innovation will

be driven by data insights and predictive capabilities. Vendors need to be just as innovative with their

product offerings. Pyramid Analytics scores well in terms of delivering innovation defined in this survey

by the combined KPIs of ‘Cloud BI’, ‘Collaboration’, 'Data discovery/visualization', ‘Mobile BI’,

'Operational BI' and ‘Visual design standards’.


Page 31

Leading dashboard vendor in query performance

How quickly queries respond, adjusted by data volume

Leading OLAP analysis vendor in query performance


1.81

1.38

1.27

1.26

1.25

1.21

1.11

1.09

1.09

1.03

0.97

0.95

0.91

0.91

0.83

0.38





Qlik (5)

Evidanza (6)

Tableau (7)

Average

arcplan (8)

Tibco (9)

BOARD (10)

MicroStrategy (11)

Dundas (12)

Yellowfin (13)

IBM Cognos BI (14)

Entrinsik (15)



1.37

1.33

1.27

1.23

1.21

1.13

1.10

1.06

0.99

0.97

0.95

0.89

0.83

0.83

0.81

0.79

0.71

0.66

0.59

Jedox (1)

Oracle Essbase (2)


IBM Cognos TM1 (4)

Evidanza (5)

Bissantz (6)

cubus (7)

Microsoft SSAS (8)

Average

BOARD (9)

MicroStrategy (10)

Infor (11)

IBM Cognos BI (12)

SAP BW (13)

Cubeware (14)

TARGIT (15)


prevero (17)

Pentaho (18)




Page 32

Top ranked visual discovery vendor in query performance


As data sets grow larger, and user demands rise, query performance becomes more than a luxury – it

is essential to keep systems from slowing to intolerable levels. Pyramid Analytics’ advantage is that it

sits on top of Microsoft SQL Server. As we’ve seen with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, it

performs well. Focusing on one database technology, in this case from Microsoft, definitely helps

query performance because the environment can be optimized.

1.27

1.25

1.11

1.07

1.04

1.03

0.79

0.73


Qlik (2)

Tableau (3)

Phocas (4)

Average

Tibco (5)

TARGIT (6)

Cyberscience (7)




Page 33

Top ranked dashboard vendor in performance satisfaction

Measures the frequency of complaints about the system’s performance

Top ranked OLAP analysis vendor in performance satisfaction


1.14

1.12

1.11

1.09

1.09

1.08

1.06

1.06

1.05

1.05

1.03

0.95

0.94

0.93

0.90

0.82


Qlik (2)


Yellowfin (4)

Tableau (5)


BOARD (7)

Evidanza (8)

MicroStrategy (9)

arcplan (10)

Average


Tibco (12)

Entrinsik (13)

Dundas (14)

IBM Cognos BI (15)



1.14

1.11

1.10

1.09

1.08

1.08

1.06

1.06

1.05

1.02

0.99

0.98

0.98

0.93

0.92

0.83

0.82

0.75

0.57


Oracle Essbase (2)

IBM Cognos TM1 (3)

cubus (4)

Jedox (5)

Bissantz (6)

BOARD (7)

Evidanza (8)

MicroStrategy (9)

Infor (10)

Microsoft SSAS (11)


Average

Cubeware (13)

TARGIT (14)

prevero (15)

IBM Cognos BI (16)

Pentaho (17)

SAP BW (18)




Page 34

Leading visual discovery vendor in performance satisfaction


On average, fewer customers have complaints about Pyramid Analytics Office BI Suite than

customers of other vendors. The system employs the best of Microsoft tools, and has tightly integrated

modules that ensure more seamless BI and analytics activities.

1.14

1.14

1.12

1.09

1.09

1.06

0.94

0.92

Phocas (1)


Qlik (3)

Tableau (4)

Cyberscience (5)

Average

Tibco (6)

TARGIT (7)




Page 35

Leading dashboard vendor in performance

A combination of the ‘Query performance’ and ‘Performance satisfaction’ KPIs

Leading OLAP analysis vendor in performance


1.44

1.25

1.21

1.18

1.13

1.10

1.10

1.07

1.06

1.02

1.00

1.00

0.99

0.91

0.83

0.66




Qlik (4)

Evidanza (5)

Tableau (6)


arcplan (8)

Average

BOARD (9)

Yellowfin (10)

MicroStrategy (11)

Tibco (12)

Dundas (13)

IBM Cognos BI (14)

Entrinsik (15)



1.23

1.22

1.21

1.16

1.13

1.10

1.10

1.02

1.02

1.00

0.98

0.96

0.87

0.86

0.84

0.83

0.74

0.70

0.67

Jedox (1)

Oracle Essbase (2)


IBM Cognos TM1 (4)

Evidanza (5)

Bissantz (6)

cubus (7)

Microsoft SSAS (8)

BOARD (9)

MicroStrategy (10)

Average

Infor (11)

Cubeware (12)

TARGIT (13)


IBM Cognos BI (15)

prevero (16)

SAP BW (17)

Pentaho (18)




Page 36

Top ranked visual discovery vendor in performance


Pyramid Analytics gets high marks in this year’s survey in terms of overall performance, a composite

score based on a combination of the ‘Query performance’ and ‘Performance satisfaction’ KPIs. Its

visual discovery capabilities – which already are highly rated across a number of categories – are

seen as high value from this perspective.

1.21

1.18

1.11

1.10

1.05

0.99

0.91

0.86


Qlik (2)

Phocas (3)

Tableau (4)

Average

Tibco (5)

Cyberscience (6)

TARGIT (7)




Page 37

Leading dashboard vendor in product satisfaction

Based on the frequency of problems encountered with the product

Top ranked OLAP analysis vendor in product satisfaction


3.99

2.49

1.75

1.62

1.62

1.47

1.41

1.33

1.28

1.22

1.16

1.12

0.90

0.88

0.64

0.62



Qlik (3)

Evidanza (4)

arcplan (5)

Average


Entrinsik (7)

Tableau (8)

Yellowfin (9)

MicroStrategy (10)

BOARD (11)

Dundas (12)

Tibco (13)


IBM Cognos BI (15)



2.49

2.13

1.70

1.62

1.41

1.39

1.29

1.23

1.22

1.19

1.16

1.12

1.05

1.03

0.85

0.65

0.62

0.59

0.43


Bissantz (2)

Oracle Essbase (3)

Evidanza (4)

Infor (5)

IBM Cognos TM1 (6)

cubus (7)

prevero (8)

Average

Jedox (9)

MicroStrategy (10)

BOARD (11)

Cubeware (12)

Microsoft SSAS (13)

TARGIT (14)

Pentaho (15)

IBM Cognos BI (16)


SAP BW (18)




Page 38

Top ranked visual discovery vendor in product satisfaction


In today’s highly competitive market, product and service quality are critical to maintaining customer

loyalty. For many years in the BI and analytics space, customers have been able to endure

shortcomings and bugs mainly because of the relatively small handful of analysts and executives

using the tools. This can no longer be sustained as BI and analytics tools become ingrained into the

work of employees across the board. For this reason, Pyramid Analytics is well-positioned for the

coming shift in BI, with an impressive amount of customer good will toward its product set.

2.49

2.11

1.75

1.55

1.47

1.28

0.88

0.85


Phocas (2)

Qlik (3)

Average

Cyberscience (4)

Tableau (5)

Tibco (6)

TARGIT (7)




Page 39

Top ranked visual discovery vendor in vendor support

Measures user satisfaction with the level of vendor support provided for the product

Leading dashboard vendor in vendor support


1.43

1.33

1.30

1.19

1.16

1.05

0.92

0.86


Cyberscience (2)

Phocas (3)

Tableau (4)

Average

Qlik (5)

TARGIT (6)

Tibco (7)



1.53

1.46

1.43

1.39

1.33

1.29

1.26

1.23

1.19

1.14

1.05

1.03

0.96

0.86

0.64

0.38


Yellowfin (2)


Dundas (4)

Entrinsik (5)


arcplan (7)

BOARD (8)

Tableau (9)

Average

Qlik (10)

MicroStrategy (11)

Evidanza (12)

Tibco (13)

IBM Cognos BI (14)





Page 40

Leading OLAP analysis vendor in vendor support


Pyramid Analytics scores impressively well in terms of vendor support to its customers, and after-sales

service is top-ranked in the Visual Discovery vendors peer group. This is quite an achievement for a

new entrant to the market which has caught up with its competition to offer a high standard of support.

1.45

1.43

1.42

1.36

1.23

1.17

1.04

1.03

1.02

1.02

1.01

0.96

0.92

0.79

0.76

0.65

0.64

0.64

0.57

cubus (1)


Bissantz (3)

prevero (4)

BOARD (5)

Jedox (6)

Infor (7)

MicroStrategy (8)

Cubeware (9)

Pentaho (10)

Average

Evidanza (11)

TARGIT (12)

IBM Cognos TM1 (13)

Microsoft SSAS (14)

Oracle Essbase (15)

IBM Cognos BI (16)


SAP BW (18)




Page 41

Leading dashboard vendor in customer satisfaction

Combines the ‘Product satisfaction’, ‘Vendor support’ and ‘Implementer support’ KPIs

Top ranked OLAP analysis vendor in customer satisfaction


2.28

1.64

1.34

1.30

1.28

1.27

1.25

1.20

1.20

1.19

1.10

1.09

0.99

0.86

0.65

0.54



arcplan (3)

Entrinsik (4)

Yellowfin (5)

Qlik (6)


Evidanza (8)

Average

BOARD (9)

Dundas (10)

Tableau (11)

MicroStrategy (12)

Tibco (13)

IBM Cognos BI (14)




1.64

1.60

1.31

1.31

1.20

1.19

1.16

1.14

1.12

1.10

1.08

1.03

1.02

0.99

0.93

0.77

0.65

0.65

0.62


Bissantz (2)

prevero (3)

cubus (4)

Evidanza (5)

BOARD (6)

Jedox (7)

Infor (8)

Oracle Essbase (9)

IBM Cognos TM1 (10)

Average

Cubeware (11)

TARGIT (12)

MicroStrategy (13)

Microsoft SSAS (14)

Pentaho (15)


IBM Cognos BI (17)

SAP BW (18)




Page 42

Top ranked visual discovery vendor in customer satisfaction


Far more than any other category, customer satisfaction is the most important outcome for any

business within any industry. In the crowded BI and analytics market, customers have a lot of choices,

so BI and analytics vendors need to pay more attention to customer satisfaction than their

counterparts in other parts of the software world. In The BI Survey, customer satisfaction is a measure

based on a composite of the ‘Product satisfaction’, ‘Vendor support’ and ‘Implementer support’ KPIs –

and Pyramid Analytics takes the top spots across all three of its product classifications. The vendor’s

commitment to working closely with each customer, and constantly seeking new ways to more tightly

integrate its software suite, has placed the vendor in good stead with its customers.

1.64

1.57

1.34

1.27

1.26

1.09

1.02

0.86


Phocas (2)

Cyberscience (3)

Qlik (4)

Average

Tableau (5)

TARGIT (6)

Tibco (7)




Page 43

Leading OLAP analysis vendor in project length

Based on how quickly the product is implemented

Project complications are the bane of any enterprise and, unfortunately, a commonplace occurrence

within the BI and analytics space. Data sources need to be identified and made available, users need

to be trained, and administrators need to be trained to deliver the right kind of reporting. Pyramid

Analytics is clearly targeted towards the end user. Its newly developed platform sits behind business

user-oriented models. This result shows it’s possible to set up the product quite quickly. Users aren’t

hampered by long training periods. The result is an agile solution.

1.41

1.39

1.30

1.22

1.22

1.06

1.02

0.96

0.94

0.87

0.77

0.71

0.67

0.56

0.55

0.53

0.52

0.43

0.42

Jedox (1)

MicroStrategy (2)


cubus (4)


Bissantz (6)

TARGIT (7)

IBM Cognos BI (8)

Infor (9)

Average

Oracle Essbase (10)

BOARD (11)

Evidanza (12)

Cubeware (13)

IBM Cognos TM1 (14)

Microsoft SSAS (15)

SAP BW (16)

prevero (17)

Pentaho (18)




Page 44

Top ranked dashboard vendor in self-service

Based on how many sites currently use self-service features with their BI tool

Top ranked OLAP analysis vendor in self-service


1.33

1.32

1.26

1.25

1.15

1.14

1.10

1.06

1.06

1.06

1.01

1.00

0.99

0.93

0.65

0.62




IBM Cognos BI (4)

Yellowfin (5)

Entrinsik (6)

Evidanza (7)

MicroStrategy (8)

Average


BOARD (10)

Qlik (11)

Tableau (12)

Tibco (13)

arcplan (14)

Dundas (15)



1.33

1.25

1.25

1.21

1.16

1.12

1.11

1.10

1.09

1.08

1.06

1.06

1.01

0.97

0.91

0.87

0.85

0.84

0.81


Jedox (2)

IBM Cognos BI (3)

Microsoft SSAS (4)

IBM Cognos TM1 (5)

cubus (6)

Cubeware (7)

Evidanza (8)

TARGIT (9)

Bissantz (10)

MicroStrategy (11)

Average

BOARD (12)

Infor (13)


prevero (15)

Pentaho (16)

Oracle Essbase (17)

SAP BW (18)




Page 45

Top ranked visual discovery vendor in self-service


Pyramid Analytics takes the first-place ranking among all vendors for its self-service capabilities.

Within its tightly integrated environment, Pyramid Analytics’ single platform enables analytics views to

be created and inserted into dashboards or reports by dragging and dropping. Dashboards are made

interactive by simply drawing arrows between data assets. The Universal Data Mash-up and

Connector tool (‘Mash-Pit’) enables users to take data from any data source (Big Data and small data)

and rapidly build data models. The BI Office Mash-Pit wizard enables non-technical end users to

“mash-up” one or more data sources through a point-and-click, web-driven wizard.

1.33

1.09

1.01

1.00

0.99

0.95

0.93

0.82


TARGIT (2)

Average

Qlik (3)

Tableau (4)

Cyberscience (5)

Tibco (6)

Phocas (7)




Page 46

Top ranked visual discovery vendor in agility

Combines the ‘Project length’, ‘Self-service’ and 'Flexibility for users' KPIs

Leading dashboard vendor in agility


1.19

1.17

1.14

1.13

1.09

1.06

1.03

0.94


Phocas (2)

Qlik (3)

Tableau (4)

Average

Cyberscience (5)

Tibco (6)

TARGIT (7)



1.21

1.19

1.19

1.17

1.17

1.14

1.13

1.10

1.05

1.03

1.02

0.98

0.97

0.95

0.82

0.70




Entrinsik (4)

Yellowfin (5)

Qlik (6)

Tableau (7)

MicroStrategy (8)

Average

Tibco (9)

BOARD (10)

Evidanza (11)

IBM Cognos BI (12)

Dundas (13)

arcplan (14)





Page 47

Leading OLAP analysis vendor in agility


Along with high marks for performance and self-service, Pyramid Analytics is considered a leader in

terms of agility. For purposes of this survey, agility is a composite category based on the ‘Project

length’, ‘Self-service’ and 'Flexibility for users' KPIs.

1.30

1.19

1.19

1.10

1.07

1.06

1.04

1.02

1.00

0.99

0.98

0.97

0.94

0.91

0.87

0.85

0.85

0.85

0.63

Jedox (1)

cubus (2)


MicroStrategy (4)


Bissantz (6)

Infor (7)

BOARD (8)

prevero (9)

Average

Evidanza (10)

IBM Cognos BI (11)

TARGIT (12)

IBM Cognos TM1 (13)

Oracle Essbase (14)

Pentaho (15)

Microsoft SSAS (16)

Cubeware (17)

SAP BW (18)




Page 48

Top ranked OLAP analysis vendor in ease of use

Based on how often the product was chosen for ease of use and the level of complaints about ease of

use post-implementation

Leading visual discovery vendor in ease of use



1.35

1.28

1.18

1.05

1.05

0.99

0.99

0.99

0.97

0.91

0.89

0.86

0.82

0.79

0.72

0.71

0.68

0.68

0.38


BOARD (2)

Jedox (3)

cubus (4)


Oracle Essbase (6)

MicroStrategy (7)

Bissantz (8)

prevero (9)

Average

TARGIT (10)

IBM Cognos TM1 (11)

Cubeware (12)

Infor (13)

IBM Cognos BI (14)

Evidanza (15)

Pentaho (16)

Microsoft SSAS (17)

SAP BW (18)



1.58

1.35

1.25

1.22

1.20

1.17

1.09

0.89

Tableau (1)


Phocas (3)

Average

Qlik (4)

Cyberscience (5)

Tibco (6)

TARGIT (7)




Page 49

Leading dashboard vendor in ease of use



Pyramid Analytics’ BI Office is top-ranked for agility and self-service, so it’s no surprise that the vendor

is among the few that have received the lowest levels of post-implementation complaints about ease

of use.

1.70

1.58

1.44

1.35

1.28

1.23

1.20

1.20

1.19

1.16

1.09

0.99

0.85

0.84

0.72

0.71

Entrinsik (1)

Tableau (2)

Yellowfin (3)


BOARD (5)


Qlik (7)

Dundas (8)

arcplan (9)

Average

Tibco (10)

MicroStrategy (11)



IBM Cognos BI (14)

Evidanza (15)




Page 50

Summary

Pyramid Analytics is a simple-to-use tool that follows Microsoft Office standards. Although it has four

modules, it operates within a tightly integrated platform. Combined with attractive pricing, this is the

reason why investment in the product is favored by customers.

Rating high among customers are the vendor’s support for self-service, as well as its ability to deliver

customer satisfaction and collaborative capabilities. Customers employ Pyramid Analytics for visual

discovery, dashboarding and OLAP.

Sitting on top of Microsoft SQL Server, it performs well. Focusing on one database technology, in this

case from Microsoft, definitely helps query performance because the environment can be optimized.

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