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The BI Survey 17The world‘s largest survey of BI software users

This document is a specially produced summary by BARC of the headline results for

prevero

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Top-ranked in

Business benefits

Flexibility for users

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Leader in

Project success

Business value

Sales experience

Cloud BI

Top-ranked in

Business benefits


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Leader in

Business value

Cloud BI

Top-ranked in

Business benefits


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Business value

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Peer Group

Integrated performance management products

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OLAP analysis-focused products

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EMEA-focusedvendors

1. Once again, prevero achieves good results in BARC’s BI Survey, significantly improving on previous years. Excellent ratings, particularly for ‘Business benefits’ – one of the most important KPIs in the whole survey – and ‘Flexibility for users’, help to consolidate its position as a leading BI and CPM vendor in the DACH region. Companies can benefit greatly from using prevero, especially in terms of faster and more accurate reporting, analysis or planning and improved data quality. With its flexible platform approach, prevero offers good flexibility to address various BI and CPM use cases on one integrated platform. Overall, BI Survey results show that prevero satisfies many of its customers, in particular in the DACH region.

Summary

The BI Survey 17 prevero (prevero) Highlights


Top-rankedin

prevero

Peer GroupEMEA-focused vendors

Businessbenefits

Top-rankedin

Peer GroupOLAP analysis-focused products

Flexibilityfor users

prevero

Top-rankedin

Peer GroupEMEA-focused vendors


prevero

Top-rankedin

Businessbenefits

Peer GroupIntegrated performancemanagement products

prevero

Top-rankedin

Peer GroupOLAP analysis-focused products

Businessbenefits

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Top-rankedin


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The BI Survey 17 prevero (prevero) top ranks

Customer Quotes prevero (prevero) ““„

Sehr gute Lösung für den Mittelstand mit hoher Flexibilität.

Head of business department, services, 100-2.500 employees

“„

Positiv, flexibel, zuverlässig.

Head of business department, manufacturing, >2.500 employees

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Sehr gut!

IT employee, utilities, 100-2.500 employees

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Schlicht und effektiv.

Head of business department, manufacturing, 100-2.500 employees

“„

Gute, langjährig gewachsene Beziehung!

CEO, services, employees not available

“„

Flexibel, hohe Fachkompetenz.

Head of business department, utilities, 100-2.500 employees


In its first appearance in The BI Survey for several years, MIK (now owned by prevero) achieves good results in several important KPIs. The product offering is considered a true self-service package consisting of a graphical development environment, a multidimensional OLAP database and an ETL product. Customers highlight the product’s flexibility, visual display options, closed system architecture and attractive price-performance ratio. Companies can benefit from using MIK (prevero), especially in terms of faster and more accurate reporting, analysis or planning and improved data quality. Overall, BI Survey results show that MIK (prevero) satisfies many of its customers, in particular in the DACH region.

Summary

The BI Survey 17 MIK (prevero) Highlights

Top-ranked in

Self-service

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Leader in

Customer experience

Visual design standards

Visual analysis

Leader in

Self-service


Leader in

Self-service


Customer experience


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EMEA-focusedvendors

Top-rankedin

MIK (prevero)

Self-servicePeer Group

Integrated performancemanagement products

Customer Quotes MIK (prevero) “

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Gute Beratungsunterstützung bei Implementierung und Einführung. Unbürokratische, schnelle Hilfe.

Line of business employee, IT, >2.500 employees

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Schnelle, flexible Software mit ausgereifter OLAP Datenbank und

einfachem, gutem Frontend und diversen Analysemöglichkeiten ohne

Programmierung.

Member of a cross-departmental BI team, financial services, 100-2.500 employees

“

„Sehr positiv. Verhältnismässig

einfache und vor allem schnelle Anwendungsmöglichkeit, standartisierte

Reportings können erstellt werden und vielseitiger Einsatz in unserer Firma.

Line of business employee, services, 100-2.500 employees

“„

Sehr hilfreiches und wichtiges Instrument zur Unterstützung von

Geschäftsentscheidungen.

CIO, manufacturing, <100 employees

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Gutes, anwenderfreundliches Produkt, kompetente Ansprechpartner, guter

schneller Support.

Line of business employee, manufacturing, 100-2.500 employees

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Für unser Haus ist die Anwendung unverzichtbar.

Role, industry, XYZ employees


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Note: No ‘Competitiveness' data for MIK (prevero). Placeholder value used.

Highest Customer Satisfaction

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Highest Competitiveness

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The BI Survey 17 is based on findings from the world‘s largest and most comprehensive survey of business intelligence end users, conducted from February to June 2017. In total, 3,066 people responded to the survey with 2,564 answering a series of detailed questions about their usage of a named product. Altogether, 42 products (or groups of products) are analyzed in detail.

The BI Survey 17 examines user feedback on BI product selection and usage across 29 criteria (KPIs) including business benefits, project success, business value, recommendation, customer satisfaction, customer experience, innovation and competitiveness. There are 29 KPIs in total.

This document contains just a selection of the headline findings for prevero. It does not show all the KPI results and focuses mainly on the positive findings.

For more information on the survey, visit The BI Survey website.

Introductionprevero was originally founded as a consultancy in 1994. The company is based in Munich, Germany, and has a workforce of approximately 200 employees worldwide as well as an international partner network. In recent years, prevero has grown into one of the largest performance management vendors in the DACH region in terms of soft-ware revenues, and claims to have a client base of more than 4,500 companies in over 30 countries. Its growth has been largely organic but was also boosted considerably by the acquisition of software vendors Winterheller in 2011 and MIK in 2015. In July 2016 prevero itself agreed to be acquired by Unit4, a Dutch provider of enterprise applica-tions (e.g. ERP) for service organizations.

prevero’s product portfolio includes the prevero platform technology, which can be used for various BI and perfor-mance management use cases. prevero is positioned as a flexible platform for tailor-made planning and BI solutions. The company also offers a web-based financial consoli-dation solution called prevero Consolidation (OEM Sigma Conso), which is integrated with prevero at database level.

prevero is targeted at business users who build BI and performance management applications with the help of wizards. The tool provides a flexible development en-vironment for building individual applications for planning, reporting and analysis, which is supported by dialog boxes and requires no knowledge of scripting.

For historical reasons, prevero has a strong focus on the utilities sector and it offers pre-built content specifically for this industry. Approximately 20-30 percent of pre-vero’s clients come from this sector. Despite this, prevero positions itself as industry-neutral and now wins more new clients outside the utilities sector. An additional predefined industry model is available for airports, and prevero also offers predefined business applications for areas such as project portfolio management, strategic controlling and risk management.

MIK (prevero) has a long history as a BI vendor in the DACH region and has had a presence in the market for over 30 years now. MIK (prevero) claims to have a client base of more than 20,000 users and 200 customers, primarily located in the DACH region. The vendor’s pro-duct portfolio includes the BI suite prevero.STARLIGHT, prevero.ARJUNA (the suite’s proprietary 64-bit multidimen-sional OLAP database) and prevero.ETL (data integration in prevero.ARJUNA or relational databases).

MIK (prevero)’s BI suite is based on a 3-tier architecture including database, application server and clients. The vendor’s proprietary multidimensional OLAP database pre-vero.ARJUNA, a Microsoft .NET development, is included for data storage. prevero.STARLIGHT provides two diffe-rent clients for end users: A Microsoft Silverlight-based web client and an Excel add-in called prevero.XYLONA. User interfaces for administration and prevero.ETL are provided with installed clients.

prevero.STARLIGHT is a flexible, graphical development environment for creating tailor-made BI solutions. The product is targeted at business power users who build BI applications with the help of wizards in a self-service manner. Access to applications is typically web-based. The well integrated suite provides functionality for creating screen-oriented reporting, OLAP analysis, individual dash-boarding and planning applications. Consequently, a wide variety of different BI use cases can be addressed with prevero.STARLIGHT. Furthermore, more than 100 business functions are available as standard in the product (e.g. pe-riodic accumulation, weighted average, relative deviation etc.), which can be executed in the database and integra-ted with the prevero.STARLIGHT user interface.

prevero overview

This year we had 29 responses from prevero (prevero) and 37 from MIK (prevero) users.

prevero customer responses

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prevero (prevero)


User and Use CaseDemographics

Besides its main use cases, standard/enterpri-se reporting, budgeting/planning and ad hoc query, prevero is now also frequently used for basic data analysis and dashboards/sco-recards. Advanced analysis and dashboards/scorecards have been earmarked by many customers for the future.

prevero targets mid-sized companies and large corporations across all industries. 69 percent of our sample of prevero customers come from mid-sized companies (100-2,500 employees) with a median of 100 users. Howe-ver, the mean of 345 users indicates there are also some larger implementations.

prevero is geared to business power users with broad functionality for various planning and BI tasks. Typical tasks carried out with prevero by business power users include viewing, navigating, exploring and modeling data. These tasks achieve above average use by prevero customers, which underlines the feature richness of the product.

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Current vs. planned usen=29

In use Planned

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55%

38%

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48%

Standard/Enterprisereporting

Budgeting/Planning

Ad hoc query

Basic data analysis

Dashboards/Scorecards

Financialconsolidation

Advanced analysis

5 products most often evaluated incompetition with prevero (prevero)n=28

36%

18%

18%

18%

14%

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Percentage of employees using prevero(prevero)n=29

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17%

prevero (prevero)

Average of allproducts

Number of users using prevero (prevero)n=28

Median

Mean 345

100

1794

120

prevero (prevero) Average of allproducts

Company size (employees)n=29

10%

69%

21%

Less than 100

100 - 2500

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Tasks carried out with prevero (prevero)by business usersn=29

prevero (prevero)Average of all products

97%91%

86%82%

83%80%

48%29%

View

Navigate

Explore/Analyze

Model/Enrich


Peer Groups and KPIs Large enterprise BI platforms

Includes products equipped with functionality for enterprise deployments that focus on a broad range of BI use cases.

Dashboarding-focused products

Includes products that focus on creating advanced and highly sophisticated dashboards.

Self-service reporting-focused products

Includes products that focus on self-service reporting and ad hoc analysis.


Includes products that focus on analysis in dimensio-nal and hierarchical data models.

Data discovery-focused products

Includes products that focus on visual data discovery and advanced data visualization.


Includes products that provide integrated functiona-lity for BI and performance management, especially planning and budgeting.

Large international BI vendors

Includes products from companies with annual re-venues of $200m+ and a truly international reach.

EMEA-focused vendors

Includes products from vendors that have a signifi-cant presence in - and focus on - the EMEA region.

Americas-focused vendors

Includes products from vendors that have a signifi-cant presence in - and focus on - the Americas region.

The BI Survey 17 provides the reader with well-desi-gned KPI dashboards packed with concise informa-tion, 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 feed into the KPI are included.

• For quantitative data, KPIs are conver-ted to a scale of 1 to 10 (worst to best).

• A linear min-max transformation is ap-plied, which preserves the order of, and the relative distance between, pro-ducts‘ scores.

The terms ‘top-ranked’ and ‘leader’ are used in the following KPI chart titles. ‘Top-ranked’ indicates first position. ‘Leader’ usually denotes a position in the top 25-30% of products listed in the chart.

Peer Group Classification Peer Groups Overview

The KPIs

The BI Survey 17 features a range of different types of BI tools so we use peer groups to help identify competing products. The groups are essential to al-low fair and useful comparisons of products that are likely to compete.

The peer groups have been defined by BARC ana-lysts using their experience and judgment, with segmentation based on two key factors:

1. Usage scenario - functional peer groups are mainly data-driven and ba-sed on how customers say they use the product.

2. Regional focus - is the vendor a large international vendor with a truly global presence or does it focus on a particu-lar region? We also take into account the location of BI Survey respondents.

prevero (prevero) features in the following peer groups:

• OLAP analysis-focused products

• Integrated performance management products

• EMEA-focused vendors

This KPI is based on the achievement level of a variety of business benefits.

Business benefits


Viewpoint

prevero is top-ranked in all its peer groups for the business benefits customers achieve with the tool. The vendor’s ‘Business benefits’ rankings have improved in each of the last four editions of The BI Survey, culminating in the top position in every peer group prevero features in this year. Benefits such as faster and more accurate reporting, analysis or planning and improved data quality are regularly achieved with prevero. With its platform approach, customers can create various BI and CPM applications on different aggregation levels (strategic as well as operational). Customers clearly benefit from having all these possi-bilities in one common platform.

Business benefits – Top-ranked

Peer group: OLAP analysis-focused products

Business benefits – Top-ranked Business benefits – Top-ranked

Peer group: Integrated performance management products Peer group: EMEA-focused vendors

1. 1.

1.

Business benefits

9.98.8

8.58.18.0

6.96.76.66.4

6.05.9

5.32.7

prevero (prevero)TARGIT

Pyramid Analyticscubus

BissantzPeer Group Average

BOARDCubeware

Longview AnalyticsJedox

DigDashMIK (prevero)CXO-Cockpit

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9.98.8

8.58.18.08.0

7.26.76.6

6.16.0

5.35.3

3.32.92.7

1.0

prevero (prevero)TARGIT


BissantzCALUMO

IBM Plan AnalyticsBOARD

CubewarePeer Group Average

JedoxMIK (prevero)

InforMS Excel

SAP BO AnalysisCXO-Cockpit

SAP BEx© BARC

www.bi-survey.com

9.98.18.08.0

7.27.0

6.76.66.4

6.05.35.3

prevero (prevero)cubus

BissantzCALUMO

IBM Plan AnalyticsPeer Group Average

BOARDCubeware


MIK (prevero)Infor © BARC

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Business benefitsImproved in business benefits

Improved in business benefits


Peer group: Integrated performance management products

Improved in business benefits

Peer group: EMEA-focused vendors

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prevero (prevero)

This KPI is based on the implementation satisfaction level and the frequency of projects completed on time and on budget.

Project success


Viewpoint

The results in this year’s BI Survey confirm that prevero’s customers are satisfied with their BI and CPM projects, particularly in the budgeting/planning space. Many projects seem to be accomplished on time and on budget and project goals defined at the outset are often reached. There are various reasons for this: prevero’s single-product offering provides functionality for many different BI and CPM use cases such as standard/enterprise reporting, budgeting/planning, ad hoc query, basic data analysis and dashboards/sco-recards. This gives customers a degree of flexibility in addressing various needs. Since prevero does many projects itself, the vendor’s experienced consulting team should also take some credit for this excellent result. The level of support in implementation projects is highly rated by customers as the vendor’s consul-tants show a solid understanding of customers’ business requirements.

Improved in project success


Project success – Leader Project success – Leader

Peer group: OLAP analysis-focused products Peer group: Integrated performance management productsProject success

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9.28.98.8

8.38.3

7.97.87.8

6.76.7

6.46.16.1

5.64.34.2

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Peer Group Average

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9.28.38.3

7.97.97.8

7.36.7

6.46.16.1

5.6

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This KPI combines the ‘Business benefits’, ‘Project success’ and ‘Project length’ KPIs.

Business value


Viewpoint

‘Business value’ combines the ‘Business benefits’, ‘Project success’ and ‘Project length’ KPIs. With good re-sults in two of these KPIs, prevero also achieves leading ranks for ‘Business value’ in its three peer groups. The results of this year’s BI Survey prove that prevero creates real business value for customers. Business benefits such as faster and more accurate reporting, analysis and planning, and improved data quality are regularly achieved with prevero. Many projects tend to be successful and seem to be accomplished on time and on budget. Project goals defined at the outset are often reached. The business benefits achie-ved and the success of projects combine to create satisfied customers, which are an essential ingredient for success in the highly competitive market for BI and CPM software in the DACH region, prevero’s home market.

Business value – Leader


Business value – Leader Business value – Leader

Peer group: Integrated performance management products Peer group: EMEA-focused vendorsBusiness value

8.68.4

8.18.1

7.56.96.9

6.56.36.26.06.0

5.75.1

4.33.8

1.0

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InforMS Excel

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CXO-Cockpit

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8.18.1

7.56.96.96.76.56.46.3

6.06.0

5.1


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BOARDCubeware

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Jedox


www.bi-survey.com

8.68.4

8.18.1

7.57.17.16.9

6.46.3

6.06.0

5.7

prevero (prevero)


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Business valueImproved in business value

Improved in business value



Improved in business value


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This KPI is based on how often the product was chosen for its flexibility, and on the frequency of complaints about user flexibility post-implementation.



Flexibility and breadth of functionality are the main reasons why customers choose prevero. The product provides a flexible development environment for building individual BI applications for planning, reporting, dashboarding and analysis. With its integrated platform approach, business power users in particular can create individual applications without the need for programming skills in an Excel-like environment. prevero does not focus on any one particular topic (e.g. financials, sales, HR, etc.) or industry. However, predefined industry content is available for airports and the utilities sector as well as for business areas such as project portfolio management, strategic controlling and risk management. For the fourth year in a row, prevero is top-ranked for flexibility in every single peer group it features in – an outstanding result.

Viewpoint

Flexibility for users – Top-ranked


Flexibility for users – Top-ranked Flexibility for users – Top-ranked

Peer group: EMEA-focused vendors Peer group: Integrated performance management products

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10.09.7

9.58.78.78.4

7.25.95.95.8

4.84.6

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4.84.6


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10.09.7

8.78.78.48.2

6.16.05.95.8

5.44.84.64.64.3

1.31.2

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Consistently top-ranked in flexibility for usersfor users

Consistently top-ranked in flexibility for usersfor users



Consistently top-ranked in flexibility for users


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The ‘Sales experience’ KPI is based on how respondents rate the sales/purchasing experience with the vendor.

Sales experience


Sales experience – Leader


Customers are satisfied and provide prevero with a leading rank for the sales/purchasing experience with the vendor in the ‘Integrated performance management products’ peer group. In particular, the general behavior of prevero’s professional sales team, the timely and thorough response to product-re-lated and technical questions from customers and the ability to understand organizations’ needs are highlighted by customers. In a competitive market like the BI and CPM software market in the DACH region, prevero’s home market, a highly professional sales organization is essential to survive and conti-nue to win new customers.

Sales experienceViewpoint

9.58.18.1

7.87.47.2

6.96.8

6.36.2

4.83.7

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BOARDCubeware

Longview Analytics

JedoxMIK (prevero)

Infor© BARC

www.bi-survey.com

This KPI is based on how many sites currently use the product in a cloud environment.

Cloud BI


Prevero’s strong showing in the ‘Cloud BI’ KPI reveals that a significant amount of customers use the pro-duct in a cloud environment. prevero’s cloud offering is based on Microsoft Azure (SaaS, multi-tenant). The customer can choose where the solution is hosted. Using the TelekomCLOUD for example, hosting (inclu-ding data storage) in a German computer center is available. This fact particularly seems to convince and comfort prevero’s DACH customers, who are typically rather reserved and cautious when it comes to cloud implementations. Technical prerequisites such as secure communication via https between clients and server, browser-based access (using prevero’s HTML5 OneClient), and server operation in the cloud are available. However, prevero’s mandatory rich client for administration and modeling still has to be installed locally.

Viewpoint

Cloud BI – Leader


Cloud BI – Leader Cloud BI – Leader

Peer group: EMEA-focused vendors Peer group: Integrated performance management productsCloud BI

5.04.44.3

3.23.03.02.92.62.62.62.5

1.51.0

prevero (prevero)

TARGIT

Pyramid Analytics

cubus

Bissantz

Peer Group Average

BOARD

Cubeware

Longview Analytics

Jedox

DigDash

MIK (prevero)

CXO-Cockpit


9.64.44.3

3.22.72.62.62.62.5

1.51.21.0

prevero (prevero)

cubus

Bissantz

CALUMO


BOARD

Cubeware

Longview Analytics

Jedox


www.bi-survey.com

9.64.44.3

3.83.23.13.02.92.72.62.62.6

2.12.0

1.51.21.0

prevero (prevero)


cubus

Bissantz

CALUMO

IBM Plan Analytics

BOARD

Cubeware

Peer Group Average

Jedox

MIK (prevero)Infor

MS Excel

SAP BO Analysis

CXO-Cockpit

SAP BEx


MIK (prevero)


User and Use CaseDemographics

The main use cases for MIK (prevero) are basic data analysis (typically OLAP analysis), stan-dard/enterprise reporting, ad hoc query and budgeting/planning. Dashboards/scorecards and advanced analysis are on the roadmap for many customers in the future.

Only eight percent of employees in customer organizations use MIK (prevero) – compared to the survey average of 17 percent. This reflects the fact that the product is particularly geared to business power users with its broad functionality for various BI and planning tasks, rather than being a product for the masses.

MIK (prevero) targets mid-sized companies and large corporations across all industries. 65 percent of our sample of MIK (prevero) customers come from mid-sized companies (100-2,500 employees) with a median of 100 users. However, the mean of 520 users indica-tes the product is capable of supporting larger implementations.

Comment

Current vs. planned usen=37

In use Planned

92%

86%

86%

70%

32%

19%

11

8%

8%

11%

14%

49%

14%

46%

Basic data analysis

Standard/Enterprisereporting

Ad hoc query

Budgeting/Planning

Dashboards/Scorecards

Financialconsolidation

Advanced analysis

5 products most often evaluated incompetition with MIK (prevero)n=32

22%

22%

19%

13%

9%

Bissantz

SAP BEx

MS Excel

IBM Plan Analytics

prevero (prevero)

Percentage of employees using MIK (prevero)n=36

17%

MIK (prevero)

Average of allproducts

Number of users using MIK (prevero)n=36

Median

Mean 520

100

1794

120

MIK (prevero) Average of allproducts

Company size (employees)n=37

8%

65%

27%

Less than 100

100 - 2500

More than 2500

Tasks carried out with MIK (prevero) bybusiness usersn=37

MIK (prevero)Average of all products

97%91%

89%80%

81%82%

46%29%

View

Explore/Analyze

Navigate

Model/Enrich

8%


Peer Groups and KPIs Large enterprise BI platforms

Includes products equipped with functionality for enterprise deployments that focus on a broad range of BI use cases.

Dashboarding-focused products

Includes products that focus on creating advanced and highly sophisticated dashboards.

Self-service reporting-focused products

Includes products that focus on self-service reporting and ad hoc analysis.


Includes products that focus on analysis in dimensio-nal and hierarchical data models.

Data discovery-focused products

Includes products that focus on visual data discovery and advanced data visualization.


Includes products that provide integrated functiona-lity for BI and performance management, especially planning and budgeting.

Large international BI vendors

Includes products from companies with annual re-venues of $200m+ and a truly international reach.

EMEA-focused vendors

Includes products from vendors that have a signifi-cant presence in - and focus on - the EMEA region.

Americas-focused vendors

Includes products from vendors that have a signifi-cant presence in - and focus on - the Americas region.

The BI Survey 17 provides the reader with well-desi-gned KPI dashboards packed with concise informa-tion, 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 feed into the KPI are included.

• For quantitative data, KPIs are conver-ted to a scale of 1 to 10 (worst to best).

• A linear min-max transformation is ap-plied, which preserves the order of, and the relative distance between, pro-ducts‘ scores.

The terms ‘top-ranked’ and ‘leader’ are used in the following KPI chart titles. ‘Top-ranked’ indicates first position. ‘Leader’ usually denotes a position in the top 25-30% of products listed in the chart.

Peer Group Classification Peer Groups Overview

The KPIs

The BI Survey 17 features a range of different types of BI tools so we use peer groups to help identify competing products. The groups are essential to al-low fair and useful comparisons of products that are likely to compete.

The peer groups have been defined by BARC ana-lysts using their experience and judgment, with segmentation based on two key factors:

1. Usage scenario - functional peer groups are mainly data-driven and ba-sed on how customers say they use the product.

2. Regional focus - is the vendor a large international vendor with a truly global presence or does it focus on a particu-lar region? We also take into account the location of BI Survey respondents.

MIK (prevero) features in the following peer groups:

• OLAP analysis-focused products

• Integrated performance management products

• EMEA-focused vendors

This KPI is based on how many sites currently use self-service features with their BI tool.

Self-service


prevero.STARLIGHT is a flexible, graphical development environment for creating tailor-made BI applica-tions without the need for technical programming skills. Thus, trained business power users are able to work with the product in a self-service manner. By additionally using the vendor’s OLAP database prevero.ARJUNA for creating multidimensional business models and prevero.ETL for data integration in these mo-dels, business departments can largely act independently from IT departments. Furthermore, MIK (prever-o)’s Excel add-in prevero.XYLONA provides business user-friendly multidimensional analyses in Excel on top of prevero.ARJUNA OLAP cubes. Many customers clearly appreciate the functionality and ease of use the front ends, database and ETL product provide. As a result, MIK (prevero) is ranked as a leader in two of its peer groups and is top-ranked for ‘Self-service’ in the ‘Integrated performance management products’ peer group.

Viewpoint

Self-service – Leader


Self-service – Leader Self-service – Top-ranked

Peer group: EMEA-focused vendors Peer group: Integrated performance management products

1.

Self-service

8.88.5

7.97.97.6

7.26.96.8

6.36.2

5.22.0

1.0

prevero (prevero)

TARGIT

Pyramid Analytics

cubus

Bissantz

Peer Group Average

BOARDCubeware

Longview Analytics

Jedox

DigDash

MIK (prevero)

CXO-Cockpit© BARC

www.bi-survey.com

8.88.5

7.97.97.6

7.37.27.16.96.96.86.8

6.25.9

5.24.9

4.3

prevero (prevero)

TARGIT

Pyramid Analytics

cubus

Bissantz

CALUMO

IBM Plan Analytics

BOARD

Cubeware

Peer Group Average

Jedox

MIK (prevero)

InforMS Excel

SAP BO Analysis

CXO-Cockpit

SAP BEx© BARC

www.bi-survey.com

8.57.9

7.67.27.16.96.8

6.46.2

5.94.9

1.0

prevero (prevero)

cubusBissantz


Peer Group Average

BOARD

Cubeware

Longview Analytics

Jedox

MIK (prevero)

Infor


The ‘Customer experience’ KPI combines the ‘Ease of use’, ‘Self-service’, ‘Performance satisfaction’, ‘Flexibility for users’, ‘Data volume’, ‘Query perfor-mance’ and ‘Sales experience‘ KPIs.

Customer experience


Viewpoint

With good results in the ‘Self-service’ and ‘Flexibility for users’ KPIs, MIK (prevero) also emerges as a leader in the aggregated ‘Customer experience’ KPI. The flexibility and versatility of the product seem to satisfy customers. Using the graphical development environment, individual requirements can be addressed in tailored BI and planning applications. This works to the advantage of customers, who have the flexibility to address various tasks and use cases with one single product. The proximity of front ends and OLAP data-base also encapsulates technical activities to a certain degree, which particularly seems to attract business users.

Customer experience – Leader Customer experience – Leader

Peer group: OLAP analysis-focused products Peer group: Integrated performance management productsCustomer experience

7.67.1

6.56.46.46.36.36.16.1

5.75.55.3

prevero (prevero)

cubus

Bissantz


Peer Group Average

BOARD

Cubeware


MIK (prevero)

Infor © BARCwww.bi-survey.com

7.67.6

7.16.66.46.46.36.36.16.16.0

5.75.55.35.35.2

2.9

prevero (prevero)

TARGIT


Bissantz

CALUMO

IBM Plan Analytics

BOARD

Cubeware

Peer Group Average

Jedox

MIK (prevero)

InforMS Excel

SAP BO Analysis

CXO-Cockpit

SAP BEx© BARC

www.bi-survey.com

This KPI is based on how many sites currently use visual design standards with their BI tool.



Viewpoint

MIK (prevero) is considered a leader for establishing visual design standards in all of its peer groups. The product provides comprehensive functionality for flexibly visualizing data in tables and charts. Reports ba-sed on the ideas of the Hichert SUCCESS rules and the International Business Communication Standards (IBCS) can be flexibly created and adapted using MIK (prevero). Visual design standards is currently one of the most important BI trends for many enterprises in the DACH region.

Visual design standards – Leader


Visual design standards – Leader Visual design standards – Leader

Peer group: EMEA-focused vendors Peer group: Integrated performance management productsVisual design standards

10.09.6

6.16.05.95.85.7

5.35.25.0

4.43.6

2.1

prevero (prevero)

TARGIT

Pyramid Analytics

cubus

Bissantz

Peer Group Average

BOARD

Cubeware

Longview Analytics

Jedox

DigDash

MIK (prevero)

CXO-Cockpit


10.09.6

6.15.95.8

5.45.35.25.04.9

4.42.3

prevero (prevero)

cubus

Bissantz

CALUMO


BOARD

Cubeware

Longview Analytics

Jedox

MIK (prevero)

Infor© BARC

www.bi-survey.com

10.06.16.05.95.8

5.45.35.25.15.04.9

4.54.4

4.13.6

3.22.3

prevero (prevero)

TARGIT

Pyramid Analytics

cubus

Bissantz

CALUMO

IBM Plan Analytics

BOARD

Cubeware

Peer Group AverageJedox

MIK (prevero)

InforMS Excel

SAP BO Analysis

CXO-Cockpit

SAP BEx


The ‘Visual analysis’ KPI is based on how many sites currently perform visual analysis with their BI tool.

The ‘Flexibility for users’ KPI is based on how often the product was chosen for its flexibility, and on the frequency of complaints about user flexibility postimplementation.

Visual analysis &Flexibility for users


Visual analysis – Leader


MIK (prevero) provides comprehensive functionality for visual analyses. Tables and graphic objects are available as standard functionality for visualizing data and key figures. Besides general business charts (e.g. bar, line, pie charts), advanced chart types can be used to visualize data (e.g. waterfall, portfolio, micro charts and maps). Charts are dynamic and interactive. Particularly in dashboards and guided BI applications, charts can be used to navigate in data and to jump to more detailed reports or analyses. In this year’s BI Survey, MIK (prevero) is rated as a leader for visual analysis in the ‘Integrated performance management products’ peer group.

Visual analysisViewpoint

Flexibility for users – Leader


As a flexible, graphical development environment for BI and planning, MIK (prevero) provides functi-onality for various tasks and use cases. With its OLAP-based multidimensional cube approach, busi-ness power users in particular can create individual applications without the need for programming skills. The flexibility of the software is a way above average reason why customers buy MIK (prevero). Development-oriented solutions like MIK (prevero) allow customers to implement totally individual requirements. Flexibility for users is one of MIK (prevero)’s key strengths. This particularly works to the advantage of companies when creating tailored applications in a business-user-friendly way.

Flexibility for users Viewpoint

7.37.1

6.05.25.1

4.94.64.3

3.62.6

2.31.8prevero (prevero)

cubus

Bissantz

CALUMO


BOARD

Cubeware

Longview Analytics

Jedox

MIK (prevero)

Infor© BARC

www.bi-survey.com

10.09.7

8.78.78.48.2

6.16.05.95.8

5.44.84.64.64.3

1.31.2

prevero (prevero)

TARGIT

Pyramid Analytics

cubus

Bissantz

CALUMO

IBM Plan Analytics

BOARD

Cubeware

Peer Group Average

JedoxMIK (prevero)

Infor

MS Excel

SAP BO Analysis

CXO-Cockpit

SAP BEx© BARC

www.bi-survey.com


The BARC BI Trend Monitor 2017 reflects on the trends currently driving the BI and data management market from a users’ perspective. We asked close to 2,800 users, consul-tants and vendors for their views on the most important BI trends.

Other Surveys

‘BI and Data Management in the Cloud‘: A BARC and Eckerson Group study on current attitu-des, issues and trends relating to the use of BI and DM techno-logies in the cloud. Download here.

The Planning Survey 17 is the world’s largest survey of plan-ning software users. Based on a sample of over 1,600 responses, it offers an unsurpassed level of user feedback on 18 leading planning products. Find out more at www.bi-survey.com

BARC consulting can help you find the most re-liable and cost effective products to meet your specific requirements, guaranteeing a fast return on your investment. Neutrality and competency are the two cornerstones of BARC’s approach to consulting. BARC also offers technical architec-ture reviews and coaching and advice on develo-ping a software strategy for your organization, as well as helping software vendors with their pro-duct and market strategy.

BARC organizes regular conferences and semi-nars on Business Intelligence, Enterprise Con-tent Management and Customer Relationship Management software. Vendors and IT decisi-on-makers meet to discuss the latest product up-dates and market trends, and take advantage of valuable networking opportunities.

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