Pyramid Analytics is included in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for the Ninth Consecutive Year

I’m happy to write that The Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform was positioned in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, 2022¹ which was published today. This is the 9th year in a row that the Pyramid Platform has appeared in a report that the analytics and BI community eagerly awaits. Regardless of position, just meeting Gartner’s inclusion criteria is an accomplishment. So yay for us and our competitors who made the shortlist.

The ABI market is extremely crowded. TechnologyAdvice estimates that there are more than 100 analytics and BI vendors globally. These run the gamut from small specialists such as Heap that focus on product analytics to megaliths that got into the space by gobbling up formerly independent vendors; Salesforce/Tableau is a prime example. Just 20 ABI technology companies made it into the 2022 MQ.

What Goes Into the MQ?

Gartner’s evaluation was based on specific criteria that analyzed the overall completeness of vision and ability to execute of the companies that made the cut. Having lived through many Magic Quadrant cycles over my career, I can tell you that Gartner’s process is rigorous. And it is both quantitative and qualitative. Opinion of the Gartner analyst team is inherent. Other inputs are limited or subjective. For example, Gartner considers how many inquiries they get about your company from their enterprise clients. At an average of USD $30,000 per seat, plus additional consulting costs in order to receive personalized advisory services – and this is a 2020 stat – many companies don’t budget for or can’t afford a Gartner relationship. And it’s getting even more cost-prohibitive. Gartner reported during the company’s Fourth Quarter 2021 Earnings Conference Call on Feb 8, 2022, that contract value growth accelerated to 16 percent. And only clients can make inquiries.

Another source of market opinion considered by Gartner are reviews on Gartner Peer Insights (GPI) the analyst firm’s peer-driven ratings and reviews platform for enterprise IT solutions and services covering over 300+ technology markets and 3,000 vendors. Back in 2020, at the start of the COVID pandemic, Gartner stopped interviewing a vendor’s customers and relied 100 percent on GPI reviews. The Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform is rated 4.5 Stars on a scale of 1 to 5 and based on 115 reviews on Gartner Peer Insights.

A Snapshot in Time

Aside from knowing what goes into an MQ evaluation, it’s also important to understand that the Magic Quadrant is a look back in time. Surveys for the Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, 2022 were submitted last October; five months ago. Data and other information provided in those responses were for the prior 12-month period.

So much has happened over the past five months at Pyramid Analytics. We’ve added nearly two dozen technology, ISV, and Si/consulting partners. Our Sales and Marketing teams have grown exponentially. The Marketing Team quadrupled. The Pyramid Platform customer base has grown double digits. Brand awareness has increased on tailwinds from strategic investments in digital marketing, demand generation, corporate communications, and tech stacks underpinning those functions. A new and even more feature-rich version of the Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform was released.

All of the above influence Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

Many experts see Decision Intelligence as what’s next in analytics. Gartner does not evaluate all of the technologies at the core of the Pyramid platform that empower all users in an enterprise to make data-driven decisions. We encourage technology buyers to seek out information from multiple sources. Gartner Critical Capabilities for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, 2021 is an excellent place to start. The detailed, meticulous evaluation goes several clicks down from the higher-level Strengths and Cautions of the MQ.

Additional Analyst Views

Pyramid’s Decision Intelligence strategy was described as evolutionary in a recent analyst report from 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Pyramid Analytics Plants Stake in Decision Intelligence Ground, authored by Krishna Roy, Senior Research Analyst on the Data, AI & Analytics team at 451 Research, examines Pyramid’s Decision Intelligence Platform in the context of the emerging decision intelligence market which experts see as the next evolution in analytics and business intelligence (ABI).

The Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform won the Dresner Advisory Services 2021 Technology Innovation Awards in seven of 12 Categories. The Technology Innovation Awards are presented to the top-ranked vendors in 12 Dresner Advisory 2021 Wisdom of Crowds® thematic market reports. The annual thematic studies are based on data collected from end-users and provide a real-world perspective on various technical capabilities related to Dresner’s annual research. Each report examines current deployment trends, user intentions, and industry capabilities.

BARC (Business Application Research Center), a leading European analyst firm, elevated Pyramid’s Decision Intelligence Platform to the Large/Enterprise-Wide Implementations category in its BARC BI & Analytics 22 Report. Pyramid received 40 Top Rankings (1st place) and 87 Leading Positions (top 22-33% or top 2 products) in its 6 peer groups in The BI & Analytics Survey 22. Based on a sample of 2,478 survey responses, the BARC report offers an unsurpassed level of user feedback on 30 leading business intelligence (BI) solutions. BARC is one of Europe’s leading analyst firms for business software, focusing on the areas of data, business intelligence, and analytics (ABI).

Why Pyramid? Complete, Unified Decision Intelligence

Our unified decision intelligence platform delivers insights for everyone to make faster, more informed decisions. It provides direct access to any data, enables governed self-service for any person, and serves any analytics need in a no-code environment.

Only the Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform unifies Data Preparation, Business Analytics, and Data Science on a single, integrated platform. This eliminates the need to use multiple disparate tools and the associated license cost and management complexity. Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), rapid rollout, quicker and direct access to all available data, and industry-leading user adoption means faster time to value. The Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform can be deployed on-premises, into a private or public cloud, embedded into other apps, or delivered through Managed Services Providers (MSP).

^[1] Gartner, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, James Richardson, Kurt Schlegel, Rita Sallam, Austin Kronz, Julian Sun, March 23, 2022.