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Mid-Year Data Collection
Mid-Year Data Collection is in full swing! The data we collect supports the 4Q24 and 1Q25 market studies, including Embedded BI, Analytical Data Infrastructure, Workforce Planning and Analysis, Supply Chain Planning and Analysis, Data Engineering, Generative AI, and Active Data…
Special Report: Tableau versus Microsoft
The demand for effective business intelligence and data visualization tools increased as organizations aim to leverage data for improved decision making and operational efficiency. This special report examines the offerings and positioning of two major players in the business intelligence…
Special Report: IBM, Oracle, SAP, and Teradata Data Warehouse Platforms
The demand for cloud data platforms has increased as organizations look to leverage big data, drive digital transformation, and achieve greater operational agility. The transition from traditional on-premises data warehouses to cloud-based solutions offers advantages such as scalability, flexibility, and…
July 2024 Newsletter
Volume 1 Issue 7 June 9, 2024 Dresner Advisory July 2024 News “As we celebrate this milestone, we reaffirm our commitment to maintaining the highest standards of independence and objectivity in our research. Our methodologies remain inclusive and data-driven,…
June 2024 Newsletter
Volume 1 Issue 6 June 18, 2024 Dresner Advisory June 2024 News “Realizing the promise of becoming a data-driven organization with a corresponding mitigation of risk will require establishing a holistic formal governance program, executed at the enterprise level,…
Special Report: Hyperscale Data Clouds
The cloud-based analytical data infrastructure (ADI) market has become increasingly dominated by the main Hyperscale vendors: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. These giants emerged as key players, each offering ADI solutions that cater to the…
May 2024 Newsletter
Volume 1 Issue 5 May 9, 2024 Dresner Advisory May 2024 News “With the growing force of artificial intelligence and generative AI, self-service BI has garnered renewed interest, with the promise of making BI more accessible to a larger…
Special Report: Databricks versus Snowflake 2024
The cloud-based analytical data services industry has seen an emerging competitive dynamic between Snowflake and Databricks in recent years. The two emerge as prominent players offering solutions which have much of the same appeal to meet the evolving demands of…
April 2024 Newsletter
Volume 1 Issue 4 April 9, 2024 Dresner Advisory April 2024 News “We started tracking the Cloud BI market dynamic in 2012 when adoption was nascent and with few organizations willing to invest. We have 13 years of data…
Active Data Architecture Report 2024
The 2024 Active Data Architecture Market Study explores market requirements and priorities for data orchestration, integration, and transformations in the active data architecture pipeline workflow. Active Data Architecture™ supports a platform-independent layer that sits between physical data stores and…
March 2024 Newsletter
Volume 1 Issue 3 March 5, 2024 Dresner Advisory March 2024 News “The uptick in importance of data engineering reflects the heightened demand for access to analytical data as well as the increasing fragmentation of data sources and targets.” Howard…
Data Engineering Market Study 2024
Data Engineering is the best practices and technology capabilities to develop engineered data workflows and pipelines to and between operational and analytic data management infrastructures. Data Engineering includes the requirements and priorities for data orchestration, integration, and transformations including advanced…
Workforce Planning and Analysis Market Study 2024
Workforce planning and analysis are the tools and processes that help align workforces with business goals, strategies, and workplace dynamics. It includes requirements, analysis, and forecasting for current and future needs and the development of plans to address imbalances to…
February 2024 Newsletter
Volume 1 Issue 2 February 9, 2024 Dresner Advisory February 2024 News “While generative AI adoption remains nascent in the near term, a strong majority of respondents indicate intentions to adopt it early or in the future.” Howard Dresner, founder…
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Generative AI Report 2024
Generative artificial intelligence (also generative AI or Generative AI) is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images, or other media, using generative models. Generative AI models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data and then generate new…
Analytical Data Infrastructure Market Study 2024
Analytical data infrastructure (ADI) defines a set of technology components for integrating, modeling, managing, storing, governing, and accessing the data sets that serve as sources for analytic/BI consumers, e.g., analytic/business applications, tools, and users. The primary focus of the report…
BICC Skills Gaps: As Critical as Process, Decision-Making, or Technology Issues
Organizations invest significant resources in their BI Competency Centers (BICCs) to help best support and ensure the success of their BI investments. Nearly 55 percent of organizations report dedicating at least 10 individuals to their BICCs, with 20 percent staffing…