Cool vendors - Gartner

Gartner Cool Vendors 2012

Gartner have identified the next, new way to group and evaluate BI vendors. This is probably on the money, those of us who move on the leading edge of what is available and want more. We recognize the direction BI is moving, the way data will be analysed, and how mashing up of data is now within the reach of the end users (well nearly).

According to them:
"Cool Vendors in 2012 exist on a backdrop of what Gartner terms the nexus of four IT forces – cloud, social, mobile, and information. Those forces, along with the continued impact of consumerization, have essentially set the stage for the next generation of capabilities"

Read more here.