The Coolest Business Analytics Companies Of The 2023 Big Data 100
The Coolest Business Analytics Companies Of The 2023 Big Data 100 Part 1 of CRN’s Big Data 100 takes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the data analytics and business intelligence space. Analytical Approach It’s no surprise that in diagrams and visual representations of big data IT systems, data analytics and visualization software are usually at the top of the big data “technology stack.” They are the software tools that business analysts and information workers use to gain understanding and insight from the exponentially growing volumes of data businesses are generating today and to share that knowledge throughout an organization. What is Business Intelligence? A Complete Guide Qlik Worldwide sales of business intelligence software are expected to reach $25.73 billion this year, up 8.6 percent from $23.70 billion in 2022, and reach $34.16 billion by 2028, according to market research firm Statista. “Companies’ needs for data insights, customer analyses, and all kinds of business processes have strongly increased due to digitization and data that is collected online. This development drives the demand for enterprise software, especially business intelligence software,” said a Statista report. As part of the CRN 2023 Big Data 100, we’ve put together the following list of business analytics software companies—from well-established vendors to those in startup mode—that solution providers should be familiar with. These vendors offer everything from self-service reporting and data visualization tools for nontechnical managers and business users to high-performance business analysis software needed by data analysts to tackle the most complex business intelligence tasks. What is Business Intelligence? A Complete Guide Qlik This week CRN is running the Big Data 100 list in a series of slide shows, organized by technology category, spotlighting vendors of business analytics software, database systems, data warehouse and data lake systems, data management and integration software, data observability tools, and big data systems and cloud platforms. Some vendors market big data products that span multiple technology categories. They appear in the slideshow for the technology segment in which they are most prominent. Ahana Co-Founder and CEO: Steven Mih What is Business Intelligence? A Complete Guide Qlik Ahana develops Ahana Cloud for Presto, a software-as-a-service data analytics service based on Presto, the open-source SQL query engine used to query data in a range of data sources including database and data lakehouse systems. Venture-backed Ahana, founded in 2020 and based in San Mateo, Calif., was acquired by IBM earlier this month. With the acquisition IBM joined the Presto Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation. Alteryx CEO: Mark Anderson Qlik Sense Modern Analytics Alteryx offers its flagship Alteryx Analytics Automation Platform, a unified data analytics and data science automation system, and the Alteryx Analytics Cloud Platform, along with a number of additional business intelligence, machine learning and developer tools. In February the company unveiled new self-service and enterprise-grade capabilities to the enterprise edition. Alteryx executives say the Irvine, Calif.-based company has recorded significant momentum in the channel after undertaking a major expansion of its partner program in 2022 as part of a shift to a more partner-centric sales strategy. AtScale CEO: Chris Lynch AtScale develops semantic layer technology for business intelligence that the company says insulates data consumers from the complexity of working with raw data. The AtScale software creates a business-oriented data model and virtualizes queries for cloud data platforms such as Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Google Big Query and Databricks without the need for ETL (extract, transform, load) tools or data movement. This year AtScale, headquartered in Boston, has expanded its connections to the Databricks platform, including the Databricks Lakehouse for Manufacturing, and achieved the Snowflake Ready Technology Valuation for business intelligence solutions. In April the company introduced code-first data modeling capabilities for its semantic layer platform. CelerData CEO: James Li Startup CelerData markets a high-performance unified analytics platform based on the StarRocks massively parallel processing SQL database for real-time analytics. CelerData’s founders developed StarRocks in 2020 and earlier this year contributed it to the Linux Foundation. In March CelerData, headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., took aim at the fast-growing data lakehouse space with a new release of its software with a cloud-native architecture, real-time streaming analytics, and support for open data table formats Hudi, Iceberg and Delta Lake. Domo CEO: Josh James Domo develops its namesake “data experience” platform, a cloud-based, mobile data analytics and visualization system that provides decision makers with real-time business data from a wide range of operational applications and data sources. In March the American Fork, Utah-based company debuted Domo Cloud Amplifier, which the company says helps users unlock data across multiple cloud platforms using a single virtual layer. On March 6, Domo said that John Mellor, who served as Domo’s chief strategy officer for three years and then CEO for more than a year, was stepping down and that Josh James, the company’s founder and original CEO, was again assuming the CEO post. Hitachi Vantara CEO: Gajen Kandiah Hitachi Vantara, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., offers a portfolio of data analytics, data storage and data operations products, the latter including data integration, catalog and optimization tools and content intelligence software. The product suite includes the company’s Pentaho data integration and analytics platform. Incorta CEO: Osama Elkady Incorta develops the Open Data Delivery Platform, a system for acquiring, processing and analyzing raw, operational data from business applications in real time. The platform, with Incorta’s Direct Data Mapping technology, connects to more than 240 data sources. In March, Incorta, based in San Mateo, Calif., joined Google Cloud’s Ready BigQuery and AlloyDB in initiatives, validating its technology for those Google Cloud systems and making it easier for businesses and organizations to move business application and ERP (enterprise resource planning) data into the cloud. Kyligence CEO: Luke Han Kyligence Enterprise, the company’s flagship multi-dimensional analytics platform, is designed to analyze massive datasets with its data modeling, query and processing capabilities. The platform is based on the open-source Apache Kylin distributed OLAP engine that was developed by Kyligence’s founders. Earlier this month San Jose, Calif.-based …