Gartner Positions ClearStory Data as a Visionary In 2017 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms

MENLO PARK, CA--(Marketwired - Feb 23, 2017) - ClearStory Data, the company bringing business-oriented Data Intelligence to everyone with its smart data discovery, automated disparate data analysis, scalability, and ease-of-use, today announced it is positioned again as a visionary in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms* report, following its 2016 debut in the Gartner Magic Quadrant as a visionary. Gartner's new 2017 Magic Quadrant focuses on vendors that meet the criteria of modern BI and analytics platforms, which are driving the vast majority of net new purchases in the market today.

Gartner Research redesigned the Magic Quadrant for BI and analytics platforms in 2016 to reflect more than a decade-long shift from IT-led to business-led analytics. In the 2017 report, Gartner states: "A year later, in 2017, there is significant evidence to suggest that the BI and analytics platform market's multiyear transition to modern agile business-led analytics is now mainstream." The report also states that, "Modern BI and analytics platforms are characterized by easy-to-use tools that support a full range of analytic workflow capabilities and do not require significant involvement from IT in order to pre-define data models upfront as a prerequisite to analysis (including at enterprise-scale deployment)."

Gartner's characterization of modern BI and analytics platforms is well aligned with ClearStory Data's capabilities. ClearStory uses fast, Spark-based processing to handle large data volumes. Its modern BI platform is an ideal choice for business users who need to combine, harmonize and explore multiple and varied data sources, including personal, cloud, streaming and syndicated data. Customers benefit from ClearStory's machine-based approach that eliminates the long cycles and manual effort that traditional BI solutions require to integrate data sources and run complex queries.

"We are really pleased to see Gartner's recognition of ClearStory. The market shift from IT-led to business-driven analytics has become urgent and necessary across all organizations to keep up with today's competitive business environment," said Sharmila Mulligan, founder and CEO of ClearStory Data. "We continue to rapidly innovate to deliver even more automation, including machine learning, to ease every complex data task in order to transform data analysis from a being a process that's been a burden for organizations and led to underwhelming results for the business. This rapid modernization is crucial to empowering businesses worldwide to leverage their data assets to make better data-driven decisions and compete more effectively."