Last month, my brother and I attended Gartner's Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit in Las Vegas. For those unfamiliar, Gartner is a large and well respected American information technology (IT) research and advisory firm, and they publish the Annual Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports. These reports rank each company in every product or sub-industry within the IT business community. Since many companies, especially enterprise companies, rely on these reports when selecting vendors and making technology decisions, the reports serve as a "Who's Who" in the industry.
BrightGauge is a newcomer in the Business Intelligence (BI) vendor space and we felt there was no better time to attend a conference like this than in our early years as a BI platform. The conference did not disappoint. It was a tremendous learning experience about what enterprise customers are looking for in BI solutions and what vendors who focus on enterprise customers are building into their platforms and solutions.
Here were my three takeaways from the conference:
Fortunately we also learned that at BrightGauge, we have and are currently building all the main pieces needed for an Enterprise Business Intelligence solution. This provides us great confidence that our market, the Fortune 1,000,000, will be able to leverage the Enterprise class features and functionality we are building. Which will help make our customers as competitive as they need to be in order to compete in their markets.
A true win, win for everyone!