It’s that time again: Gartner has released the BI Magic Quadrant for 2021. This announcement is highly anticipated every year to see where Gartner has ranked BI companies. The factors they use include things like execution and scope of vision, and there has been some notable movement this time around regarding who has been included – and excluded – from the list. The release of the BI Magic Quadrant also gives me the opportunity to carry on a tradition here on the blog and visualize the results in Tableau. The goal is to convey how these platforms have changed over time according to Gartner’s criteria, but it’s always worth noting that Gartner’s perspective is just one of many. Feel free to check out the past explorations of this data, and dive into the viz below: