Search Results for: gartner

Executive Summary

Gartner produced a database magic quadrant that places all manner of entities in strange comparisons.
Gartner‘s DMSA and ODMS MQs make no sense without $$$.

Introduction
Gartner produces highly unusual Magic Quadrants. One is called the Data Management System and Analytics (DMSA), and the other is the Operational Data Management System Magic Quadrant (DMSA) MQ. This article will review these bizarre MQs and assign an accuracy rating.
Gartner‘s DMSA MQ
These facts make it confusing what type of database is being compared. As discussed, that is only the beginning of the problem with this MQ.
These …

Executive Summary

Forrester has one of the most insane Big Data or data warehouse rankings (we can’t tell which) that we have ever seen.
Reviewing this ranking is its form of comedy and indicator of how little Forrester knows about the topic.

Introduction
In Forrester’s “Big Data Warehouse” 2017 ranking, Forrester made some peculiar decisions related to where to rank vendors as well as how to create the ranking and even what to name their ranking. In this article, we will investigate.

Forrester’s Illogical Ranking
Forrester calls this ranking a Big Data Warehouse ranking, but what is …

Executive Summary

G2Crowd promised a new way to review software.
However, G2Crowd has major disclosure issues that we cover.

Introduction
Recently, during an interaction on LinkedIn where the head of CrowdReviews brought up Gartner‘s bias in being a pay-to-play system. During that interaction, the topic of G2Crowd came up, which is another applications ranking entity that the head of CrowdReviews was also critical of. In my view at the time, G2Crowd was far more transparent than Gartner, and G2Crowd aggregated reviews from people that seemed to have application experience, unlike Gartner analysts. However, the discussion got me …