Gartner recognizes Microsoft as a leader in Analytics and BI platforms for 11 consecutive years | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI

Today we’re thrilled to announce that for the 11th consecutive year, Microsoft has been positioned as a leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.* And for the third year, Microsoft is positioned furthest to the right for completeness of vision within the Leaders quadrant.

This is an exciting milestone, and it is Microsoft’s perspective that this underscores our global leadership and its relentless commitment to innovation, agile execution, and visionary roadmap to deliver high-value to customers and partners in a constantly changing market.

Power BI has helped transform hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world by providing self-service analytics at scale.  Here are top reasons why customers have chosen Power BI as their analytic platform solution:

We’re honored and proud to see the positive impact that Power BI continuously delivers to customers and to hear their feedback:

You can see the new AI-driven analytics and data storytelling capabilities driving these results in action watching the latest episode of Microsoft Mechanics.

Finally, and most importantly, we remain committed and inspired by the great feedback and engagement we see from our community around Power BI.  Since July 2015, our engineers have worked hard to listen and incorporate feedback from more than 200,000 active community participants who have submitted over 6,000 ideas.  This level of input has directly influenced the evolution of our product. Also, with more than 250 showcased solutions, our partner network brings a wealth of experience across a wide number of industries, technologies and geographies.

Thanks for being a part of our journey and vision. We look forward to driving even greater innovation, progress, and value in the data visualization, exploration and insights space.

Get the Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms * report to learn more about Microsoft’s leadership in the industry.

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