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Microsoft Leads Gartners Analytics & BI 2023 Magic Quadrant
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Sep 29, 2023 5:59 PM

Microsoft Leads Gartners Analytics & BI 2023 Magic Quadrant

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Microsoft secures leader position in Gartners 2023 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.

Microsoft Outshines in Gartner's Analytics & Business Intelligence Platforms 2023

In a riveting development, Microsoft has secured its position as a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms in 2023. This marks the sixteenth successive year Microsoft has excelled in this domain. In addition, they have clinched the absolute right-positioning for Completeness of Vision and the Ability to Execute in the Magic Quadrant, holding this position for the fifth consecutive year. For more information, visit the link .

Microsoft's leading business intelligence solution, known as Power BI, is designed to offer the most diverse and intuitive BI experience in the market. A key element in the design evolution of this leading solution has been the feedback and support of millions of its community members. The past year has seen significant strides in innovation with deployment of countless features aimed at empowering everyone desiring to extract more value from their data.

Incorporating and Enhancing Power BI

Microsoft has introduced specific features that empower community interaction and support a growing number of report builders enabling them to achieve more, rapidly. Microsoft announced datamarts, a feature in Power BI that brings data-based analytics and insights into the hands of users. Complementing SQL databases, it also enables the governance and management of these datamarts by admins.

Moreover, they launched data model editing in this leading BI service which allows users to modify using the model view interface similar to Power BI Desktop. It allows users to work simultaneously on the same data model. The platform also brought changes in visualization and tooling. They introduced an optimizing ribbon in Power BI Desktop, consisting of pause and refresh visual options and optimization presets. Furthermore, the platform also released controls for its visuals, letting users edit the format or properties of elements in reports.

Lastly, the BI service integrated the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to provide quick measure suggestions for Data Analysis Expressions (DAX). This feature allowed report builders to create DAX measures using natural language instead of templates or writing DAX from scratch.

Promoting Team Collaboration and Growth

In the aim to promote a data-driven culture, Microsoft increased features to facilitate team integration and collaboration. With improved integrations across Microsoft PowerPoint, Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Office Hub, and Teams, organizations can efficiently uncover insights. Single visuals or interactive reports can now be directly included in PowerPoint presentations, or as descriptive cards in Outlook emails. This leading business intelligence tool also revealed the capability to save and edit files directly on OneDrive and SharePoint, further enriching the collaborative experience.

Interlacing Power BI and Microsoft Teams services even further, several new features have been announced. These include embedding organization apps in teams, sharing of reports and visuals directly in chats, the Power BI mobile experience and various others, integrated to improve cross-tenant sharing for datasets, reports, and other necessities to cultivate easier and more beneficial collaborations across organizations.

Putting Organizations In The Driver's Seat

To navigate the complexities of data-management, Microsoft has rolled out multiple features for governance and administration. An extension of the Microsoft Purview data loss prevention (DLP) policies for Power BI was announced to detect sensitive data uploads, along with enhancements for CPU metering for DLP policy evaluation and prevention of false-positive reports.

Moreover, greater governance controls over workspaces were also introduced to grant admins access to any user's workspace contents, assign capacity for all existing and new workspaces, and prevent users from shifting workspace capacities. An automated migration tool was launched for those managing Power BI reports that live connect to Azure Analysis Services, facilitating and speeding up the migration process.

Microsoft's vision of a data-driven future, where every individual, team, and organization can access valuable data insights, is embodied in the innovations within its leading BI service. Their endless efforts have yet again earned them the title of a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for the sixteenth consecutive year.

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It is with great pleasure that we announce for the 16th year in a row, Microsoft has once again emerged as a leader in the sector of analytics and business intelligence according to Gartner's magic quadrant 2023. Among all the competitors, Microsoft has been ranked furthest to the right based on its completeness of vision, and highest in executing those visions. This makes it their fifth year in a row securing this position.

Power BI, Microsoft's flagship business intelligence tool, plays a significant role in this achievement. This comprehensive platform allows users to derive actionable insights from their data efficiently. The application’s success is largely due to the invaluable feedback and support of the millions of user-community members, whose inputs have shaped it over time, making it intuitive and user friendly.

In the past year, there has been an onslaught of innovative enhancements and added features to the BI tool, making data analysis and value extraction an extended capability of every individual, team, and organization.


  • For enthusiastic report builders, new features have been introduced, like datamarts in the Microsoft Power BI premium self-service agency and data model editing in BI service, to make analysis quicker and more efficient.

  • Teams can now share insights and make informed decisions with improved integrations across the Microsoft suite for Power BI. You can directly insert Power BI reports in PowerPoint and even add them to Outlook emails as descriptive cards. Collaborative efforts are now much simplified with Power BI files saved to OneDrive and SharePoint and readily editable from those platforms.

  • From an organizational perspective, more excellent governance control has been established with extended data loss protection (DLP) policies and more robust controls over workspace capacity. An automated migration tool for live connection reports to Azure Analysis Services has also been added to aid organizations in managing data complexity.


Many reputed organizations like Walmart, T-Mobile, and Bayer are turning their data into immediate impact across their teams using these features. You can stay up-to-date with all the latest feature releases by following the monthly features summaries on the business intelligence blog and YouTube channel. We recommend you get your copy of the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms to understand why we have consistently been recognized as a leader in this field.

Note that Gartner's findings are the opinion of their research organization, and they do not necessarily endorse any particular vendor nor do they advise users to select only vendors with the highest ratings. Therefore, any research should be studied in its entirety to take an informed decision.

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