TIBCO

TIBCO by sennchi

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TIBCO Software

TIBCO Software is based in Palo Alto, California, U.S. Building on its presence in the analytics and BI sector, TIBCO entered the data science and machine-learning market by acquiring the well-established Statistica platform from Quest Software in June 2017. Additionally, in November 2017, TIBCO announced the acquisition of Alpine Data, a Visionary in the prior Magic Quadrant. In terms of Ability to Execute, this Magic Quadrant evaluates only TIBCO's ability with the Statistica platform. Other acquisitions by TIBCO contribute only to its Completeness of Vision.

TIBCO enters this Magic Quadrant as a Challenger. The Statistica platform has a large and mature customer base, and received high scores for the three most typical use cases: business exploration, advanced prototyping and production refinement.

STRENGTHS

• **Aggressive expansion: **TIBCO acquired both Statistica and Alpine Data in 2017. Its vision for integrating these acquisitions into the TIBCO analytics ecosystem is developing rapidly, and TIBCO has many strong brands with well-tested functionality to weave together.

• **Operationalization capabilities: **TIBCO's Statistica platform received excellent scores for aspects of its delivery (write-back, recoding and code synthesis, for example), automation (the model factory, for instance) and model management (metadata management, versioning and champion/challenger testing, for example). Together, these produced a top-quartile score for the production refinement use case. TIBCO also scored in the top quartile for the business exploration and advanced-prototyping use cases.

• **"Connected Intelligence" strategy and IoT support: **TIBCO's Connected Intelligence strategy and accompanying products offer a strong ecosystem for IoT use cases. Statistica was already recognized for its excellent support for IoT and edge analytics, and the platform will benefit from TIBCO's middleware and event-processing expertise, as well as from the capabilities acquired from Alpine Data.

• **Breadth of customer support: **TIBCO received high scores from reference customers for its support and service for onboarding, troubleshooting, analytic training and technique selection. They also gave it excellent scores for overall integration and deployment, and overall service and support.

CAUTIONS

• **Statistica's recent history of ownership change: **In the past four years, the Statistica platform has moved from Statsoft to Dell to Quest and on to TIBCO. The vision for the platform has understandably changed several times. It remains to be seen whether Statistica has finally found a permanent home that will support a long-term strategy.

• **Performance and scalability: **The Statistica platform received one of the lowest overall scores from reference customers for performance and scalability. Further integration with TIBCO products and components could address this shortcoming, however.

• **Cloud-native capabilities: **Statistica needs stronger cloud-native capabilities. With its acquisition of Alpine Data, TIBCO indicated its intent to merge Alpine's cloud capabilities with Statistica's functionality, but this work is still in its early stages.

• **End-to-end platform integration: **Although TIBCO's acquisitions bring much-needed capabilities and strong assets, seamless integration of these assets will be a challenge for some organizations.