Congratulations to everyone on the Microsoft BI team on the news today that the company has attained a well-deserved leaders quadrant for the newest Gartner Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant!  You can read the press release on the news here.  Some of the noteworthy praise that we can publicly share includes:

"According to the Gartner Inc. report, "Leaders are vendors that are reasonably strong in the breadth and depth of their BI platform capabilities, and can deliver on enterprisewide implementations that support a broad BI strategy.  Leaders articulate a business proposition that resonates with buyers, supported by the viability and operational capability to deliver on a global basis."

Nice quote from Bill Baker in the press release as well--Bill is part of the BI Leadership Team at Microsoft, and specifically heads up the PerformancePoint development team (among many other noteworthy hats!):

"We are honored to be recognized in the Leaders Quadrant.  Over the years we've worked hard to deliver innovative and compelling BI technology and solutions that bring value to our customers," said Bill Baker, general manager business intelligence, Microsoft Office Business Platform, and Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft (ed. note--see, we told you he had lots of hats).  "Our customers' confidence in our integrated BI solution motivates us to continue our investments in business intelligence.  We believe our placement in the Leaders Quadrant highlights the success of our recent innovations as well as our vision to provide BI capabilities to everyone in our clients' organization, not just a chosen few."

Along with the data warehousing and performance management results in the past several months, there's a lot of great news coming out from the company these days, and congratulations are in order to everyone across all the product teams, references, marketing, analyst relations, and everyone else that worked so hard to achieve this accomplishment.