Microsoft, Amazon and Intel Listed as Visionary Leaders by 360Quadrants for AI Platform

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Microsoft, Amazon and Intel Listed as Visionary
Leaders by 360Quadrants for AI Platform
360Quadrants powered by MarketsandMarkets, the
worlds only comparison platform that combines
expert analysis with crowdsourced insights has
released a quadrant on Artificial Intelligence
Platform to help businesses make quicker and
more informed decisions. The first release of the
quadrant has Microsoft, Amazon, and Intel
sharing space as Visionary Leaders. 360Quadrants
are generated post analysis of companies
(product portfolios and business strategy).
Quadrants will be updated every three months,
and the position of vendors will reflect how
buyers, industry experts, and other vendors rate
them on different parameters. Quadrant
highlights 50 companies offering artificial
intelligence platform were analyzed of which 25
companies were shortlisted and categorized on a
quadrant under Visionary Leaders, Innovators,
Dynamic Differentiators, and Emerging
Leaders. Microsoft Azure AI, Amazon ML platform
services, Intel Nervana Platform, Google Cloud
Machine Learning Engine, IBM Watson, SAP Leonardo
Machine Learning, Salesforce Einstein suite, and
Qualcomm have been identified as visionary
leaders as they have established product
portfolios and a robust market presence and
business strategy. Ayasdi, Absolutdata NAVIK AI
platform, Oracle, and SAS have been identified as
innovators as they have focused product
portfolios, but a mediocre business
strategy. BigML, Artificial Solutions,
CrowdFlower, Kasisto, msg.ai, Rainbird
Technologies, Vital AI, ASI Data Science,
RapidMiner, and DataRobot have been identified as
emerging companies as they have a niche product
offering but poor business strategy. HPE C3 AI
Suite, Infosys Nia, and Wipro Holmes have been
recognized as dynamic differentiators. The
360Quadrants platform provides the most granular
top AI platform between vendors. Methodology Th
e methodology used to rank Best AI software
companies involved the use of extensive
secondary research to identify key vendors by
referring to annual reports, press releases,
investor presentations, white papers, and various
related directories and databases. 25 key
vendors were shortlisted on the basis of their
breadth of product offerings, organization size,
and other criteria. The scores and weights for
shortlisted vendors against each parameter were
finalized post research. After the ratings were
finalized, each vendor was placed in respective
quadrants based on their score in the product
offering and business strategy parameters.
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About 360Quadrants 360Quadrants essentially
compares companies in emerging technologies on 6
broad maturities product maturity, company
maturity, use-case maturity, investment
maturity, technology maturity, and business
outcome maturity. Each company is reviewed by 4
stakeholdersbuyers, industry experts, other
vendors, and MarketsandMarkets analyststo make
it unbiased. 360 aims to simplify and de-risk
complex purchase decisions. Buyers get to
personalize their quadrant against their
specific needs. The combined insights from peers,
analysts, experts, and vendors cut the bias and
helps the buyer find the best fit solution.
Vendors get to position themselves to win ideal
new customers, customize their quadrants, decide
key parameters, and position themselves
strategically in a niche space, to be consumed
by giants and start-ups alike. Experts get to
grow their personal brand and increase their
thought leadership. The 360 platform targets the
building of a social network that links industry
experts with companies worldwide. 360Quadrants
has also launched quadrants in fields like
Application Modernization services, AI in
Fintech solutions, and Cognitive Analytics
solutions. About MarketsandMarkets MarketsandMa
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