The Forrester Wave™ Product Information Management Q2 2021 is out.
In here, Forrester has identified the in their eyes 10 most significant solutions — Akeneo, Contentserv, IBM, Informatica, inRiver, Riversand, Salsify, Stibo Systems, Syndigo, and Winshuttle — and researched, analyzed, and scored them.
The previous PIM wave from 2018 was examined here on the blog in the post There is no PIM quadrant, but there is a PIM wave.
Here is the new one and the old one:
So, what is status quo and what has changed?
Status Quo
Stibo Systems is still close to the right top corner and thereby cementing their role as a leader in PIM.
Informatica still has a dysfunctional relationship with Forrester and has not participated in this report either. This has not helped with their positioning in the ranking.
IBM is still in the lower rankings.
Changed
Salsify has moved up and grown.
Riversand has moved up and grown a bit – and has been accompanied by Syndigo who by the way just bought them today.
Enterworks, now as part of Winshuttle, has moved down – but grown.
Contentserv has moved down and shrunk. So has inRiver.
Akeneo has entered the PIM wave.
SAP and Agility Multichannel (now part of Magnitude) has been dropped from this report.
Missing
Compared to Gartner, who only has a Master Data Management (MDM) Quadrant, Via Medici is a major MDM/PIM player missing in this report.
