There’s a reason Tableau has been a leader for eight years in a row in the annual Gartner Magic Quadrant, which recognises the best analytics and business intelligence platforms. It’s simply the world’s most powerful tool for helping people view and understand their data.

And as data becomes the greatest asset of the 21st century, it’s vital that forward-thinking companies don’t get left behind. If you know how to process and unlock the secrets of data through powerful visualisation and interactive solutions, you already have one foot in the future.

If data is the modern world’s greatest asset, it makes sense that forward-thinking businesses treat their data like shares — and making them available to employees. Alteryx is the leading platform in the ever-evolving world of Analytic Process Automation, which aims to empower virtually anyone in a given organisation to become part of the overall data analysis process. If each worker is able to make incremental data connections and deductions, the holistic benefits are immense.

AWS is a cloud platform that allows you to set up your business analytics software and deploy it in the cloud. Increasingly, businesses are incorporating a cloud first data strategy as it improves centralised management, reduces capital expenditure and allows them to scale applications as more users are deployed throughout their business. As well as the ability to handle a much larger throughput of customers and reports, AWS offers security and resilience and can easily be upgraded or restored as required.

The days of data warehouses in vast data centres filled with expensive hardware are long gone for most organisations. Snowflake is a leading cloud-based data warehouse platform, with no need to install hardware or set-up and support in-house servers. And even without physical expansion it’s still breaking down walls — Snowflake lets you scale your data storage and computation independently, so you can pay for each separately.