Northern Light is a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Competitive and Market Intelligence Platforms. Get the complimentary reprint and read the full evaluation.
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The moment
Strategy teams are asked to deliver evidence, on a deadline, for decisions that carry real weight. That’s a workload no dashboard was built to carry. It’s what Northern Light has been built for.
Our point of view
Research structured for the next meeting — not the next quarterly review. Decision-ready briefs land in inboxes, not BI tools.
Every claim carries its source and citation. Nothing is generated without a trail your governance team can defend.
Northern Light fits inside your governance posture — content rights, retention, identity. It does not route around them.
What’s inside
The 2026 Magic Quadrant is the first formal evaluation of CMI as its own category. Use it to brief leadership, defend a budget, or shortlist a vendor.
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See exactly where Northern Light sits in the Magic Quadrant — and the analyst rationale.
Strengths and cautions across providers in Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.
How Gartner® defines Competitive & Market Intelligence Platforms — and what to evaluate.
How vendors performed against critical CMI use cases enterprises actually run.
The forces reshaping CMI and why the category is being formalized now.
A framework for selecting a CMI platform that fits your governance and workflow.
The research
Read the research, see the full evaluation, and draw your own conclusions.
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Source: Gartner®, April 2026. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document.
Northern Light gave our intelligence team something dashboards never could — a defensible answer, with sources, on the timeline our executives actually work in.