The most visible business intelligence tools in France, October 2026

October 2026 · 15 questions asked from France in French and English · ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Google AI Mode · 60 answers read

Leader

Power BI

40Heralded Score, range 30–73

Most cited source

youtube.com

14citations

From Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews

Where engines disagree most

Sage

1/4engines put it in their top three

Top three on Gemini, not on Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT

Brands

Rank Brand Rank change Heralded Score All AI Search Score trend Mentioned Recommended By engine Mentioned by Change
– Knowage Unranked Too few answers Not measured 0= #30
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– Lightdash GB Unranked Too few answers Not measured 0= #30
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– Logi Symphony US Unranked Too few answers Not measured 0= #30
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– Luzmo BE Unranked Too few answers Not measured 1= #24
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– MicroStrategy ONE US Unranked Too few answers Not measured 0= #30
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– minubo DE Unranked Too few answers Not measured 0= #30
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– Mode US Unranked Too few answers Not measured 0= #30
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– Panintelligence GB Unranked Too few answers Not measured 0= #30
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– Pentaho US Unranked Too few answers Not measured 3= #12
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– Phocas AU Unranked Too few answers Not measured 0= #30
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading

“=” marks brands whose score ranges overlap, so the test cannot separate them. Every brand named in at least three answers is ranked. AI and Search give each brand’s score and rank on that side alone. By engine has one dot per engine (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Google AI Mode), darker the more often it names the brand.

Most cited sources

Rank Source Type Cited in Engines Pages cited Brands its pages mention
1 youtube.com Social 11.7% 2 of 4 13 Not read
2 francenum.gouv.fr Regulator 6.7% 1 of 4 9 1
3 linkedin.com Social 5.0% 1 of 4 8 Not read
4 bpifrance-creation.fr Regulator 6.7% 3 of 4 2 Not read
5 pennylane.com Vendor site 1.7% 1 of 4 5 Not read
6 reddit.com Community 5.0% 2 of 4 5 Not read
7 hubspot.fr Vendor site 5.0% 2 of 4 4 Not read
8 solutions-business-intelligence.fr Vendor site 5.0% 2 of 4 4 Not read
9 apogea.fr Consultancy 5.0% 3 of 4 1 8
10 altimisgroup.fr Consultancy 3.3% 2 of 4 1 6

Questions asked

QuestionLanguageMost recommended
best business intelligence tools for small businesses English Google Looker Studio
business intelligence tools for finance teams English Looker, Metabase, Microsoft Power BI Premium, Power BI, Sigma Computing, Tableau and ThoughtSpot, tied
how can a finance team spot spending trends across departments English No brand recommended
how can a sales team see which regions are missing targets English No brand recommended
spreadsheets vs dashboards for small business owners English Google Looker Studio, Looker, Google Looker Studio, Microsoft Power BI Premium and Power BI, tied

Each engine's top three

Method

Each leaderboard ranks brands on two sides. AI is how ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode answer the board's buyer questions. Search is Google's top 10 results for the keywords behind those questions. All combines the two, where Search is measured.

For the AI side, each month Heralded asks every engine the same buyer questions, twice each, and reads every answer. An answer counts 0 for a brand it leaves out, 50 for a brand it names and 100 for a brand it recommends, and the Heralded Score is built from those. A brand named in at least three answers gets a score and a place.

How the leaderboards are measured