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Organizations that make a higher proportion of business decisions based on data stand to gain competitive advantage, responding faster to worker and customer demands for more innovative, data-rich applications and personalized experiences. The need for organizations to operate smarter requires insights derived from analytics through process and technology. Organizations of all sizes and industries are challenged to manage, govern, and process an increasing torrent of data generated in many formats by a multitude of disparate sources, while at the same time increasing analytic agility and accelerating business decision-making through the use of discovery, machine learning, predictive analytics and visualization, as well as generative AI. Doing so requires cultural and organizational, change, as well as the adoption of new technologies that enable new approaches to increase the value derived from the accumulated data. ISG Software Research offers research-based guidance on the use of artificial intelligence to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness. Embracing the changes of this dynamic market segment is required to maintain competitiveness and to achieve performance goals throughout the organization. ISG Software Research can help.
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The ISG Buyers Guide for AI and Data Platforms Rates and Ranks Software Providers
ISG Research offers market observations and overall results from the AI and Data Platforms Buyers Guides for artificial intelligence software products.
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The ISG Buyers Guide for Cloud-Native AI and Data Platforms Rates and Ranks Software Providers
ISG Research offers market observations and overall results from the Cloud-Native AI and Data Platforms Buyers Guides for artificial intelligence software products.
Market Perspective
IBM Earns Artificial Intelligence Digital Innovation Award for 2024
IBM Earns ISG Research Artificial Intelligence Digital Innovation Award for 2024.
Analyst Perspective
Detecting and Preventing Bias: A Crucial Element of AI Governance
Prioritize the creation of fair, transparent and trustworthy AI systems by establishing committed, consistent AI governance processes.
Analyst Perspective
Avoiding Toxicity in Generative AI
LLMs can produce toxic content, but prevention practices include curating the data used to train models and using AI to test model accuracy.
White Paper
Integrating GenAI into Software Development
This paper combines the industry standard frameworks for Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) with multiple surveys and interviews conducted by ISG to assess the impact of GenAI on software development.
Analyst Perspective
Market Observations on AI Governance
AI platform providers fortifying AI governance capabilities to build trust in models, safeguard data, establish catalogs to improve business processes.
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The Buyers Guides for AI Platforms Classifies and Rates Software Providers
Ventana Research offers market observations and overall results from the AI Platforms Buyers Guides for artificial intelligence software products.
Analyst Perspective
Google Expands AI Capabilities at Cloud Next ’24
Google advances AI capabilities to deliver innovative GenAI experiences across its platform, along with improved performance, scalability and security.
Analyst Perspective
Salesforce Wants Everyone to be an Einstein with AI
Einstein 1 Studio targets those building AI, with the objective of making more functionality available to end users of Salesforce applications.
Analyst Perspective
AI Innovations in Data and Analytics at SAP
Upgraded capabilities, improved integrations at center of enhancements to SAP platform to streamline enterprise data and analytics processes.
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Revolutionize Your Analytics with Artificial Intelligence
BI vendors that embrace GenAI help improve productivity for everyone who works with data.
Analyst Perspective
Refocus on AI, Skill-Building for the Greatest Operational Impact
While GenAI offers promise, AI/ML can deliver high-value use cases now if enterprises focus on building skills and mastering the technology.
Analyst Perspective
As Interest in AI Scales, So Does Domino Data Lab
Domino Enterprise AI platform encompasses all aspects of model development and deployment to help enterprises build and operate AI at scale.
Analyst Perspective
Look Out: Computer Vision in AI is Coming Into Sight
Advances in computer vision are enabling enterprises to expand use cases and build the skills necessary to maximize value from unstructured data.
Analyst Perspective
Generative AI Makes Natural Language Analytics a Reality
Generative AI boosts natural language analytics beyond just queries to include data preparation and governance, and generate SQL, reports and dashboards.
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2024 Market Agenda for Artificial Intelligence: Improving Productivity and Experiences
The 2024 Market Agenda for Artificial Intelligence will help enterprises form a strategy to realize the full business value of AI and process automation.
Analyst Perspective
Actian Accelerates Insight with Unified Cloud Data Platform
Actian combines storage and processing with data ingestion, integration and transformation to speed access to data and deliver informed business decisions.
Analyst Perspective
Explorium Facilitates the Use of External Data for Analytics and AI
Explorium helps customers better integrate external data to accelerate the development of analytics projects and machine learning models.
Analyst Perspective
Avoiding the Complexity and Cost of the Modern Data Stack
The desire to choose among software tools gave rise to the modern data stack, but consolidated platforms may offer cost-effective data management support.
Analyst Perspective
Oracle Evolves Database Services for Generative AI and Multi-Cloud
Through a partnership with Microsoft, Oracle Database@Azure expands the reach of Oracle’s database and generative AI capabilities to multi-cloud users.
Market Perspective
Precisely is Vendor of Merit in Data Observability Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on Data Observability evaluates Precisely.
Market Perspective
Collibra is Exemplary in Data Observability Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on Data Observability evaluates Collibra.
Analyst Perspective
Boomi Promotes Business-Focused Integration Modernization
Boomi Platform’s suite of services optimizes the development, deployment and management of integrations.
Market Perspective
Acceldata is Innovative in Data Observability Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on Data Observability evaluates Acceldata.
Market Perspective
Monte Carlo is Exemplary in Data Observability Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on Data Observability evaluates Monte Carlo.
Market Perspective
Rivery is Vendor of Merit in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates Rivery.
Market Perspective
Stonebranch is Vendor of Merit in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates Stonebranch.
Analyst Perspective
MongoDB Targets Relational and Generative AI Workloads
MongoDB provides support for generative AI, compatibility with key relational database features and can facilitate migration from the relational model.
Market Perspective
Prefect is Vendor of Merit in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates Prefect.
Market Perspective
Infoworks.io is Vendor of Merit in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates Infoworks.io.
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Y42 is Vendor of Merit in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates Y42.
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Hitachi Vantara is Vendor of Merit in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates Hitachi Vantara.
Analyst Perspective
The Key Value of Database Simplicity
Key-value stores are quick, flexible and efficient when handling simple queries.
Market Perspective
Astronomer is Vendor of Merit in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates Astronomer.
Market Perspective
Matillion is Vendor of Assurance in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates Matillion.
Market Perspective
StreamSets is Vendor of Merit in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates StreamSets.
Market Perspective
AWS is Exemplary in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates AWS.
Viewpoint
Accelerating Insight with Unified Data Platforms
The combination of cloud computing and advanced analytics has lowered the cost of storing and processing large volumes of data with a view to identifying new business opportunities and responding to competitive threats.
Market Perspective
SAP is Exemplary in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates SAP.
Analyst Perspective
Snowflake Expands Data Platform with Container Services
Snowflake’s cloud-based analytic platform supports a complex, interconnected ecosystem of data and analytic workloads, applications and cloud services.
Market Perspective
BMC is Exemplary in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates BMC.
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Google is Exemplary in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates Google.
Market Perspective
Databricks is Exemplary in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates Databricks.
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Alteryx is Exemplary in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates Alteryx.
Market Perspective
Microsoft is Exemplary in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates Microsoft.
Analyst Perspective
Vector Search and RAG Improve Trust in Generative AI
Organizations can increase trust of generative AI models using vector search and retrieval-augmented generation to incorporate proprietary data.
Market Perspective
DataKitchen is Exemplary in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates DataKitchen.
Market Perspective
IBM is Exemplary in DataOps Buyers Guide
Ventana Research’s 2023 Buyers Guide on DataOps evaluates IBM.
Analyst Perspective
The Buyers Guide for Data Observability Classifies and Rates Vendors
The Data Observability Buyers Guide 2023 gauges how well offerings from seven vendors match buyers’ requirements for data observability software products.
Analyst Perspective
Data Observability Buyers Guide: Market Observations
Ventana Research offers market observations from the Data Observability Buyers Guide 2023 for data observability software products.
Analyst Perspective
The Buyers Guide for Data Orchestration Classifies and Rates Vendors
The Data Orchestration Buyers Guide 2023 gauges how well offerings from 19 vendors match buyers’ requirements for data orchestration software products.
Analyst Perspective
Data Orchestration Buyers Guide: Market Observations
Ventana Research offers market observations from the Data Orchestration Buyers Guide 2023 for data orchestration software products.
Analyst Perspective
The Buyers Guide for Data Pipelines Classifies and Rates Vendors
The Data Pipelines Buyers Guide 2023 gauges how well offerings from 18 vendors match buyers’ requirements for data pipelines software products.
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Data Pipelines Buyers Guide: Market Observations
Ventana Research offers market observations from the Data Pipelines Buyers Guide 2023 for data software products.
Analyst Perspective
The Buyers Guide for DataOps Classifies and Rates Vendors
The DataOps Buyers Guide 2023 gauges how well offerings from 18 vendors match buyers’ requirements for DataOps software products.
Analyst Perspective
Databricks Utilizes Unity Catalog to Support Generative AI Development
Databricks has expanded its Lakehouse Platform functionality to include generative AI, combining data and AI for more efficient development of models.
Analyst Perspective
DataOps Buyers Guide: Market Observations
Ventana Research offers market observations from the DataOps Buyers Guide 2023 for data operations software products.
Viewpoint
Accelerating Business Transformation with Cloud-Native Databases
Real-time data processing and intelligence are becoming essential in the development of intelligent enterprise applications that deliver content and recommendations driven by predictive and generative AI.
Analyst Perspective
Cloudera Facilitates Versatility with Enterprise Data and AI
The Cloudera Data Platform provides versatility to support multiple workloads, AI/ML, deployment locations and architectural approaches.
Analyst Perspective
Generative AI Boosts Value Creation with Outcome-Led Data Integration
Generative AI and large language models facilitate outcome-driven data integration to increase automation, accuracy, agility and enhanced business value.
Analyst Perspective
Microsoft Fabric Stitches Together Data and Analytics
Microsoft Fabric offers targeted user experiences within a single, unified platform for data integration, processing and analytics.
Analyst Perspective
Incorta Empowers Data Delivery and Analysis for Business
Incorta’s unified data platform with real-time operational analytics capabilities delivers agile data processing to support informed decision-making.
Analyst Perspective
Confluent’s Streaming Analytics Expands Stream Processing Use Cases
With the acquisition of Immerok, Confluent can address the full spectrum of operational and analytic stream processing use cases.
Analyst Perspective
EDA with Events Brokers Enable Stream Processing
Event brokers are fundamental enablers of event-driven architecture, which supports stream processing for real-time business processes and insights.
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The Missing Element in the Data Stack: Automation
Organizations are modernizing their data stacks to handle increasing demands on their data, from a growing number of data sources to changing market conditions.
Analyst Perspective
IBM’s Watsonx Provides a Foundation for Generative AI
Watsonx is a comprehensive platform from IBM that supports an enterprise’s strategic adoption of machine learning and foundation models for AI development.
Analyst Perspective
DataStax Adds Vector Search to Address Generative AI
DataStax has enhanced its data platforms by incorporating streaming data, machine learning and vector search to address generative AI.
Analyst Perspective
Explore Document Databases for Application Agility
Flexible document databases are suitable for new application development as well as replacements for applications that depend on relational databases.
Analyst Perspective
SingleStore Highlights Multi-Format Data Storage for Vector Search
SingleStore supports hybrid data processing and multi-format data storage to allow for real-time analytic functionality and vector search.
Analyst Perspective
Fivetran Automates Data Movement and Transformation
Fivetran’s software simplifies and automates data movement and transformation via cloud-based extract, load and transform data pipelines.
Analyst Perspective
How Data Observability and Data Quality Achieve Data Management
Data quality and data observability software products are complementary and combine to deliver comprehensive data management.
Analyst Perspective
CelerData Enables Real-Time Analytics for the Data Lakehouse
CelerData offers a flexible data analytics platform that queries operational applications and the data lakehouse in real time.
Analyst Perspective
Yugabyte Facilitates Migration to Distributed SQL Database
YugabyteDB Voyager assists in assessing migration readiness, analyzing schema complexity for planning, optimizing and conducting data and database migration.
Analyst Perspective
SAP Datasphere Simplifies Management and Use of Distributed Data
SAP Datasphere provides data warehousing plus additional capabilities for managing and processing data across a distributed architecture.
Analyst Perspective
Large Language Models and Generative AI: Beware Misplaced Trust
Content generated by large language models and generative AI can be remarkably coherent, but there is no guarantee that the content is factual or accurate.
Market Perspective
Ascend.io Earns Data Digital Innovation Award for 2023
Ascend.io takes home the 2023 Data Digital Innovation Award for its efficient, single-platform approach to data pipeline monitoring and management.
Viewpoint
Delivering Increased Business Value from Observability with Open Standards
Collecting, monitoring and correlating the telemetry data generated by computing infrastructure and applications along with business data is essential to operating as a digitally focused organization.
Analyst Perspective
Improve Trust in Data with Master Data Management
Applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to master data management software helps make data more accessible, usable and trusted.
Analyst Perspective
Snowflake Expands Beyond Analytics in the Cloud
Snowflake’s Data Cloud will soon provide access to data across workloads in the cloud or on premises to support an increasing range of use cases.
Analyst Perspective
MongoDB’s Atlas Delivers Data-Driven Applications
MongoDB’s Atlas combines a flexible document database with broad development and integration functionality to support the use of intelligent applications.
Analyst Perspective
Tame Telemetry Data with Mezmo Observability Pipeline
Gain greater business insight from (business and) telemetry data using Mezmo’s Telemetry Pipeline to automatically centralize, unify and transform data.
Analyst Perspective
Seek Solace for Event-Driven Architectures and Applications
Organizations looking to invest in, and benefit from, event-driven architecture should consider Solace’s comprehensive event-streaming, management platform.
Analyst Perspective
Reltio Simplifies Connecting Data with Master Data Management
Reltio offers MDM products designed to help customers improve trust in data by unifying and cleansing complex data from multiple sources in real time.
Analyst Perspective
DataOps: Understanding the Definition and Differentiation
Defining DataOps: what it is, what it isn’t, and how this approach ensures the quality, flexibility and reliability of data engineering processes.
Analyst Perspective
Alation’s Data Governance Accelerates Data Intelligence
Alation’s data catalog uses automation and machine learning to support data governance, paving the way for self-service analytics.
Analyst Perspective
Streaming Databases Enable Continuous Analysis and Data Persistence
Streaming databases help organizations gain a big-picture view of both historical and real-time data to advance data-driven decision-making.
Analyst Perspective
AWS Enables Data Democratization with Amazon DataZone
Amazon DataZone enables business teams to create data products, facilitates self-service data discovery and accelerates data democratization initiatives.
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Empowering Data & AI Practitioners with Modern Data Integration
In today’s competitive business environment, organizations must effectively harness and maximize the power of data to be successful.
Analyst Perspective
Cockroach Labs Promotes Developer Efficiency for Distributed Databases
CockroachDB increases compatibility with existing database tools and skills to enable developers to work efficiently with distributed data processing.
Analyst Perspective
Exasol Accelerates Analytics With an In-Memory Database
Exasol offers an in-memory database to accelerate analytics on an existing data warehouse, or to unify data from multiple analytic data platforms.
Analyst Perspective
Explore Graph Databases for Better Relationships
Adoption of graph databases may get a boost from increased standardization, as well as user interfaces targeted at developers and data scientists.
Market Perspective
Redis Is Vendor of Assurance in Operational Data Platforms Value Index
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Redis.
Market Perspective
DataStax Is Vendor of Merit in Operational Data Platforms Value Index
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates DataStax.
Market Perspective
Neo4j Is a Vendor of Merit in Operational Data Platforms Value Index
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Neo4j.
Market Perspective
Cockroach Labs Is a Vendor of Merit in Operational Data Platforms Value Index
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Cockroach Labs.
Market Perspective
Snowflake Is a Vendor of Merit in Analytic Data Platforms Value Index
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Snowflake.
Market Perspective
EDB Is a Vendor of Merit in Data Platforms Value Indexes
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates EDB.
Analyst Perspective
Promethium Provides Data Fabric and Self-Service for Speed to Insights
Promethium provides data fabric and self-service augmented analytics to accelerate time to insight from disparate and distributed data sources.
Market Perspective
PingCAP Is a Vendor of Merit in Data Platforms Value Indexes
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates PingCAP.
Market Perspective
SingleStore Is a Vendor of Merit in Data Platforms Value Indexes
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates SingleStore.
Market Perspective
Databricks Is a Vendor of Assurance and a Leader in Analytic Data Platforms Value Index
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Databricks.
Analyst Perspective
Soda Provides Collaborative Approach to Data Observability
Soda’s data observability software helps data teams and data consumers work collaboratively, building trust in data to boost value, improve decision-making.
Market Perspective
MariaDB Is a Vendor of Merit and a Leader in Data Platforms Value Indexes
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates MariaDB.
Market Perspective
Cloudera Is a Vendor of Merit in Data Platforms Value Indexes
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Cloudera.
Analyst Perspective
Data-Intensive Applications Need Real-Time Analytic Processing
The growing use of data-intensive operational applications reinforces the need for organizations to adopt real-time analytic processing.
Market Perspective
MongoDB Is Exemplary in Operational Data Platforms Value Index
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates MongoDB.
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Real-Time Intelligent Applications: The Art of the Possible
Data is a fundamental enabler of new business processes and applications, allowing organizations to deliver contextually relevant recommendations, predictions and forecasting to customers and workers, increasing efficiency and improving customer serv
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Getting the Most Value from Telemetry Data
Monitoring telemetry data and computing infrastructure through observability platforms is challenging but key to detecting issues and acting quickly to remedy failures and performance problems.
Market Perspective
Micro Focus Is Innovative and a Leader in Analytic Data Platforms Value Index
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Micro Focus.
Market Perspective
Google Is a Vendor of Assurance and a Leader in Data Platforms Value Indexes
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Google.
Analyst Perspective
Tamr Directs Data Integrity
Tamr’s master data management software uses AI/ML to overcome the challenges of maintaining data quality amid the growing volume and variety of data.
Market Perspective
Couchbase Is Innovative in Operational Data Platforms Value Index
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Couchbase.
Market Perspective
Amazon Web Services Is Exemplary and a Leader in Data Platforms Value Indexes
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Amazon Web Services.
Market Perspective
SAP Is Exemplary and a Leader in Data Platforms Value Indexes
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates SAP.
Market Perspective
Actian Is Innovative and a Leader in Data Platforms Value Indexes
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Actian.
Market Perspective
Teradata Is Innovative and a Leader in Analytic Data Platforms Value Index
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Teradata.
Market Perspective
Microsoft Is Exemplary and a Leader in Data Platforms Value Indexes
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on data platforms evaluates Microsoft.
Analyst Perspective
SnapLogic Promotes Intelligent Automation for All
SnapLogic’s Intelligent Integration Platform simplifies and accelerates data integration to make data conveniently available to decision-makers.
Market Perspective
InterSystems Is Exemplary and a Leader in Data Platforms Value Indexes
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on data platforms evaluates InterSystems.
Market Perspective
Oracle Is Exemplary and a Leader in Data Platforms Value Indexes
Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on data platforms evaluates Oracle.
Analyst Perspective
Analytic Data Platforms Ranked and Rated for 2023
The 2023 Analytic Data Platforms Value Index uses a structured methodology to assess how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.
Market Perspective
IBM Is Exemplary and a Leader in Data Platforms Value Indexes
IBM leads the field in Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Indexes on data platforms, receiving high marks across analytic, operational and overall evaluations.
Analyst Perspective
The 2023 Analytic Data Platforms Value Index: Market Observations
Analyst Matt Aslett shares observations on the evolution of the analytic data platforms market and the implications for analytics applications.
Analyst Perspective
Operational Data Platforms: Which Software Best Meets Your Needs?
The 2023 Operational Data Platforms Value Index uses a structured methodology to assess how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.
Analyst Perspective
2023 Market Agenda for Data: Accelerating Data Agility
The 2023 Market Agenda for Data will explore smarter methods for using data effectively, providing insights to guide decision-making.
Analyst Perspective
2023 Operational Data Platforms Value Index: Observations and Insights
Analyst Matt Aslett shares his observations on the evolution of the operational data platforms market and the implications for operational applications.
Analyst Perspective
The Vendor Assessment Guide for Data Platforms: Ranked and Rated
The 2023 Data Platforms Value Index uses a structured methodology to assess how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.
Analyst Perspective
Acceldata Enables Data Observability
Acceldata monitors and manages the reliability of data pipelines and data infrastructure by addressing data infrastructure scaling and performance issues.
Analyst Perspective
2023 Data Platforms Value Index: Market Observations and Insights
Analyst Matt Aslett shares his observations on the evolution of the data platforms market as vendors advance products in response to customer demands.
Analyst Perspective
InterSystems Transforming Organizations with Cloud Smart Data Fabric
InterSystems’ cloud data platform supports easy integration, connects data and application silos and provides database management, analytics capabilities.
Analyst Perspective
The Data Pantry Accelerates Actionable Analytics for Decision-Making
An organized, well-stocked data pantry reduces time spent on data preparation, incorporates a wide range of data sources and accelerates analysis, insights.
Analyst Perspective
Exploring the Case for Distributed SQL Databases
Distributed SQL databases support operational workloads used to run the business, providing scalability and resiliency necessary for business continuity.
Buyers Guide
Analytic Data Platforms Value Index 2023
This Value Index report evaluates the following vendors which offer products that are considered analytic data platforms as we define it: Actian, Amazon Web Services, Cloudera, Databricks, EDB, Google, IBM, MariaDB, Micro Focus, Microsoft, Oracle, SA
Buyers Guide
Operational Data Platforms 2023 Value Index
This Value Index market report evaluates the following vendors which offer products that are considered operational data platforms as we define it: Actian, Amazon Web Services, Cloudera, Cockroach Labs, Couchbase, DataStax, EDB, Google, IBM, InterSys
Buyers Guide
Data Platforms 2023 Value Index
This Value Index report evaluates the following vendors that offer products that address key elements of data platforms to support a combination of both operational and analytic workloads: Actian, Amazon Web Services, Cloudera, EDB, Google, IBM, Inte
Analyst Perspective
Monte Carlo Bets on the Future of Data Observability
To speed data-quality review and get to analysis faster, consider data observability software that uses AI/ML and automation to monitor data.
Market Perspective
Oldcastle Infrastructure Earns Digital Leadership Award with Fivetran
Oldcastle Infrastructure earned the 2022 Annual Digital Leadership Award in Data for using Fivetran to transform into a data-driven organization.
Analyst Perspective
SQream if You Want to Analyze Data Faster
By accelerating every stage of the analytics life cycle, organizations can achieve the greatest impact in lowering time to insight.
Podcast
Explore Data Fabrics with Ventana Research and Tableau
Today’s episode features David Menninger, SVP & Research Director of Technology Research at Ventana Research, talking with Volker Metten and Jeremy Siewert of Tableau about data fabrics, data catalogues, and effective governance for data and analytic
Viewpoint
Unlocking the Value of Telemetry Data with Observability Pipelines
By monitoring and analyzing telemetry data in the form of logs, traces and metrics, organizations can detect issues and act faster to remedy failures and performance problems.
Analyst Perspective
Teradata Goes Cloud Native with VantageCloud Lake
Teradata VantageCloud Lake is an important offering that provides a cloud-native architecture, enabling elastic scalability and support for object storage.
Market Perspective
Stibo Systems is a Master of Governing Data for the Enterprise
Stibo Systems’ Product Master Data Management application enables consistent product data, improving supply chain visibility for informed decision-making.
Analyst Perspective
The Arguments For, and Against, In-Database Machine Learning
Organizations must choose wisely when deciding between in-database analytics or a standalone analytics platform to gain most value, benefit from their data.
Analyst Perspective
Databricks Lakehouse Platform Maximizes Analytical Value
Databricks has developed its data lakehouse platform to maximize analytical outcomes from combined data lake and data warehouse functionality.
Analyst Perspective
IBM’s Cloud Pak for Data Builds a Foundation for Data Fabric
IBM’s Cloud Pak for Data helps organizations employ a data fabric approach, improving data integration and use of AI and machine learning.
Analyst Perspective
Actian Manages Avalanches of Data
Actian’s Avalanche data platform eliminates data silos, blind spots with a single environment for data integration, management, processing and analytics.
Analyst Perspective
Orchestrating Data Pipelines Facilitates Data-Driven Analytics
If you’re looking to create a more agile, comprehensive DataOps process, consider data orchestration to meet the needs of modern analytics environments.
Analyst Perspective
Cloudera Embraces SaaS with Data Lakehouse Launch
Cloudera brings the benefits of large-scale data processing and analytics to its easy-to-use, self-service data platform via a single SaaS offering.
Analyst Perspective
Ocient Delivers Ad Hoc Analytics on Hyperscale Workloads
For organizations with large datasets, Ocient’s analytic platform enables complex analytics while offering a high-touch approach to customer engagement.
Research Perspective
The Value of Using a Semantic Layer for AI and BI
A semantic layer fills a void left in many analytic architectures. It is a centralized place to define business logic, ensure reporting is consistent, accelerate insights and make data more consumable.
Research Perspective
Using External Data to Enhance Market Segmentation
Customer segmentation helps improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the marketing spend, enabling sales to focus on the right leads and companies to improve their margins by targeting high-value opportunities.
Analyst Perspective
Aerospike Has a Data Platform for Real-Time Intelligent Applications
Aerospike’s Real-time Data Platform supports intelligent operational applications with high-performance real-time read-write capabilities.
Analyst Perspective
Astronomer’s Cloud-Based Data Orchestration Brings Efficiency
Safeguarding the health of data pipelines is fundamental to ensuring data is integrated and processed in the sequence required to generate business intelligence. The significance of these data pipelines to delivering data-driven business strategies h
Viewpoint
Debunking the Myths of Data and Analytics
Business analytics doesn’t have to be a mystery, yet there are many myths that persist about how to become a data-driven organization. In the age of disruption, organizations need to have access to all of their data, and they must be able to apply a
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Information Requirements Across the Organization
Information Requirements Across the Organization
Analyst Perspective
Enhancing Data Catalog with AI
Organizations are collecting data from multiple data sources and a variety of systems to enrich their analytics and business intelligence (BI). But collecting data is only half of the equation.
Analyst Perspective
The Data Catalog is Indispensable for Good Data Governance
Metadata-based data management functionality has had a role to play within products for data governance and business intelligence for much longer than that, of course, but the emergence of the data catalog as a product category provided a platform fo
Research Perspective
MDM is Better with Intelligent Data Quality
Accurate data is critical for efficient business processes and operations, and to inform decision-making, but there are significant challenges to protecting data and ensuring its accuracy.
Analyst Perspective
Confluent Addresses Data Governance for Data in Motion
I recently wrote about the need for organizations to take a holistic approach to the management and governance of data in motion alongside data at rest. As adoption of streaming data and event processing increases, it is no longer sufficient for stre
Analyst Perspective
Rockset Offers Cloud-Based Real-Time Analytics
I have written recently about increased demand for data-intensive applications infused with the results of analytic processes, such as personalization and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven recommendations. Almost one-quarter of respondents (22%) to
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Top Five AI Considerations for Chief Data and Analytics Executives
Data is an extremely valuable asset for every organization, but it is meaningless until it is used to make actionable decisions. Given the volume of data generated and collected today, using artificial intelligence with machine learning (AI/ML) is th
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Data Lakes are Evolving and Delivering on Expectations
Data lakes began to emerge 10 years ago in response to the desire for analytic data platforms that could economically store and process large volumes of raw data. These platforms access data from multiple operational applications in a variety of form
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Streaming Data Success Relies on Managing Data in Motion and At Rest
I recently noted that as demand for real-time interactive applications becomes more pervasive, the use of streaming data is becoming more mainstream. Streaming data and event processing has been part of the data landscape for many decades, but for mu
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Give Business Analysts Better Choices for BI on Data Lakes
Big data is valuable. Our benchmark research shows that using big data analytics results in better communication, better alignment of the business, a competitive advantage, better responsiveness and decreased time to market.
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Webinar: Evaluate Analytics and Data Vendors for Successful Outcomes
In this webinar, David Menninger, SVP and Research Director of Analytics and Data Research at Ventana Research, will share his insights on the analytics market and an understanding on how to successfully evaluate existing and potential new vendors.
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Data in Motion
The availability of real-time data is changing the way we live and the types of systems we build. Organizations need more immediacy in their operations.
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Webinar: Digital Age of Data Intelligence
The age of data is here, and all that data has become integral to an organization’s ability to grow and thrive. However, companies struggle with combining data science and technological advancements to establish data intelligence that is unified, sop
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DATA GOVERNANCE Doesn’t Have to Be Hard
For years data governance has been challenging for organizations. There have been too many different data-related technologies to manage and too many manual processes involved. As a result, data governance policies were restrictive and interfered wit
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Key Requirements for Today’s Modern Data Warehous
Operating without data is like driving blindfolded. Organizations today need to rely on data more than at any point in the past. This is because understanding the details of your business operations can mean the difference between success and failure
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Ascend.io Automates Data Engineering
Data engineers, who are responsible for monitoring, managing and maintaining data pipelines, are under increasing pressure to deliver high-performance and flexible data integration and processing pipelines that are capable of handling the rising volu
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Enhance Analytics Performance and Impact in the Cloud
Data is moving to the cloud. As cloud applications have been adopted, this has meant that many critical sources of data for analytics now or soon will live in the cloud. In fact, almost two-thirds (61%) of participants in our research reported that t
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Avoiding Cloud Data Cost Overruns
The anticipated benefits of cloud computing have encouraged organizations to accelerate adoption of cloud-based applications and services. Data and analytics are no exception, especially as more and more of an organization’s data resides in the cloud
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Embracing Modern Data Governance Practices
For too long, data governance has been about preventing people from doing things with data. Yes, restrictions and controls over data are absolutely necessary and should be part of every organization’s information architecture.
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Decoupling the AI/ML Pipeline for Scale
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) are extremely valuable to organizations. Our research shows that AI/ML help organizations gain a competitive advantage and improve customer experiences, and have a direct impact on the bottom line,
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Cloud-Based Architecture for Data and Analytics
Organizations today increasingly are choosing to store their data and perform their analyses in the cloud. Our research finds that almost one-half (49%) of organizations are already using cloud-based analytics systems, and data is being migrated to t
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Unlocking the Business Value of the Data Lake
Data lakes have enormous potential as a source of business intelligence when included as part of an advanced open data architecture.
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Data and AI Governance for Trusted Insights
Analytics are critical to the efficient and effective operation of most modern organizations; to that end, trusted analytics require trusted data. Inaccurate and untrustworthy data means organizations cannot rely on the analyses produced using that d
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Data Warehouses Meet Data Lakes
For decades, organizations have recognized the need to perform analyses that draw upon information from various parts of an organization.
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New Approaches to Master Data Management
Accurate data is critical for business processes and operations. Billing customers, for example, requires accurate information regarding the product or service, prices, customer names and addresses and personnel authorized to use the product or servi
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Making Big Data Valuable
Big data, the massive amounts of data that today’s organizations collect, store and analyze, can be valuable in many places and many ways.
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Data Drives Business
Data is an extremely valuable asset to almost every organization, and it informs nearly every decision an organization makes.
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Intelligent Insights for Everyone, Everywhere
In today’s dynamic business environment, organizations cannot fly blindly and expect to succeed. There is a trove of internal and externally sourced data available to organizations that can and should be used to improve decision-making.
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Optimize Analytical Processing
Apache Spark and massively parallel processing (MPP) analytical databases are designed for different things. The first generation of “big data” architectures relied upon the distributed Hadoop and MapReduce framework for analytical processing. This f
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Embed Analytics for More-Informed Decisions
Self-service analytics is a goal for most organizations, but in many cases it has not become a reality. Just two out of five organizations (40%) report that users can analyze data without the assistance of IT. Yet those who are able to operate withou
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Moving from Batch to Event Streaming
Operations are continuous in most organizations today and so too is the data these operations generate.
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The Distributed Cloud Requires a Distributed Data Platform
Adoption of cloud and edge computing infrastructure has brought many benefits to organizations of all sizes. It has improved business agility by reducing the need for upfront purchasing, configuration and deployment of infrastructure, and reduced the
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Five Factors Driving Data-Intensive Information Architectures
Digital transformation is driving organizations to become much more data intensive. Organizations now process information from an increasing number of internal and external sources. There are many more devices generating information, including IoT se
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External Data Is Valuable. Now What?
As organizations become more sophisticated in the use of data, the integration of external data grows in importance and frequency.
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Collecting and Managing IoT Data for Analytics
While the Internet of Things (IoT) may still be unfamiliar to many consumers, businesses are well aware of its potential. More than 90% of participants in our research said that IoT is important to their future operations.
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Future-Proof Your Data Lake Environment
Data lakes can provide organizations significant value and help them improve their business processes.
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Simplify your Data and Analytics Architecture for Faster Insights
Organizations face increasing competition and compressed time frames that require intelligent use of all available data.
Analyst Perspective
Neo4j Expands Data Science Focus with New Managed Service
I recently explained how emerging application requirements were expanding the range of use cases for NoSQL databases, increasing adoption based on the availability of enhanced functionality. These intelligent applications require a close relationship
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MongoDB Earns Data Digital Innovation Award for 2022
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our
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Modern MDM Requirements
Master data management (MDM) is critical to ensuring that your organization has the clean, consistent data needed to operate efficiently and effectively.
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DataStax Provides a Platform for Data in Motion and at Rest
Streaming data has been part of the industry landscape for decades but has largely been focused on niche applications in segments with the highest real-time data processing and analytics performance requirements, such as financial services and teleco
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Data-Driven Agenda for Organizations
In this Analyst Perspective, I will outline the four key traits that I believe are required for a company to be considered data-driven.
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Data Governance, Then and Now
We’ve recently published our latest Benchmark Research on Data Governance and it’s fair to say, “you’ve come a long way, baby.” Many of you reading this weren’t around when that phrase was introduced in 1968 to promote Virginia Slims cigarettes, but
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TigerGraph Promotes Graph Database for Data Science with ML Workbench
I recently wrote about the growing range of use cases for which NoSQL databases can be considered, given increased breadth and depth of functionality available from providers of the various non-relational data platforms. As I noted, one category of N
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Ahana Offers Managed-Services Approach to Simplify Presto Adoption
I previously described the concept of hydroanalytic data platforms, which combine the structured data processing and analytics acceleration capabilities associated with data warehousing with the low-cost and multi-structured data storage advantages o
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Dremio Embraces Data Lakehouse with Cloud Launch
I previously explained how the data lakehouse is one of two primary approaches being adopted to deliver what I have called a hydroanalytic data platform. Hydroanalytics involves the combination of data warehouse and data lake functionality to enable
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Data Governance 2022 Benchmark Research Report
Data governance has always been a critical part of the data and analytics landscape but was for many years seen as a preventative function that was designed to limit access to data to ensure compliance with security and data privacy requirements.
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MariaDB Offers One Database for All Workloads
As I recently described, it is anticipated that the majority of database workloads will continue to be served by specialist data platforms targeting operational and analytic workloads, albeit with growing demand for hybrid data processing use-cases a
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Disentangling and Demystifying Data Mesh and Data Fabric
For many organizations, new technological investment and evolution will be required to facilitate adoption of data mesh. Meanwhile, the concept of the data fabric, a technology-driven approach to managing and governing data across distributed environ
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SingleStore Positions Hybrid Data Processing for Data Intensity
I recently described the use cases driving interest in hybrid data processing capabilities that enable analysis of data in an operational data platform without impacting operational application performance or requiring data to be extracted to an exte
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Accelerate Business Outcomes with Immuta Data Access Governance
The data governance landscape is growing rapidly. Organizations handling vast amounts of data face multiple challenges as more regulations are added to govern sensitive information. Adoption of multi-cloud strategies increases governance concerns wit
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Are Serverless Databases the Best Fit for Your Organization?
The server is a key component of enterprise computing, providing the functional compute resources required to support software applications. Historically, the server was so fundamentally important that it – along with the processor, or processor core
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Yugabyte Targets Developers to Accelerate Distributed SQL Database Adoption
Over a decade ago, I coined the term NewSQL to describe the new breed of horizontally scalable, relational database products. The term was adopted by a variety of vendors that sought to combine the transactional consistency of the relational database
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Vertica Unifies Analytics and Business Intelligence at Scale
Organizations face a variety of data and analytics challenges resulting from growth and increased scale. Multiple tools and techniques are needed to derive value from various databases. But, adding more systems means adding more complexities, which c
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Oracle Positions to Address Any and All Data Platform Needs
I recently described how the operational data platforms sector is in a state of flux. There are multiple trends at play, including the increasing need for hybrid and multicloud data platforms, the evolution of NoSQL database functionality and applica
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Real-Time Data Processing Requires More Agile Data Pipelines
I recently wrote about the importance of data pipelines and the role they play in transporting data between the stages of data processing and analytics. Healthy data pipelines are necessary to ensure data is integrated and processed in the sequence r
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Regional Attitudes to Data Governance and Regulatory Compliance
Data governance is an issue that impacts all organizations large and small, new and old, in every industry, and every region of the world. Data governance ensures that an organization’s data can be cataloged, trusted and protected, improving business
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Alteryx Accelerates Trifacta Push to Make Big Data Manageable
Improving the quality of information is cited by organizations as the leading benefit of data preparation activities. Data quality efforts are focused on clean data, but increasingly, the importance of bad data is also recognized. To be more accurate
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Starburst Accelerates Analysis of Distributed Data
I recently described the growing level of interest in data mesh which provides an organizational and cultural approach to data ownership, access and governance that facilitates distributed data processing. As I stated in my Analyst Perspective, data
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The Benefits of Data Mesh Extend to Organizational and Cultural Change
Data mesh is the latest trend to grip the data and analytics sector. The term has been rapidly adopted by numerous vendors — as well as a growing number of organizations —as a means of embracing distributed data processing. Understanding and adopting
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Yellowbrick Paves the Way to Distributed Cloud
Despite widespread and increasing use of the cloud for data and analytics workloads, it has become clear in recent years that, for most organizations, a proportion of data-processing workloads will remain on-premises in centralized data centers or di
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Looker Simplifies Business Intelligence in the Cloud
Organizations face various challenges with analytics and business intelligence processes, including data curation and modeling across disparate sources and data warehouses, maintaining data quality and ensuring security and governance.
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Expanded NoSQL Use Cases Deserve a Second Look
I recently examined how evolving functionality had fueled the adoption of NoSQL databases, recommending that organizations evaluate NoSQL databases when assessing options for data transformation and modernization efforts. This recommendation was base
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Explorium Improves Machine Learning Models With External Data
Today, organizations understand the importance of good external data that can be integrated with internal data to train machine learning models. Our Machine Learning Dynamic Insights research showed that external data adds a significant value in gain
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Evolving NoSQL Database Functionality Fuels Adoption
The various NoSQL databases have become a staple of the data platforms landscape since the term entered the IT industry lexicon in 2009 to describe a new generation of non-relational databases. While NoSQL began as a ragtag collection of loosely affi
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Bigeye Provides Visibility into Data Reliability
As businesses become more data-driven, they are increasingly dependent on the quality of their data and the reliability of their data pipelines. Making decisions based on data does not guarantee success, especially if the business cannot ensure that
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Data Observability is Key to Ensuring Healthy Data Pipelines
I recently described the emergence of hydroanalytic data platforms, outlining how the processes involved in generating energy from a lake or reservoir were analogous to those required to generate intelligence from a data lake. I explained how structu
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Good Data Governance Improves Business Processes
Many organizations invest in data governance out of concern over misuse of data or potential data breaches. These are important considerations and valid aspects of data governance programs. However, good data governance also has positive impacts on o
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Incorta Unifies Data Processing to Accelerate Analytics & BI
As I stated when joining Ventana Research, the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic and its aftereffects have highlighted more than ever the differences between organizations that can turn data into insights and are agile enough to act upon it and t
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Analytics and Data 2022 Benchmark Research Report
Organizations analyze the data they collect in a myriad of ways, providing insights and guiding decision-making through mathematics-based metrics. The resulting information can be distributed via traditional reports, visualized in a variety of displa
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Hybrid Data Processing Use Cases
I recently described how the data platforms landscape will remain divided between analytic and operational workloads for the foreseeable future. Analytic data platforms are designed to store, manage, process and analyze data, enabling organizations t
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Analytics and Data Benchmark Research
Today’s world runs on data, so to succeed organizations must use analytics to understand, plan and improve their operations. Ventana Research is conducting benchmark research to understand how organizations apply analytics to data, producing informat
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Managing Data Effectively in 2022: Ventana Research Market Agenda
Ventana Research recently announced its 2022 Market Agenda for Data, continuing the guidance we have offered for nearly two decades to help organizations derive optimal value and improve business outcomes.
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Digital Business Market Agenda for 2022: Resilience and Readiness
With the announcement of Ventana Research’s 2022 Market Agenda, our expertise in Digital Business continues to advance the market need for effective investments into technology, and I will outline here the key areas of focus to provide insights to or
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Semarchy Brings Master Data Management to Line-of-Business Users
Digital transformation efforts are widespread, with most organizations focusing on the innovative use of data. Business users demand real-time, integrated analytics deployed through a unified platform with built-in machine learning (ML) that delivers
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Chewy Earns Digital Leadership Award in Data with Alation for 2021
The annual Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards recognize organizations and individuals that utilize technology to advance business and IT. The Digital Leadership Awards showcase the professional leadership and their use of business application
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Kyligence Brings Simplification to Data Processes for Analytics
Data platforms are designed to manage and analyze big data, enabling organizations to leverage their data to operate with greater efficiency across on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Our Analytics and Data Benchmark Research finds that
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Current Data Market Trends
Data Catalogs are fundamentally changing the way organizations think about and manage their data.
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The Potential for Hybrid and Multicloud Platforms to Safeguard Data
It has been clear for some time that future enterprise IT architecture will span multiple cloud providers as well as on-premises data centers. As Ventana Research noted in the market perspective on data architectures, the rapid adoption of cloud comp
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Cockroach Labs Brings Developers and Serverless Database Together
Breaking into the database market as a new vendor is easier said than done given the dominance of the sector by established database and data management giants, as well as the cloud computing providers. We recently described the emergence of a new br
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Blockchains for Medical Identity Management Face Challenges
The need for a COVID-19 vaccination “passport” has prompted some to suggest using blockchain technology as a means of reliably verifying an individual’s status at an international level.
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Domino Manages Data Science Life Cycle
With more and more data available to analyze, organizations are realizing the value that sophisticated analyses using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) can provide. The benefits of these analyses are significant: our Dynamic Insigh
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Google Cloud Advances to Multi-Cloud
Enterprises looking to adopt cloud-based data processing and analytics face a disorienting array of data storage, data processing, data management and analytics offerings.
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Data in Motion
The availability of real-time data is changing the way we live and the types of systems we build. Organizations need more immediacy in their operations. Nearly half the participants in our Internet of Things research study indicated that it was essen
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Digital Age of Data Intelligence: Five Steps to Optimize Your Revenue Potential
The age of data is here, and all that data has become integral to an organization’s ability to grow and thrive. However, companies struggle with combining data science and technological advancements to establish data intelligence that is unified, sop
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Virtualizing Data Architectures for Hybrid Cloud-Computing
The virtualization of business and the evolution of digital transformation to applications and systems that operate in cloud computing — or the “as-a-service” environment — has fragmented enterprise and data architectures.
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Solace Event-Driven Architecture Enables Hybrid Cloud Computing
When you think about it, events are at the very core of computing, right down to the simplest if-then operation in a spreadsheet. Each event leads to a set of choices, often binary, which then become events in themselves.
Analyst Perspective
Databricks Lakehouse Platform Streamlines Big Data Processing
Databricks is a data engineering and analytics cloud platform built on top of Apache Spark that processes and transforms huge volumes of data and offers data exploration capabilities through machine learning models.
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Use External Data Platform to Improve Analytics
Access to external data can provide a competitive advantage. Our research shows that more than three-quarters (77%) of participants consider external data to be an important part of their machine learning (ML) efforts. The most important external dat
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DATA GOVERNANCE Doesn’t Have to Be Hard
For years data governance has been challenging for organizations. There have been too many different data-related technologies to manage and too many manual processes involved. As a result, data governance policies were restrictive and interfered wit
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Data Virtualization Brings Data Together Quickly and Easily
The technology industry throws around a lot of similar terms with different meanings as well as entirely different terms with similar meanings. In this post, I don’t want to debate the meanings and origins of different terms; rather, I’d like to high
Analyst Perspective
The Weak Link in Data Governance? Analytics
Data governance is a hot topic these days. In fact, we are conducting benchmark research on the subject here. With increasing regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), organizati
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Collibra Brings Effective Data Governance to Line-of-Business
Collibra is a data governance software company that offers tools for metadata management and data cataloging. The software enables organizations to find data quickly, identify its source and assure its integrity.
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The Digital Age of Data Intelligence
The age of data is here, and the value of all that data to organizations continues to increase. Data has, in fact, become integral to an organization’s ability to grow and thrive. So, it is essential that organizations tap into every available source
Analyst Perspective
Rapidminer Platform Supports Entire Data Science Lifecycle
Rapidminer is a visual enterprise data science platform that includes data extraction, data mining, deep learning, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) and predictive analytics. It can support AI/ML processes with data preparation, mo
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Simplify your Data and Analytics Architecture for Faster Insights
Master data management (MDM) is critical to ensuring that your organization has the clean, consistent data needed to operate efficiently and effectively. Excellent customer experiences and effective omnichannel engagement often depend on enrichment w
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Avoiding Cloud Data Cost Overruns
The anticipated benefits of cloud computing have encouraged organizations to accelerate adoption of cloud-based applications and services. Data and analytics are no exception, especially as more and more of an organization’s data resides in the cloud
Analyst Perspective
Confluent Helps Organizations Tackle Streaming Data
Confluent Platform is a streaming platform built by the original creators of Apache Kafka. It enables organizations to organize and manage streaming data from various sources. Confluent launched its IPO in June this year and raised $828 million to fu
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Embracing Modern Data Governance Practices
For too long, data governance has been about preventing people from doing things with data. Yes, restrictions and controls over data are absolutely necessary and should be part of every organization’s information architecture. These controls are nece
Analyst Perspective
Innovit Named a Vendor with Merit in the 2021 PIM Value Index
We are happy to share some insights about Innovit MDM drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.
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Delivering Data and Analytics to HR and Finance
Human Resources and Finance are critical business functions. Engaging with the analytics associated with these areas will help improve business operations, but in many cases traditional data warehouses and analytics are so disconnected from the busin
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Modern MDM Requirements
Master data management (MDM) is critical to ensuring that your organization has the clean, consistent data needed to operate efficiently and effectively. Excellent customer experiences and effective omnichannel engagement often depend on enrichment w
Analyst Perspective
Teradata Expands Vantage Enterprise Data Platform
Teradata introduced some enhancements to its Vantage platform last year in which they expanded its analytics functions and language support, and strengthened tools to improve collaboration between data scientists, business analysts, data engineers an
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Better Insights with External Data
External data can be valuable to many organizations for a variety of reasons. It can be used by planning and operations teams to benchmark an organization’s financial or operational performance. It can enrich the data an organization collects and ana
Analyst Perspective
Alation Helps Organizations Get More Value From Data
Alation recently announced the release of its 2021.1 version, introducing new data governance capabilities, enhancements in search and discovery through data domains, and extended connector and query coverage for data sources.
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Time to Take Another Look at MDM
Master data management (MDM) as a discipline has been around for decades. And MDM software has been evolving over time to help organizations meet their changing data requirements. But if your understanding of MDM software is even a little bit dated,
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Why Your Data Lake Needs Bad Data
Everyone talks about data quality, as they should. Our research shows that improving the quality of information is the top benefit of data preparation activities.
Analyst Perspective
DataRobot Automates and Simplifies AI/ML
Machine learning is valuable for organizations, but it can be hard to deploy. Our Machine Learning Dynamic Insights research identifies that not having enough skilled resources and difficulty building and maintaining ML systems are pressing challenge
Analyst Perspective
Incorta Streamlines Analytics with Direct Data Access
The amount of data flowing into organizations is growing exponentially, creating a need to process more data more quickly than ever before.
Buyers Guide
Mobile Analytics and Data 2021 Value Index
This report evaluates the following vendors that offer products that deliver analytics and BI as we define it: Amazon.com Inc., Board International, Domo, Infor, Information Builders Inc., IBM, Google LLC, Microsoft Corporation, MicroStrategy, Oracle
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Analytics and Data 2021 Value Index
This report evaluates the following vendors that offer products that deliver analytics and BI as we define it: Amazon.com Inc., Board International, Domo, Infor, Information Builders Inc., IBM, Google LLC, Microsoft Corporation, MicroStrategy, Oracle
Buyers Guide
Embedded Analytics and Data 2021 Value Index
This report evaluates the following vendors that offer products that deliver embedded analytics and business intelligence as we define it: Amazon.com Inc., Board International, Domo, Google LLC, Infor, Information Builders Inc., IBM, Microsoft Corpor
Analyst Perspective
Dataiku Streamlines AI/ML
Organizations are becoming more and more data-driven and are looking for ways to accelerate the usage of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).
Analyst Perspective
Informatica Continues to Evolve Data Management Platform
Organizations are accelerating their digital transformation and looking for innovative ways to engage with customers in this new digital era of data management.
Analyst Perspective
Data in 2021: Ventana Research Market Agenda
Ventana Research recently announced its 2021 Market Agenda for data, continuing the guidance we have offered for nearly two decades to help organizations derive optimal value and improve business outcomes.
Analyst Perspective
The Ventana Research 2021 Market Agenda: How Digital Effectiveness Impacts Organizational Agility
Ventana Research has announced its market agenda for 2021, continuing the tradition of transparency in our efforts to educate and guide the technology market but also our independence as we do not share our market agenda or analyst perspectives with
Analyst Perspective
Introducing Precisely for Data Integrity
Data is becoming more valuable and more important to organizations. At the same time, organizations have become more disciplined about the data on which they rely to ensure it is robust, accurate and governed properly.
Analyst Perspective
Cloudera Consolidates Its Data Platform
Organizations are dealing with exponentially increasing data that ranges broadly from customer-generated information, financial transactions, edge-generated data and even operational IT server logs.
Analyst Perspective
Tableau and Salesforce bring New Look to Business Analytics
Businesses are transforming their organizations, building a data culture and deploying sophisticated analytics more broadly than ever.
Analyst Perspective
Snowflake Builds on Its Success
Traditional on-premises data processing solutions have led to a hugely complex and expensive set of data silos where IT spends more time managing the infrastructure than extracting value from the data.
Analyst Perspective
Emerging Data Platforms Tackle Big Challenges
Organizations are always looking to improve their ability to use data and AI to gain meaningful and actionable insights into their operations, services and customer needs.
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Cloud Migration Tips, Tricks and Traps
For a variety of reasons, organizations are moving their workloads to the cloud. Our research shows that one-third of organizations have their primary data lake platforms in the cloud and most organizations (86%) expect the majority of their data to
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Data Warehouses Meet Data Lakes
For decades, organizations have recognized the need to perform analyses that draw upon information from various parts of an organization. Product profitability analyses require production costs, selling costs and customer service costs.
Analyst Perspective
Molecula Earns Ventana Research 13th Digital Innovation Award for Data
Ventana Research has awarded Molecula its 2020 Digital Innovation Award for Data. This award acknowledges the technology vendor that best exemplifies innovation in data and associated technologies for supporting information management-related needs.
Analyst Perspective
Diving Deeper into the Data Lake
A data lake is a centralized repository designed to house big data in structured, semi-structured and unstructured form.
Viewpoint
Retailers Improve Performance Using Event Stream Data
Streaming data is transforming how retailers operate. Retail’s evolution from brick-and-mortar to omnichannel has provided organizations with better information about customer behavior while also increasing the expectations of consumers regarding the
Viewpoint
Insurers Use Event Stream Data to Transform Services
Streaming data is transforming how insurance companies provide their services. It can offer critical information needed to underwrite risks with better information, detect and prevent fraudulent claims, deliver world-class customer service and tie to
Viewpoint
Improve Financial Services with Event Stream Data
Streaming data will be transformative to the future of financial services organizations. It can provide the critical, timely information needed to deliver world-class customer service, detect and prevent fraud, tie together disparate legacy systems o
Viewpoint
Scalability and Flexibility Critical to the Modern Data Warehouse
Today’s fast-paced world requires responsiveness in all types of interactions with customers, prospects, partners and employees. Organizations must be able to respond in the moment or risk missing the opportunity altogether. To do this, the systems a
Analyst Perspective
DataOps: Managing the Process and Technology
For decades, data integration was a rigid process. Data was processed in batches once a month, once a week or once a day. Organizations needed to make sure those processes were completed successfully—and reliably—so they had the data necessary to mak
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Key Requirements for Today’s Modern Data Warehouse
Organizations today need to rely on data more than at any point in the past. This is because understanding the details of your business operations can mean the difference between success and failure.
Analyst Perspective
MicroStrategy World 2020
MicroStrategy recently held its annual user conference, which focused on the theme of the “Intelligent Enterprise.”
Analyst Perspective
Five Modern Data Architecture Trends
I was recently asked to identify key modern data architecture trends.
Analyst Perspective
Uncovering Trends in Data Governance
Effectively managing data privacy and security is a high-stakes matter.
Analyst Perspective
Data in 2020: Ventana Research Agenda
Ventana Research recently announced its 2020 research agenda for data, continuing the guidance we’ve offered for nearly two decades to help organizations derive optimal value and improve business outcomes.
Analyst Perspective
Data Lakes Meet Data Warehouses
In this analyst perspective, Dave Menninger takes a look at data lakes. He explains the term “data lake,” describes common use cases and shares his views on some of the latest market trends.
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