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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.

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Microsoft Fabric Stitches Together Data and Analytics

Microsoft Fabric offers targeted user experiences within a single, unified platform for data integration, processing and analytics.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 Practitioners with Modern Data Integration

In today’s competitive business environment, organizations must effectively harness and maximize the power of data to be successful.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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DataStax Is Vendor of Merit in Operational Data Platforms Value Index

Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates DataStax.

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Neo4j Is a Vendor of Merit in Operational Data Platforms Value Index

Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Neo4j.

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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.

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Snowflake Is a Vendor of Merit in Analytic Data Platforms Value Index

Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Snowflake.

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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.

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SingleStore Is a Vendor of Merit in Data Platforms Value Indexes

Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates SingleStore.

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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.

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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.

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Cloudera Is a Vendor of Merit in Data Platforms Value Indexes

Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Cloudera.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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SAP Is Exemplary and a Leader in Data Platforms Value Indexes

Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates SAP.

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Actian Is Innovative and a Leader in Data Platforms Value Indexes

Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Actian.

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Teradata Is Innovative and a Leader in Analytic Data Platforms Value Index

Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on analytic data platforms evaluates Teradata.

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Microsoft Is Exemplary and a Leader in Data Platforms Value Indexes

Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on data platforms evaluates Microsoft.

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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.

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Oracle Is Exemplary and a Leader in Data Platforms Value Indexes

Ventana Research’s 2023 Value Index on data platforms evaluates Oracle.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Acceldata Enables Data Observability

Acceldata monitors and manages the reliability of data pipelines and data infrastructure by addressing data infrastructure scaling and performance issues.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

White Paper

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

Market Perspective

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

Analyst Perspective

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.

Webinar

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

Analyst Perspective

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

White Paper

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

Research Perspective

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

Research Perspective

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

Viewpoint

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

Research Perspective

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

Market Perspective

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.

Analyst Perspective

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

Analyst Perspective

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.

Analyst Perspective

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

Analyst Perspective

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

Analyst Perspective

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.

Analyst Perspective

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

Analyst Perspective

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

Analyst Perspective

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

Analyst Perspective

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

Analyst Perspective

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

Market Perspective

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

Analyst Perspective

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

Analyst Perspective

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

Analyst Perspective

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

Market Perspective

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

Analyst Perspective

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

Analyst Perspective

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.

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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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Five Key Requirements of an External Data Platform

External data can be valuable to many organizations. It can enrich the internal data that an organization collects and analyzes about its customers, prospects and partners. Planning and operations teams can benchmark an organization’s financial or op

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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MicroStrategy World 2020

MicroStrategy recently held its annual user conference, which focused on the theme of the “Intelligent Enterprise.”

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Five Modern Data Architecture Trends

I was recently asked to identify key modern data architecture trends.

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Uncovering Trends in Data Governance

Effectively managing data privacy and security is a high-stakes matter.

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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.

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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.