Table of Contents
- Summary
- Market Categories and User Segment
- Key Criteria Comparison
- GigaOm Radar
- Vendor Insights
- Analysts’ Take
- Methodology
- About Andrew Brust
- About GigaOm
- Copyright
1. Summary
The success of any data-related project depends on the quality of data. Enterprise customers manage massive amounts of data, and it’s imperative that data is reliable so that strategic business decisions can be made faster.
Bad data can lead to biased machine learning (ML)-based decisions, damaging brand trust and customer satisfaction. The impact of bad data on organizations ranges from revenue and productivity loss to system outages and missed opportunities.
That is where data quality platforms can help. By ensuring that data is more reliable, enterprise data-quality initiatives can improve operational efficiencies, employee productivity, customer satisfaction, and revenue.
This Radar report will help enterprise buyers become familiar with vendors offering data quality platforms focused on the detection of data quality issues. Meaning, the solutions do not remediate data quality problems, but they actively monitor and validate data quality and let users know when it’s compromised. Most of the platforms monitor data right after it is ingested; therefore, they can prevent compromised data from reaching target systems and consequently causing business problems. Some platforms also offer root-cause diagnostics to guide users to the specific source data responsible for detected quality issues.
All the platforms reviewed in this report provide a unified environment for data quality validation and monitoring. Platforms in this report can work well for both small and large companies whose day-to-day operations depend heavily on data and its applications.
How to Read this Report
This GigaOm report is one of a series of documents that helps IT organizations assess competing solutions in the context of well-defined features and criteria. For a fuller understanding, consider reviewing the following reports:
Key Criteria report: A detailed market sector analysis that assesses the impact that key product features and criteria have on top-line solution characteristics—such as scalability, performance, and TCO—that drive purchase decisions.
GigaOm Radar report: A forward-looking analysis that plots the relative value and progression of vendor solutions along multiple axes based on strategy and execution. The Radar report includes a breakdown of each vendor’s offering in the sector.
Solution Profile: An in-depth vendor analysis that builds on the framework developed in the Key Criteria and Radar reports to assess a company’s engagement within a technology sector. This analysis includes forward-looking guidance around both strategy and product.