ISG Software Research Analyst Perspectives

Operational Data Platforms: Which Software Best Meets Your Needs?

Posted by Matt Aslett on 19 January 2023

I am happy to share insights from our latest Ventana Research Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements. The 2023 Operational Data Platforms Value Index is the distillation of a year of market and product research by Ventana Research. Drawing on our Benchmark Research, we apply a structured methodology built on evaluation categories that reflect... Read More

Topics: Cloud Computing, Data, Digital Technology, Analytics and Data

2023 Market Agenda for Data: Accelerating Data Agility

Posted by Matt Aslett on 18 January 2023

Ventana Research recently announced its 2023 Market Agenda for Data, continuing the guidance we have offered for two decades to help organizations derive optimal value and improve business outcomes. 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... Read More

Topics: Cloud Computing, Data Governance, Data Management, Data, Digital Technology, data operations, Streaming Data Events, analytic data platforms, Analytics and Data

The 2023 Market Agenda for Analytics: Empowering Workforces to Engage

Posted by David Menninger on 17 January 2023

Ventana Research recently announced its 2023 Market Agenda for Analytics, continuing the guidance we have offered for nearly two decades to help organizations derive optimal value from technology investments to improve business outcomes. It has been exciting to follow innovations in the analytics market, but for businesses, capitalizing on these innovations can be challenging. To support this, I... Read More

Topics: embedded analytics, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data, Digital Technology, natural language processing, Process Mining, Collaborative & Conversational Computing, Analytics and Data

2023 Operational Data Platforms Value Index: Observations and Insights

Posted by Matt Aslett on 17 January 2023

Ventana Research recently published the 2023 Operational Data Platforms Value Index. The importance of the operational data platform has never been greater as organizations strive to be more data-driven, incorporating intelligence into operational applications via personalization and recommendations for workers, partners and customers. In this post, I’ll share some of my observations on how the... Read More

Topics: Cloud Computing, Data, analytic data platforms, Analytics and Data

The Revolution in Revenue in 2023: Ventana Research Market Agenda

Posted by Stephen Hurrell on 13 January 2023

Ventana Research recently announced its 2023 research agenda for the Office of Revenue, continuing the guidance we’ve offered for nearly two decades to help organizations realize their optimal value from applying technology to improve business outcomes. Chief Sales and Revenue Officers face an imperative to manage their sales and revenue organizations, but they don’t always have the guidance they... Read More

Topics: Sales, Analytics, Internet of Things, Data, Sales Performance Management, Digital Technology, Digital Commerce, Conversational Computing, mobile computing, Subscription Management, extended reality, intelligent sales, partner management, AI and Machine Learning

The Vendor Assessment Guide for Data Platforms: Ranked and Rated

Posted by Matt Aslett on 12 January 2023

I am happy to share insights from our latest Ventana Research Value Index, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements. The 2023 Data Platforms Value Index is the distillation of a year of market and product research by Ventana Research. Drawing on our Benchmark Research, we apply a structured methodology built on evaluation categories that reflect real-world criteria... Read More

Topics: Cloud Computing, Data, Digital Technology, analytic data platforms, Analytics and Data

2023 Digital Technology Market Agenda: Innovation for Digital Agility

Posted by David Menninger on 11 January 2023

I’m proud to share Ventana Research’s 2023 Market Agenda for Digital Technology. Our focus in this agenda is to deliver expertise to help organizations prioritize technology investments that improve customer, partner and workforce experiences while also increasing organizational effectiveness and agility. Digital technology is a business necessity, as demonstrated throughout the pandemic. It... Read More

Topics: Analytics, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Data, Digital Technology, blockchain, mobile computing, extended reality, robotic automation, Collaborative & Conversational Computing, AI and Machine Learning

Acceldata Enables Data Observability

Posted by Matt Aslett on 10 January 2023

Data observability is a hot topic and trend. I have written about the importance of data observability for ensuring healthy data pipelines, and have covered multiple vendors with data observability capabilities, offered both as standalone and part of a larger data engineering system. Data observability software provides an environment that takes advantage of machine learning and DataOps to... Read More

Topics: Cloud Computing, Data Management, Data, Digital Technology, data operations

2023 Data Platforms Value Index: Market Observations and Insights

Posted by Matt Aslett on 09 January 2023

Having recently completed the 2023 Data Platforms Value Index, I want to share some of my observations about how the market is evolving. Although this is our inaugural assessment of the market for data platforms, the sector is mature and products from many of the vendors we assess can be used to effectively support operational and analytic use cases. Our Value Index for Data Platforms represents... Read More

Topics: Cloud Computing, Data, Digital Technology, analytic data platforms, Analytics and Data

2023 Market Agenda: Digitalization Evolves for Business Revitalization

Posted by Mark Smith on 06 January 2023

Ventana Research has announced its market agenda for 2023, continuing a 20-year tradition of credibility and trust in our objective efforts to educate and guide the technology market. Our research and insights are backed by our expertise and independence, as we do not share our Market Agenda or our market research – including analyst and market perspectives – with any external party before it is... Read More

Topics: Customer Experience, Human Capital Management, Marketing, Office of Finance, Analytics, Data, Digital Technology, Operations & Supply Chain, Office of Revenue

Pyramid Analytics Expands Decision Intelligence Across the Organization

Posted by Mark Smith on 30 December 2022

In today’s organization, the myriad of analytics and permutations of dashboards challenge workers’ ability to take contextual actions efficiently. Unfortunately, conventional wisdom for investing in analytics does not recognize the benefits of empowering the workforce to understand the situation, examine options and work together to make the best possible decision. The market has evolved to focus... Read More

Topics: business intelligence, Analytics, Data, Digital Technology, analytic data platforms, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning

InterSystems Transforming Organizations with Cloud Smart Data Fabric

Posted by Matt Aslett on 27 December 2022

The shift from on-premises server infrastructure to cloud-based and software-as-a-service (SaaS) models has had a profound impact on the data and analytics architecture of many organizations in recent years. More than one-half of participants (59%) in Ventana Research’s Analytics and Data Benchmark research are deploying data and analytics workloads in the cloud, and a further 30% plan to do so.... Read More

Topics: Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Management, Data, natural language processing, data operations, analytic data platforms, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning

Master Metrics with Kyligence Zen

Posted by David Menninger on 23 December 2022

Analytics processes are all about how organizations use data to create metrics that help manage and improve operations. Yet, the discipline applied to analytics processes seems to be lacking compared to data processes. I’ve pointed out that the weak link in data governance is often analytics. Organizations can also do a better job tying AnalyticOps to DataOps and do more to define and manage... Read More

Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Data, Digital Technology, Analytics and Data

Exploring the Case for Distributed SQL Databases

Posted by Matt Aslett on 22 December 2022

There is always space for innovation in the data platforms sector, and new vendors continue to emerge at regular intervals with new approaches designed to serve specialist data storage and processing requirements. Factors including performance, reliability, security and scalability provide a focal point for new vendors to differentiate from established vendors, especially for the most demanding... Read More

Topics: Cloud Computing, Data

The Data Pantry Accelerates Actionable Analytics for Decision-Making

Posted by Robert Kugel on 22 December 2022

Ventana Research uses the term “data pantry” to describe a method of data storage (and the technology and process blueprint for its construction) created for a specific set of users and use cases in business-focused software. It’s a pantry because all the data one needs is readily available and easily accessible, with labels that are immediately recognized and understood by the users of the... Read More

Topics: Continuous Planning, Business Intelligence, Data Management, Business Planning, Data, Financial Performance Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, continuous supply chain, data operations, Streaming Data Events, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning

The Business and Technology Trends for 2023 and Beyond

Posted by Mark Smith on 13 December 2022

The technology industry has established itself as a pivotal force in its ability to help organizations become more intelligent and automated. But doing so has required a journey of epic proportions for most organizations that have had to endure a transition of competencies and skills that was, in many places, transitioned to consulting firms who were hired appropriately to manage changes.... Read More

Topics: Customer Experience, Human Capital Management, Marketing, Office of Finance, Analytics, Data, Digital Technology, Operations & Supply Chain, Office of Revenue

Monte Carlo Bets on the Future of Data Observability

Posted by Matt Aslett on 13 December 2022

Earlier this year, I wrote about the increasing importance of data observability, an emerging product category that takes advantage of machine learning (ML) and Data Operations (DataOps) to automate the monitoring of data used for analytics projects to ensure its quality and lineage. Monitoring the quality and lineage of data is nothing new. Manual tools exist to ensure that it is complete, valid... Read More

Topics: Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Management, Data, data operations

SQream if You Want to Analyze Data Faster

Posted by Matt Aslett on 08 December 2022

One of the most significant considerations when choosing an analytic data platform is performance. As organizations compete to benefit most from being data-driven, the lower the time to insight the better. As data practitioners have learnt over time, however, lowering time to insight is about more than just high-performance queries. There are opportunities to improve time to insight throughout... Read More

Topics: Business Intelligence, Data, data operations, analytic data platforms, AI and Machine Learning

Teradata Goes Cloud Native with VantageCloud Lake

Posted by Matt Aslett on 01 December 2022

Organizations are increasingly utilizing cloud object storage as the foundation for analytic initiatives. There are multiple advantages to this approach, not least of which is enabling organizations to keep higher volumes of data relatively inexpensively, increasing the amount of data queried in analytics initiatives. I assert that by 2024, 6 in ten organizations will use cloud-based technology... Read More

Topics: Teradata, Data Governance, Data Management, Data, data operations, analytic data platforms, Vantage platform

The Arguments For, and Against, In-Database Machine Learning

Posted by Matt Aslett on 23 November 2022

Almost all organizations are investing in data science, or planning to, as they seek to encourage experimentation and exploration to identify new business challenges and opportunities as part of the drive toward creating a more data-driven culture. My colleague, David Menninger, has written about how organizations using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) report gaining... Read More

Topics: Data Governance, Data Management, Data, data operations, analytic data platforms, Analytics and Data, AI and Machine Learning