Buyers Guides for AI and Data Platforms

2026 Software Provider and Product Assessment

The ISG Buyers Guides for AI and Data Platforms are the distillation of continuous market and product research. They are an assessment of how well software providers’ offerings address enterprises’ requirements for platforms software. The Value Index methodology is structured to support a request for information (RFI) for a request for proposal (RFP) process by incorporating all criteria needed to evaluate, select, utilize and maintain relationships with software providers. The ISG Buyers Guide evaluates customer experience and the product experience in its capability and platform.

The 2026 ISG Buyers Guides™ for AI and Data Platforms evaluate leading software providers across seven platform industry areas: AI and Data Platforms, AI Platforms (covering overall AI Platforms, Agentic and Generative AI and AI Governance and Operations), AI Platforms Emerging Providers, AI Agents, Sovereign AI and Data, Data Platforms (covering overall Data Platforms, Analytic Data Platforms and Operational Data Platforms) and Data Platforms Emerging Providers. Each guide delivers unique research, detailed ratings and rankings and in-depth analysis to help enterprises assess and select the AI and data platforms software that best fits their requirements.

• The AI and Data Platforms Buyers Guide evaluates 16 software providers offering products supporting integrated data management, AI model development and operational deployment across enterprise environments. The guide assesses the following providers: Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Cloudera, Couchbase, Databricks, EDB, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Snowflake, Tencent Cloud and Teradata.
  
  

• The AI Platforms Buyers Guide evaluates 28 software providers offering products supporting the preparation, training, deployment and governance of AI models across enterprise environments. The guide assesses the following providers: Alibaba Cloud, Altair, Alteryx, Anaconda, AWS, C3 AI, Cloudera, Databricks, Dataiku, DataRobot, Domo, EdgeVerve, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, MathWorks, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, Palantir, Red Hat, Salesforce, SAP, SAS, Snowflake, Tencent Cloud, Teradata and Weights & Biases.

  • Agentic and Generative AI evaluates 33 software providers offering products supporting generative AI (GenAI), AI agents and lifecycle management of AI systems across enterprise environments. The guide assesses the following providers: Alibaba Cloud, Altair, Anthropic, Automation Anywhere, AWS, Boomi, C3 AI, Cloudera, Cohere, Couchbase, Databricks, Dataiku, DataRobot, Domo, EDB, EdgeVerve, Fractal, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Oracle, Palantir, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Tencent Cloud, Teradata, UiPath and Weights & Biases.
    
    
  • AI Governance and Operations evaluates 32 software providers offering products supporting the governance, deployment and lifecycle management of AI models, applications and agents across enterprise environments. The guide assesses the following providers: Alibaba Cloud, Altair, Alteryx, Anaconda, AWS, Boomi, C3 AI, Cloudera, Couchbase, Databricks, Dataiku, DataRobot, Domo, EDB, EdgeVerve, Fractal, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, MathWorks, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, Palantir, Red Hat, Salesforce, SAP, SAS, Snowflake, Tencent Cloud, Teradata and Weights & Biases.
    
    
• The AI Platforms Emerging Providers Buyers Guide evaluates 10 software providers offering products supporting the development, deployment and governance of AI and machine learning (ML) models across the lifecycle. The guide assesses the following providers: Domino Data Lab, Druid AI, Gravitee, H2O.ai, Hugging Face, Jitterbit, KNIME, Quantexa, SnapLogic and Tray.ai.
  
  
• The AI Agents Buyers Guide evaluates 32 software providers offering products supporting the design, orchestration and governance of autonomous AI agents across enterprise workflows and systems. The guide assesses the following providers: Alibaba Cloud, Anthropic, Automation Anywhere, AWS, Boomi, C3 AI, Cloudera, Couchbase, Databricks, Dataiku, DataRobot, Domo, EDB, EdgeVerve, Fractal, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, MathWorks, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Oracle, Palantir, Salesforce, SAS, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Tencent Cloud, Teradata, UiPath and Weights & Biases.
  
  

• The Sovereign AI and Data Buyers Guide evaluates 16 software providers offering products supporting compliant AI and data operations across diverse deployment environments and architectures. The guide assesses the following providers: Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Cloudera, Couchbase, Databricks, EDB, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Snowflake, Tencent Cloud and Teradata.

• The Data Platforms Buyers Guide evaluates 23 software providers offering products supporting enterprise data storage, processing and analytics for operational and analytic workloads. The guide assesses the following providers: Actian, Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Broadcom, Cloudera, Couchbase, Databricks, EDB, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, InterSystems, Microsoft, Neo4j, Oracle, Progress Software, Salesforce, SAP, SingleStore, Snowflake, Tencent Cloud and VAST Data.

  • Analytic Data Platforms evaluates 30 software providers offering products supporting analytics, data science and AI workloads across enterprise data environments. The guide assesses the following providers: Actian, Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Broadcom, ClickHouse, Cloudera, Couchbase, Databricks, Dremio, EDB, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Incorta, InterSystems, KX, Microsoft, Neo4j, OpenText, Oracle, Progress Software, Salesforce, SAP, SingleStore, Snowflake, Starburst, Tencent Cloud, Teradata and VAST Data.
    
    
  • Operational Data Platforms evaluates 28 software providers offering products supporting transactional data management for enterprise operational applications. The guide assesses the following providers: Actian, Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Broadcom, Cloudera, Cockroach Labs, Couchbase, Databricks, EDB, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, InterSystems, Microsoft, MongoDB, Neo4j, Oracle, Progress Software, Redis, Salesforce, SAP, SingleStore, Snowflake, Software AG, Tencent Cloud, VAST Data and Yugabyte.
    
    
• The Data Platforms Emerging Providers Buyers Guide evaluates 16 software providers offering products supporting enterprise data storage, processing and analytics for operational and AI-driven workloads. The guide assesses the following providers: Aerospike, Exasol, Hazelcast, Imply, InfluxData, MariaDB, Percona, Pinecone, PingCAP, ScyllaDB, SQream, StarTree, Supabase, Tiger Data, TigerGraph and Yellowbrick.

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