Buyers Guides for Real-Time Data

2025 Software Provider and Product Assessment

ISG Research defines real-time data as the sharing, processing and analysis of data communicated in messages and streams of messages generated by enterprise systems, devices and applications as business events occur. Real-time data processing enables enterprises to operate at the speed of business by acting on events as they happen.

The Buyers Guides for Real-Time Data evaluate providers across five software categories with a unique Buyers Guide and research for each category to help enterprises assess and select software providers.

• The Real-Time Data Buyers Guide evaluates 25 providers and products based on core capabilities such as messaging and event processing, application integration, streaming data and streaming analytics. The guide assesses the following providers: Actian, Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, Altair, AWS, Cloud Software Group, Cloudera, Confluent, Cumulocity, Databricks, Google Cloud, GridGain, Hazelcast, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Informatica, Materialize, Microsoft, Oracle, Qubole, Redpanda, SAS, Solace, Striim and Tencent Cloud.
  
  
• The Application Integration Buyers Guide evaluates 22 providers and products based on key capabilities including application integration process development, application integration process deployment and application integration process management. The guide assesses the following providers: Adeptia, AWS, Boomi, Celigo, Cleo, Cloud Software Group, Frends, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Informatica, Jitterbit, Microsoft, Oracle, Qlik, Safe Software, Salesforce, SAP, SnapLogic, Solace, Tray.ai and Workato.
  

• The Messaging and Event Processing Buyers Guide evaluates 15 providers products based on core capabilities such as messaging, event management and event monitoring. The guide assesses the following providers: Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Broadcom, Cloud Software Group, Cloudera, Confluent, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Redpanda, Solace and Tencent Cloud.
  
  
• The Streaming Analytics Buyers Guide evaluates 22 providers and products based on core capabilities such as stream processing, analytics, query management and AI. The guide assesses the following providers: Actian, Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, Altair, AWS, Cloud Software Group, Cloudera, Confluent, Cumulocity, Databricks, Google Cloud, GridGain, Hazelcast, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Materialize, Microsoft, Oracle, Palantir, Qubole, SAS, and Striim.
  

• The Streaming Data Buyers Guide evaluates 27 providers and products based on core capabilities such as event streaming, stream processing, stream management and stream governance. The guide assesses the following providers: Actian, Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, Altair, AWS, Cloud Software Group, Cloudera, Confluent, Databricks, Google Cloud, Cumulocity, GridGain, Hazelcast, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Informatica, Kurrent, Materialize, Microsoft, MongoDB, Palantir, Qubole, Redpanda, SAS, Solace, Striim and Tencent Cloud.
  

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