Buyers Guide

Application Integration Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Matt Aslett on 23 September 2024

Executive Summary Application Integration Data-driven enterprises rely on a complex web of applications to operate efficiently. Individually these applications serve a specific purpose—such as human capital management, supply chain management and enterprise resource planning—but these functions do not operate independently. In order to function, enterprise need to be able to ensure that their... Read More

Topics: Data Intelligence, IT and Technology-focused Software and Services, Analytics and Data, Application Integration

Master Data Management Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Matt Aslett on 23 September 2024

Executive Summary Master Data Management Despite efforts made by enterprises to be more data-driven, some of the most fundamental questions about an enterprise—such as how many customers it has—remain difficult to answer. Trust in data is foundational for an enterprise to make data-driven business decisions. The problem lies not just in being able to accurately count how many customers the... Read More

Topics: Master Data Management, Data Intelligence, IT and Technology-focused Software and Services, Analytics and Data

Data Quality Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Matt Aslett on 23 September 2024

Executive Summary Data Quality Maintaining data quality and trust is a perennial data-management challenge, often preventing enterprises from operating at the speed of business. As organizations aspire to be more data-driven, trust in the data used to make decisions becomes more critical. Without data quality processes and tools, enterprises may make decisions based on old, incomplete, incorrect... Read More

Topics: Data Quality, Data Intelligence, IT and Technology-focused Software and Services, Analytics and Data

Data Integration Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Matt Aslett on 23 September 2024

Executive Summary Data Integration Data integration is a fundamental enabler of a data intelligence strategy. Analysis of individual data sources—customer or product data, for example—can provide insights to improve operational efficiency. However, the combination of data from multiple sources enables enterprises to innovate, improving customer experience and revenue generation, for example, by... Read More

Topics: Data Integration, Data Intelligence, IT and Technology-focused Software and Services, Analytics and Data

Data Governance Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Matt Aslett on 23 September 2024

Executive Summary Data Governance Data governance is integral to an overall data intelligence strategy. Good data governance provides guardrails that enable organizations to act quickly while protecting the business from risks related to regulatory requirements, data-quality issues and data-reliability concerns. It accelerates the delivery of analytics projects, providing the confidence required... Read More

Topics: Data Governance, Data Intelligence, IT and Technology-focused Software and Services, Analytics and Data

Data Orchestration Buyers Guide 2023

Posted by Matt Aslett on 23 August 2024

Executive Summary Data Orchestration Data orchestration is a concept that has been growing in popularity in the past five years amid the rise of DataOps, which describes more agile approaches to data integration and data management. Data orchestration provides the capabilities to automate and accelerate the flow of data from multiple sources to support operational and analytics initiatives and... Read More

Topics: IT and Technology-focused Software and Services, Analytics and Data

Data Pipelines Buyers Guide 2023

Posted by Matt Aslett on 23 August 2024

Executive Summary Data Pipelines The development, testing and deployment of data pipelines is essential to generating intelligence from data. Just as a physical pipeline is used to transport water between turbines, generators and transformers in the generation of hydroelectric power, so data pipelines are used to transport data between the stages involved in data processing and analytics to... Read More

Topics: IT and Technology-focused Software and Services, Analytics and Data

Mobile Analytics Buyers Guide 2023

Posted by Matt Aslett on 23 August 2024

Executive Summary Mobile Analytics The processes and technology of the mobile analytics software industry play an instrumental role in enabling an organization’s business units and IT to optimally utilize data in both tactical and strategic ways. To accomplish this, organizations must provide technology that can access the data, generate and apply insights from analytics, communicate the results... Read More

Topics: IT and Technology-focused Software and Services, Analytics and Data

DataOps Buyers Guide 2023

Posted by Matt Aslett on 23 August 2024

Executive Summary Data for the Enterprise Data Operations (DataOps) is a methodology focused on the delivery of agile business intelligence (BI) and data science through the automation and orchestration of data integration and processing pipelines, incorporating improved data reliability and integrity via data monitoring and observability. DataOps has been part of the lexicon of the data market... Read More

Topics: Analytics and Data

Data Observability Buyers Guide 2023

Posted by Matt Aslett on 23 August 2024

Data Observability The need to monitor the pipelines and processes in data-processing and analytics environments has driven the emergence of a new category of software: data observability. Data observability software provides an environment for monitoring the quality and reliability of data used for analytics and governance projects. Inspired by the observability platforms that provide an... Read More

Topics: IT and Technology-focused Software and Services, Analytics and Data