Buyers Guide

Collaborative Analytics Buyers Guide 2024 Executive Summary

Posted by David Menninger on 21 January 2025

Executive Summary Collaborative Analytics Analytics almost universally involves collaboration among a team of individuals. Interpreting the results of the analyses, choosing a course of action and tracking the implementation of those actions span multiple roles and departments within an enterprise. As a result, most of today’s analytics and business intelligence products support some form of... Read More

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

Data Products Buyers Guide 2024 Executive Summary

Posted by Matt Aslett on 27 December 2024

Executive Summary Data Products Data as a product is one of four key principles of data mesh, a cultural and organizational approach, alongside domain-oriented ownership, self-serve data infrastructure and federated governance. However, each of these four principles is gaining momentum outside the context of data mesh. Data as a product is the process of applying product thinking to data... Read More

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

Data Pipelines Buyers Guide 2024 Executive Summary

Posted by Matt Aslett on 27 December 2024

Executive Summary Data Pipelines The development, testing and deployment of data pipelines is a fundamental accelerator of data-driven strategies. The pipelines enable enterprises to extract data generated by operational applications that run the business and transport it into the analytic data platforms used to analyze the business. ISG Research defines data pipelines as the systems used to... Read More

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

Data Orchestration Buyers Guide 2024 Executive Summary

Posted by Matt Aslett on 27 December 2024

Executive Summary Data Orchestration While data-driven enterprises stand to gain a competitive advantage by responding faster to worker and customer demands for more innovative, data-rich applications and personalized experiences, this increasingly relies on a complex array of data pipelines to support agile, continuous data processing. Given the increasing complexity of evolving data sources and... Read More

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

DataOps Buyers Guide 2024 Executive Summary

Posted by Matt Aslett on 27 December 2024

Executive Summary DataOps As enterprises embracing artificial intelligence move from initial pilots and trial projects through deployment and into production at scale, many are realizing the critical importance of agile and responsive data processes. These processes are often combined with tools and platforms that facilitate data management to improve trust in the data used for AI and analytics.... Read More

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

Data Observability Buyers Guide 2024 Executive Summary

Posted by Matt Aslett on 27 December 2024

Executive Summary Data Observability Maintaining data quality and trust is a perennial data management challenge, often preventing enterprises from operating at the speed of business. In addition to automating and coordinating the creation, scheduling and monitoring of data pipelines via data orchestration, it is also critical to monitor the quality and reliability of the data flowing through... Read More

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

Analytics and Data Buyers Guide 2024 Executive Summary

Posted by David Menninger on 10 December 2024

Executive Summary Analytics and Data The processes and technology of the analytics and data software industry continue to play an instrumental role in enabling an enterprise’s business units and IT organization to optimize data in tactical and strategic ways. To accomplish this, organizations must provide technology that supports a variety of personas, enabling them to access data, generate and... Read More

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

Embedded Analytics Buyers Guide 2024 Executive Summary

Posted by David Menninger on 10 December 2024

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

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

GenAI Analytics Buyers Guide 2024 Executive Summary

Posted by David Menninger on 10 December 2024

Executive Summary GenAI Analytics For decades, enterprises have focused on using analytics and data software—or business intelligence—to improve operations. Software providers have made dramatic improvements in BI products by incorporating highly interactive visualizations and the ability to quickly process and display very large volumes of data. However, the quest to make analytics accessible to... Read More

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

Mobile Analytics Buyers Guide 2024 Executive Summary

Posted by David Menninger on 10 December 2024

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

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