Ventana Research Data Platforms Value Index 2023

January 18, 2023

Ventana Research performed this research and analysis independently. Our goals were to determine the Value Index for Data Platforms and to evaluate vendors and products in accordance with the Ventana Research methodology and blueprint. We charged no fees for this research and invited to participate all vendors that are delivering relevant data platform products and services. This report includes products generally available as of September 30, 2022.

Spotlight

Yonder

Yonder s.r.l. is a data science company with a special expertise in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Multimedia Analysis. Yonder is currently releasing new API for extracting semantic information both from single text documents, such as sentiment analysis, entity extraction, semantic tagging, etc. and from collections of texts, allowing for services such as text comparison, clustering, and data mining on text collections.

OTHER WHITEPAPERS

Self-Service Data Intelligence

whitePaper | September 20, 2022

Self-service is without question no longer an option for successful businesses. Find out how Alation can accelerate data-driven decisions with our Self-Service Data Intelligence white paper.

Dell PowerMax 2500 and 8500 Best Practices for Mission Critical SQL Server Databases

whitePaper | August 25, 2022

The new PowerMax 2500 and 8500 storage systems with PowerMaxOS 10 feature some of the most advanced performance, data protection, data reduction, and data mobility servicing enterprise workloads and applications. The new PowerMax systems come with large DRAM for user data and persistent memory for metadata, end-to-end NVMe, 100 Gbit RDMA fabric, real-time machine learning, 64-bit native file services, seamless cloud mobility, and ability to deliver millions of IOPS at submillisecond latency.

SAP Datashpere

whitePaper | March 29, 2023

On the 8th of March 2023 SAP announced the evolution of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC) into SAP Datasphere during its ‘Data Unleashed’-digital event. Although this whitepaper has been updated to reflect all the changes and new developments, some of the images may still carry SAP Datasphere’s old name (Data Warehouse Cloud), in cases where no similar visualizations with the new namesake were available. If you have read this whitepaper before, you might just be interested in the topics that SAP highlighted in the days preceding and during the March event. In the section below you will find the most important takeaways in a nutshell, but we encourage you to read on if you want to know more!

Using Alation to Accelerate Your Active Data Governance

whitePaper | December 9, 2022

In Data Governance Methodology, we described why a modern active data governance methodology is superior to a traditional top-down methodology and how active data governance is supported by continuous improvement. We also discussed how a data governance process based on continuous improvement is a key component of a DataOps process.

The Lock and Key of Data Literacy and Data Governance

whitePaper | November 24, 2022

Without a data-literate team, your company doesn’t have a chance of becoming data-driven. “Speaking data” is one of the biggest skills in the coming years as more technical skills (think SQL or R programming) become embedded in the tools themselves, demonstrating what we’ve always known — that tools will only take you so far. Your real resource is people.

Data Architecture Series - The unified data fabric

whitePaper | September 8, 2022

Enterprises today have to contend with exponentially increasing volumes of batch and streaming data, comprising a variety of structured, unstructured, and semi structured data types, and originating from an expanding number of disparate sources located on-premises, in the cloud and at the edge.

Business Intelligence, Big Data Management

Ventana Research Data Platforms Value Index 2023