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15 top providers of data quality tools<\/h2>
Informatica, Syncsort, Talend, Information Builders and BackOffice Associates are among the leading vendors for data quality software, according to a new Gartner Magic Quadrant report.<\/p>

Data quality garners rising importance f<\/h2>
Digital transformation initiatives are putting new strains on data quality efforts, according to Gartner. In turn, this strain is disrupting the market for data quality tools and increasing data quality requirements for buyers and sellers. To help make sense of it all, the research firm has released a Magic Quadrant report that looks at 15 leading vendors for data quality software. The report was written by Gartner analysts Melody Chien and Ankush Jain.<\/p>

Leaders<\/h2>
\u201cLeaders demonstrate strength in depth across the full range of data quality functions, including core functions (parsing, standardization and cleansing), profiling, interactive visualization, matching, multi-domain support and business-driven workflow,\u201d the report explains. \u201cLeaders exhibit a clear understanding of dynamic trends in the data quality market; they explore and execute thought-leading and differentiating ideas; and they deliver product innovations based on the market\u2019s demands.\u201d<\/p>

IBM<\/h2>
\u201cIBM has headquarters in Armonk, N.Y. Its data quality product is IBM InfoSphere Information Server for Data Quality. IBM has an estimated 2,500 customers for this product,\u201d the report says. \u201cIBM demonstrates deep understanding of this market, and aligns its sales and marketing activities accordingly. It appears frequently in competitive evaluations seen by Gartner and the survey participants.\u201d<\/p>

Informatica<\/h2>
\u201cInformatica has headquarters in Redwood City, Calif. Its data quality products are Informatica Data Quality (IDQ), Big Data Quality, Axon Data Governance and Data as a Service. Informatica has an estimated 5,000 customers for these products,\u201d the report says. \u201cInformatica uses metadata-driven machine learning to identify data domain consistency, outliers and errors. Via a user interface, business users can train machine learning algorithms to learn from human data stewards. Reference customers report that the system uses what it learns to increase productivity and automate a range of tasks relating to the Internet of Things (IoT), data science, MDM, data governance and content-driven analytics.\u201d<\/p>

Oracle<\/h2>
\u201cOracle has headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif. Its data quality product is Oracle Enterprise Data Quality (EDQ). Oracle has an estimated 550 customers for this product,\u201d the report says. \u201cOracle EDQ provides broad and versatile data quality functionality, which customers can apply easily to a wide variety of data domains and use cases.\u201d<\/p>

SAP<\/h2>
\u201cSAP has headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. Its data quality products include SAP Smart Data Quality, SAP Information Steward, SAP Data Services and SAP Data Hub. SAP has an estimated 14,000 customers for these products,\u201d the report says. \u201cSAP has rapidly increased data quality functions and broadened its connectivity, through its data quality solutions, SAP Data Hub and SAP HANA platform. It consistently innovates in many areas, such as with enhanced connectivity to various big data stores, machine-learning-driven data statistics with analytics and predictive modeling, and data quality microservices in SAP Data Hub.\u201d<\/p>

SAS<\/h2>
\u201cSAS has headquarters in Cary, N.C. Its data quality products are SAS Data Management, SAS Data Quality and SAS Data Quality Desktop. SAS has an estimated 2,600 customers for these products,\u201d the report says. \u201cSAS is strategically transforming its data quality products by bringing them into SAS Viya, a cloud-ready platform with improved open-source support. SAS Viya enables tighter integration of data quality functions with SAS analytics, data integration, data preparation and data governance. Some rivals take a similar approach, but this is major advance for SAS customers.\u201d<\/p>

Syncsort<\/h2>
\u201cSyncsort has headquarters in Pearl River, N.Y. Its data quality products are the Trillium Software System, Trillium Director, Trillium Global Locator, Trillium Cloud, Trillium Quality for Big Data, and Trillium Quality for SAP and Microsoft CRM. Syncsort has an estimated 1,100 customers for these products,\u201d the report says. \u201cReference customers for Syncsort score its core data quality functionality\u2014including profiling, standardization and cleansing, parsing, matching, linking and merging\u2014above the survey average.\u201d<\/p>

Talend<\/h2>
\u201cTalend has headquarters in Redwood City, Calif. Its data quality products are Talend Open Studio for Data Quality and Talend Data Management Platform. Talend has an estimated 1,500 licensed customers for these products,\u201d the report says. \u201cThe overall ease of use of Talend\u2019s data quality tools is highly praised by its reference customers. Setup and operation are easy to handle, especially for data stewards. The learning curve is minimal, lasting mere days or hours.\u201d<\/p>

Challengers<\/h2>
\u201cChallengers have established presence, credibility and viability, along with robust product capabilities, and solid sales and marketing execution,\u201d the report explains. \u201cChallengers may not have the same breadth of offering as Leaders, and\/or in some areas may not demonstrate as much thought leadership and innovation. For example, they may focus on a limited number of data domains (customer, product and location data, for example).\u201d<\/p>

Experian<\/h2>
\u201cExperian has its corporate headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, though its largest markets are the U.S., the U.K. and Brazil. Its data quality products include Experian Pandora, Experian Aperture Data Studio and QAS Pro,\u201d the report says. \u201cExperian has an estimated 7,200 customers for these products. Experian recently released a new data management platform, Experian Aperture Data Studio. It includes enhanced data quality functions and has an improved user interface, workflow features and a full set of data quality tools for business users.\u201d<\/p>

Pitney Bowes<\/h2>
\u201cPitney Bowes has headquarters in Stamford, Conn. Its data quality product is the Spectrum Technology Platform. Pitney Bowes has an estimated 2,900 customers for this product,\u201d the report says. \u201cReference customers for Pitney Bowes score the platform\u2019s support for these key capabilities higher than the survey average. They especially appreciate the enhancements made for matching, using the vendor\u2019s smart data quality feature, which uses machine learning technology.\u201d<\/p>

Visionaries<\/h2>
\u201cVisionaries are innovators,\u201d the report stresses. \u201cVisionaries demonstrate a strong understanding of trends in the market. These include business audience focus, trust-based governance, growth in data diversity, low data latency, data quality analytics and intelligent capabilities, such as machine learning. Also included are new deployment options (such as cloud and IoT edge deployment), and alternative pricing models (such as open source and subscriptions). Visionaries\u2019 product capabilities are mostly aligned with these trends, but not as completely as Leaders.\u201d<\/p>

Ataccama<\/h2>
\u201cAtaccama has headquarters in Toronto, Canada. Its data quality product is Ataccama ONE. Ataccama has an estimated 330 customers for this product,\u201d the report says. \u201cAtaccama\u2019s product licensing includes free trial licenses that offer data-profiling capabilities. This approach, together with the value of the vendor\u2019s tools relative to their cost and customers\u2019 expectations, remains very attractive to customers.\u201d<\/p>

Information Builders<\/h2>
\u201cInformation Builders has headquarters in New York. It offers Omni-Gen Data Quality Edition. Information Builders has an estimated 280 customers for this product,\u201d the report says. \u201cInformation Builders has a good understanding of the data quality tool market and adjacent markets. Its Omni-Gen platform caters well to customers\u2019 requirements for data quality, data integration and MDM.\u201d<\/p>

MIOsoft<\/h2>
\u201cMIOsoft has headquarters in Madison, Wis. Its data quality product is MIOvantage. MIOsoft has an estimated 420 customers for this product,\u201d the report says. \u201cMIOsoft retains a loyal customer base and is among the highest-rated vendors in this Magic Quadrant for customer satisfaction. Reference customers especially praise its product capabilities, service and support for integration, and ease of deployment.\u201d<\/p>

Niche players<\/h2>
\u201cNiche Players often specialize in a limited number of industries, geographic areas, market segments (such as small and midsize businesses) or data domains (such as customer data or location data),\u201d the report explains. \u201cThey often have strong offerings for their chosen areas of focus and deliver substantial value for customers in those areas. However, Niche Players typically have limited market share and presence, limited functionalities or lack financial strength.\u201d<\/p>

BackOffice Associates<\/h2>
\u201cBackOffice Associates has headquarters in Hyannis, Mass. Its data quality products are dspMigrate, dspMonitor, dspCompose, dspConduct and SAP Data Quality Accelerator by BackOffice Associates,\u201d the report says. \u201cBackOffice Associates has an estimated 320 customers for these products. BackOffice Associates\u2019 tools provide good support for all data domains and offer capabilities suitable for a wide variety of customer use cases and data journeys. Support is especially strong in the product data domain.\u201d<\/p>

Innovative Systems<\/h2>
\u201cInnovative Systems has headquarters in Pittsburgh. Its data quality products include Enlighten data quality suite and FinScan, which reside on the Synchronos platform. Innovative Systems has an estimated 1,000 customers for these products,\u201d the report says. \u201cReference customers for Innovative Systems express a high degree of satisfaction with its service and support, giving it one of the highest overall scores in this area. Innovative Systems retains a loyal customer base. Some customers have been using its products for over 30 years.\u201d<\/p>

RedPoint Global<\/h2>
\u201cRedPoint Global has headquarters in Wellesley Hills, Mass. Its data quality product is RedPoint Data Management. The vendor has an estimated 260 customers for this product,\u201d the report says. \u201cOverall, RedPoint offers rich and solid core functionality, especially in its address standardization and geospatial tools, which are available in over 200 countries (a high number compared with the other vendors in this Magic Quadrant). RedPoint has extensive fuzzy-matching capabilities at both consumer and business level.\u201d<\/p>

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15 top providers of data quality tools<\/h2>
Informatica, Syncsort, Talend, Information Builders and BackOffice Associates are among the leading vendors for data quality software, according to a new Gartner Magic Quadrant report.<\/p>

Data quality garners rising importance f<\/h2>
Digital transformation initiatives are putting new strains on data quality efforts, according to Gartner. In turn, this strain is disrupting the market for data quality tools and increasing data quality requirements for buyers and sellers. To help make sense of it all, the research firm has released a Magic Quadrant report that looks at 15 leading vendors for data quality software. The report was written by Gartner analysts Melody Chien and Ankush Jain.<\/p>

Leaders<\/h2>
\u201cLeaders demonstrate strength in depth across the full range of data quality functions, including core functions (parsing, standardization and cleansing), profiling, interactive visualization, matching, multi-domain support and business-driven workflow,\u201d the report explains. \u201cLeaders exhibit a clear understanding of dynamic trends in the data quality market; they explore and execute thought-leading and differentiating ideas; and they deliver product innovations based on the market\u2019s demands.\u201d<\/p>

IBM<\/h2>
\u201cIBM has headquarters in Armonk, N.Y. Its data quality product is IBM InfoSphere Information Server for Data Quality. IBM has an estimated 2,500 customers for this product,\u201d the report says. \u201cIBM demonstrates deep understanding of this market, and aligns its sales and marketing activities accordingly. It appears frequently in competitive evaluations seen by Gartner and the survey participants.\u201d<\/p>

Informatica<\/h2>
\u201cInformatica has headquarters in Redwood City, Calif. Its data quality products are Informatica Data Quality (IDQ), Big Data Quality, Axon Data Governance and Data as a Service. Informatica has an estimated 5,000 customers for these products,\u201d the report says. \u201cInformatica uses metadata-driven machine learning to identify data domain consistency, outliers and errors. Via a user interface, business users can train machine learning algorithms to learn from human data stewards. Reference customers report that the system uses what it learns to increase productivity and automate a range of tasks relating to the Internet of Things (IoT), data science, MDM, data governance and content-driven analytics.\u201d<\/p>

Oracle<\/h2>
\u201cOracle has headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif. Its data quality product is Oracle Enterprise Data Quality (EDQ). Oracle has an estimated 550 customers for this product,\u201d the report says. \u201cOracle EDQ provides broad and versatile data quality functionality, which customers can apply easily to a wide variety of data domains and use cases.\u201d<\/p>

SAP<\/h2>
\u201cSAP has headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. Its data quality products include SAP Smart Data Quality, SAP Information Steward, SAP Data Services and SAP Data Hub. SAP has an estimated 14,000 customers for these products,\u201d the report says. \u201cSAP has rapidly increased data quality functions and broadened its connectivity, through its data quality solutions, SAP Data Hub and SAP HANA platform. It consistently innovates in many areas, such as with enhanced connectivity to various big data stores, machine-learning-driven data statistics with analytics and predictive modeling, and data quality microservices in SAP Data Hub.\u201d<\/p>

SAS<\/h2>
\u201cSAS has headquarters in Cary, N.C. Its data quality products are SAS Data Management, SAS Data Quality and SAS Data Quality Desktop. SAS has an estimated 2,600 customers for these products,\u201d the report says. \u201cSAS is strategically transforming its data quality products by bringing them into SAS Viya, a cloud-ready platform with improved open-source support. SAS Viya enables tighter integration of data quality functions with SAS analytics, data integration, data preparation and data governance. Some rivals take a similar approach, but this is major advance for SAS customers.\u201d<\/p>

Syncsort<\/h2>
\u201cSyncsort has headquarters in Pearl River, N.Y. Its data quality products are the Trillium Software System, Trillium Director, Trillium Global Locator, Trillium Cloud, Trillium Quality for Big Data, and Trillium Quality for SAP and Microsoft CRM. Syncsort has an estimated 1,100 customers for these products,\u201d the report says. \u201cReference customers for Syncsort score its core data quality functionality\u2014including profiling, standardization and cleansing, parsing, matching, linking and merging\u2014above the survey average.\u201d<\/p>

Talend<\/h2>
\u201cTalend has headquarters in Redwood City, Calif. Its data quality products are Talend Open Studio for Data Quality and Talend Data Management Platform. Talend has an estimated 1,500 licensed customers for these products,\u201d the report says. \u201cThe overall ease of use of Talend\u2019s data quality tools is highly praised by its reference customers. Setup and operation are easy to handle, especially for data stewards. The learning curve is minimal, lasting mere days or hours.\u201d<\/p>

Challengers<\/h2>
\u201cChallengers have established presence, credibility and viability, along with robust product capabilities, and solid sales and marketing execution,\u201d the report explains. \u201cChallengers may not have the same breadth of offering as Leaders, and\/or in some areas may not demonstrate as much thought leadership and innovation. For example, they may focus on a limited number of data domains (customer, product and location data, for example).\u201d<\/p>

Experian<\/h2>
\u201cExperian has its corporate headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, though its largest markets are the U.S., the U.K. and Brazil. Its data quality products include Experian Pandora, Experian Aperture Data Studio and QAS Pro,\u201d the report says. \u201cExperian has an estimated 7,200 customers for these products. Experian recently released a new data management platform, Experian Aperture Data Studio. It includes enhanced data quality functions and has an improved user interface, workflow features and a full set of data quality tools for business users.\u201d<\/p>

Pitney Bowes<\/h2>
\u201cPitney Bowes has headquarters in Stamford, Conn. Its data quality product is the Spectrum Technology Platform. Pitney Bowes has an estimated 2,900 customers for this product,\u201d the report says. \u201cReference customers for Pitney Bowes score the platform\u2019s support for these key capabilities higher than the survey average. They especially appreciate the enhancements made for matching, using the vendor\u2019s smart data quality feature, which uses machine learning technology.\u201d<\/p>

Visionaries<\/h2>
\u201cVisionaries are innovators,\u201d the report stresses. \u201cVisionaries demonstrate a strong understanding of trends in the market. These include business audience focus, trust-based governance, growth in data diversity, low data latency, data quality analytics and intelligent capabilities, such as machine learning. Also included are new deployment options (such as cloud and IoT edge deployment), and alternative pricing models (such as open source and subscriptions). Visionaries\u2019 product capabilities are mostly aligned with these trends, but not as completely as Leaders.\u201d<\/p>

Ataccama<\/h2>
\u201cAtaccama has headquarters in Toronto, Canada. Its data quality product is Ataccama ONE. Ataccama has an estimated 330 customers for this product,\u201d the report says. \u201cAtaccama\u2019s product licensing includes free trial licenses that offer data-profiling capabilities. This approach, together with the value of the vendor\u2019s tools relative to their cost and customers\u2019 expectations, remains very attractive to customers.\u201d<\/p>

Information Builders<\/h2>
\u201cInformation Builders has headquarters in New York. It offers Omni-Gen Data Quality Edition. Information Builders has an estimated 280 customers for this product,\u201d the report says. \u201cInformation Builders has a good understanding of the data quality tool market and adjacent markets. Its Omni-Gen platform caters well to customers\u2019 requirements for data quality, data integration and MDM.\u201d<\/p>

MIOsoft<\/h2>
\u201cMIOsoft has headquarters in Madison, Wis. Its data quality product is MIOvantage. MIOsoft has an estimated 420 customers for this product,\u201d the report says. \u201cMIOsoft retains a loyal customer base and is among the highest-rated vendors in this Magic Quadrant for customer satisfaction. Reference customers especially praise its product capabilities, service and support for integration, and ease of deployment.\u201d<\/p>

Niche players<\/h2>
\u201cNiche Players often specialize in a limited number of industries, geographic areas, market segments (such as small and midsize businesses) or data domains (such as customer data or location data),\u201d the report explains. \u201cThey often have strong offerings for their chosen areas of focus and deliver substantial value for customers in those areas. However, Niche Players typically have limited market share and presence, limited functionalities or lack financial strength.\u201d<\/p>

BackOffice Associates<\/h2>
\u201cBackOffice Associates has headquarters in Hyannis, Mass. Its data quality products are dspMigrate, dspMonitor, dspCompose, dspConduct and SAP Data Quality Accelerator by BackOffice Associates,\u201d the report says. \u201cBackOffice Associates has an estimated 320 customers for these products. BackOffice Associates\u2019 tools provide good support for all data domains and offer capabilities suitable for a wide variety of customer use cases and data journeys. Support is especially strong in the product data domain.\u201d<\/p>

Innovative Systems<\/h2>
\u201cInnovative Systems has headquarters in Pittsburgh. Its data quality products include Enlighten data quality suite and FinScan, which reside on the Synchronos platform. Innovative Systems has an estimated 1,000 customers for these products,\u201d the report says. \u201cReference customers for Innovative Systems express a high degree of satisfaction with its service and support, giving it one of the highest overall scores in this area. Innovative Systems retains a loyal customer base. Some customers have been using its products for over 30 years.\u201d<\/p>

RedPoint Global<\/h2>
\u201cRedPoint Global has headquarters in Wellesley Hills, Mass. Its data quality product is RedPoint Data Management. The vendor has an estimated 260 customers for this product,\u201d the report says. \u201cOverall, RedPoint offers rich and solid core functionality, especially in its address standardization and geospatial tools, which are available in over 200 countries (a high number compared with the other vendors in this Magic Quadrant). RedPoint has extensive fuzzy-matching capabilities at both consumer and business level.\u201d<\/p>

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15 top providers of data quality tools<\/h2>Informatica, Syncsort, Talend, Information Builders and BackOffice Associates are among the leading vendors for data quality software, according to a new Gartner Magic Quadrant report.<\/p>

15 top providers of data quality tools<\/h2>Informatica, Syncsort, Talend, Information Builders and BackOffice Associates are among the leading vendors for data quality software, according to a new Gartner Magic Quadrant report.<\/p>

15 top providers of data quality tools<\/h2>
Informatica, Syncsort, Talend, Information Builders and BackOffice Associates are among the leading vendors for data quality software, according to a new Gartner Magic Quadrant report.<\/p>

15 top providers of data quality tools<\/h2>
Informatica, Syncsort, Talend, Information Builders and BackOffice Associates are among the leading vendors for data quality software, according to a new Gartner Magic Quadrant report.<\/p>

15 top providers of data quality tools

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