The Forrester Wave™: Data Preparation Solutions Q4 2018

Data Preparation Solutions Are The Rocket Fuel For Data Activation. Key Differentiators Are Machine Learning Automation, Collaboration, And Activation.

The data prep solutions market is growing and maturing to support enterprises' critical need to move at the speed of their customers by scaling more data faster with governed self-service.

Forrester's research uncovered a market in which Trifacta, Paxata, Unifi Software, TIBCO Software, and SAP are Leaders; Oracle, ClearStory Data, and Datawatch are Strong Performers; Datameer is a Contender; and SAS is a Challenger in "The Forrester Wave™: Data Preparation Solutions Q4 2018"

The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Data Warehouse, Q4 2018

Cloud data warehouse solutions are changing the way we build and support data platforms for insights. You can provision a cloud data warehouse in minutes without requiring any technical expertise, allowing business analysts and other nontechnical users to access, store, and process large amounts of data for insights.

Forrester defines cloud data warehouse as: An on-demand, secure, and scalable self-service data warehouse that automates the provisioning, administration, tuning, backup, and recovery to accelerate analytics and actionable insights while minimizing administration requirements.

AWS (Redshift), Snowflake, Google (BigQuery), And Oracle [Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW)..old exadata]Lead The Pack; Teradata, IBM, Hortonworks, Microsoft, and MarkLogic are Strong Performers in "The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Data Warehouse, Q4 2018"

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems : 2018

By 2023, 75% of all databases will be on a cloud platform — a development that will drastically change the DBMS vendor landscape.

The operational database management system (OPDBMS) market is defined by relational and nonrelational database management products suitable for the traditional transactions used to support business processes. These include a broad range of enterprise-level applications — both purchased business applications, such as ERP and CRM applications, and custom-made transactional systems. Gartner defines a DBMS as a complete software system used to define, create, update, manage and query a database.

Microsoft, Oracle, AWS and SAP are the leaders in "Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems : 2018". Check out for Cassandra, Mongo, GCP & Marklogic..

The Forrester New Wave™: Enterprise Container Platform Software Suites, Q4 2018

The Forrester New Wave differs from traditional Forrester Wave™. The New Wave only evaluates emerging technologies, and this time its extreme containerization.

Enterprise container platforms provide a container-based development environment with container execution, orchestration, integration, security, and management capabilities designed to provision and control container clusters across multiple on-premises and cloud infrastructure platforms.

The report evaluated eight vendors across following categories:

ü  Runtime and orchestration

ü  Image management

ü  Operations management

ü  Security features

ü  User experience

ü  Integrations and APIs

ü  Vision

ü  Market approach

Forrester's research uncovered a market in which Docker, Red Hat, and Rancher Labs are Leaders; Pivotal, Mesosphere, and IBM are Strong Performers; and SUSE and Platform9 are Contenders in "The Forrester New Wave™: Enterprise Container Platform Software Suites, Q4 2018"