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"

The Forrester Wave™: Omnichannel Order Management Systems, Q3 2018

Digital Strategy Pros Are Looking For Order Control And Business Optimization. Order Orchestration, Store Fulfillment, And Advanced Analytics Are Key Differentiators. As omni-channel customer journeys become more complex, improved order orchestration, store fulfillment, and advanced analytics will dictate which providers will lead the pack.

 

Forrester defines omnichannel commerce as: “The coordination of traditional channels (marketing, selling, and fulfillment) and supporting systems to create a seamless and consistent customer experience.”

Enterprise-level inventory visibility, Distributed order management (DOM), Customer service & Store fulfillment are the key.

 

Manhattan Associates And IBM Lead The Pack in "The Forrester Wave™: Omnichannel Order Management Systems, Q3 2018" ; Oracle NetSuite, Oracle, Aptos, and Magento are Strong Performers; Digital River, Radial, and Jagged Peak are Contenders; and Kibo is a Challenger.

“The Forrester Wave™: Multimodal Predictive Analytics And Machine Learning Solutions, Q3 2018.”

“Machine learning is an elemental core competency that every enterprise must have. The reasons are many. Machine learning gives enterprises the power to predict. It is a fundamental building block to AI.”

 

Forrester defines enterprise PAML (Predictive Analytics And Machine Learning) as: Software that provides enterprise data scientist teams and stakeholders with

1) Tools to analyze data;

2) Workbench tools to build predictive models using statistical and machine learning algorithms;

3) A platform to train, deploy, and manage analytical results and models; and

4) Collaboration tools for extended enterprise teams, including businesspeople, data engineers, application developers, DevOps, and AI engineers.

 

SAS, IBM and RapidMiner Lead The Pack in “The Forrester Wave™: Multimodal Predictive Analytics And Machine Learning Solutions, Q3 2018.”. Check out for KNIME, SAP, Datawatch, TIBCO Software, and Dataiku..

Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions - 2018

“By 2020, most data and analytics use cases will require connecting to distributed data sources, leading enterprises to double their investments in metadata management.”

 

Market Definition/Description: Metadata management is about an organization’s management of its data and information assets. Metadata describes the various facets of an information asset that can improve its usability throughout its life cycle. Enterprise metadata management (EMM) encompasses the roles, responsibilities, processes, organization and technology necessary to ensure that the metadata across the enterprise adds value to that enterprise’s data.

 

Informatica, Collibra, Alation, Smartlogic, Datum, IBM, Oracle, Alex Solution and ASG Technologies are the leaders in “Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions - 2018”