PALO ALTO, Calif., August 14, 2024 – Denodo, a leader in data management, announced that it has been placed as a top vendor in the first edition of the Active Data Architecture™ report, 2024 from Dresner Advisory Services, LLC. Dresner defines “Active Data Architecture™” as that which “supports a platform-independent layer that sits between physical data stores and points of data consumption,” to overcome the challenges that many organizations have in maintaining the flexibility, adaptability, and scalability of their data infrastructures. Denodo secured the top spot in this highly competitive evaluation report based on its overall strength in data integration, metadata management, data governance, performance and ADA access.
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As the report states, "At its core, Active Data Architecture is an abstraction layer translating business and physical structures. It is an architecture dynamically optimized for performance, scalability, and cost management." It later says,"An active data architecture helps to elevate the status and importance of data to the level of a “product” by separating the management, governance, and use of data from the specific technical systems in which it may be housed. In essence, an active data architecture provides (among other things) a layer of abstraction enabling data to be managed and applied in an application-independent manner."
The Denodo Platform is a perfect fit for Active Data Architecture™ as defined by Dresner. Leveraging a logical approach to data management, it enables organizations to manage data without having to store all of the data in a single repository, and it provides organizations with intelligent data delivery capabilities across their existing data systems. It offers a flexible variety of data integration techniques, including real time, via data virtualization; a unified, platform-independent access layer to provide data in the language of business; a full-featured data catalog; and end-to-end data governance and security capabilities. The Denodo Platform simplifies the development and deployment of data products, another critical capability of Active Data Architecture™. Customers choose the Denodo Platform because of its powerful capabilities in supporting modern data architectures, its ability to seamlessly connect data from disparate data sources, and its flexibility in enabling a wide range of business use cases.
“A key feature of active data architecture is the ability to dynamically optimize service levels in response to changing business requirements,” said Howard Dresner, chief research officer, Dresner Advisory Services. “This requires strong monitoring capabilities, and in the report, almost 75 percent of organizations listed the monitoring of performance KPIs as ‘critically important’ or ‘very important’. In light of the many stringent criteria of active data architecture, we congratulate Denodo on their rating as a top vendor in this year's report.”
Part of Dresner’s Wisdom of Crowds® Market Studies, the Active Data Architecture™ report is based on a survey of over 6,000 organizations worldwide as well as crowdsourcing and vendors’ customer communities. Dresner carefully verifies all respondent entries to ensure that only qualified participants are included. Financial services, which includes banking and insurance, makes up the largest industry represented, followed by business services, which includes consulting, telecommunications, and transportation.
“It comes as no surprise that the Denodo Platform was selected as a #1 technology provider for Active Data Architecture,” said Ravi Shankar, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, at Denodo. “The report mentions data virtualization, data catalog, and broader metadata management as the most important enabling technologies for deploying an Active Data Architecture, and Denodo, as a pioneer in these technologies since it started in 1999, has perfected them over the years to the point of excellence that our global customers rely on them to power their mission critical operations.”
With this report, readers can glean key insights into vendor performance, to make educated comparisons against industry norms throughout their vendor-identification and selection processes.