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Analyst house Gartner, Inc. recently released the 2019 version of its Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. The researcher defines data integration tools as encompassing “architectural techniques, practices and tools that ingest, transform, combine and provision data across the spectrum of data types.” Supporting the needs of organizational data consumption is the aim of data integration software, regardless of current market nomenclature. As a strategic planning assumption, Gartner projects that 80 percent or organizations will use more than one of the available data integration delivery types to solve for their use cases.
Apr 04, 2019 Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools, Melody Chien and Ankush Jain, March 27, 2019. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. As part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from Experian Data Quality.
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- Gartner believes this represents a renewed focus on either vision or execution without addressing all the requirements of data integration software. In this Magic Quadrant, Gartner evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 16 providers that it considers most significant in the marketplace, and provides readers with a graph (the Magic Quadrant.
The best data integration providers offer products that enable construction and implementation of data access and delivery for a number of key use cases. The most common ones include integration and delivery for optimizing analytics, sourcing master data, ensuring data quality and consistency between applications, data acquisition and sharing, data migration, and support for data management and governance. New and emerging data integration use cases are highlighted by new requirements for hybrid and intercloud integration, as well as active metadata and augmented data management.
While some vendors specialize in moving data in bulk or batch, others are focusing on data virtualization, preparation, and message-oriented movement or data synchronization. As a result, prospective data integration software buyers can either seek tools with focused and targeted capabilities or a breadth of integration approaches. This is why significant submarkets have emerged in parallel to common integration products over the last few years. Gartner believes this represents a renewed focus on either vision or execution without addressing all the requirements of data integration software.
In this Magic Quadrant, Gartner evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 16 providers that it considers most significant in the marketplace, and provides readers with a graph (the Magic Quadrant) plotting the vendors based on their ability to execute and their completeness of vision. The graph is divided into four quadrants: niche players, challengers, visionaries, and leaders. At Solutions Review, we read the report, available here, and pulled out the key takeaways.
This year’s Magic Quadrant features two new vendors. A staple of the parallel business intelligence space, Qlik makes its debut after announcing its intent to buy Attunity in February. The merger will see Qlik pull in Attunity’s partner network, expanding the company’s reach and strengthening its data lake management and cloud partnerships. Integration Platform as a Service leader and cloud integration technology driver SnapLogic is also included for 2019.
There is little difference in Gartner’s positioning of the major data integration players for 2019, with Informatica continuing to secure the top scores for both completeness of vision and ability to execute. The provider is on the cutting edge for augmented integration through the use of metadata-based AI and machine learning, though some of its reference customers would like to see portfolio complexity rationalization that aligns with common enterprise use cases. IBM and SAP retain close-proximity positions just to the southwest of Informatica on the graph.
SAS saw its position remain neutral in the leaders column, though the independent provider still touts the second-best horizontal standing of any vendor in this Magic Quadrant. SAS is investing heavily in self-service data preparation, including new data quality features with options for data streaming. Talend gained ground for completeness of vision, but it wasn’t enough to hold off Oracle’s move on the vertical axis. Though Talend recently added new machine learning-enabled suggestions to its Summer ’19 product, it remains in a dead heat with Oracle for the fifth-ranked overall spot on Gartner’s visual.
Microsoft and Denodo were virtually overlapping in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant, though Denodo has separated itself slightly with a rightward move toward the leaders column. Denodo is now just a stone’s throw away from challenging Talend and Oracle in 2020. Denodo is a data virtualization leader that helps its customer tackle use cases like logical data warehouse and data lake, data service marketplaces, and registry-style MDM. The provider offers a targeted product that reference customers use for connecting to diverse sources and federated data.
Information Builders has some competition in the visionaries bracket with SnapLogic’s addition to the report, but perhaps not until next year. Information Builders’ placement is identical to that of 2018, though the vendor continues to focus on developing an integrated environment for data integration that can operate with data preparation, MDM and pre-packaged vertical-specific tools. However, selecting Information Builders integration software is usually influenced by an existing relationship and use of other products within the vendor’s portfolio.
TIBCO Software and Syncsort are positioned as niche players in similar fashion to 2018, though the former has improved its standing with a northward move on the grid. TIBCO offers an expansive portfolio of data management and analytics products, and is no stranger to improving its products with strategic acquisitions. TIBCO supports both common and emerging data delivery styles, and reference customers scored it the highest of any provider in this report in regard to messaging and streaming data integration.
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Adeptia, Hitachi Vantara and Actian round out the niche players and vendor-centric portion of the report. While Adeptia Connect offers expanded capabilities for large-file data ingestion and flexible pricing, metadata management is a weakness according to Gartner reference customers. Hitachi Vantara hangs its hat on data management support, IoT and edge computing functionality, some buyers want more clarity and definition surrounding the provider’s available products. Actian’s embeddable data integration tool is popular to those who value in-line statistics for data that crosses the platform.
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Recently, analyst house Gartner, Inc. released their 2019 Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics. Gartner defines Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics (NPMD) as tools that “leverage a combination of packet data, flow data and infrastructure metrics to provide historical, real-time and predictive views into the availability and performance of the network and the application traffic running on it.” NPMD programs collect integral information about a network’s performance and diagnose problems using a combination of AIOps functions and end-user experience analysis. Typically, NPMD vendors provide either software or hardware appliances (sensors, switches, etc.).
The Magic Quadrant lists 16 different NPMD vendors and highlights their offerings, their strong suits, and their weaknesses. At Solutions Review, we read the report, available here, and pulled out everything that’s changed in the NPMD sector from last year’s Magic Quadrant.
NPMD market developments and new criteria
Gartner noted some major developments in the NPMD market, particularly in the buyers and development of the products. Their report notes a continuing divide between the types of customers that buy NPMD solutions. Gartner wrote that some customers focus solely on infrastructure monitoring, while others also include packet monitoring in their priorities. Gartner also discussed several technological innovations in the space, including an increasing use of AI and cloud-based monitoring. These developments are something to note when considering the future of NPMDs.
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Because NPMD tools are evolving, Gartner made some changes to their evaluation criteria for NPMD solutions. First, they loosened data source support requirements. Now, NPMD tools only need to support at least two of the three major data sources: infrastructure metrics, flow, or packets. Previously, applicable offerings had to support all three. Second, Gartner increased the minimum revenue requirements for consideration, citing differing market dynamics.
Which vendors are still here, and who’s gone?
Gartner divides Magic Quadrants into four categories: Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries, and Niche Players. Chosen vendors are ranked on both their completeness of vision and their ability to execute. From this ranking, Gartner then places the vendor into one of the four categories.
Last year, there were 22 vendors on the Magic Quadrant; this year, there were only 16. Two vendors were added this year: LogicMonitor and Broadcom. Seven vendors were dropped: CA Technologies (acquired by Broadcom), Corvil, Infovista, Ipswitch, Paessler, Savvius (acquired by LiveAction) and Statseeker. It should be noted that all dropped vendors were listed as Honorable Mentions by Gartner, meaning they still come up in NPMD inquiries but no longer meet Gartner’s evaluation requirements.
Analyzing the four categories
Leaders
Last year’s three Leaders – NetScout, Riverbed, and VIAVI – are still in the same quadrant this year. However, Gartner moved ExtraHop from the Visionaries category to the Leaders segment. ExtraHop’s commitment to AIOps integration and improvement of visualizations helped Gartner label them as a Leader this year.
Challengers
SolarWinds is the sole Challenger in this year’s Magic Quadrant, as CA Technologies (now Broadcom) moved to the Visionaries category. SolarWinds has focused on increased scalability over the past year, and they consolidated all their NPMD offerings into one tool – Network Automation Manager (NAM).
Visionaries
The Visionaries category lost Cisco (moved to Niche Players) and Corvil (not listed), but gained Broadcom from the Challengers quadrant and AppNeta from the Niche Players. The Broadcom acquisition of CA Technologies, completed in November, might have long-term effects that will change their position next year. Gartner cited AppNeta’s growth and sales performance over the past year. ColaSoft, LiveAction, and SevOne retained their Visionaries spot.
Niche Players
The Niche Players quadrant saw the most changes this year. Of last year’s Niche Players, only Accedian, ManageEngine, Micro Focus, and New H3C Group remain. LogicMonitor, a new vendor this year, was cited as being easy to use despite a roadmap that lags behind other solutions. Cisco, previously a Visionary, has suffered from a lack of awareness by customers of their NPMD solutions, despite their solid financial situation and brand recognition.
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