14 Data Integration Tool Vendors To Know
Data integration tools are evolving as enterprises ingest greater volumes of data and work with new data types. Here's a look at some of the top data integration tool providers in the market today.
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As enterprises collect, manage, and analyze more data, a top challenge for today's IT organizations continues to be data integration. It's also a moving target because IT is faced with increasing data volumes and new data types. Plus, there's pressure to integrate data from real-time data streams.
Organizations today are using two distinct integration architectures and design approaches, according to market research firmĀ Gartner.
Traditional integration -- bulk and batch -- is used by more than 80% of organizations today. But more modern demands for real-time and streaming data have increased message, virtualization, and synchronization approaches to data integration, Gartner said in its Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools report, released last month.
[Before you ignore that new data set, read 12 Types of Data IT Can't Afford To Overlook.]
That's because businesses are feeling the pressure to move more quickly to take advantage of short-term opportunities. They have to act fast to gain value from some of this data.
"As pressures for real-time data integration grow, organizations will need to manage a range of data latencies to make data available for use within acceptable service levels to match the required speed of business," Gartner said in its report.
Enterprises are also under increasing pressure to modernize their data integration strategies, Gartner said.
"Organizations are increasingly driven to position data integration as a strategic discipline at the heart of their information infrastructure -- to ensure it is equipped for comprehensive data capture and delivery, linked to metadata management and data governance support, and applicable diverse use cases," Gartner said in its report.
Organizations are also looking at what they need to do to as they plan for the creation of hybrid cloud deployments in their data integration strategies, according to Gartner.
With a worth approximately $2.8 billion in constant currency at the end of 2015, an increase of 10.5% from 2014, and projected growth to about $4 billion in 2020, the data integration tools market is growing faster than the rest of the enterprise software market, according to the research firm.
"Data integration capability continues to be considered of critical importance for addressing the diversity of problems and emerging requirements," Gartner said.
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools in 2016 is offered on theĀ research firm's site for a fee. However, a number of vendors featured in the report offer the report for free if you provide them with your contact details.
Following is a look at the vendors who made it into Gartner's rankings and why you should know them.
Informatica is the Leader in this category, according to Gartner's most recent Magic Quadrant report for Data Integration Tools. The company offers a host of data integration solutions for enterprise customers, led by its flagship Informatica Platform which includes multiple components and offers multiple capabilities. The company, founded in 1993, and based in Redwood City, California, went private in 2015 with Microsoft and Salesforce Ventures as strategic investors. Gartner estimates Informatica's customer base at about 7,000 organizations.
IBM offers products and services in many markets, and Gartner has ranked this tech giant in the Leaders quadrant for Data Integration Tools. IBM offers a host of products under the InfoSphere brand name for information governance, data integration, data replication, data federation, and more. IBM also offers WebSphere Cast Iron Live, BigInsights, BigIntegrate, and Data Works as part of its data integration tool portfolio. Gartner estimates the customer base for IBM's data integration tools to be more than 11,000 organizations.
Another tech giant, SAP is best known for its enterprise application software. The company is also ranked as a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. It offers a host of data integration products including SAP Replication Server, SAP SQL Anywhere, SAP Hana Platform, SAP Hana Cloud Integration, and SAP Event Stream Processor, among others. Gartner estimates SAP's customer base for these products to include more than 23,000 organizations.
Known for its databases and enterprise applications, Oracle is also ranked as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. The company offers Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle GoldenGate, and Oracle Data Service Integrator. Gartner estimates its customers base for these tools is more than 10,000 organizations.
Talend, a company with its roots in the open source movement, is also ranked in the Leader quadrant. It offers a host of solutions in its data integration tool portfolio including Talend Open Studio, Talend Data Fabric, Talend Data Management Platform, Talend Big Data Platform, and more. Gartner estimates the paying customer base for Talend's data integration solutions at more than 1,300 organizations.
SAS is well-known for its advanced analytics platform. The company is also ranked as a Leader in the data integration Magic Quadrant. It offers many data integration products including SAS Data Management, Federation Server, SAS/ACCESS, SAS Data Loader for Hadoop, and SAS Event Stream Processing. Gartner estimates the customer base for these data integrations offerings to be about 14,000 organizations.
Known for its business intelligence tools, Information Builders is ranked in the Visionaries square of the data integration tools Magic Quadrant. It offers a number of data integration products including iWay Integration Suite and iWay Universal Adapter Suite. Gartner estimates the company has more than 840 customers for these offerings. The company has extended its data governance capabilities to big data technologies.
Microsoft may not be widely known for having a suite of data integration tools, but data integration is a key contributor to the value of products such as Cortana. Gartner ranked Microsoft in the Challengers square of the Magic Quadrant for data integration tools. Microsoft's data integration capabilities come via SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), which is included in the SQL Server DBMS license. One big drawback -- SSIS workloads cannot be deployed on non-Windows environments. Gartner said that despite the fact that vast worldwide deployments of Microsoft SQL Server involve usage of SSIS for data integration, Microsoft does not report a specific customer count for SSIS.
Attunity has provided software solutions to enterprise customers for nearly 20 years, but it only recently made its debut on the Gartner Magic Quadrant report for Data Integration Tools in 2016 in the Challengers quadrant. Data integration tools include Attunity Replicate, Attunity Compose, and Attunity Visibility. Gartner estimates its customer base for these products at about 2,000.
Actian offers data integration capabilities via its Actian DataConnect and Actian DataCloud, and Gartner estimates its customer base for these capabilities to be in the range of 7,000 organizations. The company is ranked in the Niche Players square of the Magic Quadrant.
This New Jersey-based company's data integration tools include DMX, DMX-h, and Ironstream, and Gartner estimates the company has about 1,500 customer organizations for these solutions. The company is also ranked in the Niche Players square of the Magic Quadrant.
Cisco, Denodo, and Adeptia, also made Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools in 2016, but their customer bases numbered fewer than 1,000 organizations each. Cisco and Denodo ranked in the Visionaries square, and Adeptia ranked in the Challengers square.
Cisco, Denodo, and Adeptia, also made Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools in 2016, but their customer bases numbered fewer than 1,000 organizations each. Cisco and Denodo ranked in the Visionaries square, and Adeptia ranked in the Challengers square.
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