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Informatica Tops Report on AI-Driven 'Augmented Data Quality'
Advanced AI has powered intelligent data management specialist Informatica to leading status in a new report from research firm Gartner on augmented data quality solutions.
In that firm's "Magic Quadrant" approach, Informatica leads on both execution and vision axes, sharing the "Leaders" quadrant with IBM and Ataccama. While cloud offerings abound along with on-premises solutions among the vendors, no major cloud platform providers are included in the report, though AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure appear in solution descriptions and so on.
[Click on image for larger view.] Magic Quadrant for Augmented Data Quality Solutions (source: Gartner).
The research firm defines augmented data quality solutions as providing "a set of capabilities for enhanced data quality experience aimed at improving insight discovery, next-best-action suggestions and process automation by leveraging AI/machine learning (ML) features, graph analysis and metadata analytics."
Use cases include:
- Analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning development
- Data engineering
- Data and analytics (D&A) governance
- Master data management
- Operational/transactional data quality
With AI/ML tech permeating the space and its research report, Informatica's "strengths" naturally lead off with its AI/ML capabilities. Gartner noted the company recently launched generative AI initiatives called CLAIRE GPT and CLAIRE AI Copilot, which are both in preview.
The company's AI/ML capabilities are also used throughout its data quality products, which are part of its broader Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform.
The report describes the importance of generative AI in the data quality field and elsewhere noting that along with benefits, its use presents a new challenge: "Building AI-ready data to ensure the high quality of AI models also places a new demand on data quality."
If that demand is met, though, data quality can provide a competitive advantage for data and analytics (D&A) leaders, the company said.
"A Gartner Webinar poll in July 2023 found that 42 percent of organizations are piloting generative AI or in production, and 50 percent are actively assessing it," the report said. "With the rise of generative AI, data quality solutions facilitate the adoption of GenAI by providing technologies to prepare training datasets and get your data AI-ready."
Ways to do that include:
- Minimize and mitigate risks with compliance and privacy
- Shorten the data preparation process in data pipelines
- Increase business efficiency with process automation and data sharing
- Turn data into revenue with analytics and AI
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David Ramel is an editor and writer at Converge 360.