Looking at The Data Quality Tool World with Different Metrics

The latest market report on data quality tools from Information Difference is out. In the introduction to the data quality landscape Q1 2019 this example of the consequences of  a data quality issue is mentioned: “Christopher Columbus accidentally landed in America when he based his route on calculations using the shorter 4,856 foot Roman mile rather than the 7,091 foot Arabic mile of the Persian geographer that he was relying on.”.

Information Difference has the vendors on the market plotted this way:

Information Difference DQ Landscape Q1 2019

As reported in the post Data Quality Tools are Vital for Digital Transformation also Gartner recently published a market report with vendor positions. The two reports are, in terms on evaluating vendors, like Roman and Arabic miles. Same same but different and may bring you to a different place depending on which one you choose to use.

Vendors evaluated by Information Difference but not Gartner are veteran solution providers Melissa and Datactics. On the other side Gartner has evaluated for example Talend, Information Builders and Ataccama. Gartner has a more spread out evaluation than Information Difference, where most vendors are equal.

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