Gartner Critical Capabilities Abstract

Critical Capabilities for Augmented Data Quality Solutions

Published: 11 March 2024

Summary

Augmented data quality solutions represent a fundamental shift in solving data quality issues through the application of active metadata, AI (e.g., NLP) and graph technologies. Data and analytics leaders can evaluate these solutions’ critical capabilities and common use cases in this research.

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Key Findings
  • Scaling data quality is increasingly dependent upon augmented, two-way data flow with data governance platforms.

  • Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly being integrated into data quality solutions, enabling business users to perform more complex data quality tasks, such as interpretation of profiling results and development of data quality validation rules.

  • Most efforts to augment data quality solutions largely focus on identifying data quality problems by emphasizing profiling, monitoring, rule discovery and rule creation. Less emphasis is placed on data transformation and remediation workflows.

  • Data observabilityis often used as a low-friction method for introducing data quality to an organization. Many data quality vendors

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  • Ataccama
  • CluedIn
  • Collibra
  • Datactics
  • DQLabs
  • Experian
  • IBM
  • Informatica
  • MIOsoft
  • Precisely
  • Qlik
  • SAP
  • SAS
  • Profiling and Monitoring/Detection
  • Data Transformations
  • Matching, Linking and Merging
  • Workflow and Issue Resolution
  • Rule Discovery, Creation and Mgmt
  • Active Metadata Support
  • Usability
  • Analytics, AI and Machine Learning
  • Data Engineering
  • Data and Analytics Governance
  • Master Data Management
  • Operational/Transactional Data Quality

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Jason Medd Melody Chien

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