Managerial Skills

Just about every business today is a data company. Whether using data to manage day-to-day operations, analyzing data for planning purposes and gaining competitive advantage, or even providing data as part of product and service offerings, data today has become a valuable asset for most businesses.

But with growing data volumes, increased data complexity and hybrid IT environments that maintain critical data across multiple systems and locations, the job of managing, maintaining, protecting and analyzing all that data has become a major challenge.

To make productive use of – and derive value from – the ever-growing volumes of data, businesses and organizations need leading-edge technologies to identify and unify siloed data, manage and control data pipelines, prepare and transform data for analysis and machine learning tasks, improve and maintain data quality, and govern and secure data against misuse.

As part of the CRN 2023 Big Data 100, CRN has compiled a list of big data management and integration software vendors that solution providers should be familiar with. They include established vendors such as Confluent, Informatica and Matillion as well as more recent startups like Airbyte, Coalesce and NextData.

This week CRN is running the Big Data 100 list in a series of slide shows, organized by technology category, spotlighting vendors of business analytics software, database systems, data warehouse and data lake systems, data management and integration software, data observability tools, and big data systems and cloud platforms.

Some vendors market big data products that span multiple technology categories. They appear in the slideshow for the technology segment in which they are most prominent.