Constellation Research Names Podium Data to Data Lake Management ShortList

LOWELL, Mass., March 14, 2017 -- Constellation Research has named Podium Data to its “Data Lake Management ShortList” of leading companies providing enterprise-ready data lake management platforms.

Podium Data provides a data lake management platform that delivers an “Enterprise Data Marketplace” to large organizations whereby data analysts and business-line employees can access the information they need on a self-serve basis.

The Constellation Research report states that “Data lakes serve as the first destination for data in all its forms, including structured transactional records and unstructured/semi-structured data types (e.g., log files, clickstreams, email, images, social streams and text documents). Data lake management enables organizations to bring order and accessibility to data lakes, filling gaps in Hadoop-native tools and other highscale platforms.”

However, according to Paul Barth, CEO at Podium Data, standing up a data lake is only the beginning, not the end of the process. He says, “Businesses that really want to empower their employees have to embrace that notion of the ‘data marketplace’ where anyone who needs the information can access it on a self-serve basis, customize it to their needs and subsequently add to its value through their own experience and use of metadata. It is the marketplace concept that drives us and our customers to achieve maximum ROI from their data lake efforts.”

The Podium Data platform is designed to deliver accuracy and speed to business consumers of corporate data. From gathering data through the loading of sources to preparing and delivering custom data sets to data analysts, a Podium-based data marketplace can accelerate data delivery 40-fold, cutting the typical three-month cycle down to a few days.

“Data Lake Management products such as Podium have emerged to help companies tackle data quality, data security and data governance requirements that are too often afterthoughts in the development data lakes,” says Doug Henschen, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research. “These systems also bring automation and repeatability to the processes of managing, enriching and analyzing data to extract value from the contents of a data lake.”

More information on the Podium Data Lake Management Platform is available at http://www.podiumdata.com/product/.

To read the Constellation Research report, go to https://www.constellationr.com/research/constellation-shortlist-data-lake-management-0.

About Podium Data, Inc.

Podium Data is radically simplifying and accelerating the way companies manage, prepare and deliver business-ready data — the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. The Podium Data Marketplace is a turnkey big data management platform that goes beyond data lakes to give business analysts self-service, on-demand access to trusted data while ensuring quality and control. This revolutionary approach accelerates delivery by more than 25 times while reducing costs by 40 percent. A growing list of Fortune 500 enterprises are already using the Podium Data Marketplace to deliver a wide range of analytics projects like never before. More information is available at www.podiumdata.com and on Twitter at @PodiumData.

Bill Baker, Baker Communications Group LLC
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