Comparison of the Best Data Intelligence Platforms in 2025

Data intelligence platforms transform raw data into actionable insights, essential for strategic decision-making. Our reviews at BARC, informed by user experiences and analyst expertise, spotlight platforms that excel in delivering powerful analytics and intuitive interfaces. Discover the platforms that can drive your business intelligence forward. Explore our BARC Score Data Intelligence Platforms 2024 for a deep dive into features like AI-driven data cataloging and the enhancement of data governance and collaboration. For detailed evaluations and more, consider subscribing to BARC+.

Number of reviews: 30
Customer Satisfaction
8.9/10
8.9
User Experience
10.0/10
10.0
Technical Foundation
7.7/10
7.7
Business Value
7.1/10
7.1

What is dataspot.

Data catalog and data governance solution to support the development and implementation of business-driven data governance initiatives. The software can be used stand-alone or in conjunction with dataspot.'s Data Excellence Framework (governance consulting approach).

Number of reviews: 22
Customer Satisfaction
7.1/10
7.1
User Experience
7.9/10
7.9
Technical Foundation
4.9/10
4.9
Business Value
8.0/10
8.0

What is One Data Data Product Builder

End-to-end platform for the design, development and provision of data products with functions for pipelining and cataloging as well as governance, data quality and marketplace functions.

Number of reviews: 20
Customer Satisfaction
5.4/10
5.4
User Experience
4.0/10
4.0
Technical Foundation
4.4/10
4.4
Business Value
6.0/10
6.0

What is Qlik Data Integration

Solution for data replication, transformation and standardization in real time.

Number of reviews: 50
Customer Satisfaction
8.3/10
8.3
User Experience
8.3/10
8.3
Technical Foundation
8.7/10
8.7
Business Value
7.2/10
7.2

What is Snowflake Cloud Data Platform

Multi-cloud data platform to support data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development and data exchange.

Number of reviews: 24

What is Synabi Business Solutions D-QUANTUM

Customizable data governance solution with features for data cataloging, collaboration, marketplaces, and data as well as AI governance.

Number of reviews: 19
Customer Satisfaction
8.7/10
8.7
User Experience
7.6/10
7.6
Technical Foundation
6.9/10
6.9
Business Value
9.1/10
9.1

What is TimeXtender

Data automation tool for building and operating data lakes or data warehouses with features for data pipelining, master data management, data quality, and orchestration.

Number of reviews: 19
Customer Satisfaction
6.7/10
6.7
User Experience
6.0/10
6.0
Technical Foundation
5.0/10
5.0
Business Value
7.8/10
7.8

What is VaultSpeed

Low-/no-code data warehouse automation solution with focus on integration of distributed data sources, data vault modeling and ETL/DDL code generation.

Number of reviews: 20
Customer Satisfaction
8.8/10
8.8
User Experience
7.3/10
7.3
Technical Foundation
6.1/10
6.1
Business Value
8.8/10
8.8

What is 2150 Datavault Builder

Tool for automating the entire development, provisioning and operating cycle of a data warehouse.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Ab Initio Enterprise Data Platform

Platform developed in-house for the development of data management applications with a wide range of functions and numerous applications based on the Co>Operating System platform.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Actian Zeenea Data Intelligence Platform

Data catalog with a special focus on search & discovery, but also support for data governance.

Number of reviews: 20
Customer Satisfaction
4.4/10
4.4
User Experience
5.0/10
5.0
Technical Foundation
4.2/10
4.2
Business Value
4.4/10
4.4

What is Alation Data Intelligence Platform

Alation is a data intelligence and metadata platform offering Search & Discovery, Collaboration, Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Marketplace, Data Lineage, and more – delivering comprehensive and intuitive data management.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Alex Enterprise Data Platform

Data Intelligence Platform and Data Governance Platform with functions for Search & Discovery, Collaboration, Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Marketplace, Data Lineage and more.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Amazon Web Services (AWS) Glue

Fully managed ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) service from Amazon Web Services, with complementary functions for data cleansing and preparation as well as discovering and cataloging data from various AWS services.

Number of reviews: 19
Customer Satisfaction
9.0/10
9.0
User Experience
8.6/10
8.6
Technical Foundation
7.7/10
7.7
Business Value
9.4/10
9.4

What is AnalyticsCreator

Tool for automating the entire development, provisioning and operating cycle of a data warehouse with focus on Microsoft technologies.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Ataccama ONE

Platform for data management, maintenance and provision with functions for data analysis, data cataloging, data quality and master data management and data integration.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Atlan

Data Intelligence Platform with functions for data cataloging, data governance, data lineage, etc. with a special focus on collaboration and active metadata management.

Number of reviews: 0

What is biGENIUS-X

Tool for automating the development, provisioning and operating cycle of data warehouses, data lakes and data lakehouses.

Number of reviews: 0

What is bluetelligence Enterprise Glossary

Data catalog and metadata hub specializing in the extraction and provision of metadata from SAP systems (data+application) and own data catalog (glossary).

Number of reviews: 0

What is Boomi Enterprise Platform

(Cloud-native) iPaaS platform for the integration of applications, data and processes with functions for API management, data integration, data preparation, data cataloging and workflow management, among others.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)

Hybrid cloud data platform for implementing various data and analytics applications based on central functions for governance and administration.

Number of reviews: 21
Customer Satisfaction
3.2/10
3.2
User Experience
2.9/10
2.9
Technical Foundation
3.6/10
3.6
Business Value
2.3/10
2.3

What is Collibra Data Intelligence Platform

A platform for data intelligence and metadata that provides features such as Search & Discovery, Collaboration, Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Marketplace, and Data Lineage, suitable even for large organizations.

Number of reviews: 0

What is data.world Data Catalog and Governance Platform

Data catalog for metadata management and data management with a focus on knowledge management

Number of reviews: 24
Customer Satisfaction
5.4/10
5.4
User Experience
5.8/10
5.8
Technical Foundation
7.7/10
7.7
Business Value
5.4/10
5.4

What is Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

End-to-end platform solution for processing large amounts of data for data engineering & data science based on a further development of Apache Spark technology.

Number of reviews: 0

What is DataGalaxy Data Knowledge Catalog

Data Catalog solution to support Catalog, Data Governance, Compliance & Regulatory use cases or as a metadata hub.

Number of reviews: 21
Customer Satisfaction
4.6/10
4.6
User Experience
4.9/10
4.9
Technical Foundation
4.4/10
4.4
Business Value
6.5/10
6.5

What is Dremio Cloud

Dremio is a SQL-based query engine on Hadoop and cloud storage systems, with optimized services/products such as Dremio Sonar for data warehousing and Dremio Arctic as Apache Iceberg Lakehouse Catalog. Available in the cloud or on-premise.

Number of reviews: 0

What is erwin Data Intelligence

Data intelligence platform with functions for cataloging, governance, collaboration, data lineage, data marketplace and the ability to generate automated pipelines.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Hitachi Vantara Pentaho+ Platform

Platform for data integration, preparation and analysis of data with functions for data preparation suitable for business users.

Number of reviews: 0

What is ibi Data Intelligence

End-to-end data management solution with functions for data integration, application integration and data quality.

Number of reviews: 0

What is IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Cloud-based, integrated data and AI platform for integrating, managing and analyzing data for AI.

Number of reviews: 18
Customer Satisfaction
4.1/10
4.1
User Experience
2.9/10
2.9
Technical Foundation
3.4/10
3.4
Business Value
4.8/10
4.8

What is Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud

Cloud-based platform based on central, AI-supported services for implementing operational and analytical data use cases, e.g. data integration, data quality, master data management, API management, data cataloging, governance and data marketplace

Number of reviews: 0

What is Microsoft Azure Data Factory

Cloud-based tool for data integration.

Number of reviews: 19
Customer Satisfaction
6.3/10
6.3
User Experience
6.0/10
6.0
Technical Foundation
6.6/10
6.6
Business Value
5.5/10
5.5

What is Microsoft Data Fabric

A unified platform that enables data integration, analysis, and management for analytics in the Azure cloud by integrating various Azure data services such as Power BI, Synapse, Data Factory and Data Lake.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Microsoft Purview

Cloud service for data security & privacy, data governance and compliance with functions for data inventory, cataloging and data products/marketplace support.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Microsoft SQL Server

rDBMS for transactional and analytical workloads; additional services available for data integration, analysis, reporting, data quality and master data management

Number of reviews: 0

What is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Cloud platform with more than 100 services for data & analytics, including data pipelines, data warehousing, cataloging, event processing as well as analytical services for BI, analytics & data science.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Orion Governance Enterprise Information Intelligence Graph (EIIG)

Data Intelligence Platform with functions for data cataloging, data lineage, data governance, active metadata and more.

Number of reviews: 0

What is OvalEdge

Tool for data cataloging, data marketplace and data governance.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Precisely Data Integrity Suite

Modular platform for data integration, data quality, data observability and governance to build an integrated, trustworthy database with special services for data enrichment and analysis.

Number of reviews: 0

What is SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC)

Cloud-based data and analytics platform for building a business data fabric & uniform access to SAP and non-SAP data consisting of SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere, among others.

Number of reviews: 20
Customer Satisfaction
3.8/10
3.8
User Experience
2.9/10
2.9
Technical Foundation
3.4/10
3.4
Business Value
4.8/10
4.8

What is SAP Datasphere

Cloud-based data platform for building a business data fabric that enables simple, standardized access to SAP data and integration with non-SAP data for both technical and business users.

Number of reviews: 0

What is SAS Data Engineering

SAS Data Engineering is a new data management offering on SAS Viya and includes functions for data integration, data quality, cataloging as well as governance for analytical applications. It replaces SAS Data Management in the cloud.

Number of reviews: 0

What is SAS Viya

AI und Analytics platform that provides various services, including data catalogoging, data integration and -quality,, analysis and data science as well as visualization.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Syniti Knowledge Platform

Platform to support data migration, data management and governance with functions for data integration, data cataloging, master data management, data quality, etc.

Number of reviews: 18
Customer Satisfaction
3.1/10
3.1
User Experience
3.5/10
3.5
Technical Foundation
5.9/10
5.9
Business Value
4.2/10
4.2

What is Talend, a Qlik company Data Fabric

Platform for data and application integration with functions for data integration, streaming, data preparation, data quality, data cataloging, data intelligence and API management.

Number of reviews: 0

What is TIBCO Platform

Real-time, composable data platform containing features for data integration that unifies TIBCO solutions across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments, enabling simplified management, communications and monitoring.

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