Intelligent Data Catalog (IDC) is a comprehensive metadata repository that creates and maintains an inventory of data assets in an organization. It includes AI and& ML models, unstructured and structured data, lineage, classification, data queries, reports, visualizations, and dashboards. The intelligent data catalog is a scalable solution and provides automatic scanning of a wide variety of data sources to discover, classify, and catalogue enterprise data assets. IDC helps data professionals to connect, collect, discover, organize, access, understand, consume, and enrich data in a better-structured manner,
Quadrant Knowledge Solutions’ Intelligent Data Catalogs market research includes a detailed analysis of the global market regarding short-term and long-term growth opportunities, emerging technology trends, market trends, and future market outlook. The study provides a comprehensive market forecast analysis of the global market and the overall market adoption rate as well. This research provides the strategic information for technology vendors to better understand the existing market and supporting their growth strategies, and for users to evaluate different vendors’ capabilities, competitive differentiation, and market position.
The research includes detailed competition analysis and vendor evaluation with the proprietary SPARK Matrix analysis. The SPARK Matrix includes ranking and positioning of the leading Intelligent Data Catalogs vendors with a global impact including – Alation, Alex Solutions, Atlan, BigID, Boomi, Cloudera, Collibra, data.world, denodo, erwin by Quest, Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Informatica, One Trust, Precisely, Qlik, Talend, Tibco, and Zaloni.
According to Sreejith PS, Analyst at Quadrant Knowledge Solutions, “An intelligent data catalog provides a centralized platform to integrate data across internal and external sources, improves the data quality, and provides a unified contextual view of metadata, their relationship, and usage. Intelligent data catalogs can extract data across sources including on-premises to cloud, data warehouse and data lakes, IoT, social media, internet, and external sources. Intelligent data catalog vendors are focusing on improving their technology value proposition by enhancing the performance of their ML models and leveraging automation and predictive/prescriptive analytics to improve the accuracy and scalability of data cataloging, discovery, and data management. Vendors are also providing a sophisticated and comprehensive technology platform to address a variety of data discovery, governance, and security use cases to implement successful data-driven digital enterprise strategies.”
2022 Intelligent Data Catalogs SPARK Matrix
Source: Quadrant Knowledge Solutions

Table of Contents
Executive Overview
- Key Research Findings
Market Overview and Technology Trends
Factors Influencing Technology Development and Market Growth
Market Adoption Trends
Competition Landscape and Analysis
- Competitive Overview and Analysis
- Key Competitive Factors and Technology Differentiators
SPARK Matrix™: Intelligent Data Catalogs
Vendor Profiles
Research Methodologies
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