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Congratulations to all, and thanks to everyone who submitted nominations and voted! BEST BI SOLUTION Information Builders' WebFOCUS FINALISTS * Tableau * Microsoft Power BI BEST BIG DATA PLATFORM Cloudera Enterprise Data Cloud FINALISTS * Microsoft Azure * DataStax Enterprise BEST CDC SOLUTION Attunity CDC Solution FINALISTS * Quest SharePlex * IBM InfoSphere CDC BEST CLOUD DATABASE Microsoft Azure FINALISTS * Amazon RDS * Couchbase BEST CLOUD SOLUTION Amazon Web Services FINALISTS Microsoft Azure Salesforce BEST COGNITIVE SOLUTION Amazon AI Services FINALISTS * Cloudera * Databricks BEST DATA ANALYTICS SOLUTION Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services FINALISTS * SentryOne BI Sentry * Looker BEST DATA GOVERNANCE SOLUTION Collibra Data Governance Center FINALISTS * IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog * Syniti (formerly BackOffice Associates) Data Stewardship Platform BEST DATA INTEGRATION SOLUTION Attunity Data Integration Platform FINALISTS * Quest SharePlex * IBM InfoSphere Information Server BEST DATA MODELING SOLUTION erwin Data Modeler FINALISTS * Quest Toad Data Modeler * IDERA ER/Studio Data Architect BEST DATA QUALITY SOLUTION Syniti (formerly BackOffice Associates) Data Stewardship Platform FINALISTS * SAS Data Quality * Trillium DQ from Syncsort BEST DATA REPLICATION SOLUTION Quest SharePlex FINALISTS * Attunity Replicate * Syniti (formerly BackOffice Associates) DBMoto BEST DATA SECURITY SOLUTION IBM Guardium FINALISTS * Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall * IDERA SQL Compliance Manager BEST DATA STORAGE SOLUTION Microsoft Azure Storage FINALISTS * Amazon Simple Storage * Quest QoreStor BEST DATA VIRTUALIZATION SOLUTION Denodo Platform FINALISTS * TIBCO Data Virtualization Suite * Dremio Data-as-a-Service Platform BEST DATA VISUALIZATION SOLUTION Tableau Server FINALISTS * QlikSense * SAS Visual Analytics BEST DATABASE BACKUP SOLUTION IDERA SQL Safe Backup FINALISTS * Quest LiteSpeed for SQL Server * Percona XtraBackup BEST DATABASE DEVELOPMENT SOLUTION Quest Toad for Oracle Developer Edition FINALISTS * SentryONE Plan Explorer * Navicat Premium BEST DATABASE OVERALL Microsoft SQL Server FINALISTS * Oracle Database * DataStax BEST DATABASE PERFORMANCE SOLUTION Quest Foglight for Database FINALISTS * SentryOne SQL Sentry * Navicat Monitor BEST DBA SOLUTION SentryONE SQL Sentry FINALISTS * Quest Toad for Oracle DBA Edition * Devart dbForge Studio for MySQL BEST HADOOP SOLUTION Cloudera FINALISTS * Amazon Elastic MapReduce * MapR Data Platform BEST IN-MEMORY SOLUTION Couchbase FINALISTS * Redis * SAP HANA BEST IOT SOLUTION Microsoft Azure IoT FINALISTS * AWS IoT Platform * Cisco IoT Platform BEST MULTIVALUE DATABASE Rocket D3/U2/UniVerse/UniData FINALISTS * Revelation OpenInsight * Pick Cloud DBaaS BEST NOSQL DATABASE Redis FINALISTS * Couchbase * MarkLogic BEST RELATIONAL DATABASE Microsoft SQL Server FINALISTS * Oracle Database * Amazon RDS BEST STREAMING SOLUTION Quest SharePlex FINALISTS * Apache Flink * Microsoft StreamInsight Quest® Database Management Solutions MODERNIZE YOUR DATABASE ENVIRONMENTON-PREMISES OR IN THE CLOUD From rapid data growth and cloud adoption to DevOps and data privacy, today's IT challenges are mounting. [...]one of the most compelling data modeling use cases lies in its connection to the increasingly important realm of data governance. According to a leading analyst firm, only 17% of data lake projects have gone into production, which means that 83% either are in the process of becoming live or have utterly failed. [...]we provide DBAs with the most detailed monitoring solution with advanced analytics and the ability to monitor 800+ targets in one deployment with no loss in data or performance hits.
Each year, Database Trends and Applications presents the Readers' Choice Awards, providing a unique opportunity to recognize products that have been selected by the experts-whose opinions carry more weight than any others-you, the readers. Whether well-known with market-leading positions established over many years, or more recent entries to the data management space, these solutions and services have emerged to address rapidly changing requirements.
Today, enterprises around the globe are focused on becoming data-driven in order to provide better service to their customers, make processes more efficient, arrive at decisions faster, and avoid risk. But they are also grappling with more data than ever before from more data sources, including on-premise facilities, the cloud, the edge, and a multitude of devices. It is not enough to simply ingest and store all this data. Organizations must also deliver real-time data and insights, while supporting requirements for data quality, governance, and security.
The best solutions to advance data-driven strategies are different for each organization, and there are many factors that can go into a decision to investigate a product. Hearing about a solution or service from a business partner or colleague-or a fellow DBTA reader-is helpful.
There were 28 categories in which products could be nominated and then voted upon this year. Representative of the IT market itself, the categories were wide-ranging and diverse, with well-established segments such as relational database management, MultiValue, and data integration, but also more recently developed areas, including cognitive computing, NoSQL, and loT.
Here we present the top three vote-getters in each category. Congratulations to all, and thanks to everyone who submitted nominations and voted!
BEST BI SOLUTION
Information Builders' WebFOCUS
FINALISTS
* Tableau
* Microsoft Power BI
BEST BIG DATA PLATFORM
Cloudera Enterprise Data Cloud
FINALISTS
* Microsoft Azure
* DataStax Enterprise
BEST CDC SOLUTION
Attunity CDC Solution
FINALISTS
* Quest SharePlex
* IBM InfoSphere CDC
BEST CLOUD DATABASE
Microsoft Azure
FINALISTS
* Amazon RDS
* Couchbase
BEST CLOUD SOLUTION
Amazon Web Services
FINALISTS
Microsoft Azure
Salesforce
BEST COGNITIVE SOLUTION
Amazon AI Services
FINALISTS
* Cloudera
* Databricks
BEST DATA ANALYTICS SOLUTION
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
FINALISTS
* SentryOne BI Sentry
* Looker
BEST DATA GOVERNANCE SOLUTION
Collibra Data Governance Center
FINALISTS
* IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog
* Syniti (formerly BackOffice Associates) Data Stewardship Platform
BEST DATA INTEGRATION SOLUTION
Attunity Data Integration Platform
FINALISTS
* Quest SharePlex
* IBM InfoSphere Information Server
BEST DATA MODELING SOLUTION
erwin Data Modeler
FINALISTS
* Quest Toad Data Modeler
* IDERA ER/Studio Data Architect
BEST DATA QUALITY SOLUTION
Syniti (formerly BackOffice Associates) Data Stewardship Platform
FINALISTS
* SAS Data Quality
* Trillium DQ from Syncsort
BEST DATA REPLICATION SOLUTION
Quest SharePlex
FINALISTS
* Attunity Replicate
* Syniti (formerly BackOffice Associates) DBMoto
BEST DATA SECURITY SOLUTION
IBM Guardium
FINALISTS
* Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall
* IDERA SQL Compliance Manager
BEST DATA STORAGE SOLUTION
Microsoft Azure Storage
FINALISTS
* Amazon Simple Storage
* Quest QoreStor
BEST DATA VIRTUALIZATION SOLUTION
Denodo Platform
FINALISTS
* TIBCO Data Virtualization Suite
* Dremio Data-as-a-Service Platform
BEST DATA VISUALIZATION SOLUTION
Tableau Server
FINALISTS
* QlikSense
* SAS Visual Analytics
BEST DATABASE BACKUP SOLUTION
IDERA SQL Safe Backup
FINALISTS
* Quest LiteSpeed for SQL Server
* Percona XtraBackup
BEST DATABASE DEVELOPMENT SOLUTION
Quest Toad for Oracle Developer Edition
FINALISTS
* SentryONE Plan Explorer
* Navicat Premium
BEST DATABASE OVERALL
Microsoft SQL Server
FINALISTS
* Oracle Database
* DataStax
BEST DATABASE PERFORMANCE SOLUTION
Quest Foglight for Database
FINALISTS
* SentryOne SQL Sentry
* Navicat Monitor
BEST DBA SOLUTION
SentryONE SQL Sentry
FINALISTS
* Quest Toad for Oracle DBA Edition
* Devart dbForge Studio for MySQL
BEST HADOOP SOLUTION
Cloudera
FINALISTS
* Amazon Elastic MapReduce
* MapR Data Platform
BEST IN-MEMORY SOLUTION
Couchbase
FINALISTS
* Redis
* SAP HANA
BEST IOT SOLUTION
Microsoft Azure IoT
FINALISTS
* AWS IoT Platform
* Cisco IoT Platform
BEST MULTIVALUE DATABASE
Rocket D3/U2/UniVerse/UniData
FINALISTS
* Revelation OpenInsight
* Pick Cloud DBaaS
BEST NOSQL DATABASE
Redis
FINALISTS
* Couchbase
* MarkLogic
BEST RELATIONAL DATABASE
Microsoft SQL Server
FINALISTS
* Oracle Database
* Amazon RDS
BEST STREAMING SOLUTION
Quest SharePlex
FINALISTS
* Apache Flink
* Microsoft StreamInsight
Quest® Database Management Solutions
MODERNIZE YOUR DATABASE ENVIRONMENTON-PREMISES OR IN THE CLOUD
From rapid data growth and cloud adoption to DevOps and data privacy, today's IT challenges are mounting. Addressing these issues with native tools and manual processes is expensive and time-consuming. Plus, it leaves you vulnerable to downtime, data breaches, costly fines, slow database performance and lost business. But what if you could manage your growing database environment quickly, easily and affordably? This would empower you to shift more resources toward innovation to drive your business forward. With end-to-end database management solutions from Quest, you'll save time and money while reducing risk. Maximize your current database investments and gain support for the platforms you'll adopt in the future with Quest.
Toad® for Oracle Developer Edition
What if you could dramatically reduce the incidence of disruptive and expensive unplanned development cycles? What if there was a way to automatically test, quality review and tune code to maintain your investment in PL/SQL and minimize risks in production? What if you could seamlessly bring your database developers into your DevOps processes? The right tool will support your team's agile development while also supporting key areas of your Oracle database development.
Enter Toad for Oracle Developer Edition. With Toad for Oracle Developer Edition you can test your PL/SQL code against all your application use cases before implementation, reducing costly defects. You can consistently apply best-practice coding standards to minimize unplanned development cycles. By enabling your developers to better understand code constructs, you reduce the risk of time-consuming codes changes and errors and simplify ongoing code maintenance. And, by making code run faster and scale better in production, slow response time and business interruptions are significantly reduced. All these result in meeting required SLAs.
Foglight® for Databases
You have more on your plate than ever: rapidly increasing data volumes, multiple database platforms, more database instances, DevOps and cloud technology. Data and user demands are growing, technology is evolving and you can't afford any loss due to database downtime or instability. What if you could proactively diagnose, predict and analyze database issues to quickly determine the root cause and resolve database performance problems across multiple database platforms?
With Foglight for Databases you can centrally manage your cross-platform database infrastructure, providing consistent visibility and diagnostic workflows across each system that you manage. Both on-premises, hosted systems, as well as databases that run in the cloud. With alerting and notification, real-time and historical diagnostics and reporting all combined with unmatched analytics of collected data, implementing Foglight for Cross Platform Databases ensures optimum health and performance of your entire database environment.
SharePlex®
Your fear of downtime may be preventing you from migrating and/or replicating mission-critical apps to various database targets. Downtime interrupts productivity, frustrates end users, can decrease revenue, and wastes valuable resources. We understand that fear.
What if you could continue to innovate and meet SLAs while future-proofing your database environment? What if you could execute database migrations in near real-time without halting business? With SharePlex you can. It's the complete database replication solution that ensures data accuracy in-flight, achieves high availability, increases scalability, and improves analytics with real-time data integration.
Quest
www.quest.com
erwin, Inc.
For the sixth consecutive year, erwin Data Modeler (DM) has been DBTA readers' choice. This type of recognition is always gratifying because it signifies trust in our products and people. It also speaks to the creativity of erwin DM customers in using the tool to drive results for their organizations.
erwin DM is the industry standard- and we intend to keep it that way. It's used by the world's largest organizations and top brands to design and deploy new relational databases with high-quality data sources and support application development.
However, erwin offers other tools to help organizations extract and use the metadata in their erwin data models. In fact, one of the most compelling data modeling use cases lies in its connection to the increasingly important realm of data governance.
That's why erwin DM is part of a larger technology platform that creates an "enterprise data governance experience." The erwin EDGE also includes business process and enterprise architecture modeling, as well as a data intelligence suite that combines data cataloging and data literacy capabilities.
With data governance as the driving principle, IT and the rest of the enterprise can discover, understand, govern and socialize data assets. Every stakeholder has role-based, self-service access to the information needed to collaborate in making strategic decisions. And because many of the associated processes can be automated, you reduce errors and increase the speed and quality of your data pipeline.
Working with a trusted technology partner to unlock more of your potential and value is key to success in today's hyper-competitive, data-driven business environment.
erwin, Inc.
www.erwin.com
https://erwin.com/products/erwin-data-modeler/
Denodo
Data science is currently in vogue, and for a very good reason. With increasing competition and government regulations, it has become more complex to operate a business, so companies are now employing data scientists, who create data models with which to discover insightful business patterns. To do so, they need access to all enterprise data, but with data exploding across data centers, the cloud, and the IoT, it has become challenging to unite this data into a single location.
IT stakeholders have tried to centralize these disparate data sources into a data lake, but such efforts have largely been unsuccessful. According to a leading analyst firm, only 17% of data lake projects have gone into production, which means that 83% either are in the process of becoming live or have utterly failed. Data virtualization promises a better, more successful alternative.
Rather than replicate all of the data írom disparate locations into a single physical data lake, data virtualization provides a holistic view of all enterprise data through a logical data layer. Even better, it normalizes this view into standard, structured formats and provides numerous options for accessing it. With data virtualization, data scientists are able to easily build multiple models to discover data patterns.
The award-winning Denodo Platform provides innovative capabilities specifically for data scientists. In addition to offering a standard SQL interface to the data, the Denodo Platform enables them to also use R and Python. The next release of the Denodo Platform will integrate Zeppelin Notebook, enabling data scientists to share models with peers with even greater ease. This next version of the Denodo Platform will also provide recommendations to data scientists on the most popular data models. The Denodo Platform employs machine learning to provide trusted, actionable intelligence to data scientists.
Denodo
www.denodo.com
Rocket
Aim for the Stars with Rocket MultiValue
When it comes to software, it's easy to focus on the "how" part of the story. How does it work? How will it affect the rest of my technology? While these are important, there is an even more fundamental question that often gets overlooked: Why?
Rocket MultiValue products help all of us in our everyday lives, whether we're withdrawing money from an ATM, registering for a class or receiving a package from an online order. But aside from its daily impact, we need to understand why our software matters, and what MultiValue is doing to make the world a better place.
Like saving lives.
This isn't an overstatement: Products built on Rocket MultiValue products are actually used by emergency responders around the world to protect firefighters and law-enforcement officers from danger in the field. They're used to make sure that urgent calls get routed to the right response center, ensuring that help is on the way as soon as possible. And those are just a few examples of the truly transformational power of MultiValue.
All of us need to take a much broader look at what we do each day. We at Rocket like making good software, but it goes beyond the products. What we really love doing is helping people achieve important, transformational things. This philosophy runs through every process, project and goal we set. So while it's easy to focus on the 1's and 0's, it's even more important to give people the tools to make the world a better place.
Rocket
www.rocketsoftware.com
SentryOne
At SentryOne, we know that you want to be a DBA that is finally in control- that's why you need fast and trouble-free database performance. The problem is, you manage many different systems that randomly break or mysteriously run slowly, which can make you feel stressed, overwhelmed, and under attack by executive leadership. We understand your frustrations, which is why we developed solutions that have helped thousands of companies like yours achieve breakthrough performance across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
There are many reasons why DBAs trust SentryOne. For one, our solution was built by DBAs, for DBAs. Our experts experienced your same frustrations and used them to create a solution that enables you to build, test, document, and monitor SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and the Microsoft Data Platform. Secondly, we provide DBAs with the most detailed monitoring solution with advanced analytics and the ability to monitor 800+ targets in one deployment with no loss in data or performance hits. Another reason DBAs trust us is because of our unrivaled customer experience. We have the highest rating among competitors on Trust Radius and 100% customer satisfaction for support.
We can help you achieve accelerated performance across the data lifecycle with unmatched scalability, best-in-industry customer support, and the most powerful data performance management capabilities available. Download a free trial of our software today. Learn why we're the one who can help you end the constant stress and enjoy a balanced and productive professional life.
SentryOne
www.sentryone.com
Syniti
WE BELIEVE GREAT DATA quality is not an event-it's cultural. Data flows throughout your organization via conduits of processes where it interacts with people, other data, and systems. Each interaction is an opportunity to further data quality and capture knowledge for the rest of the organization. However, in most data environments, the resulting data is the only artifact of learning retained.
We believe every interaction, every decision that is made regarding data and its quality, is itself a valuable knowledge asset that should be captured, curated and made available to help the next person in their journey for insights. To preserve that knowledge and make it available for reuse, we developed Syniti Cloud™, a family of solutions that embed machine learning and artificial intelligence to enhance overall data governance in the context of your company's business strategies and policies. As it observes these events, it offers specific guidance through Syniti DeepGuidanceTM to those seeking clarity on data-related topics. And should your rules be broken, automated workflows trigger error notifications and remediation processes.
This ensures a frictionless business flow of your data and its interaction with people throughout your business processes.
By making data quality management the cornerstone of your digital initiatives, you can leverage the value of data to unlock new opportunities, support new business models, improve customer service and use artificial intelligence to generate important new insights. By harnessing your learning, you can accelerate future data projects and significantly improve everyday business decisions.
Syniti
www.svniti.com
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