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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...