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Data Quadrant Awards 2025

Data Preparation for Analytics

SoftwareReviews names Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, Microsoft Power Query, Tableau Prep, and Alteryx as Data Preparation for Analytics Data Quadrant Award Winners.

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Data Preparation for Analytics

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Data Preparation for Analytics Data Quadrant

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Software Experience

When distilled down, the software experience is shaped by both the experience with the software and the relationship with the vendor. Evaluating enterprise software along these two dimensions provides a comprehensive understanding of the product and helps identify vendors that can deliver on both.

Product Features and Satisfaction

The satisfaction is captured in the overall satisfaction score, which is driven by the likelihood of users to recommend the software, combined with user satisfaction across top product features.

Vendor Experience and Capabilities

The vendor relationship is calculated in a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) as well as emotional response ratings toward the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Gold Medalists

52Reviews

Databricks

Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform allows your entire organization to use data and AI. It’s built on a lakehouse to provide an open, unified foundation for all data and governance, and is powered by a Data Intelligence Engine that understands the uniqueness of your data. From ETL to data warehousing to generative AI, Databricks helps you simplify and accelerate your data and AI goals.

8.8

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+97

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Footprint

86%

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101Reviews

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Power Query

Power Query is a data transformation and data preparation engine. Power Query comes with a graphical interface for getting data from sources and a Power Query Editor for applying transformations. Because the engine is available in many products and services, the destination where the data will be stored depends on where Power Query was used. Using Power Query, you can perform the extract, transform, and load (ETL) processing of data.

8.7

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+90

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88%

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31Reviews

Tableau Software

Tableau Prep

Tableau Prep makes it easier to prepare, shape, and combine data for analysis. Tableau Prep ensures that data sources are clean and organized before sharing, and saves companies countless hours of preparation. Tableau Prep Builder provides a modern approach to data preparation, making it easier and faster to combine, shape, and clean data for analysis within Tableau. By providing a visual and direct path to prep your data, you can get your hands on quality data in just a few clicks.

8.5

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+92

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89%

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95Reviews

Alteryx

Alteryx provides a single workflow for data blending, analytics, and reporting. This workflow allows the seamless blending of internal, third party and cloud-based data, and simple analysis using 60+ prebuilt tools for spatial and predictive analytics. With Alteryx Machine Learning’s automated insight generation, you’ll quickly uncover hidden signals and key relationships in your data.

8.4

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+92

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86%

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Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Informatica Data Integration & Engineering 

Breadth of Features

Informatica Data Integration & Engineering 

Business Value Created

Informatica Data Integration & Engineering 

Ease of Customization

Altair Monarch

Ease of Data Integration

Altair RapidMiner

Ease of IT Administration

Altair Monarch

Ease of Implementation

Altair Monarch

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Altair Monarch

Quality of Features

Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

Usability and Intuitiveness

Altair Monarch

Vendor Support

Informatica Data Integration & Engineering 

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Informatica Data Integration & Engineering 

Breadth of Features

Informatica Data Integration & Engineering 

Business Value Created

Informatica Data Integration & Engineering 

Ease of Customization

Altair Monarch

Ease of Data Integration

Altair RapidMiner

Ease of IT Administration

Altair Monarch

Ease of Implementation

Altair Monarch

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Altair Monarch

Quality of Features

Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

Usability and Intuitiveness

Altair Monarch

Vendor Support

Informatica Data Integration & Engineering 

Other Evaluated Vendors

15Reviews

Dataiku

Dataiku is the platform democratizing access to data and enabling enterprises to build their own path to AI in a human-centric way. With Dataiku, everyone can get involved in data and AI projects on a single platform for design and production that delivers use cases in days, not months. No matter where they sit, they work in a safe and governed way that helps manage risk and create trust to drive high-quality outputs and value for your business.

8.1

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+99

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91%

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22Reviews

Ataccama

Ataccama ONE Platform

Ataccama enables enterprise data democratization with a unified platform for automated data quality, MDM, and metadata management across cloud and hybrid environments. We enable business and data teams to collaborate on creating high quality, reusable data products and massively scale data-driven innovation while maintaining data accuracy, control, and governance.

8.1

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+97

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89%

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29Reviews

TIBCO Software

TIBCO EBX

TIBCO's master data management (MDM) platform delivers the governance processes needed to construct and effectively maintain a centralized source of accurate intelligence. With the TIBCO Platform–Data Management capability, you create trusted data through governed accessibility, delivery, and security to meet your organization’s exact operational, compliance, and analytic needs.

7.9

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+93

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87%

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19Reviews

Altair Engineering, Inc.

Altair Monarch

Monarch is a market leading desktop-based self-service data preparation solution. Monarch connects to multiple data sources including structured and unstructured data, cloud-based data, and big data. Connecting to data, cleansing and manipulating data requires no coding.

7.8

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+91

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89%

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Informatica LLC

Informatica Data Integration & Engineering 

Informatica Data Integration and Engineering helps automate routine tasks with low-code/no-code tools, reducing the amount of time and resources required. It provides visibility into workloads and pipeline auto-tuning capabilities. IInformatica Data Integration and Engineering supports data fabric, data mesh and data lakehouse, among others.

7.8

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+93

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90%

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16Reviews

Altair Engineering, Inc.

Altair RapidMiner

Regardless of where your organization is on its data journey, Altair RapidMiner can help overcome the most challenging obstacles in your way. We offer a path to modernization for established data analytics teams as well as a path to automation for teams just getting started. We do this without requiring your organization to radically change your people, processes, computing environment, or existing data landscape, helping you achieve your data goals without changing who you are or what you have.

7.7

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+97

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86%

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16Reviews

Altair Engineering, Inc.

Altair Graph Studio

Altair Graph Studio (formerly Anzo by Cambridge Semantics) is a comprehensive data discovery and integration toolset that applies a semantic, graph-based data fabric layer over diverse enterprise data sources. This semantic layer adds real-world meaning to data – structured and unstructured alike – making insights clearer and previously unseen connections explicit. Graph Studio creates a single pane of glass for an enterprise's data, eliminates data silos, activates unused data, and enables exciting new levels of on-demand business insight.

7.5

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+93

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88%

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10Reviews

SAS Institute Inc.

SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning

Solve the most complex analytical problems with a single, integrated, collaborative solution – now with its own automated modeling API.

7.2

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+90

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79%

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17Reviews

Talend

Talend Data Preparation

It can be challenging to collect the right data from diverse sources, and an even bigger challenge to do so at the speed your business demands. Talend provides a unified approach that combines rapid data integration, transformation, and mapping with automated quality checks to ensure trustworthy data every step of the way.

7.1

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+94

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78%

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Datameer

Datameer Cloud

Datameer is a data preparation and analytics platform that enables users to easily access, integrate, and analyze their data. With Datameer, users can prepare and transform their data using a visual interface or custom code, and perform advanced analytics and machine learning to derive insights and make data-driven decisions.

6.0

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+57

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70%

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SoftwareReviews Gold Medal Awards recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace as evaluated by their users. Gold Medals are the capstone of an in-depth software evaluation report, and awarded using a proprietary, transparent methodology based on a composite satisfaction score that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend. The Net Emotional Footprint Score measures user emotional response ratings of the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Software Reports present comprehensive evaluations of software vendors on the above elements. Software buyers can use this data to make more informed, data-driven software purchasing and renewal decisions.