Who’s in Who’s Who?

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Gartner beat by a day the red version of the Who’s Who – the one where you are asked to write your bio for publication. Their Who’s Who in Open Source Data Quality came out on January 18, whereas Amazon lists January 19 as the publication date of the other Who’s Who, the one from A&C Black.

What are the other differences?

• Gartner’s Who’s Who is in its 2nd edition, A&C Black just published their 164th edition.
• Gartner’s Who’s Who has 12 pages (PDF version), the other one has 2608 pages.
• Gartner’s is blue, not red.

Wait, there is more.

Unlike the “other” one, Gartner’s Who’s Who is not autobiographical. Analyst Andy Bitterer wrote the vendor profiles, and while he was kind enough to ask us to review for factual errors, this was not an opportunity to get him to write stuff he did not believe (and anyone who knows Andy knows that would be a lost battle anyway).* And while I agree with a lot of things he wrote in the report, for example that Talend is the most advanced of all open source data quality solutions, I also disagree with his assessment that most deployments of open-source data quality tools are in support of relatively small projects, or that they do not yet play a significant role in the market. But hey, as I have said before, it’s our job – the vendors – to turn him into a (stronger) believer!

Not all profiles are positive. Unlike the other Who’s Who (the red one) where people write their own profiles and say nice things about themselves, some of the profiles are not super positive for these vendors. *I guess the factual review process must have been interesting.

What should we wish for in the next edition? That other open source data quality solutions mature more, proving that there is not only Talend who is able to deliver an enterprise grade open source data quality solution.* I would love for Andy not to be able to write “Nearly all open-source data quality tools offerings must be considered largely toolboxes for techies, with Talend being a reasonable exception, as the vendor has even been included in Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools.” Honestly, the more the merrier.

If you want to check out the report, you can access it here, courtesy of Talend (registration required). You can also read our press release (no registration needed…).

Yves

PS: “Who’s Who in Open-Source Data Quality (2012 Update)” by Andreas Bitterer, January 18, 2012 is copyrighted by Gartner, Inc. and may not be reproduced or distributed in any form without Gartner’s prior written permission.






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