The data fabric has rightly caught the attention of the analyst community and is celebrated as a major step forward supporting new efforts toward digital transformation as well as super charging existing programs for AI, ML, data science, and business intelligence.
Forrester has recognized a new category of products that address this space, referring to these solutions as “big data fabrics.” According to Forrester, “Big data fabric focuses on automating the process of ingestion, curation, and integration of big data sources to enable the analytics and insights that are critical for business success. It minimizes complexity by automating processes, workflows, and pipelines, generating code automatically, and streamlining data to simplify data access.