This year IDC launched a new set of reports, called IDC ProductScape, designed to help buyers evaluate potential offerings in a deeper, more detailed way. Especially in crowded or mature markets, this style of resource can become an important window into product capabilities and can help buyers refine their shortlists for further evaluation.

In March, Stewart Bond of IDC published the first IDC ProductScape: Worldwide Data Intelligence Platform Software, 2025 report. The report is a feature-by-feature comparison of 13 vendors’ platforms for prospective technology buyers navigating the fast-changing data intelligence field.

The report noted the following for key differentiators for Pentaho:

• “Data Quality Profiling and Observability: Pentaho excels in data quality profiling, observability, and analytics, leveraging semantic discovery to evaluate data quality and workflows, including data integration capabilities for quality issue remediation.”
• “Patented Data Fingerprinting: The platform uses patented data fingerprinting capabilities to identify data, including duplicates, within and across repositories, and extends data discovery functionality to unstructured documents, valuable for Generative AI use cases.”
• “Open Source Heritage and Community: Originating from the open source community, Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) has a strong global presence, supported by a dedicated direct sales force and a robust partner and OEM community.”

We appreciate this inclusion, and in my view, it really showcases the evolutions and innovation we’ve been building into the product set over the past two years, and is a clear signal that Pentaho has what it takes to deliver an end-to-end data management experience.

Few insights to call out:

• As IDC notes, there is growing demand for intelligence about structured and unstructured data, being fueled by growth of GenAI applications.
• AI is transforming data strategies and focusing businesses on delivering timely, reliable, and high-quality data for activities such as inference and model training.
• Platforms with capabilities in stewardship, cataloging, quality, and data lineage, along with the capacity to build data marketplaces, offer companies the best chance of success.
• IDC noted that many of the brands included in this evaluation have “helped define the data intelligence software market.”

This is great for Pentaho, and I want to celebrate our product and engineering teams for their incredible work in delivering a platform experience that positions us so well amongst the established industry leaders.

Pentaho’s platform is built with a clear vision: to provide organizations with the power to simplify their data management burdens and become more data-fit, turning all of a company’s data into the right quality and trusted information for core operations and AI.  We’re well on our way, and we’ve got lots more to come this year, including innovations around data lineage, AI models, data products, observability, a unified UX/UI experience and much more.

To experience the latest that Pentaho has to offer and hear more about our roadmap, reach out to our team or request a demo.