Celebrating Excellence: Highlights from the 5th Annual Data Breakthrough Awards Program

Recognizing Exceptional Innovators: Highlights from the 5th Annual Data Breakthrough Awards Program

The fifth annual Data Breakthrough Awards program has unveiled its distinguished winners, spotlighting the exceptional achievements in data technology across the globe. Organized by Data Breakthrough, an esteemed market intelligence entity, the awards recognize the forefront leaders, products, and companies driving innovation in the dynamic realm of data technology.

The Data Breakthrough Awards represent a pinnacle in acknowledging innovators, pioneers, and visionaries in various categories including DataOps, Data Analytics, Data Management, Data Storage, and beyond. This year’s program garnered an impressive array of nominations from diverse corners of the globe, indicative of the global resonance and significance of data technology.

Steve Johansson, Managing Director of Data Breakthrough, reflected on the evolution of digital innovation over the past decade. “As we mark half a decade of evaluating the world’s most groundbreaking data technologies, the profound impact of digital innovation, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), is undeniable. Global data volumes have surged by over 1200%, skyrocketing from 9 to 120 zettabytes. Our annual awards program aims to honor the global trailblazers harnessing the true potential of this data, transforming it into strategic assets. We are delighted to recognize the 2024 Data Breakthrough Award winners who are redefining the boundaries of possibility in data technology.”

The Data Breakthrough Awards program meticulously evaluates nominations from companies spanning a comprehensive spectrum of data technology specialties within the broader fields of data science, analytics, AI, and more. The winning products and companies are selected based on an array of criteria, including innovation, technological advancement, and service excellence.

Among the esteemed winners of the 2024 Data Breakthrough Awards are:

Data Management:

• Data Management Solution of the Year goes to WalkMe
• Data Catalog Solution of the Year: ZE PowerGroup, ZEMA™
• Database Modeling Solution of the Year: SqlDBM
• Data Virtualization Solution of the Year: CData
• Data Processing Solution of the Year: Expanso
• Data Monitoring Solution of the Year: Saturam, Qualdo™
• Data Management Innovation of the Year goes to WEKA

Data Analytics:

• Cross Infrastructure Analytics Solution of the Year goes to BMC Software, BMC Helix AIOps
• Data Analytics Solution of the Year goes to Dremio
• Overall Data Analytics Platform of the Year: Alteryx
• Overall Data Analytics Company of the Year goes to Treasure Data

Compute & Infrastructure:

• In-Memory Solution of the Year: Aerospike
• Graph DBS Solution of the Year: TigerGraph
• Cloud EDW Solution of the Year: Hydrolix
• Data Transformation Solution of the Year goes to Liqid

Data Integration and Warehousing:

• Data Integration Solution of the Year: Actian, Actian Data Platform
• Data Warehouse Solution of the Year: Indegene
• Data Warehouse Solution Provider of the Year: BridgeFT

Data Storage:

• Flash Storage Solution of the Year: Pliops, Pliops Extreme Data Processor (XDP)
• Object Storage Solution of the Year: MinIO
• Data Backup Solution of the Year goes to ExaGrid, ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage
• Data Storage Innovation of the Year goes to Hammerspace, Hyperscale NAS
• Overall Data Storage Solution of the Year: Lightbits Labs

Industry Applications:

• Data Solution of the Year – Marketing goes to Digital Element
• Data Solution of the Year – Sales: collective[i]
• Data Solution of the Year – Retail: Birdzi
• Data Solution of the Year – Healthcare goes to Code Focus
• Data Solution of the Year – Finance goes to Provenir
• Data Solution of the Year – Transportation: Bosch
• Data Solution of the Year – Human Resources: Aisera

Industry Leadership:

• Customer Data Platform of the Year: Infocepts
• Best Use of Artificial Intelligence goes to Red Hat, Red Hat OpenShift AI
• Data-as-a-Service Company of the Year: Bright Data
• Data Technology Startup of the Year: illumex
• Data Technology CEO of the Year: Sam Gutmann, Own Company
• Data Intelligence Platform of the Year: Azira
• Overall Data Science Solution of the Year goes to iCIMS, iCIMS Insights
• Overall Data Tech Innovation of the Year: Parsec Automation Corp, TrakSYS
• Overall Data Tech Company of the Year goes to VAST Data

The Data Breakthrough Awards program, a part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading platform for technology innovation and leadership recognition, serves as a platform for public acknowledgment of the accomplishments of data companies and solutions. The program encompasses categories including data analytics, management, infrastructure, hardware, storage, Business Intelligence, and more.

Tech Breakthrough LLC, the parent organization, emphasizes that its recognition does not constitute an endorsement of any vendor, product, or service, and advises technology users to consider a range of options. The opinions expressed in the recognition program are those of Tech Breakthrough LLC and should not be construed as statements of fact.

For further information about the Data Breakthrough Awards program, please visit DataBreakthroughAwards.com.

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