Data and Analytics Governance Platforms

A data and analytics governance platform helps organizations design and enforce governance policies for data and its derived assets across its life cycle. D&A leaders should explore and adopt these capabilities to meet end users’ demand for streamlined, scaled, and automated governance decision making.

Market Definition

A data and analytics governance platform is a set of integrated business and technology capabilities that help business leaders and users develop and manage a diverse set of governance policies and enforce those policies across business and data management systems. These platforms are unique from data management in that data management focuses on policy execution, whereas D&A platforms are used primarily by business roles —not only or even specifically IT roles — for policy management.

Data and analytics (D&A) leaders who are investing in operationalizing and automating of D&A governance should evaluate this market. The work of D&A governance primarily includes policy setting and policy enforcement, and collaborates with data management (policy execution). Use cases are employed across numerous governance policy categories and multiple business scenarios and asset types (data, KPIs, analytics models). The intersection of use-case/business scenarios, policy categories and assets to be governed is then used to identify the technology capability. These capabilities may share similar names across policy categories, but may not mean the same thing, or may be used differently by various governance personas. For example, data classification in a data security implementation would be quite different from a data classification effort for creating trust models, which would be based on lineage and curation.

Report 2026

Here is a summary of the vendors featured in the Gartner magic quadrant 2026 report.
For the full analysis and detailed insights, you can read the report here and view the magic quadrant graphic here.

Market Status	Market Vendor
Leader	IBM
Leader	Collibra
Leader	Atlan
Leader	Informatica
Leader	Alation
Visionary	ServiceNow
Niche Player	Alex Solutions
Niche Player	Ab Initio
Niche Player	Ataccama
Niche Player	Precisely
Niche Player	DataGalaxy
Niche Player	OvalEdge
Niche Player	Solidatus
Challenger	Microsoft
Challenger	BigID

Report 2025

Here is a summary of the vendors featured in the Gartner magic quadrant 2025 report.
For the full analysis and detailed insights, you can read the report here and view the magic quadrant graphic here.

Market Status	Market Vendor
Leader	Informatica
Leader	IBM
Leader	Collibra
Visionary	Atlan
Visionary	Alation
Visionary	data.world
Niche Player	Precisely
Niche Player	Alex Solutions
Niche Player	Ataccama
Niche Player	DataGalaxy
Niche Player	erwin by Quest
Niche Player	OvalEdge
Niche Player	Ab Initio Software
Niche Player	Solidatus
Niche Player	Anjana Data
Niche Player	Global Data Excellence