Kensu has been recognized by CIOReview Magazine as the recipient of “Top 10 Enterprise Information Management Solutions Companies - 2022,” based on our proprietary methodology, reflecting its position in the industry. This profile has been developed by the CIOReview research and editorial team based on insights from an interview with Eleanor Treharne-Jones, CEO.

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Data Reliability Challenges

Eleanor Treharne-Jones, CEO

For years companies have been investing in data, positioning it at the core of their business strategies. This evolution has forced data teams to grow their activities and infrastructures, where the probability of data incidents, such as missing data or inaccuracies, has increased proportionally.

While the source of these incidents may vary (e.g., human errors, new regulatory changes, divergent business requirements), their consequences are the same. On the one hand, data practitioners do not have the information to troubleshoot them quickly; consequently, they waste time identifying and resolving problems. On the other hand, managers make decisions based on inaccurate insights, customers face a poor experience, and the company loses revenue.

Enter Kensu.

Kensu’s Data Observability Platform helps tackle data incidents at the source in real time. Their AI-powered solution, which can be deployed in any cloud environment or on-premise, monitors data in motion and at rest, so data teams have 360° visibility over their data. At any time, data professionals can access contextual insights, such as application information (e.g., pipeline name, version), schema, metrics (e.g., max, min, mean, standard deviation), and lineage.

This way of observing data inside and outside the applications in real time is a game-changer for data teams. Instead of wasting hours or days understanding where the issue is coming from, data teams can troubleshoot them immediately and prevent them from propagating. This capability has several benefits:

● Data professionals stop wasting time resolving data issues.

● Trust in data is restored, and backfires from business users decrease.

● Decisions are based on reliable data.

“There has been a lot of hype about data observability. At Kensu, we offer companies the true 360° view and control over their data they’ve been searching for”, said Eleanor Treharne- Jones, CEO of Kensu. “Rather than just focusing on data at rest, our AI-powered platform is the first in the market to monitor data at rest and in motion, in real-time.

At a time when budgets are under pressure, this disruptive approach will save countless hours fixing broken data pipelines and ensure businesses maximize the value from their data and their data teams.”

One of Kensu’s clients, a large financial institution, uses a 6-year-old CRM platform to help thousands of employees make daily decisions. Over time they had to build and maintain a complex data infrastructure where a minor incident could impact the whole data chain and take days to identify and resolve. This summer, they deployed Kensu across 12 countries, and they can now troubleshoot such problems within hours.

Among the different trends influencing the data landscape, data observability is one of the most impactful, as it significantly helps data teams to get more value from their data, cut resolution time, and improve the trust of the stakeholders

Kensu is also being used to maintain data catalogs which consume more resources as data environments become complex. Kensu’s platform can automatically populate hundreds of data sources and feed data catalogs seamlessly with this information. This capability also saves time and reinforces trust in data as the information in the catalogs is up-to-date.

To find out more. Kensu offers a Community Edition which is the first in the data observability category. Technically or non-technically savvy users can explore Kensu’s platform in a dedicated environment and access all product features and management capabilities. They have the opportunity to leverage real-time, contextual data observations in a developer environment without any additional cost. As a result, they can understand and deliver the potential value of data observability within their organizations. In parallel, the community members can access learning resources and discussion channels to collaborate with other data practitioners.

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Kensu launches support for Unity Catalog bringing immediate data observability to thousands of Databricks users.

Friday, June 23, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES -- Kensu, the 360° Enterprise Data Observability company, announces support for Databricks Unity Catalog, the unified governance solution for data, analytics, and AI. Kensu’s data observability capacities enable seamless tracking of all internal and external data sources' metadata and generating metrics to automate their monitoring, drastically improving visibility and time to resolution. With this release, Kensu and Databricks users benefit from more reliable data to make better-informed business decisions.

Unity Catalog simplifies data management for organizations by consolidating files, tables, machine learning models, and dashboards into a single location within the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. This centralization enables teams to collaborate, manage, and govern their data assets more effectively. However, as data volumes continue to increase, it becomes crucial to maintain comprehensive visibility in order to prevent data table anomalies.

The Kensu 360º Enterprise Data Observability platform enhances the information collection process in Unity Catalog by introducing further automation. The Kensu solution automatically gathers metadata and metrics from data sources outside the Databricks platform. This automated tracking minimizes user effort and allows data teams to leverage discoverability capabilities more efficiently. Consequently, they can focus their efforts on prioritizing projects and generating new value rather than troubleshooting errors. As Kensu expands the coverage of data source types in Databricks Unity Catalog, data teams can have increased confidence in the trustworthiness of their data.

Andy Petrella, the Founder and Chief Product Officer of Kensu and an early advocate of Apache Spark and the creator of Spark Notebook, spoke about the partnership ahead of the Databricks Data + AI Summit. He stated, "Kensu's support of Databricks Unity Catalog, combined with our agent's automatic metadata collection, will provide data teams with more contextual information than ever before. By leveraging both solutions, data practitioners can obtain a seamless real-time view of their data tables, ultimately reinforcing the trustworthiness of their data for end users."

Kensu and CDO Magazine announce the results of the first definitive study of the Data Observability Market

Thursday, October 05, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, -- Kensu, the Data Observability company, today announced the publication of the research “The State of Data Observability” conducted by CDO Magazine with Kensu. The results of the study reveal that 84% of data management leaders place improving data quality and reliability as their highest current priority, with 92% agreeing that data observability would be a core part of their data strategy in the next 1-3 years.

CDO Magazine surveyed 185 global data management decision-makers at companies with more than $50 million in annual revenue. This joint research with Kensu represents the first definitive study of the data observability market.

The report reveals only 7% could resolve data issues before they impact users, and that data pipeline issues are wasting internal resources (57%), adding stress (55%), and creating conflicts with data consumers (58%). 39% of data teams spend between 20 and 40% of their time fixing data pipelines, 51% saying it takes a few hours to resolve a single incident, and 36% a few days or more.

The survey results provide insight into the priorities and barriers to the adoption of data observability. Importantly, it is more than a monitoring tool with the prevention of data issues seen as the most significant benefit by 80% of respondents.

Based on the findings, the data observability market will reach maturity in 2024, with 37% planning to implement a data observability tool in the next 12 months and 35% in the next 2-5 years.

Steve Wanamaker, CDO Magazine Founder and Publisher, says: “As the consequences of data pipeline issues to data teams rise, so does the need for data observability – which is evidenced in the research published with Kensu today. As the first report of its kind, the State of Data Observability 2023 provides a snapshot of the market from the perspective of global data leadership.”

“The results from this research confirm the value Data Observability brings to data teams across organizations and the necessity to incorporate data observability into a data strategy framework,” says Eleanor Treharne-Jones, Chief Executive Officer at Kensu. “Ensuring trust in data is essential to data-driven decision-making and foundational to the success of generative AI.”

Top 10 Enterprise Information Management Solutions Companies - 2022

Company
Kensu

Management
Eleanor Treharne-Jones, CEO

Description
Kensu’s solution monitors data in motion and provides business-critical information such as application information, profiling, and lineage. Thanks to these insights, data teams can troubleshoot issues faster and prevent them from propagating across the data value chain

Kensu Data Reliability Challenges