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Data Preparation for Analytics Software

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DATA QUADRANT REPORT
EMOTIONAL FOOTPRINT REPORT
Data Preparation for Analytics

What is Data Preparation for Analytics Software?

Data Preparation for Analytics software enables data collection, cleansing, profiling, enrichment, integration and cataloging to facilitate BI & Analytics.

Common Features

  • Data Connectors and Data Mashup
  • Data Cleansing
  • Data Profiling
  • Data Enrichment
  • Data Integration
  • Data Access
  • Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities
  • Collaboration
  • Data Discovery and Search
  • Intelligent Alerts and Notifications
  • Data Labeling
  • Data Mining
  • Data Pre-Processing
  • Data Modelling Tools
  • Data Security
  • Metadata Management
  • Cataloging
  • Data Packaging
  • Record Deduplication

Our Methodology

8.1

Composite Score

Vendors are ranked by the composite score, which is comprised of feature, capability, relationship, and overall satisfaction scores while factoring in the volume and recency of reviews.

8.1

CX Score

The CX score is comprised of the emotional footprint metrics, balanced by metrics related to the overall value of the software, while factoring in the volume and recency of reviews.

Data Quadrant

SoftwareReviews collects user insights that help organizations more effectively choose software that meets their needs, measure business value, and improve selection.

Rankings, results, and positioning on SoftwareReviews reports are based entirely on end-user feedback solicited from a proprietary online survey engine.

Leaders

Products that resonate strongest in the market, balancing features with a great user experience.

Product Innovators

Products that emphasize product features, gaining strong recommendations from their customers.

Service Stars

Products that emphasize a good user experience and build strong relationships with customers.

Challengers

Products that are strong performers in some areas and trail in others. Often up-and-coming vendors.

Emotional Footprint

SoftwareReviews collects user insights that help organizations more effectively choose software that meets their needs, measure business value, and improve selection.

Rankings, results, and positioning on SoftwareReviews reports are based entirely on end-user feedback solicited by a proprietary online survey engine.

Champions

Products that resonate highly with users at an emotional level. Users have specific emotional views towards these products like love, trust, and effectiveness.

Relationship Builders

Products that are bulletproof and focus on fulfilling core needs with steady support, not the latest feature.

Value Players

Products that succeed on cost and service effectiveness with users.

Contenders

Products seen as good in some areas and trailing in others. Users look to these for innovation at the edge but aren't fully committed.

Top Data Preparation for Analytics Software

2025 Data Quadrant Awards

2024 Emotional Footprint Awards

At SoftwareReviews, we take pride in recognizing excellence. Each year, we present the Data Quadrant Awards to top-performing software products based solely on authentic user reviews, without any paid placements or analyst opinions. These awards highlight software products that excel in terms of features, vendor capabilities, and customer relationships, earning them the highest overall rankings.

At SoftwareReviews, we take pride in recognizing excellence. Each year, we present the Emotional Footprint Awards to top-performing software products based solely on authentic user reviews, without any paid placements or analyst opinions. These awards shine a spotlight on software vendors who excel in crafting and nurturing strong customer relationships.

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Alteryx

Data Quadrant Champion
8.7
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Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

Data Quadrant Champion
8.7
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Microsoft Power Query

Data Quadrant Champion
8.6
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Altair Monarch

Data Quadrant Champion
8.3
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Tableau Prep

Data Quadrant Champion
8.1
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Informatica Data Integration & Engineering 

7.9
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TIBCO EBX

7.7
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Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

Emotional Footprint Champion
9.1
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Microsoft Power Query

Emotional Footprint Champion
8.8
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Alteryx

Emotional Footprint Champion
8.7
Cx Score
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Ataccama ONE Platform

8.4
Cx Score
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Altair Monarch

8.3
Cx Score
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Tableau Prep

8.3
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Altair RapidMiner

8.1
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
Databricks

Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

Composite Score
8.8 /10
CX Score
9.2 /10
53 Reviews
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The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform allows your entire organization to use data and AI. It’s built on a lakehouse to provide an open, unified foundation for all data and governance, and is powered by a Data Intelligence Engine that understands the uniqueness of your data. From ETL to data warehousing to generative AI, Databricks helps you simplify and accelerate your data and AI goals.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Respectful
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Fair
Badge Winner
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Microsoft Power Query
Microsoft Power Query
Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Power Query

Composite Score
8.7 /10
CX Score
9.0 /10
104 Reviews
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Power Query is a data transformation and data preparation engine. Power Query comes with a graphical interface for getting data from sources and a Power Query Editor for applying transformations. Because the engine is available in many products and services, the destination where the data will be stored depends on where Power Query was used. Using Power Query, you can perform the extract, transform, and load (ETL) processing of data.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Helps Innovate
  • Enables Productivity
Badge Winner
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Tableau Prep
Tableau Prep
Tableau Software

Tableau Prep

Composite Score
8.5 /10
CX Score
8.8 /10
32 Reviews
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Tableau Prep makes it easier to prepare, shape, and combine data for analysis. Tableau Prep ensures that data sources are clean and organized before sharing, and saves companies countless hours of preparation. Tableau Prep Builder provides a modern approach to data preparation, making it easier and faster to combine, shape, and clean data for analysis within Tableau. By providing a visual and direct path to prep your data, you can get your hands on quality data in just a few clicks.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Enables Productivity
  • Saves Time
  • Includes Product Enhancements
Badge Winner
Alteryx
Alteryx
Alteryx

Alteryx

Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.7 /10
95 Reviews
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Alteryx provides a single workflow for data blending, analytics, and reporting. This workflow allows the seamless blending of internal, third party and cloud-based data, and simple analysis using 60+ prebuilt tools for spatial and predictive analytics. With Alteryx Machine Learning’s automated insight generation, you’ll quickly uncover hidden signals and key relationships in your data.

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Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Respectful
  • Reliable
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Dataiku
Dataiku
Dataiku

Dataiku

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10
15 Reviews
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Dataiku is the platform democratizing access to data and enabling enterprises to build their own path to AI in a human-centric way. With Dataiku, everyone can get involved in data and AI projects on a single platform for design and production that delivers use cases in days, not months. No matter where they sit, they work in a safe and governed way that helps manage risk and create trust to drive high-quality outputs and value for your business.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Ataccama ONE Platform
Ataccama ONE Platform
Ataccama

Ataccama ONE Platform

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10
22 Reviews
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Ataccama enables enterprise data democratization with a unified platform for automated data quality, MDM, and metadata management across cloud and hybrid environments. We enable business and data teams to collaborate on creating high quality, reusable data products and massively scale data-driven innovation while maintaining data accuracy, control, and governance.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
Altair Monarch
Altair Monarch
Altair Engineering, Inc.

Altair Monarch

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10
21 Reviews
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Monarch is a market leading desktop-based self-service data preparation solution. Monarch connects to multiple data sources including structured and unstructured data, cloud-based data, and big data. Connecting to data, cleansing and manipulating data requires no coding.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Inspires Innovation
Badge Winner
Badge Winner
TIBCO EBX
TIBCO EBX
TIBCO Software

TIBCO EBX

Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10
29 Reviews
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TIBCO's master data management (MDM) platform delivers the governance processes needed to construct and effectively maintain a centralized source of accurate intelligence. With the TIBCO Platform–Data Management capability, you create trusted data through governed accessibility, delivery, and security to meet your organization’s exact operational, compliance, and analytic needs.

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Pros

  • Altruistic
  • Over Delivered
  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
Altair RapidMiner
Altair RapidMiner
Altair Engineering, Inc.

Altair RapidMiner

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10
16 Reviews
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Regardless of where your organization is on its data journey, Altair RapidMiner can help overcome the most challenging obstacles in your way. We offer a path to modernization for established data analytics teams as well as a path to automation for teams just getting started. We do this without requiring your organization to radically change your people, processes, computing environment, or existing data landscape, helping you achieve your data goals without changing who you are or what you have.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
Altair Graph Studio
Altair Graph Studio
Altair Engineering, Inc.

Altair Graph Studio

Composite Score
7.5 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10
16 Reviews
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Altair Graph Studio (formerly Anzo by Cambridge Semantics) is a comprehensive data discovery and integration toolset that applies a semantic, graph-based data fabric layer over diverse enterprise data sources. This semantic layer adds real-world meaning to data – structured and unstructured alike – making insights clearer and previously unseen connections explicit. Graph Studio creates a single pane of glass for an enterprise's data, eliminates data silos, activates unused data, and enables exciting new levels of on-demand business insight.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Inspires Innovation
  • Respectful
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