We are excited to announce the acquisition of Octopai, a leading data lineage and catalog platform that provides data discovery and governance for enterprises to enhance their data-driven decision making. Cloudera’s mission since its inception has been to empower organizations to transform all their data to deliver trusted, valuable, and predictive insights. With AI and generative AI powering the next wave of business applications, the real competitive edge lies in collecting vast amounts of data and deeply understanding and leveraging it for business value. Cloudera, together with Octopai, will make it easier for organizations to better understand, access, and leverage all their data in their entire data estate – including data outside of Cloudera – to power the most robust data, analytics and AI applications. This acquisition delivers access to trusted data so organizations can build reliable AI models and applications by combining data from anywhere in their environment.
Propel AI and analytic success with better data discovery and data cataloging
As organizations collect a vast and diverse array of data sources, they face significant challenges in achieving a comprehensive understanding of their data. This includes having full visibility into the origin of the data, the transformations it underwent, its relationships, and the context that was added or stripped away from that data as it moved throughout the enterprise. In today’s heterogeneous data ecosystems, integrating and analyzing data from multiple sources presents several obstacles: data often exists in various formats, with inconsistencies in definitions, structures, and quality standards. Additionally, multiple copies of the same data locked in proprietary systems contribute to version control issues, redundancies, staleness, and management headaches. This dampens confidence in the data and hampers access, in turn impacting the speed to launch new AI and analytic projects.
Founded in 2016, Octopai offers automated solutions for data lineage, data discovery, data catalog, mapping, and impact analysis across complex data environments. Combining Octopai capabilities with Cloudera’s AI powered hybrid data platform provides deeper data understanding, enhanced security, and robust data governance – essential for driving AI and analytics success. The combined platform will integrate data – from wherever it originates and wherever it is stored (cloud or on prem) – to deliver real-time insights required for faster decision making and predictive generative AI applications for personalized customer experiences. By adding the Octopai platform, Cloudera customers will benefit from:
Enhanced Data Discovery: Octopai’s automated data discovery enables instantaneous search and location of desired data across multiple systems. It leverages knowledge graphs to keep track of all the data sources and data flows, using AI to fill the gaps so you have the most comprehensive metadata management solution.
Data Trust and Quality: Octopai’s multi-layered data lineage solution provides the most complete, in-depth, and trustworthy automated lineage so data users can always trust the data and the insights generated from it. The end-to-end lineage also automates tasks such as predicting the impact of a process change, analyzing the impact of a broken process, discovering parallel processes performing the same tasks, and performing root cause analysis to uncover the source of reporting errors. This guarantees data quality and automates the laborious, manual processes required to maintain data reliability.
Robust Data Catalog: Organizations can create company-wide consistency with a self-creating, self-updating data catalog. This automated data catalog always provides up-to-date inventory of assets that never get stale. Octopai’s 50+ connectors make it easy to capture the metadata from different data sources and maintain the catalog automatically so users always know what data is available, where it can be found, what it represents, and who is responsible for it.
AI Co-pilot: The co-pilot empowers data teams with a real-time, unified workspace that automates, optimizes, and interprets scripts while providing immediate insights into data lineage. It allows users to mitigate risks, increase efficiency, and make data strategy more actionable than ever before.
The path forward with data governance and metadata management
With this acquisition, Cloudera bolsters its rich metadata management with Octopai’s market leading data discovery and data lineage capabilities, enabling customers to understand and trust their data across not just the Cloudera platform but the entire enterprise ecosystem. Together, Cloudera and Octopai will help reinvent how customers manage their metadata and track lineage across all their data sources. This will also accelerate deployment of new data products for AI, gen AI, and analytics applications. It will increase the discovery of the data products and ensure the usability and consistent delivery of these data products, providing essential elements of a data mesh architecture for self-service decentralized access to data.
