Key criteria for evaluating GigaOm’s Unstructured Data Management (UDM) solution

1. executive summary

Unstructured data (emails, images, videos, documents) currently accounts for 80% of all enterprise data. Although this data contains rich insights, its sheer volume and lack of structure pose significant management challenges. Unstructured data management (UDM) solutions are emerging as a solution, providing organizations with the tools to store, organize, analyze, and extract value from this data trove.

When evaluating UDM solutions, prospective customers should consider the following:

• data classification and tagging; Automatically categorize and tag your data to make it easier to organize and search.
• insights and analysis, Extract meaningful insights from diverse data formats.
• security and compliance; Provides robust security and compliance with relevant regulations. Robust security features and compliance certifications are essential to protect sensitive data and comply with industry regulations.
• scalability and performance, To efficiently process large amounts of data and cope with future growth. Evaluate processing speed and query latency to ensure efficient analysis and avoid bottlenecks.
• Integration and automationenables seamless integration with existing IT infrastructure and automated workflows for streamlined data management.
• openness and APIs, Open APIs enable customization and integration with other tools and applications, making the solution more flexible and future-proof.

Business imperatives
Executives are under pressure to derive insights from all their data, not just structured formats. UDM solutions can unlock hidden potential in many ways.

• Improved decision making This is a result of the ability to analyze customer behavior, identify operational inefficiencies, and uncover market trends, all powered by unstructured data insights.
• Strengthening innovation Emerging from research and development efforts driven by the collection of knowledge from research documents, internal communications, and competitor analysis.
• cost reduction This is the result of significant cost savings through optimizing storage usage, identifying and removing redundant data, and automating data lifecycle management.
• Strengthening compliance This stems from its ability to ensure data governance and regulatory compliance by effectively managing sensitive information across unstructured data repositories.

Sector recruitment score
To help executives and decision makers assess the potential impact and value of implementing a UDM solution to their business, this GigaOm Key Criteria report examines the sector across five dimensions: benefit, maturity, urgency, impact, and effort. provides a structured assessment of Provides an overall sector adoption score by scoring each factor based on how strongly it forces or prevents adoption of UDM solutions (Figure 1) is rated 3.6 out of 5, with 5 indicating the strongest recommendation for adoption. This indicates that a UDM solution is a reliable candidate for implementation and deserves careful consideration.

The factors that contribute to UDM’s sector adoption score are detailed in the Sector Overview section below.

Figure 1. UDM sector adoption scores

This is the fourth year that GigaOm has reported on the UDM space in the context of key metrics and radar reports. This report builds on previous analysis and considers how the market has evolved over the past year.

This GigaOm Key Criteria report highlights functional (table stakes, key features, and new features) and non-functional requirements (business criteria) for selecting an effective UDM solution. His companion GigaOm Radar report identifies vendors and products that excel in these decision criteria. These reports provide a market overview, identify key UDM products, and help decision makers evaluate these solutions to make more informed investment decisions. .