Random
Actian Observability uses this technology to automatically find unusual patterns or deviations in data that might signal a problem.
Anomaly Detection
Actian was formed in 2011 after its parent company at the time acquired this columnar database technology.
VectorWise
They may not know which data is being used for models, whether it’s accurate, or how to troubleshoot issues.
They also lack tools to ensure explainability or trust in AI-driven outputs.
What use case does this describe?
AI / ML initiatives
Data Catalog
A searchable inventory of an organization's data assets, along with metadata, data management tools, and search tools. Data catalogs help data users find the data they need, evaluate the data's fitness for its intended use, and improve data understanding.
Data Governance
Data governance is everything you do to ensure data is secure, private, accurate, available, and usable. It includes the actions people must take, the processes they must follow, and the technology that supports them throughout the data life cycle.
Actian's platform uses this technology to provide context and meaning by linking technical data elements to business terms.
Business Glossary
In 2018, this company acquired a majority stake in Actian, with Actian becoming part of its software division.
HCL Technologies
Explain how Actian helps with Data Discovery & Democratization.
Actian’s enterprise data marketplace makes data discoverable, understandable, and contextual. Observability provides trust scores and real- time quality indicators to help users confidently discover and request the right data.
Data Lineage
Data lineage is metadata that tracks the flow of data objects through a company over time. It's a process that involves understanding, recording, and visualizing data as it moves from its source to consumption.
Enterprise Data Marketplace
An Enterprise Data Marketplace is an e-commerce-like solution where Data Producers publish their Data (Products) and Data Consumers discover, understand and shop for the published Data (Products). It sits on top of a data catalog.
This company uses the Actian Data Platform to power its flight planning software, ensuring optimal flight routes and safety.
Lufthansa
Actian's Zen database technology was acquired in 2013 from this company, which had a long history of providing embedded database solution
Pervasive
What use case does this describe:
Ensuring data is managed according to internal policies
and external regulations like GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and
more
Regulatory Challenges/Compliance
Data Product
Data products are reusable assets that bundle data with everything needed for authorized consumers to use it independently. They are often used to create data apps like dashboards, recommendation engines, and predictive models.
Metadata
Metadata is data that describes data. It provides context, making data easier to interpret and use correctly, ensuring better decision-making. Metadata is to data what data is to everything else.
This refers to the time when data is inaccurate, unavailable, or incomplete—something Actian's observability tools aim to minimize.
Data Downtime
This is the name for Actian's unified platform for data management and analytics that was once called Avalanche.
Actian Data Platform
What is self service analytics and how do we help?
Giving business users the ability to find, access,
and use the right data confidently—without relying
on IT or analysts for every request.
The Actian Data Intelligence Platform surfaces trusted, certified data assets with documentation and context. Observability highlights issues before they impact reporting so users have confidence in the data they’re using.
Knowledge Graph
A knowledge graph is a structured representation of information that connects concepts, entities, and their relationships in a graph-like format. It is used to organize and integrate knowledge from various sources, enabling machines to understand and reason about information more like humans do.
Data Freshness
This refers to how current your data is. It monitors when data was last updated and whether it's arriving on time. A stale dataset can lead to outdated business decisions.
Actian’s Data Intelligence Platform is designed to support this modern data architecture framework that treats data as a product.
Data Mesh
Originally known as Btrieve and later Pervasive PSQL, this Actian database is a popular choice for developers of packaged software.
Actian Zen
Provide me some examples of questions you may ask a customer with challenges around data discovery.
"How do business users easily discover and access the data they need?”
“How is data reused within your organization?”
“How do you ensure users trust the data they find?”
"What are the most common challenges or frustrations your data users express when trying to locate data?"
Data Observability
Data observability is the ability to understand the state and health of an organization's data. This includes data pipelines, landscapes, infrastructures, and financial governance. Data observability is achieved by continuously monitoring, tracking, alerting, analyzing, and troubleshooting problems to reduce and prevent data errors or downtime.
Data Pipeline
An automated process that moves and transforms data from one or more sources to a target destination. It is a series of steps designed to collect, process, and deliver data in a reliable, efficient, and scalable way.