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Actian is shaping the future of business with AI-ready data that is trusted, flexible and easy to use. Through its broad portfolio, Actian empowers enterprises to confidently manage and govern data at scale, streamlining decentralized data environments and accelerating AI-ready data delivery. By transforming distributed data into trusted, accessible assets, Actian helps customers drive innovation and competitive advantage.

The Actian data intelligence approach combines data discovery, active metadata management, and federated governance to eliminate silos and enable smarter data usage. Built on advanced knowledge graph technology, Actian automatically catalogs and contextualizes metadata from any source, enabling organizations to find, understand, and trust data assets throughout their lifecycles. Actian’s enterprise data marketplace provides an intuitive experience where data producers publish governed datasets and where business users have self-service discovery of and access to trusted data for analytics, applications, and machine learning models.

Additional capabilities include AI-driven observability, automated data quality monitoring, comprehensive lineage tracking, and an intelligent business glossary. Built-in data contract functionality delivers regulatory compliance excellence. It also creates an AI-ready foundation that accelerates machine learning initiatives with clean, well-governed data to improve model accuracy and deployment speed.

Complementing its cloud offerings, Actian supports a diverse database portfolio, including transactional, analytical, multi-model, and embedded databases. With flexible deployment options, Actian supports diverse requirements across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Its offerings scale with SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications, ensuring enterprise-grade security.

Trusted by Fortune 100 and other enterprises across financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, logistics, and government sectors, Actian maintains 95% customer satisfaction. Its porfolio is leveraged by 42 million users worldwide and trusted by the world’s largest enterprises. Actian has been recognized by industry influencers, such as Forrester, Gartner, ISG, Bloor and many others. Learn more about Actian, the data division of HCLSoftware, at http://actian.com/ .

Alteryx

Accelerate decisions, automate insights, and power every team—at any scale, in any environment.

Neo4j, the Graph Database & Analytics leader, helps organizations find hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Customers leverage the structure of their connected data to reveal new ways of solving their most pressing business problems, from fraud detection, customer 360, knowledge graphs, supply chain, personalization, IoT, network management, and more – even as their data grows. Neo4j’s full graph stack delivers powerful native graph storage with native vector search capability, data science, advanced analytics, and visualization, with enterprise-grade security controls, scalable architecture, and ACID compliance. Neo4j’s dynamic open-source community brings together over 300,000 developers, data scientists, and architects across hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and NGOs.

Qlik

We help organizations make their data work for AI by transforming it into trusted, governed, and context-rich
intelligence. Serving tens of thousands of customers worldwide, including 75% of the Fortune 500, Qlik delivers solutions across data integration, data quality, analytics, and AI. Our trusted data products, powerful analytics engine, and agentic experience work together to help customers reduce risk, control costs, and adapt as AI, data, and business needs continue to evolve—without locking them into rigid systems.

Leader in IDC MarketScape WorldWide Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, 2025
Leader in IDC MarketScape WorldWide Data Integration Software Platforms, 2025
Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools
Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms
Qlik. We Make Your Data Work for AI.

Huwise

Huwise helps data leaders transform their data into a source of knowledge, innovation, and performance.

We design a SaaS data product marketplace solution tailored to business teams and non-expert users, making data accessible, actionable, and value-generating. With Huwise, organizations provide employees and partners with secure, self-service access to their data products through a single platform.

In just a few weeks, we can deploy any type of data product marketplace, whether internal or external.

Today, more than 350 clients across 25 countries rely on Huwise to accelerate their data initiatives, with over 3,000 platforms already deployed worldwide. Backed by 14 years of expertise in data management, we deliver tailored support to address the business use cases of our clients.

Collibra empowers Data Citizens to take command of data and AI, transforming possibilities into progress

LexisNexis

 LexisNexis® Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of AI-powered analytics and decision-making tools. Our digital solutions provide you with legal, regulatory, and business information that helps transform the way your organization uses trusted data and powerful technology to make smarter decisions.  As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services and now serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide. For more information visit www.lexisnexis.com/en-gb

SDG Group

SDG Group is a global AI, Data & Analytics consulting firm with over 2,500 professionals and offices in the USA, the UK, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Middle East, Mexico, and Italy (HQ). We partner with organisations to unlock their data potential by co-creating optimal solutions built on our Triple Expertise: deep business domain knowledge, cutting-edge technological capabilities, and comprehensive practice expertise across all data, analytics and AI domains.

As pioneers in AI and Data & Analytics consulting, we are committed to transforming businesses into truly data-driven enterprises. Our approach enables organisations to achieve genuine business agility—the ability to adapt swiftly to both internal and external market changes. From strategy development to implementation and beyond, we deliver end-to-end solutions that turn data into actionable insights and competitive advantage.

Our team brings together industry specialists, data engineers, data scientists, AI engineers, and technology experts who work collaboratively with clients across sectors including financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and the public sector. We believe in building long-term partnerships that drive sustainable growth and innovation.

SDG Group UK operates two offices in the United Kingdom, located in London and Milton Keynes, serving clients across the region with the same commitment to innovation and excellence that defines our global operations.

Mindfuel is the company behind Delight, a purpose-built platform for managing data and AI portfolios at scale. Designed for enterprise teams, Delight provides a structured environment to collect and prioritize high-value initiatives, align and communicate with stakeholders, and demonstrate business impact. By replacing fragmented tools and manual processes with a single source of truth, connecting use cases and data products, Delight empowers data teams to manage their portfolio with clarity, efficiency, and strategic focus from day one. Headquartered in Munich, Mindfuel supports enterprise clients across industries globally in turning AI investments into measurable business value.