Gartner® Hype Cycle™for Data Management, 2025
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The data management landscape is experiencing unprecedented transformation. With generative AI reshaping how organizations handle data and accelerated cloud adoption driving innovation, data and analytics leaders face both enormous opportunities and complex challenges.
Why this Gartner® Report matters:
The Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Data Management, 2025 provides critical insights into 30 emerging technologies that will define the future of data management. This comprehensive research helps you strategize system architectures, optimize investments, and harness the power of AI-ready data. According to Gartner, “Data and analytics (D&A) leaders must navigate the dynamic opportunities and challenges presented by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), the expanding influence of cloud technologies and the growing sophistication of data ecosystems.”
Key highlights include:
- AI-Ready Data rapidly moving to Peak of Inflated Expectations, reflecting urgent GenAI data requirements
- Data Management Platforms emerging as unified solutions to reduce complexity
- Lakehouse architectures achieving transformational status for unified analytics and AI workloads
- Self-Service Data Management democratizing data access through GenAI interfaces
What you'll learn:
- Navigate the AI Revolution: Understand how generative AI is embedded across every data management technology and its implications for your strategy.
- Simplify Through Convergence: Discover how data ecosystems are eliminating fragmented toolsets and accelerating innovation.
- Achieve Data Readiness: Learn why 57% of organizations report their data isn’t AI-ready and how to close this gap.
- Identify Strategic Technologies: From vector databases to data contracts, determine which innovations deserve immediate attention.
Who should download this report:
- Chief Data and Analytics Officers
- Data Management Leaders
- Enterprise Architects
- IT Leaders planning AI transformations
- Data Engineers and Scientists
Transform Your Data Strategy Today
This Hype Cycle positions each technology along the maturity curve, helping you identify production-ready solutions, understand investment priorities, and avoid overhyped technologies. Transformational technologies like data fabric, AI-ready data, and augmented data management are creating a flywheel effect, each accelerating the others’ adoption and impact. Download your complimentary copy now to build a data management roadmap aligned with Gartner’s expert analysis and position your organization for the data-driven future.
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Date of publication: 09 July 2025
Authors: Aaron Rosenbaum, Robert Thanaraj
Appr. reading time: 134 min
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