Denodo named Leader in 2025 Gartner data integration MQ

Denodo has been named a Leader in Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, marking the company’s sixth consecutive appearance in the report’s top tier.

Gartner assessed 20 vendors for the latest edition of the study. The research firm said data integration products remain a key element of enterprise data architecture as organisations expand operational, analytical and artificial intelligence workloads.

“Data integration tools remain a fundamental architectural component as organizations increasingly seek improved capabilities to support their operational, analytical and AI use cases,” states Gartner. “This research helps data and analytics leaders make their decisions by analyzing 20 vendors competing in this market.”

Gartner’s latest analysis highlights the impact of AI on how organisations manage data integration tasks. The report forecasts a sharp reduction in manual work as vendors incorporate AI features into their products.

“By 2027, AI assistants and AI-enhanced workflows incorporated into data integration tools will reduce manual intervention by 60% and enable self-service data management,” says Gartner in the 2025 Magic Quadrant report.

Denodo said it has expanded AI-related features in its Denodo Platform since the previous edition of the Magic Quadrant. The platform focuses on logical data management and semantic layers that sit above distributed data sources.

In April, the company released Denodo Platform 9.2. The update extended support for generative AI initiatives. It also introduced a suite of self-service tools for the development of data products.

In September, Denodo followed with Denodo Platform 9.3. The release added DeepQuery, which the company describes as a Deep Research feature. The version also incorporated other functions designed for AI-related innovation.

Ravi Shankar, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Denodo, linked the company’s product direction to growing demand for AI-ready data. He said organisations increasingly expect integrated data that is available with tighter governance and control.

“The goals of data integration are now driven by the need for AI-ready data, which is not only immediately integrated, but also governed, secure, and trusted, and the Denodo Platform, with its semantic capabilities and logical data management approach, provides the most flexible, direct paths to AI-ready data,” said Ravi Shankar, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Denodo. “We are extremely proud that Gartner has once again recognized Denodo as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, as Gartner has done for the previous five years. This provides us with encouragement that our chosen approach is effective for a diverse customer base tackling complex AI challenges.”

Denodo pointed to user feedback on Gartner Peer Insights as an additional indicator of its market position. The Denodo Platform holds an average rating of 4.6 out of 5 on the review site, based on 277 reviews.

One customer, a Data Virtualization Architect, described recent AI-related enhancements and their use in the product’s interface.

“Denodo Reaches New Heights with Advanced AI Capabilities: Their advances in artificial intelligence with Denodo 9.1.x provide the ability to connect Denodo to your AI engine and get assistance right in the Design Studio with naming fields, describing the data in those fields, and troubleshooting queries in a VQL shell. Connecting your AI engine to the Denodo Data Catalog currently provides the ability to query data with natural language, returning a fully developed query that you can execute or open in a VQL shell right from the catalog interface. Future roadmap will incorporate "Ask Anything" into the catalog, providing the AI capability to be more like a full chatbot capable of answering non-data questions as well as data related questions in the shell.” - Data Virtualization Architect

An IT Manager highlighted the platform’s role as a semantic integration layer and its effect on delivery times.

“Denodo as an integration semantic layer: The Denodo product allows us to present data to suit different customer needs much more quickly than we could before. From concept to testing can happen in minutes, or hours now. We are able to connect to various sources to define a data product which is meaningful to our customers, normalizing across sources, and present it in a manner which aligns with our preferred architecture patterns, both in terms of protocol, pattern, and security.” - IT Manager

A Director of Data Engineering cited the platform’s use in data fabric strategies and the role of Denodo’s services team.

“Denodo Delivers on Modern Data Approaches: As a platform, Denodo has really delivered in helping us realize our strategy of a data fabric centered on federation. The customer success team has been invaluable in our positive adoption and has remained fully engaged from the moment of implementation. The technology itself has lived up to the promise. On the surface, the data virtualization aspects are straightforward and easily learned, and time from integration to data delivery has certainly been reduced. But, there is also room to dive deeper into more advanced areas of the platform, allowing for even more benefits as we continue to modernize our data offerings and drive towards new levels of data literacy.” - Director of Data Engineering

Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools follows its Voice of the Customer report for the same market, which appeared earlier in the year on Gartner Peer Insights.

Denodo said it expects ongoing customer adoption of AI assistants and AI-enhanced workflows in data integration as organisations pursue broader automation of data management tasks.