Actian Awarded Metadata Management Solution of the Year

Actian is Awarded for Metadata Management

Actian was recently honored with a prestigious Data Breakthrough Award from Data Breakthrough. The Data Breakthrough Award program recognizes the most innovative companies and technologies that are transforming the data landscape.

Award-winners like Actian are honored for making a real-world impact with technology. This year, Actian received the 2025 Data Breakthrough “Metadata Management Solution of the Year” award for our data intelligence platform. The platform offers an active metadata management solution to power your data and analytics use cases. It collects, inventories, and shares metadata throughout the organization and across all your data sources.

What is Metadata Management and Why Does it Matter?

Metadata management is all about organizing and taking control of your data to make sure it’s governed, searchable, and used effectively across your organization. Essentially, it’s “data about data,” and the goal is to make everything you need to know about your data, such as lineage and dates, easy to find, trust, and use. It solves the common challenge of data teams not being able to quickly and efficiently find the data assets they need for their use cases.

By capturing, classifying, and securing metadata, businesses can unlock the full potential of their data assets, leading to better insights, smarter decisions, and improved operational efficiency. Proper metadata management helps ensure that your data is reliable, compliant, and accessible, which is key for any data-driven organization.

When it comes to metadata management, it’s all about the details. The process includes automating the discovery of data, standardizing metadata formats, and applying governance rules to keep everything in check. Using metadata catalogs and management tools helps you maintain consistency, enforce security, and ensure your data aligns with the needs of different departments and systems.

From descriptive and structural metadata to operational and administrative types, each plays a crucial role in organizing, classifying, and democratizing access to data. This careful management is what allows organizations to fully leverage their data and stay ahead in today’s data-driven world.

Choosing the Right Metadata Management Solution

According to DATAVERSITY, 80% of organizations now place a high priority on metadata management—and the Actian Data Intelligence Platform, is uniquely designed to meet this growing need. What sets the platform apart from other solutions is its innovative smart data inventory and discovery system, enabled by a data catalog, knowledge graph, enterprise data marketplace, self-service capabilities, and a vast array of native data source connectors that automatically gather and retrieve enterprise metadata.

Through advanced APIs and powerful scanners, the platform ensures a reliable, always-updated metadata repository that accelerates insights across the organization by making the right data assets fast and easy to find for any use case. This automated approach not only delivers consistent performance in metadata management, but also maps relationships between systems, applications, and reports—creating a context-rich landscape that offers real-time visibility into data assets and their transformations over time.

Both technical and business users can easily find and understand enterprise data assets, even if they don’t know what data they need when they start their search . Ultimately, the platform empowers data teams to build and maintain a robust repository of data assets that uses metadata to provide clarity around the provenance, context, and usage of enterprise data. By leveraging next-generation features, the Actian Data Intelligence Platform allows teams to spend less time searching for data and more time unlocking its value to drive smarter, data-informed business decisions.

Try the Award-Winning Platform With a Guided Tour

The Actian Data Intelligence Platform is a cloud-based solution that helps you easily discover, access, and share trusted data. With its powerful metadata management features, it simplifies data search, exploration, governance, and compliance, allowing both data and business teams to quickly access the data assets the need, which facilitates smarter decision making. The platform seamlessly connects to various data sources, including cloud, ERP, CRM, and relational systems, through built-in scanners and APIs.

By using knowledge graph technologies, the platform enhances data discovery and offers intelligent recommendations. It also ensures top-notch security with SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 compliance and is designed to work smoothly across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, making it scalable for any organization.

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About Actian Corporation

Actian makes data easy. Our data platform simplifies how people connect, manage, and analyze data across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. With decades of experience in data management and analytics, Actian delivers high-performance solutions that empower businesses to make data-driven decisions. Actian is recognized by leading analysts and has received industry awards for performance and innovation. Our teams share proven use cases at conferences (e.g., Strata Data) and contribute to open-source projects. On the Actian blog, we cover topics ranging from real-time data ingestion, data analytics, data governance, data management, data quality, data intelligence to AI-driven analytics.