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Modern enterprises are struggling to leverage diverse, distributed data for critical analytics and AI applications. Without a unified architecture, data remains fragmented, governance is inconsistent, and valuable initiatives stall.

A data fabric, powered by the Denodo Platform, solves this challenge. It provides a metadata-driven architecture that streamlines data access, automates governance, and creates a marketplace for discovering trusted, real-time data — unlocking measurable business impact without costly, slow data replication.

Just like the logical data warehouse, the lakehouse alone cannot support the end-to-end requirements of an organization that needs a single infrastructure that can support both operational and analytical use cases and one that, over time, starts to augment data management and engineering.

Ehtisham Zaidi, Robert Thanaraj, and Henry Cook

in the Gartner 2025 Strategic Roadmap for the Data Fabric Architecture, July 29 2025, ID G00766737

Why Data Fabric Can Outperform a Data Lakehouse Alone

Gartner® (see quote), from the Denodo perspective, sees data fabric as the natural evolution of enterprise data management — beyond the logical data warehouse and data lakehouse — to a system that actively manages metadata and automates data delivery. But this is not a future state. 

For organizations already investing in a lakehouse or logical data warehouse, data fabric can make those investments pay off now.

  • Without a data fabric, data can be fragmented, data governance can be inconsistent, and analytics and AI initiatives can stall at the “last mile.”
  • With a Denodo-powered data fabric, enterprises can immediately unlock trusted, real-time access across all platforms — maximizing the return on existing infrastructure while laying the foundation for AI-ready data operations.

The Denodo Platform: The Core Capabilities of Its Support for Data Fabric

The Denodo Platform enables powerful data fabric by unifying distributed data into a single, semantic layer—so whether your data lives in the cloud, on-premises, or across multiple data lakehouses, there’s one centralized location to find and use it.

Unified Semantic Layer and Data Marketplace

Unify distributed data into a consistent, governed view that simplifies access. Through a built-in data marketplace, users across the business can easily discover, explore, and access curated, contextual, and reusable data products.

AI-Powered Automation with Denodo Assistant

Denodo Assistant acts as an AI-powered recommendation engine, analyzing active metadata to suggest optimizations, streamline data delivery, and guide users toward the most relevant data. It simplifies self-service by helping users to combine and shape data without IT bottlenecks.

Flexible Data Delivery and Orchestration

Because every use case is different, Denodo supports all delivery styles — batch, virtualization, streaming, or materialization — without compromise. Behind the scenes, Denodo enables robust orchestration and DataOps, coordinating pipelines with DevOps-style agility and automation for trusted, real-time data delivery.

The Denodo Platform: Core Data Fabric Support

The Denodo Platform enables powerful data fabric by unifying distributed data into a single, semantic layer — so whether your data lives in the cloud, on-premises, or across multiple data lakehouses, there’s one centralized location to find and use it.

Unify Semantics Layer

Unified Semantic Layer and Data Marketplace

Unify distributed data into a consistent, governed view that simplifies access. Through a built-in data marketplace, users across the business can easily discover, explore, and access curated, contextual, and reusable data products.

AI-Powered Automation

AI-Powered Automation with Denodo Assistant

Denodo Assistant acts as an AI-powered recommendation engine, analyzing active metadata to suggest optimizations, streamline data delivery, and guide users toward the most relevant data. It simplifies self-service by helping users to combine and shape data without IT bottlenecks.

Flexible Data Delivery

Flexible Data Delivery and Orchestration

Because every use case is different, Denodo supports all delivery styles — batch, virtualization, streaming, or materialization — without compromise. Behind the scenes, Denodo enables robust orchestration and DataOps, coordinating pipelines with DevOps-style agility and automation for trusted, real-time data delivery.

The Business Benefits of Denodo-Enabled Data Fabric

A Denodo-powered, enterprise-grade data fabric enables organizations to:

Deliver AI-Ready Data

Provide data that is governed, secured, enriched with business metadata, and delivered in real time.

Support Both Analytical and Operational Use Cases

Power both real-time decisions and deep analytical insights — together, without compromise.

Deploy across Any Architecture

Enable multi-cloud, hybrid, and edge scenarios with consistent performance, security, and governance, as well as transparent access across locations.

Achieve Unparalleled Performance

Leverage advanced optimization techniques, push-down optimization, parallel processing, and dynamic caching, for queries that run at the speed of your business.

Simplify Data Management with AI

Use Denodo Assistant for everything from intelligent autocompletion, to optimization tips, to natural language queries.

Accelerate AI Agent Development

Use pre-built APIs and orchestration abstract data prep, embedding, and LLM integration — cutting engineering effort and bridging skills gaps, with centrally managed security and governance, to streamline deployment.

Customer Success with Denodo-Enabled Data Fabric

LeasePlan

LeasePlan

Enabling predictive maintenance

Shimizu

Shimizu

Transforming construction while streamlining operations

Pierre Fabre Laboratories

Pierre Fabre Laboratories

Gaining a deeper understanding of customer behavior

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