Cloudera has announced its plans to acquire Octopai, an Israel-based company specializing in data lineage and catalog platforms. This acquisition aims to enhance Cloudera's metadata management capabilities, providing enterprises with improved data discoverability, quality, and governance.
Founded in 2016, by Amnon Drori, Gal Ziton, and Itai Kahalani, Octopai is an Israel-based startup company founded in 2016 that specializes in automated metadata management. Octopai - Data Lineage and Catalog Platform Business is a unit of Octopai.
The acquisition will bolster Cloudera's ability to manage metadata across hybrid environments, ensuring that enterprises have a unified view of their data.
Octopai's platform enables quick and efficient data discovery within complex, hybrid environments. The integration will help trace data origins and transformations, improving data quality and governance.
The combined capabilities will support AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics initiatives by providing trusted data.
Octopai's automated solutions help enterprises comply with regulations like GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA through comprehensive data mapping.
The founders of Octopai, Amnon Drori, Gal Ziton, and Itai Kahaani, founded the company in 2016 out of frustration with the challenges organizations faced in understanding and managing large data systems. Their vision was to create an advanced automated data lineage platform to provide unprecedented visibility into data landscapes.
With this acquisition, Cloudera bolsters its rich metadata management with Octopai’s market leading data discovery and data lineage capabilities, enabling customers to understand and trust their data across not just the Cloudera platform but the entire enterprise ecosystem. Together, Cloudera and Octopai will help reinvent how customers manage their metadata and track lineage across all their data sources
This acquisition is expected to close before the end of November 2024 and will significantly enhance Cloudera's data management, governance, and AI capabilities.
Besides the recent acquisition of Octopai, Cloudera has been actively expanding its capabilities through strategic acquisitions. In 2021, Cloudera acquired Cask, a data engineering platform that helps organizations build and manage data pipelines more efficiently.
In 2019, Cloudera acquired Arcadia Data, a provider of a unified self-service data visualization and analytics platform.
In 2017, Cloudera acquired StreamSets, a data integration platform that simplifies the process of building and managing data pipelines.
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