Teradata Recognized as Exemplary Across Seven 2026 ISG AI and Data Platforms Buyers Guides™
Explore how Teradata delivers across the full AI and data platform landscape.
Teradata has been recognized as Exemplary—the highest designation—across seven 2026 ISG Buyers Guides™ for 2026, spanning AI platforms, agentic AI, governance, and analytic data platforms. This recognition reflects consistent strength across product capabilities, customer experience, and real-world enterprise requirements.
Leadership in AI and Data Platforms
In the AI and Data Platforms Buyers Guide, Teradata is positioned in the Exemplary quadrant.
This placement validates Teradata as a complete AI platform, bringing together:
- Data, analytics, and AI in a unified architecture
- Support for predictive, generative, and agentic AI
- Enterprise-grade governance, security, and scalability
- Flexibility across hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises environments
As organizations move from AI experimentation to production, this recognition reinforces Teradata’s role as the platform that operationalizes AI at scale.
Leadership in Analytic Data Platforms
Teradata delivers its strongest results in the Analytic Data Platforms Buyer’s Guide, where it is named a Leader and placed in the Exemplary quadrant.
In ISG Buyers Guides, “Exemplary” reflects a vendor’s overall placement based on a combination of product experience and customer experience. It represents vendors that deliver the strongest balance of capability, usability, and real-world performance.
Within that placement, ISG also assigns “Leader” rankings and grades, which reflect quantitative performance across evaluation categories.
ISG’s evaluation highlights Teradata’s ability to:
- Deliver high-performance analytics across massive data volumes
- Provide trusted, governed data for AI and decisioning
- Support complex, mixed workloads without trade-offs
- Enable consistent performance across environments
Together, this combination of Exemplary placement and Leader-level performance reinforces Teradata’s role as the foundation for enterprise AI.
Recognized across the full AI landscape
Teradata’s Exemplary recognition spans seven Buyers Guides, demonstrating strength across every layer of the AI ecosystem—from core data platforms to agentic AI and governance:
- Analytic Data Platforms
- AI and Data Platforms
- Sovereign AI and Data
- AI Agents
- Agentic and Generative AI
- AI Platforms
- AI Governance and Operations
Being named Exemplary across all seven categories reflects consistent execution across:
- Product innovation
- Customer experience
- Real-world enterprise requirements
As AI adoption accelerates, Teradata provides the trusted foundation enterprises need to move from experimentation to production.
How to use this research
The ISG Buyers Guides are designed to help organizations evaluate, compare, and select technology providers based on real business and IT requirements. This research validates Teradata as the platform to operationalize AI with performance, governance, and scale.