Podium Data

What Podium Data does

Podium Data is a data management technology company founded in 2014 and based in Lowell, United States, with 11-50 employees. Its data catalog product capabilities were absorbed into Talend Data Catalog, which became the metadata management and discovery layer within the Qlik Talend Cloud platform following Qlik's 2022 acquisition of Talend. The standalone Podium Data entity's product footprint is now positioned as the catalog lineage inside a broader end-to-end data foundation covering integration, quality, governance, and analytics.

The underlying technology combines automated metadata crawling and profiling across diverse data sources with machine learning-powered enrichment, smart relationship discovery, intelligent lineage tracing, collaborative business glossary management, and regulatory compliance tracking including GDPR. The platform architecture spans Talend Data Catalog for metadata management, Qlik Cloud Analytics as the primary SaaS analytics surface, Qlik Talend Cloud for data integration and quality, and newer AI-augmented products such as Qlik Answers (GenAI), Qlik Predict (predictive AI), Qlik Automate, and agentic AI capabilities.

The business operates a direct enterprise sales motion with quote-based pricing, supplemented by self-serve trials for mid-market buyers, and distributes through major cloud marketplaces (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, SAP, Databricks, Cloudera) alongside global system integrator partners. The Qlik platform that now houses the Podium Data catalog lineage reports more than 30,000 customers globally across financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, consumer products, and public sector verticals; the five named reference customers (Uniper, AmBank Group, REEDS Jewelers, Transbank, Palladium Hotel Group) reflect this broader Qlik footprint rather than discrete Podium Data accounts.

Name

Podium Data

Legal name

QlikTech International AB

Website

https://podiumdata.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Podium Data is a data management technology company founded in 2014 whose data catalog product capabilities were absorbed into Talend Data Catalog following Qlik's 2022 acquisition of Talend, now serving enterprise data teams with automated metadata management, lineage, and ML-powered governance.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise Data Catalog & Metadata Management

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Governance Platforms (Policies, Stewardship, Workflows) (HDAEADAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Lineage & Impact Analysis (HDAEADAF), Data Quality, Profiling & Cleansing (HDAEADAD), Data Platform (Unified Data & Analytics) Suites (HDAEABAD)

Keywords

• Enterprise data management
• Data catalog software
• Metadata governance
• Big data integration
• Data quality platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Lowell

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Podium Data uses big data technologies to redefine enterprise data management. The company's product crawls, profiles, organizes, links, and enriches metadata across disparate data sources, providing a single unified data control point for API development, application integration, data integration, and data quality. It enables automated discovery, collaborative governance, business glossary management, and intelligent data lineage for regulatory compliance.

Product overview

Qlik offers a platform-plus-modules architecture for data integration and analytics. The core portfolio includes Talend Data Catalog (the successor to Podium Data's data catalog product) for metadata management, data discovery, and governance; Qlik Cloud Analytics as the primary SaaS analytics platform; Qlik Sense for on-premises deployment; and specialized products including Qlik Answers (generative AI), Qlik Predict (predictive AI), Qlik Automate (workflow automation), Qlik Talend Cloud and Talend Data Fabric for data integration and quality, Qlik Compose for Data Lakes and Data Warehouses for automation, Qlik Enterprise Manager and Qlik Replicate for replication, and Qlik Gold Client for SAP environments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Talend Data Catalog: Crawl, profile, organize, link, and enrich all your data at speed. A product for data discovery, metadata management, and data governance.
• Qlik Talend Cloud
• Talend Data Fabric
• Qlik Compose
• Qlik Replicate
• Qlik Cloud Analytics
• Qlik Sense
• Qlik Answers
• Qlik Predict
• Qlik Automate

Products and services

• Talend Data Catalog (Enterprise Data Catalog) Crawls, profiles, organizes, links, and enriches metadata across disparate sources to enable data discovery, metadata management, collaborative governance, business glossary contribution, and data lineage tracking for regulatory compliance. Targeted at enterprise data integration teams, data engineers, and data governance professionals in financial services, healthcare, energy, retail, and other data-intensive organizations.

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability4 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• AWS (Amazon Web Services)coreTechnology or IntegrationFeatured technology partner with Qlik solutions available on AWS cloud platform; joint go-to-market through AWS Summits events
• Google CloudcoreTechnology or IntegrationFeatured technology partner with integration capabilities across Google Cloud ecosystem
• Microsoft AzurecoreTechnology or IntegrationFeatured technology partner with Qlik Microsoft Azure migration solutions available
• SnowflakecoreTechnology or IntegrationFeatured technology partner; Qlik integrates with Snowflake data cloud platform
• SAPcoreTechnology or IntegrationFeatured technology partner with dedicated SAP solutions and integration capabilities
• DatabrickscoreTechnology or IntegrationFeatured technology partner with integration for Databricks Lakehouse platform
• ClouderacoreTechnology or IntegrationFeatured technology partner with integration for Cloudera data platform
• Global System IntegratorsminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerTransform IT services, solution development, and delivery through global system integrator partners

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Talend (Qlik): Now part of Qlik, Talend offers Talend Data Catalog and Talend Data Fabric for integration, quality and governance — directly competitive with Podium Data and effectively the successor to its catalog product.
• Informatica: Large incumbent data integration and governance vendor with an enterprise data catalog (Enterprise Data Catalog) plus broader integration and quality portfolio, competing with Podium Data in metadata management and lineage.
• Databricks Unity Catalog: Native data catalog and governance layer for the Databricks lakehouse, increasingly competing with standalone catalog tools on lineage, governance and discovery.
• AWS Glue Data Catalog: AWS-managed central metadata repository for data lakes and analytics services, providing catalog functionality native to the AWS ecosystem and competing with Podium Data's data discovery capability.
• Microsoft Purview: Microsoft's unified data governance service providing catalog, lineage and policy management across on-prem and cloud data estates — a bundled competitor with strong distribution advantage.

Direct peers

• Collibra: Enterprise data catalog and governance platform serving data stewards, engineers and business users with lineage, business glossary and collaboration features — directly overlapping Podium Data's product surface.
• Alation: Data intelligence/catalog platform offering automated metadata discovery, search, collaboration and governance, very similar in positioning to Podium Data's metadata-crawling and lineage capabilities.
• Ataccama: Unified data quality, master data management and catalog platform with AI-driven profiling and governance — overlapping Podium Data's data quality and metadata management focus.
• Atlan: Modern data catalog with active metadata, lineage and collaborative governance aimed at data teams on cloud data platforms — a direct peer in the data catalog and governance category.

Emerging players

• DataHub (LinkedIn): Open-source metadata platform with catalog, lineage and governance features; a niche/emerging competitor often chosen by data-platform teams who might otherwise consider Podium Data-style tooling.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/podiumdata
• Facebookfacebook.com/qlik
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/5232953

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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