The 5 Powerful Ways Data Marketplace Will Change the Industry

5 Ways Data Marketplaces are Changing the Game with their Dynamic Impact

Hanzala Qureshi
5 min readFeb 4, 2023
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Data Marketplace is a modern Bazaar.

It’s a way organisations can consolidate and share data internally and externally. Over the years, billions have been spent on modernising the legacy data stack. However, the self-serve data dream continues to be out-paced by large budget over-spend and poor data transformation.

There are clear use cases in which Data Marketplace will disrupt the industry; here are 5.

1. Uber like aggregation

The current data stack is messy.

Data is on-prem, in various clouds, and disparate data warehouses/marts. And currently, there is no way of centralising this data without spending millions on data transformation.

In the same way Uber uses its platform to aggregate drivers and passengers, Data Marketplace can aggregate data producers and consumers. An organisation with multiple Data Catalogues / Dictionaries and serving platforms often needs clarity on the reliability of the information. This negative feeling leads to separate communities of people championing certain tools. Data standards are not set or followed. Hence, having a…

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Hanzala Qureshi

Data Architecture Consultant | Data Evangelist | Learn more about all things data by following me @ hanzalaqureshi.medium.com