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Key Products
Actian Data Intelligence Platform: The cloud-native Actian Data Intelligence Platform, featuring a Data Catalog and an Enterprise Data Marketplace, simplifies the discovery, documentation, understanding, and trust of all enterprise data assets. The SaaS solution enables smarter data usage through metadata, governance, and AI/automation. The platform is powered by a federated knowledge graph that enables organizations to democratize data access and generate a 360-degree view of their assets and relationships between them. It focuses on data governance, stewardship, cataloging, lineage, observability, quality, and enterprise data marketplace functionality.
Actian Data Observability: Actian Data Observability is an enterprise data quality/observability solution that ensures trusted, high-quality data across the modern data stack. Built for scale and complexity, it leverages AI and machine learning to continuously monitor data pipelines, detect and resolve anomalies in real-time, and optimize cloud resource usage without relying on data sampling or incurring unpredictable costs. By delivering complete visibility and control, Actian helps organizations reduce risk, contain costs, and accelerate the delivery of reliable, AI-ready
Customer Insights
Customer review homepage: https://www.actian.com/customers/#customers
“In our opinion, only the business functions can truly transform the company into a data-driven one. Data catalog is the tool they need-efficient and usable-so that they are fully aware of the data they have available. It builds the bridge between business and data at Autostrade. From a business perspective, it is fast, complete, easy to understand, and user-friendly. From an IT perspective, it is agile, scalable, and continuously upgradeable.” – Ruben Marco Ganzaroll, Chief Data Officer, Autostrade per l’Italia
“As we wanted to decentralize the responsibility for data in our organization, the Actian Data Intelligence Platform was not only a tool that helped us, but it was also one of the foundations that made it possible in the first place. The platform has a great user interface; it’s very clean, slick, and easy to use. Our users liked it from day one. It makes it easy for them to figure out what data products we have, where the data is coming from, and in what visualizations the data gets used. Also, they always know who to contact if they have questions about a specific data product.” – Martin Zürn, Head of Data Engineering, GEMA
Key Executives
Marc Potter, CEO
Marc Potter serves as Chief Executive Officer for Actian, where he is responsible for driving Actian’s long-term strategic vision and innovations to position Actian to be the essential provider of data intelligence solutions that enable confident, data-driven organizations. Marc believes in creating an employee-first culture that prioritizes employee engagement, open communication, and professional development. Marc has over 20 years of enterprise sales leadership experience in information technology and has held strategic leadership roles at Oracle, Cabletron Systems, Computer Associates, Dell, Quest Software, and ObserveIT.
Steve Lennon, Chief Operating Officer
Steve Lennon serves as Chief Operating Officer for Actian, responsible for efficiently and effectively guiding operations processes and business functions to enable the company to deliver the desired business results and achieve its long-term strategic vision. In this role, he aligns people and processes to support Actian’s positioning as the essential provider of data intelligence solutions that enable confident, data-driven organizations. He previously held global leadership roles at Supply Wisdom, Ivanti, MobileIron, and CA Technologies, where he was responsible for the sales and operational functions of the business.
Jennifer Jackson, Chief Marketing Officer
Jennifer Jackson is the Chief Marketing Officer of Actian, bringing 25 years of technology experience and a data-driven approach in enterprise B2B marketing. Her background includes brand and digital transformation. She is driven by customer outcomes with a passion for data and analytics, continuous improvement to drive growth, and developing women in technology. JJ previously served as VP of Digital Marketing and Strategy at Teradata, where she led digital, strategy, and operations for web modernization and strategy execution.
Emma McGrattan, Chief Technology Officer
As Chief Technology Officer at Actian, Emma McGrattan leads the company’s technology strategy, innovation, and product development in support of Actian’s mission to simplify how companies connect, manage, govern, and analyze data to transform businesses. Since joining the company three decades ago, Emma has played a pivotal role in the evolution and advancement of its analytics, data integration, and data management solutions. A prominent figure in the database industry, Emma is known for her expertise in data architecture, query optimization, and cloud transformation. Her leadership and contributions to these areas are widely recognized, making her a respected voice at technology events.
Investors
Actian is a division of HCLSoftware.