Orion was ranked No. 1 on the list of data catalog vendors in the Dresner Advisory Services’ 2022 Data Catalog Market Study.

The report found the top three data catalog feature priorities for 2022 includes a data dictionary, catalog multiple databases, and integration with self-service data-prep tools. The 2022 Dresner report shows that almost 20 percent of survey respondents rank data catalog as critical, almost doubling compared to 2017. “Data catalogs have emerged as a core set of capabilities for making content easier to find and govern, especially when multiple data sources are involved, and for multiple analytic use cases,” said Howard Dresner, founder and chief research officer at Dresner Advisory Services. “We congratulate Orion on their top ranking in this year’s assessment of the Data Catalog market.”