Rip-and-replace
Consolidating onto one vendor's lake is a multi-year programme — and value only appears at the end of it.
The mega-platforms want you to move all your data onto their cloud — a multi-year, engineer-heavy, lock-in bet. SCIKIQ is the data fabric that activates the data you already have, wherever it lives: vendor-neutral, no-code and business-led, with a built-in System of Intelligence that turns any question into governed answers — and autonomous action.
Your data lives across clouds, warehouses, SaaS apps and on-prem systems. The single-vendor platforms answer that by making you haul everything onto their lake — years of migration, an army of engineers and lock-in you can't walk back. A data fabric takes the opposite approach: leave data where it is, and lay one intelligent, governed layer across all of it.
Consolidating onto one vendor's lake is a multi-year programme — and value only appears at the end of it.
Notebooks, SQL and pipelines put the platform out of reach of the business teams who actually ask the questions.
Once your data and workloads live in one ecosystem, leaving gets expensive fast. Optionality quietly disappears.
Enterprise licensing and specialist teams keep a modern data foundation out of mid-market reach.
Every platform is now racing to own the “system of intelligence” — the agentic layer on top of your data. SCIKIQ built it business-first and vendor-neutral: four layers that take you from what happened, to why, to just ask, to make it act.
Unify every source into a real-time, 360° view of the business — without moving the data first.
Semantic relationships and active metadata reveal the context behind the numbers — the connections a table never shows.
Query the entire estate in plain language and get trusted, governed answers — no SQL, no tickets, no waiting on a data team.
Deploy governed AI agents that turn insight into autonomous action — monitoring, deciding and acting across your data, with guardrails and lineage.
Same goal — one trusted view of your data and AI. A very different bet on how you get there. The mega-platforms optimise for owning your data; SCIKIQ optimises for activating it, wherever it already lives.
Comparison reflects typical architecture and go-to-market of single-vendor lakehouse platforms; capabilities vary by product and tier.
A first-of-its-kind AI-driven business data platform that delivers a trusted, real-time view of data across the enterprise — agnostic to multi-vendor and multi-cloud environments. Explore what makes it different.
Find, access and consume data through graphs and metadata search rather than tickets and pipelines.
Find, access, integrate, share and consume data through graphs and metadata search rather than tickets.
Metadata that works for you continuously, not a catalogue that goes stale the week after it is built.
ML built into the fabric itself — essential components of a modern data architecture, not bolted on.
Business teams focus on decisions and outcomes instead of wrestling with pipelines.
Enhancing data management efficiency — the right data, to the right people, at the right time, in the right form.
Knowledge graphs and metadata search let business users quickly find and access what they need.
No buying multiple tools with redundant, overlapping capabilities and then facing integration nightmares.
Teams stay in control of their data assets and become part of the data strategy process.
Stakeholders get a trusted, real-time view of data across the enterprise, at speed.
Every capability sits on one intelligent data fabric — catalog, workflow orchestration and security controls — with enterprise-grade reliability, scale and performance underneath.

Cloud-agnostic by design: connect any source, curate and govern it in place, and serve every consumer — BI, Data-as-a-Service, Model-as-a-Service, a Data Product Factory and an API hub — with real-time observability across the estate.

The fabric is the foundation; intelligence is the compounding return. As your knowledge graph deepens, the platform does more of the work — and your teams move from running reports to shipping products and agents.
Governed AI agents monitor, decide and act across your data — with full lineage and guardrails, not a black box.
Package trusted data into reusable, monetisable products — Data-as-a-Service, Model-as-a-Service and more.
Every layer answers in plain language, so the whole business — not just engineers — can build with data.
Active metadata and ML tune quality, access and performance continuously as the estate changes.
Weighing a fabric against a rip-and-replace platform?
Bring your estate — we'll map it live and show you the fabric on your own data. No pitch, no form maze.
Data Fabric is a unified architecture that activates data in place through Enterprise 360, a Knowledge Graph, an AI Copilot and an Agent Factory — without moving all of your data.
No. SCIKIQ treats ‘move all your data’ as the wrong bet; the fabric works across your existing sources instead of forcing a single-cloud, rip-and-replace consolidation.