Cloudera has been recognised as a Leader in the IDC APAC MarketScape for Unified AI Platforms 2025 vendor assessment, reinforcing its position in the enterprise AI market. IDC highlighted the company’s strength in delivering governance, security, and innovation while enabling businesses to adopt generative and agentic AI at scale.
Remus Lim, Senior Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan at Cloudera, said the recognition validates the company’s vision of “bringing AI to data anywhere.” He added, “Enterprises today face the dual challenge of accelerating innovation while ensuring trust and compliance. Cloudera is uniquely positioned to help them achieve both, delivering the transparency, security, and scalability they need to responsibly adopt generative and agentic AI at scale.”
Cloudera’s platform is designed for industries operating in highly regulated and complex environments, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, and government. It provides enterprises with a balance of speed and control when deploying AI, ensuring sensitive data is protected while enabling rapid innovation.
Capabilities and ecosystem growth
IDC’s report noted several strengths of Cloudera’s offering. In governance and security, the company provides robust frameworks that include fine-grained policies, audit trails, and compliance alignment. Its operational AI and agentic workflows cover the full spectrum of data engineering, machine learning operations, generative AI orchestration, and observability.
Cloudera has also expanded its capabilities through acquisitions and partnerships. Recent acquisitions include Verta for operational AI, Octopai for automated data lineage, and Taikun for cloud-native infrastructure management. Partnerships with technology providers such as NVIDIA, Cohere, Anthropic, Mistral, AWS Bedrock, Dell, and CrewAI have strengthened its ecosystem further.
Accessibility is another focus, with low-code and no-code AI Studios that allow both technical and business users to build, deploy, and manage AI solutions more easily.
Continued investment in innovation
Cloudera has been investing heavily in research and development, with nearly half of its global workforce dedicated to engineering. This focus has resulted in several new offerings, including the Cloudera AI Workbench for building and deploying AI agents, and Cloudera AI Inference for cost-efficient generative AI at scale. The company has also enhanced its governance features to support transparency and compliance across the AI lifecycle.
The recognition by IDC follows a period of rapid innovation and underscores Cloudera’s ability to meet enterprise demand for trustworthy AI. The IDC MarketScape evaluates vendors based on their current capabilities and future strategies, offering enterprises guidance in navigating the fast-evolving AI platform market.
