As enterprises accelerate the rollout of generative AI and autonomous agents, many are finding that traditional governance models are failing to keep pace with the speed, scale, and risk of modern AI. Dataiku, The Universal AI Platform™, today announced it has been positioned as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Unified AI Governance Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment (doc # US53514825, December 2025).

As AI systems become increasingly complex, enterprises are rethinking governance as an integral part of everyday AI operations, rather than a separate layer. The focus is shifting toward approaches that can scale across analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and autonomous agents as these capabilities move into production.

“AI governance is no longer about policies and oversight alone — it has become an operational requirement embedded in how AI is built and deployed,” said David Schubmehl, Research Director at IDC. “Dataiku was recognized for its holistic approach to governance, compliance, and scalability, embedding these capabilities directly into the platform rather than relying on multiple point solutions or adding controls after the fact.”

The IDC MarketScape recognized Dataiku for the following strengths:

• Embedded governance with enforced deployment controls: Dataiku embeds governance directly into the AI development and deployment workflow, using built-in enforcement mechanisms that prevent noncompliant AI systems from being deployed into production. Project standards automatically validate each project's compliance against organizational policies prior to release, while the Govern Node enforces mandatory sign-offs and approvals through customizable workflows.

• End-to-end life-cycle governance: Dataiku provides full life-cycle governance that spans DataOps, MLOps, and LLMOps, unifying every stage of the AI life cycle — from design and experimentation through data preparation, machine learning, generative AI, and application development to production orchestration and monitoring — within a single integrated platform.

“AI governance has shifted from a checkpoint to a foundation,” said Florian Douetteau, co-founder and CEO of Dataiku. “When AI is built and deployed in fragments, governance breaks down. The only sustainable path forward is a single, connected system where people, data, models, LLMs, and agents are governed together by design, not as an afterthought.”

For more on The Universal AI Platform from Dataiku, visit https://www.dataiku.com/. For more customer and industry recognition of Dataiku, visit https://www.dataiku.com/stories/detail/industry-analyst-recognition/.

About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

About Dataiku

Dataiku is The Universal AI Platform™, uniting human expertise and AI reasoning to power trusted intelligence at scale. Built for the enterprise and designed for trust, it connects and governs every form of reasoning — data-driven, predictive, generative, and human — to deliver explainable, measurable, and scalable AI.

Dataiku is trusted by 1 in 4 of the world’s top companies¹, and is backed by investors, including Wellington Management, Battery, CapitalG, ICONIQ, and FirstMark. For more, visit the Dataiku blog, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.

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