SPARK Matrix™: Enterprise Data Fabric, Q2 2026 qksgroup.com

An Enterprise Data Fabric is a unified, distributed data‑management architecture that integrates, governs, and delivers data across heterogeneous sources, platforms, and environments, on‑premises, cloud, and edge, through a single, logical layer of data services, active metadata, and orchestration. It provides consistent, secure, and context‑rich access to trusted data for analytics, AI, and operational workloads by automating discovery, integration, lineage, and policy enforcement, while abstracting underlying complexity so that business and technical users can consume data as if it were coming from one coherent enterprise‑wide fabric rather than from disconnected silos.