Domain Ownership and Data as a Product

Data Mesh becomes relevant

Market researcher Barc surveyed data managers in companies, and the study "Data Mesh: Game Changer or Just Hot Air?" reveals some surprising findings. For 85 percent of respondents, data mesh is relevant in any case - and for 54 percent, this socio-technical approach is in the planning stages or has already been implemented, according to the results of the survey of around 300 people from various industries. "These high values surprised me," said Andreas Böhm, CEO of One Data and one of the sponsors of the Barc study. "The topic is very present in the media. However, in discussions in the past, we often had to explain the concrete benefits before talking about how we enable the basic principles with our software. That has obviously changed now. Data Mesh has arrived at companies."

The study looks in detail at the attitudes of IT managers toward the basic principles of the data mesh. For example, it addresses the questions of whether qualitative product principles should be applied to data and whether the data and analytics expertise of specialist departments should be strengthened. Practical topics from everyday work are also the subject of the survey. For example, participants rate whether they can find required data in a central location at all times. "The percentage confirming this is shockingly low. However, this is hardly surprising to me. Companies have collected large amounts of data, but practically never used it sufficiently," explains Andreas Böhm. Although most respondents see data mesh as relevant, only a small proportion of companies want to shift data responsibility to the business departments.