We are proud to announce that Revefi has been named a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Cool Vendors in Data Management: The 'Modern Data Stack' Grows Up report."
This recognition, in our opinion, is significant for the Revefi team, our customers, and our partners. We believe that it validates our mission to address the critical challenges of cost, performance, and reliability that organizations face with their modern data stacks and will immensely benefit the data management market.
The report mentions, “But as the big vendors become even bigger, a new generation of smaller vendors are rewriting the rules by prioritizing simplicity and speed over complex, comprehensive platforms. These emerging players aren't just making incremental improvements to the existing “modern data stack” — they are introducing a fundamentally different approach that emphasizes lightweight, AI-native tools with far more automation.".
Revefi is fully operational at leading brands such as AMD, Verisk, Stanley Black & Decker and Ocean Spray. Since our launch in 2023, Revefi has taken an innovative, systems approach to help data teams with lightweight, AI-native solutions that deliver fast, intuitive, and automated outcomes.
Five reasons we believe Revefi was recognized as a Cool Vendor
As data stacks grow in scale and complexity across platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, Google Cloud, AWS and now with AI, many organizations struggle to see a positive return on their investment. We believe our inclusion underscores the market's pressing need to solve this with a new approach, which is deployed at leading F500 Enterprises.
- A single platform that unifies augmented FinOps, DataOps, data observability and performance optimization.
- A unique AI agent, RADEN that autonomously monitors the enterprise data estate.
- Self-tuning, self-driving capability that delivers autonomous remediation and automated configuration.
- Detects query performance bottlenecks to reduce overall infrastructure costs, provides actionable insights into compute usage trends, consumption patterns and workload performance improving data engineering productivity.
- Dramatically reduced setup time and rapid time to value - often 5 minutes or less.
Revefi: A New Generation Data Management Vendor
The modern data stack is indeed growing up! According to the report, " The data management landscape is undergoing a quiet but significant transformation." In the data management landscape, organizations are moving away from relying on large, "all-inclusive platforms" that have defined the "modern data stack". As a countertrend to "platformized" solutions, Revefi, as part of the new generation of vendors, is prioritizing "simplicity and speed over complex, comprehensive platforms". This represents a fundamental shift in approach, emphasizing "lightweight, developer-centric and Al-native data management tools.
The era of manual tuning, reactive firefighting, failed projects and budget surprises in data management is over and is giving way to a new standard of AI-native automation and proactive optimization.
The Revefi AI Agent
At its core, Revefi is an AI-native platform designed to help organizations maximize the return on investment (ROI) from their data estate. It addresses the critical challenges of escalating cloud data costs, inefficient performance, and unreliable data quality by unifying DataOps, FinOps, and Observability into a single, automated solution. By connecting to a company's data platform, such as Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift and BigQuery, Revefi provides comprehensive visibility, insights and control over the entire data estate.
The Revefi platform is powered by an AI agent, RADEN, which works autonomously to monitor, analyze, and optimize data operations. Key capabilities include proactively identifying and eliminating cost inefficiencies, predicting future spending with high accuracy, identifying performance issues and ensuring that data pipelines are both reliable and performant. Revefi's "zero-touch" setup allows for integration in under 5 minutes without requiring any code changes or agent installation, delivering rapid time to value.
Revefi has been empowering data teams at companies such as AMD, Verisk, Stanley Black & Decker to move from reactive firefighting to proactive optimization. It gives actionable insights and automated guardrails that prevent budget overruns, reduce data downtime, and improve the productivity of data engineers. By ensuring that data is both cost-effective and trustworthy, Revefi enables organizations to confidently scale their data initiatives and make better, faster business decisions.
Learn More
To learn more about why we believe Revefi was named a Gartner® Cool Vendor™, you can read a copy of the report here (need a Gartner subscription).
To see how leading enterprises like AMD, Verisk, Stanley Black & Decker, Ingersoll-Rand, and Ocean Spray are using Revefi to maximize the ROI of their data stacks, request a free value assessment today.
Source: Gartner, Cool Vendors in Data Management: The 'Modern Data Stack' Grows Up, 29 August 2025, By Nina Showell, Aaron Rosenbaum, Robert Thanaraj, Michele Launi, Ehtisham Zaidi, Masud Miraz.
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