Gartner Expert

Sharat Menon

Sr Director Analyst

Sharat Menon is a Senior Director Analyst in the Tech Product Manager team of Gartner's Technology and Service Provider (TSP) organization. He currently covers foundational technology markets like data integration, metadata management, data quality etc. He also tracks emerging tech & trends in data management, such as data fabric, DataOps, data mesh, data products, AI-ready data, data lakehouses, and more. He leads Gartner research directed towards tech providers in these markets, but also supports discussions with end user organizations and investors.

Previous experience

During his stint at EXL, Mr. Menon worked on managing the clients' corporate travel data flow across systems, right from data ingestion, data scrubbing, data integration, analytics and reporting, for creating standardized and ad hoc dashboards to measure the performance of the contracts that clients have in place with airlines, and hence assist them in negotiating better deals, based on trends and patterns in the data as well as competitors' benchmarks.

Professional background

Infosys, Systems Engineer, 2 years

Infosys, Associate Consultant, 1 years

EXL Service, Lead Assistant Manager, 3 years

Areas of coverage

  • Shape the Product Strategy

  • Technology Market Business and Economics

  • Messaging and Differentiation

Education

Post Graduate Diploma, Management in Information Technology, Institute of Management Technology

Bachelor in Information Technology, Mahatma Gandhi University

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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Data integration market: ETL, ELT, CDC, data virtualization, event-driven data integration

02

Data integration-adjacent markets: metadata management, DataOps, self-service data integration, data products

03

AI in data management: agentic data management, AI-ready data, AI context/semantic layer

04

Other emerging trends: converged data management platforms, unstructured data management, data fabric

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Market dynamics: vendor landscape, buyer priorities, go to market strategies, evolving data architectures