GARTNER® Quick Answer: How are organisations overcoming issues to start their data fabric or mesh?

By their very definition, Data Mesh and Data Fabric are two concepts linked to data architecture and infrastructure that aim to improve data management and integration between different systems, applications, and users. Most organisations believe they have to choose between Data Fabric and Data Mesh; however, according to Gartner (and we agree), this is a false dichotomy and should be avoided: they work both separately and together, although it is true that the value they can bring together is much greater than separately: Data Fabric addresses challenges from a perspective closer to the technology platform (technology as a means), while Data Mesh is more oriented towards the vision of how our data architecture should be in order to generate data products (the ultimate goal is the creation and management of data products to generate value for the organisation).