Data integration is a crowded industry. One of the best ways to distinguish your solution from its competitors is to earn the approval of influential industry analysts.

According to our influencer database, there are dozens of data integration analysts sharing their perspectives with your buyers.

Ideally, you’d have relationships with most of them—but without a team of dedicated analyst relations experts, that’s near impossible.

Which means you must identify the handful of analysts who are the most influential.

Good news: We’ve done that for you! Here’s how:

  • First, we used ARchitect’s influencer database to search for analysts who cover the data integration industry.
  • Then, we sorted the list by End User Advisor ranking (EUA). Each analyst in our database has an EUA, which reflects the amount of influence they have over buyers’ decisions. You can learn how our software calculates EUA—and two other methods of ranking analyst influence—here.

Now, without further ado, here are the top five analysts who are helping buyers decide whether or not to buy your data integration solution.

#1. Ramke Ramakrishnan

Firm: Gartner
Location: United States
Overall EUA: 38
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Recent activity: In April 2025, Ramke contributed to the Cloud DBMS Critical Capabilities Analytical Use-Case Comparison Tool, designed to help data and analytics leaders “understand which providers in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems have the capabilities that best meet their analytical use case requirements.”

#2. Henry Cook

Firm: Gartner
Location: United Kingdom
Overall EUA: 39
LinkedIn profile: Click here
Recent activity: In May 2025, Henry led a Gartner Data & Analytics Summit session in which he helped attendees “navigate the vendor landscape.”

#3. Robert Thanaraj

Firm: Gartner
Location: United Kingdom
Overall EUA: 76
LinkedIn profile: Click here
Recent activity: In June 2025, Robert co-authored Adopt a Data Semantic Approach to Drive Business Value With GenAI, in which he and his colleagues argue that “data and analytics leaders need to adopt a semantic approach to their enterprise data to drive business value and break data silos.”

#4. Noel Yuhanna

Firm: Forrester
Location: United States
Overall EUA: 105
LinkedIn profile: Click here
Recent activity: In April 2025, Noel co-authored The Forrester Wave™: Data Management for Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025, an evaluation of “the 11 most significant data management and analytics (DMA) platform vendors” and “a comprehensive view of a market undergoing rapid transformation.”

#5. Michele Goetz

Firm: Forrester
Location: United States
Overall EUA: 119
LinkedIn profile: Click here
Recent activity: In June 2025, Michele co-authored AI Cost Optimization: The Why, What, and How, in which she and her colleagues argue that data is the “biggest lever” of AI model cost.

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