About This Constellation ShortList™
As AI becomes embedded in enterprise decision-making, organizations are moving beyond predictive and diagnostic model development to tools to build AI Applications that support decision automation that is trusted, explainable. The rise of generative AI (GenAI) expands this need—introducing natural language interfaces, promptbased exploration, and knowledge-grounded assistants that reshape how business users interact with data.
This shortlist focuses on platforms that allow analysts, data-savvy business users, and data scientists to build AI-powered applications that support self-service analysis and decision support. These platforms span data preparation, ML and GenAI modeling (including prompt workflows), and the deployment into business-facing tools like dashboards, copilots, or applications/agents. Monitoring tools assess performance, relevance, and risk across both model- and prompt-driven outputs.
Common use cases include self-service prediction building (e.g., financial risk scoring), building department-level decision tools (e.g,. segment and identify best customers, matching offers), and deploying GenAI copilots that answer business questions grounded in enterprise context. Buyers seek to reduce bottlenecks from centralized teams, increase AI fluency across business units, and maintain transparency and governance at scale.
In 2025, expanded evaluation criteria from ML automation and deployment to include GenAI readiness—prompt interfaces, grounded reasoning, and explainable outputs delivered where decisions are made.
Threshold Criteria
Constellation considers the following criteria for these solutions:
- AI-assisted data preparation and exploration supporting profiling, transformation, enrichment, and join logic for both ML and GenAI
- Multimodal user experience across GUI, NLQ, codefirst, and prompt-based development
- Depth of tools/libraries for building ML and GenAI- based reasoning applications
- Explainability and trust features across model predictions or GenAI responses
- Collaborative capabilities to ease model development, deployment, and reuse
- Insight delivery, monitoring for drift and prompt degradation, and feedback integration
The Constellation ShortList™
Constellation evaluates more than a dozen solutions categorized in this market. This Constellation ShortList is determined by client inquiries, partner conversations, customer references, vendor selection projects, market share and internal research.
- ALTERYX
- DATAIKU
- DATAROBOT
- SAS VIYA
Frequency of Evaluation
Each Constellation ShortList is updated at least once per year. Updates may occur after six months if deemed necessary.
Evaluation Services
Constellation clients can work with the analyst and the research team to conduct a more thorough discussion of this ShortList. Constellation can also provide guidance in vendor selection and contract negotiation.
