The global data landscape is progressing into a transformative era, with organizations going all out to digitize, develop massive AI systems, and connect multi-cloud and edge architectures. The existing architecture of data is no longer in a position to handle the massive, real-time, and varied nature of modern data, leading to a pressing demand for a unified and smarter framework to manage the data. This, in turn, is resulting in the increased adoption of data fabric solutions.
Below is a detailed breakdown of major demand drivers, revenue forecast, and key segments shaping investment in the data fabric market through 2032.
The Rise of Data Fabric: Why Enterprises Are Adopting It
A data fabric provides an integrated architecture that connects data across on-premises systems, cloud platforms, and edge environments-ensuring it remains accessible, governable, and usable in real time. With the ever-expanding hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, several organizations are managing their data across various dispersed locations and tools, thus setting the pace for silos and inconsistencies.
Data fabric helps resolve these issues through automated data discovery, metadata-driven integration, semantic enrichment, and AI-enabled governance. It maintains data in secure, traceable conditions and is ready for analytics and operational use.
As AI and machine learning adoption continue to grow, this demand is driven further by the need within enterprises for flexibility in data pipelines and high data quality. Capabilities continue to be advanced by key data-platform providers such as IBM and Informatica, allowing adoption within the finance, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing sectors.
(Source: IBM)
Key Demand Drivers Across Industries
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Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI)
BFSI is struggling to address the upgrade of legacy systems and meet the requirements for real-time fraud analysis, personalized banking, risk analysis, and statistical reporting. Data fabric helps the banking industry integrate fragmented customer data for credit-related AI processing and data privacy law requirements for improved data lineage and governance for the source data. With the rising use of online banking, data fabric is what enables high-speed business activities for fraud analytics and improved customer experience.
In September 2024, Backbase, which provides banking services, rolled out an “Intelligence Fabric” to enable banks to develop innovative AI-powered services such as customer information, risk ratings, and financial analysis through the aggregation of data from diverse banking systems.
(Source: Backbase)
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Retail & E-Commerce
There's a growing need of retailers in terms of real-time supply chain visibility, customer analysis, and personalization in the space of omnichannel. Data fabric enables the integration of diverse data around products, customers, and logistics in support of dynamic pricing, demand, hyper-personalized marketing, and correct inventory allocation, especially for e-commerce.
Woolworths worked together with Tata Consultancy Services and Google Cloud to enable the creation of a shared data platform whereby their sales, supply chain, financial, and store data were migrated onto a scalable cloud platform.
(Source: Tata Consultancy Services)
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Manufacturing & Industry 4.0
Smart manufacturing involves using machine data, IoT sensors, robots, maintenance records, and ERP systems. A data fabric helps to support predictive maintenance, digital twins, and real-time optimal production by combining operational technologies with IT systems. With factories moving towards autonomous and AI-based quality management processes, it has become imperative to have a data fabric for guaranteeing accuracy and reliability in these processes.
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Telecommunications & Media
Telecom service providers need to address the management of network log files, usage data, 5G network intelligence, and real-time billing. Data fabric technology helps in network automation, churn prediction, service assurance, and next-generation content distribution.
For deeper insights into how data fabric and next-generation architectures are reshaping enterprise intelligence, you can explore our full market research and related industry reports here.
Technology Trends Accelerating the Market Growth
There are a number of technology paradigm shifts happening, which are propelling the data fabric market, making it an essential part of the architecture of the future. Among these technologies, AI-based automation stands out. According to a study in 2023, active metadata and artificial intelligence in data fabrics today help with automating the integration process.
On the other hand, metadata intelligence is also transforming the way data is managed in enterprises. According to an article published on TDWI in December 2024, “next-generation data fabrics” are also integrating “active metadata” functionality, which aids in “automated classification, semantic search, and lineage analysis,” thereby helping enterprises “gain clarity over their data” in an efficient way.
Also, self-service access to data has emerged as one of the major developments in which business professionals are now able to analyze and explore data independently without depending largely on IT departments. For example, in August 2025, YAMASHITA Ltd. introduced a data fabric platform based on Microsoft Fabric and OneLake.
Together, these advancements demonstrate how data fabric is evolving from a niche tool into a foundational enabler of scalable, intelligent, and democratized data ecosystems.
(Sources: Top of Form TDWI (Transforming Data with Intelligence), HPC Wire, and Microsoft)
Future Outlook: What to Expect by 2032
As organizations continue to increase their adoption levels of AI, increase their cloud presence, and transform their data infrastructure, data fabric will become more than an enablement layer, becoming an imperative for every enterprise instead. The coming together of automation, real-time analytics, and decentralized data spaces will propel organizations towards having intelligent data fabrics, which will have the ability to self-heal, self-optimize, and self-enforce policies.
Data fabric is predicted to become the new norm for large-scale companies by 2032, ensuring faster decision-making and the integrity of data through efficient connectivity within complex data ecosystems.
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