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A Data Marketplace Is What Your Agents Need — New BARC Spotlight

We sponsored a new BARC Spotlight by analyst Florian Bigelmaier. The core insight: agentic AI doesn't need different data infrastructure than humans — it needs the same foundation, just with far less tolerance for failure.

The report makes the case for the data marketplace as that foundation:

• 🔎 The four conditions humans and agents both depend on: discoverability, context & semantics, governed access, and quality signals.
• 📦 Data products + data contracts that make data trustworthy and access automatable.
• 🔐 Governance that enforces purpose, not just grants access — “access granted is not access governed.”

The analysis is independent and authored by BARC; Entropy Data sponsored the report and contributed input and feedback. BARC is the leading independent analyst firm for data & analytics, AI, and corporate performance management.

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