Agile Lab is a Europe-based data and AI solutions provider company, focused on data-intensive environments and across diverse data practices.

History

Agile Lab was founded by Paolo Platter and Alberto Firpo in

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in 2013. In 2015, the company started creating Witboost, Agile Lab's platform (formerly WASP). In 2018, Agile Lab started working within the Data Mesh environment—a sociotechnical approach to

data management Data management comprises all disciplines related to handling data as a valuable resource, it is the practice of managing an organization's data so it can be analyzed for decision making. Concept The concept of data management emerged alongsi ...

. The company garnered success in the IoT category at the 2019 Digital360 Awards. In 2020, the company started providing

Big Data Analysis Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing software. Data with many entries (rows) offer greater statistical power, while data with higher complexity (more attributes or ...

and

DevOps DevOps is the integration and automation of the software development and information technology operations. DevOps encompasses necessary tasks of software development and can lead to shortening development time and improving the development life ...

services for the implementation of the Italian National Digital Data Platform. In 2021 and 2022, Agile Lab won awards as Europe's Fastest Growing Company and was also named a Champion of Growth in both 2022 and 2023. In October 2022,

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became the majority partner of the Agile Lab group by acquiring a 70% stake in the company, in exchange for approximately 18 million euros. The founding partners, Alberto Firpo and Paolo Platter, retain the roles of

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and Chief Technology Officer, respectively, while holding the remaining 30% of the capital. Simultaneously, Agile Lab launched the Data Mesh Italia Meetup, the first community in Italy dedicated entirely to the Data Mesh paradigm. In the same year, Agile Lab became a member o
IFAB International Foundation
an independent platform for the scientific and cultural discourse on global human development, sustainability, and emerging sciences. In June, at the CIO/CISO Dach Summit in

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, Agile Lab launched next-generation Witboost 1.0, with a strong focus on Data Governance. In September, at Big Data London 2023, the company released an open-source Witboost's platform Starter Kit. Before the year's end, Agile Lab also received recognition as the South EMEA Partner of the Year from

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and it was recognized among the Top 10 Data Governance Solution Providers by GRC Outlook.{{Cite web , title=Data Governance Edition 2023 , url=https://grcoutlook.com/data-governance-edition-2023/ , access-date=2024-01-22 , website=GRC Outlook , language=en-US

References

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