Deloitte's framing here is the one every sourcing analyst recognizes: alt-data's hardest problems aren't discovery, they're what happens after the trial ends — integration, governance, and proving ongoing signal decay doesn't erode the business case. Worth a read for teams still treating vendor onboarding as a procurement exercise rather than a data-engineering one.
The real differentiation in this market increasingly lives in how firms operationalize data, not how many datasets they can find.
Alternative data at investment management firms: From discovery to integration Deloitte
— Deloitte
