Choosing the right platform for data
It is a cliché, but nonetheless it’s also very true: data is the new gold. It’s for good reasons that in enterprise architecture frameworks data is named as the first thing that a business must do is to analyse what data it should use and how to gain optimal benefits from data. No business can operate without data: it needs the data to gain insights into markets and the demands of their customers. It needs data to drive the business.
You will find the term data-driven in almost every cloud assessment study. What does data-driven mean? A company makes decisions based on the analysis of data. Intuition or decision based on previous experience are ruled out. Every action is supported by the analysis of data.
To enable a data-driven business, we need one thing: the data itself, and typically in vast amounts and preferably (near) real-time. The collection of data is prerequisite number one. Prerequisite number two is that this data must...