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REALIZING THE PROMISE OF THE CLOUD WITH A FULLY INTEGRATED ANALYTICS PLATFORM
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rRealizing the Promise of the Cloud with a Fully Integrated Analytics Platform
Authored by John O ’ Brien , Principal Advisor and CEO , Radiant Advisors Sponsored by Cloudera
Cloud platforms offer much more potential for companies to make an impact on business analytics than most realize . The original allure for enterprises migrating to the cloud is the fundamental promise of elastic computing , affordable scalability , and managed platforms and services . However , the real business potential comes from agility and enablement for enterprise data management and analytics . The cloud facilitates more business analytics to be selfsufficient and agile , which frequently introduces more complexities than bargained for . Efforts for enterprise data infrastructure management , data management , and governance multiply to maintain consistency , efficiency , and cost controls .
This is further compounded by the reality that most organizations evolve into a combination of hybrid and multi-cloud environments in which analytics projects are delivered .
The challenge for a data and analytics architecture is to find a way to deliver the benefits of centralized management of critical components along with independent agility , scalability , and flexibility .
This scenario commonly leads to a point where data and analytics progress becomes paralyzed by operations support , data redundancy ,
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