Foundational Strategies for Trusted Data: Getting Your Data to the Cloud

Editor's Notes

1. Centralized business insights – central management of business insights, helps to shift insights from one offs in isolation to Data discovery - business end-users can work with large data sets and get answers to questions they are asking. Data Discovery is helping the enterprise lose some of the bulk when it comes to running analytics. Data democratization – enables more users to have autonomy with data but without the risk of exposing sensitive data in a way that could violate regulations or internal best practices
2. When it comes to building up unified analytics platforms there is a level of complexity that exists across an enterprise We have silos of multi-structured data difficult to integrate (ERP, CRM, mainframes, RDBMS, Files, logs, cloud data sources) heterogeneous legacy IT infrastructure (EDWs, data lakes, marts, severs, storage, archives and more) and thousands maybe more of employees and lots of inaccessible information
3. Almost every enterprise, silos prevent enterprise-wide access to data, data analysis, and insight delivery. Projects happen in departmental or organizational silos, and data, knowledge, and insights are corralled there when they could deliver tremendous value if deployed across the organization Legacy is the mainstay but not effectively integrated System cut-over needs to happen without disrupting the business 2019 marked by market consolidation of big data vendors​​ - Cloudera and Hortonworks merge​​, MapR disbands​, New vendors rising like Databricks that are born in the cloud – we see many customers waiting for the dust to settle
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5. Most large enterprises have made major investments in data environments over a period of many years - legacy data can provide a treasure-trove of information that can transform your business when leveraged via a streaming paradigm These environments contain the data that these business run on and that today power the strategic initiatives driving the business forward – machine learning, AI and predictive analytics Legacy platforms (mainframe and IBM i) continue to adapt with each new wave of technology and are not going away anytime soon Integrating legacy data into your projects brings several advantages such as: Connect applications together, leveraging the existing transactional capabilities of the current application platform, and the wealth of new capabilities of the cloud Feed analytics with up-to-date information so your business runs on current insight Port workloads to less-expensive, strategic platforms
6. Integrating legacy data into data streaming can be problematic for several reasons. First, a legacy data source may not have native connectivity to a downstream target. Second, processing requirements of legacy data can cause a slowdown in a data stream. Loading hundreds, or even thousands, of database tables into a big data platform – combined with an inefficient use of system resources – can create a data bottleneck that hampers your streaming data pipelines from the start.
7. Look for solutions that insulate your organization against the underlying complexities of your technology stack Consider that faster data delivery may break current data pipeline structures Unrivaled scalability and efficiency that improves the speed with which data is shared across business applications, and minimize network impact, by replicating only data changes that have been captured
8. And that is why Precisely has introduced the Precisely Data Integrity Suite. It delivers the essential elements of data integrity – accuracy, consistency, and content – to give your business the confidence to make better, faster decisions based on trusted data. Built on proven data integration, data quality, location intelligence, and data enrichment capabilities trusted by more than 12,000 global organizations, the Precisely Data Integrity Suite delivers unmatched value for any data integrity initiative. And with a modular architecture, you can pick just the capabilities you need, implement them alongside your current infrastructure, and add-on new capabilities as your needs grow.