Final week I used to be in lovely Sydney, Australia for the Gartner Knowledge and Analytics Convention. Right here’s a fast video abstract:
One of many massive issues that struck me was the altering function of information. For the final 30 years, everytime you need to do analytics, step one is to tear it out of the operational functions and attempt to transfer it to a unique setting—so information warehousing, information lakes, information lakehouses and now information clouds.
However the issue with that’s that it’s like ripping a tree out of the forest and attempting to get it to develop in a unique setting. You lose the roots, the entire wealthy, enterprise, context and metadata and safety and hierarchies, after which you need to attempt to recreate it within the new setting.
It’s attainable, nevertheless it takes enormous quantities of effort and time.
Now, due to the cloud, there’s a greater method: we will carry the expertise to the information relatively than the opposite method round, and we will put enterprise course of again on the heart of analytics.
Knowledge is ineffective. You even have to alter one thing in the best way you do enterprise.
So the suitable method for the longer term, I consider, is to go away information as a lot as attainable the place it already is in your enterprise functions, after which use expertise such because the SAP Enterprise Expertise Platform to attach that information, to offer it as a sequence of companies that the enterprise customers can use to create their very own functions.