Bring the Analytics to Your Data
Bring the analytics to your data – instead of the other way around.
It's not uncommon for companies to monopolize their data warehouse resources with multi-hour-long extract, transform and load processes to prepare data, only to then spend hours completing complex reports and queries. Today, there are analytics platforms that can streamline your data analysis to cut down on the time you spend working with and waiting for usable information. When you're ready to update your toolset, look for an analytics platform that brings together technologies for analytics on structured and unstructured data from all of your data sources so you can get real-time decision support with a 360-degree perspective. Ideally, your solution should incorporate all the hardware, software and services components you need in one appliance to further streamline your data storage and usage.
How to Find Business Value in Your Data Through Modernization
How to Find Business Value in Your Data Through Modernization
According to IDC, there will be 44 zettabytes of data in the world by 2020. That number might make a splashy headline, but it presents an entirely different challenge for organizations that will be tasked with storing, analyzing and utilizing this data. Companies are collecting more data, in varying types and sizes, from more sources than ever before, but it only becomes a meaningful and valuable asset when organizations can transform it into actionable insights. In today's increasingly crowded and complex data environment, that's more challenging than ever especially for businesses operating on legacy systems.
Infrastructure modernization is the key to unlocking data value. Of course, the path and pace of data modernization will differ depending on an organization's unique objectives or circumstances. Here, Anna Le, executive director of enterprise services product development, Dell Global Support & Deployment, offers five tips for finding business value in data through infrastructure modernization.
