Path to Digital Transformation with Analytics on Cloud

As the digital disruptions continue, enterprises in industries that once felt relatively unshakeable see the need to transform. Having identified technology as being at the core of their disruption, the C-suite have realized Digital Transformation initiatives are the way to maintain their competitive edge. A foundational component of this transformation is data and analytics.

However, due to a lack of clear strategy, very few enterprises have seen a return on their investment in big data and analytics platform initiatives. Also, legacy systems, data warehouses, databases and data analytics, BI and big data tools have, for the most part, been built on existing on-premises infrastructure in enterprises. But with changing market demands, an increasing volume of data generated and stored in the cloud, and technology evolving rapidly, a move to the cloud makes business and economic sense for many enterprises today.

This article describes how enterprises can benefit by integrating big data technologies and analytics platforms via cloud infrastructure.