The Enterprise Data Cloud

Rising IT costs, exploding data volumes, and ever-evolving competitive challenges have catalyzed new ways of thinking about effective systems architecture. In recent years, leading organizations have rethought the way they assess, procure and operate the hardware assets they use to manage data. At the same time, new programming techniques have transformed the skills and methodologies innovative firms apply to analytics for business optimization. Both sets of changes have had driven radical changes in database technology, and collectively, these developments have led to a new approach for effective data exploitation that is being called the Enterprise Data Cloud™. In this paper, several leading edge practitioners describe their operating environments, and we describe the framework and its benefits.