10 Fueling business value with data platforms

This chapter covers

  • Understanding how the data platform contributes to business value
  • Developing a data strategy for your organization
  • Assessing the analytics maturity of your organization
  • Anticipating and responding to potential “data-platform stoppers”

We wanted to wrap up this book with a chapter on how your carefully designed cloud data platform will be used in a typical enterprise, and in doing so point out why we recommended some of the things we did. We’ll also talk about some of the non-technical parts of an analytics project because a data platform doesn’t exist in a vacuum; it is only a single ingredient of an organization’s quest to become truly data driven and enabled. Knowing how ...

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