The steps forward
1.
Establish a data lake as your central, all-encompassing
data repository in just a matter of days. Establish security,
governance, and auditing policies in one place, applicable
across the data lake to all users and all applications.
2.
Utilize crawlers to crawl through your existing data silos
and create a centralized data catalog that can be used by
multiple services.
3.
Connect your cloud data warehouse and other analytics
tools to the data lake and data catalog.
4.
Empower business users, developers, and data scientists
to access the same data catalog and data. Enable self-
service to the data through multiple, fit-for-purpose
analytics tools.
5.
Keep up the momentum and focus. Maintain open and
frequent communication with your data and analytics
consumers and your data producers.
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Sink or swim–What do I do today?
Put your data to work. Move it to the cloud.
Data is your strategic asset—have all your data, applications, and analytics
workloads in the cloud. Start with one project and, upon its success, gain
momentum to move on to the next project and the next.
CLOSING SUMMARY
Benefits
Speed, agility, and flexibility
Avoid
Planning, buying, installing,
configuring, managing, and
maintaining infrastructure
