The cloud essential for a self-service culture

Grazed from DigitalNewsAsia. Author: JY Pook.

CLOUD computing is great … theoretically at least. With the cloud, we get to extend our IT platform beyond our on-premises infrastructure, and we get to access applications, data and storage over the Internet, as and when we need it. Highly scalable, lower cost and no hassle. It is no wonder that we are seeing almost everything being offered over the cloud. Some call this the trend of ‘Whatever as-a Service (XaaS).’

Similar to how Database-as-a-Service (DaaS) platforms have become viable options that are fully or partly supplementing in-house databases these days, many business intelligence (BI) and analytics users are also turning to cloud data warehousing technologies, blurring the lines between where data is stored and where it is being analysed…

Such platforms have enabled the use of self-service analytics for organisations, helping workers everywhere gain easier access to information and identify new insights that improve their businesses. In fact, a recent study by IDC showed that organisations that better meet the needs of business users for ad hoc data analysis are twice as likely to outperform organisations that underserve these needs…

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