Cloud-borne data is becoming commonplace—at least at the edges of the enterprise. Organizations are relying, both formally and informally, on cloud-based services for supplemental storage, file sharing, and content management. The challenge now is to bring core enterprise data into the cloud, to render data ranging from financials to sales to performance analytics as services.
As enterprises increasingly open up to this opportunity, the groundwork is being laid for “data as a service”—in which information is available from all places, through common web-based interfaces, regardless of underlying databases or servers.
