Analytics has spent 50 years becoming more capable and more fragmented at the same time. To serve different jobs, businesses assembled a stack of specialized systems: a transactional database, a warehouse, a data lake, a real-time engine. Each was wired to the others with pipelines. The result is an environment in which most of the cost, delay, and risk lives not inside any one system but in the constant movement of data between them. Put plainly: Most organizations don’t have an analytics problem. They have a data-movement problem.
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