As if managing data of increasing size weren’t hard enough, organizations are challenged to monitor business processes, assemble complete views of customers, and weave a cohesive analysis of corporate performance based on hybrid data strewn across the traditional enterprise and multiple clouds.
To test whether cloud data management (CDM )is worth the effort, this report’s survey asked: Is CDM a problem or an opportunity?
To gauge the urgency of cloud data management (CDM), this report’s survey asked respondents to rank the importance of CDM relative to their organization’s data strategy.
CDM's scope can be as narrow as a few simple data integration jobs that move data from SaaS apps to a data warehouse. Alternately, it can be an extensive infrastructure.
The list of tools and platforms involved in cloud data management continues to evolve as users adjust their software portfolios, usually to include more cloud-based systems.