Data-driven enterprises are those organizations striving to gain all the value they can from their data assets. They use their data to improve and accelerate decision-making, enhance customer support and experience, create new revenue streams, and capture and keep competitive advantage in many different ways. Data-driven enterprises employ a number of different information technology (IT) tools and methods to derive more value from data. Cloud computing has recently become one of the most powerful, thanks to the capability of the cloud IT model to help lower costs and provide greater business agility. Enterprises of all types and sizes are leveraging the benefits of private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, and now multicloud solutions and architectures.
