On my flight back to Boston from Grapevine, TX, where we spent three exhausting and exhilarating days at Gartner BI & Analytics Summit, I am reflecting on the great interest shown in Cambridge Semantics Smart Data Lake at this event.
In addition to Gartner's flawless execution and excellent attendee profile, this conference stood out for the clear alignment between our products and the pattern of attendee needs.
Most of the hundreds of people that visited our booth this week fell into two camps, either building a data lake or contemplating building a data lake. Almost all were overwhelmed by the dizzying array of products that were on show or, in some cases, that they already owned. For many, there is still a big gap between the exciting promise of ubiquitous user access to data and reality of current technology's ability to deliver this experience.
Here are some of the common requirements that brought people to visit CSI:
Walking the floor at the conference, you could see many tools that solve some of these problems. But inevitably, you need to piece several of them together to provide a holistic solution. This is an expensive, time consuming and daunting task for most organizations. And this is what makes Cambridge Semantics so interesting
Cambridge Semantics offers a Smart Data Lake solution that provides a layer of governance, harmonized meaning and self-service, at scale, across all your data sources, leveraging your investments in new or existing big data technologies. Our tools are designed for business users and analysts to access and analyze diverse enterprise data without any coding. All while leveraging your existing investments in Hadoop, Spark, BI tools and others.
Click here to download our Smart Data Lake whitepaper or our Anzo Smart Data Manager Market Brief.