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- 1. Executive Brief Intelligent Data Lake Find, Prepare, and Govern Data for Analysis in a Uniquely Collaborative Way That Enables Businesses to Make Decisions Even Faster Data has undoubtedly become the fuel for competitive advantage in the 21st century. Organizations are looking to harness new data processing platforms such as Apache Hadoop to derive previously unattainable—if not inconceivable—insights. The emergence of Apache Hadoop and the data lake concept now gives organizations the luxury of pooling all data so that it is accessible for users at any time for any type of analysis. Organizations are collecting customer and market data for its potential to improve experiences and drive business growth. Financial institutions are saving and monitoring transactional data and other related signals in order to enrich fraud detection techniques, keep up with changing global regulations, and boost consumer trust in the security of their services. Healthcare organizations are preserving electronic medical record data and claims data in order to drive more personalized healthcare. The opportunity to harness data has never been greater with big data technologies. The challenge The sheer volume of data being ingested into Hadoop systems is overwhelming IT. Business analysts eagerly await quality data from Hadoop. Meanwhile, IT is burdened with manual, time- intensive processes to curate raw data into fit-for-purpose data assets. Big data cannot deliver on its promise if it brings progress to a grinding halt because of complex technologies and additional resources required to extract value. Without scalable, repeatable, and intelligent mechanisms for curating data, all the opportunity that data lakes promise risks stagnation. The capability to turn big data into valuable business insights with the right data delivered at the right time is, ultimately, what will separate organizational forerunners from laggards. The solution Data lakes on their own are merely means to an end. To achieve the end goal of delivering business insights, you need machine intelligence driven by universal metadata services. Universal metadata services catalog the metadata attached to data, both inside and outside Hadoop, as well as capture user-provided tags about the business context of the data. Business insights flow from an otherwise inert data lake through the added value derived from the cataloging of both the quality and the state of the data inside the data lake as well as the collaborative self-service data preparation capabilities applied to that data. Thus, the Intelligent Data Lake enables raw big data to be systematically transformed into fit-for-purpose data sets for a variety of data consumers. With such an implementation, organizations can quickly and repeatably turn big data into trusted information assets that deliver sustainable business value. Solution Benefits Informatica Big Data Management provides the gold standard in data management solutions • Find any data and relationships that matter • Quickly prepare and share the data you need • Get more trusted insights from more data without more risk
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