We wanted to wrap up this book with a chapter on how your carefully designed cloud data platform will be used in a typical enterprise, and in doing so point out why we recommended some of the things we did. We’ll also talk about some of the non-technical parts of an analytics project because a data platform doesn’t exist in a vacuum; it is only a single ingredient of an organization’s quest to become truly data driven and enabled. Knowing how your platform delivers business value in the short and long term is important because it can impact design, and understanding what factors other than technology can influence use of a data platform can help you ensure that your platform becomes an integral and valued part of your organization’s assets.
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We want to thank Pythian (www.pythian.com) for the use of the diagrams and frameworks used in this chapter.