Businesses are hungry for insights and are forever seeking timely access to enterprise data. IT departments, while doing a good job of provisioning the data through data warehouses and data lakes, struggle to keep pace with the demands of the business in gaining access to data in its various forms — extracts, sandbox, analytics playground, etc. How can IT departments keep business users happy?

What business users need is a an end-to-end analytics capability that can be achieved in one single application. For a single analytical use case, IT and business users have to collaborate by dealing with half-a-dozen tools — database, file storage, data catalogs, ingestion tools, ETL tools, Analytics tools and visualization tools. What if all of these capabilities were available in one single application?