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pitch, it is far easier to make a compelling
business case!
In terms of an ongoing operational basis,
elastic computing, the ability to scale up
AND down as workload demands, can offer
your company valuable advantages. Cloud
data platforms such as Snowflake provide
this level of elastic compute flexibility to
keep your costs in line with your actual need.
Scalability and elasticity are only a couple
of the enticing advantages that cloud
data platforms offer companies. But from
a holistic standpoint and despite these
advantages, IT still has a lot of work to do
to build and manage a data warehouse
that will reside on the platform. Without
automating the design, development,
deployment and operational aspects of your
organisation’s data warehouse, you aren’t
positioned to leverage the benefits of cloud
data platforms quickly or show business
leaders any significant improvement in Time
to Value.
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Automation software supplements your
IT development resources – from initial
design through development and operation
– to speed up data warehouse delivery by
80%, while reducing cost and project risk.
Companies using automation are seeing
developer productivity increase by fivefold.
This is due to developers spending more
time working with business users to deliver
new business value much quicker and let the
automation software do the routine, tedious
and time-consuming work of generating
code and documentation. Not only are
IT teams delivering faster Time to Value,
they are seeing stronger code reliability
and consistency that better positions IT for
increased responsiveness to future business
needs given the automation software’s
use of built-in agile data warehousing best
practices and industry standards and its high
optimisation for the data platform in use.
As you move to the cloud, data warehouse
automation software, such as WhereScape
automation for Snowflake, that is built for
FINAL WORD
a cloud-native platform like Snowflake,
Amazon Redshift or Azure SQL Data
Warehouse is a must. But just as important,
given you may find yourself with one foot
in the world of on-premises and one foot
in the world of cloud for quite a while, is
the software’s ability to help you manage
hybrid environments seamlessly and treat
them as a single logical data warehouse.
This will allow you to manage your current
data infrastructure more effectively, manage
the transition over time, consume as many
of the cloud data warehousing advantages
as early as possible for your organisation
and provide a consistent overview of your
infrastructure regardless of data location.
Automation software fitting this criteria will
ensure your IT organisation’s ability not only
to preserve, but to greatly accelerate, Time
to Value to the maximum extent possible
as your company makes the great cloud
migration. And unlike the parent who wants
their child to be the next Ronaldo, that’s got
to be a realistic goal worth aiming for! n
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