The Data Lake as an Integral Part of the Modern Data Architecture

Data lakes have enormous potential as a source of business intelligence when included as part of an advanced open data architecture. Organizations use data lakes to efficiently store and process a combination of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data at scale, powering multiple business intelligence and data science initiatives to support a variety of business units across an organization. They are fundamentally important to business transformation and modernization projects in the transition to being more data driven.