{"id":109186,"date":"2020-06-27T06:27:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/why-an-integrated-analytics-platform-is-the-right-choice"},"modified":"2020-06-27T06:27:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:27:22","slug":"why-an-integrated-analytics-platform-is-the-right-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/why-an-integrated-analytics-platform-is-the-right-choice","title":{"rendered":"Why an integrated analytics platform is the right choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-an-integrated-analytics-platform-is-the-right-choice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lifecycle starts when data is collected or ingested from any source. With the advent of 5G, this includes ever more data that\u2019s streamed and generated in real-time.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Companies realize that in order to grow, connect products and services, or protect their business, they need to become data-driven. In selecting the tools to realize these goals, organizations effectively have two choices: a self-selected combination of analytics tools and applications or a unified platform that handles all. In this blog we will discuss the challenges of the former choice that will provide justification for the latter. Let\u2019s take a step back and ask: what do organizations need in terms of analytics to realize their data-driven goals? What is needed to combat customer churn, provide a predictive maintenance service or identify fraud as it happens? One thing is clear: it is not one single analytical capability. Implementing innovative and differentiating business use cases is not simply selecting the perfect data warehouse solution and calling it good. Today\u2019s solutions require more than a better individually functional tool. Going from data to insight to action demands a complete range of capabilities that spans the data life cycle from the edge to AI.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-an-integrated-analytics-platform-is-the-right-choice2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lifecycle starts when data is collected or ingested from any source. With the advent of 5G, this includes ever more data that\u2019s streamed and generated in real-time. Companies realize that in order to grow, connect products and services, or protect their business, they need to become data-driven. In selecting the tools to realize these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}