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Cloud & Automation: Changing CSPs’ OpEx outlook
When Tesla faced concerns in China regarding the use of cameras and sensors in its vehicles and how the data was being stored, the car maker launched a data platform to rebuild customer trust. The platform allowed car owners, market regulators, and law enforcers access to driving data. With this move, Tesla not only resolved the pressing issue of data security but also positioned itself as a leader in leveraging data for compliance and customer trust.
This example highlights the potential of future-ready data platforms to leverage data for a multitude of purposes and meet the expectations and concerns of different stakeholders.
Organizations have long relied on historical data and basic analytics to inform their strategies. These methods offered limited value. AI and modern data platforms have shifted this paradigm, allowing organizations to extract meaningful patterns, automate processes, and enable sharper decision-making with accuracy and speed.
Traditionally, data platforms were not treated as enterprise-critical assets. However, organizations now see data platforms as a strategic capability and are dedicating resources to build and maintain them.
Also referred to as a ‘modern data stack,’ a data platform acts as the central repository and processing hub for an organization’s data ecosystem. It manages data collection, normalization, transformation, and application for a given data product, from business insights and dashboards to ML and AI engineering. By integrating tools from multiple vendors, a data platform enables data teams to manage organizational data and activate it for domain-specific use cases.
Take the example of General Electric (GE), which has embraced an AI-driven data platform to prevent equipment failures with predictive maintenance and machine performance monitoring. Its Predix platform analyzes sensor data, enabling GE to optimize production schedules and supply chains, leading to increased operational efficiency.
Modern data platforms are integrated with various tools and functionalities to cater to complex enterprise demands. The tools can aggregate data from diverse sources, merge different data types, and create a data ecosystem that facilitates AI development and deployment. In turn, AI technologies further enhance the capabilities of data platforms by automating data management tasks and elevating the platform’s intelligence and efficiency.
A modern data platform provides high-throughput ingestion pipelines, multi-format data integration, and distributed storage capabilities to support data velocity and today’s data demands.
Many AI applications rely on real-time or near-real-time data processing. Modern data platforms offer streaming capabilities and low-latency processing, allowing AI systems to make split-second decisions by acting on the most recent information. In the logistics sector, UPS uses its business intelligence platform to analyze traffic patterns and delivery schedules, adjust routes in real time, and ensure timely deliveries.
AI workloads are dynamic. They can range from a simple analysis to resource-intensive processes, such as training a deep learning model. With data platforms based on the cloud, enterprises have the scalability to manage fluctuating demands so that AI initiatives can grow and evolve without bottlenecks.
A modern data platform offers an enterprise a holistic solution for capturing, processing, and activating data for business insights.
This layer integrates data from diverse source systems. It manages incremental updates like Change Data Capture (CDC) and supports real-time data processing. This is where the complexities of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) or ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) frameworks are navigated.
Modern data platforms enable enterprises to process, store, and fetch data according to their specific requirements. Some solutions allow raw data to be stored until it is ready for use, while others facilitate immediate data preparation and usage.
This component refines raw data into a structured and analysis-ready format for decision-making. Walmart leverages AI-driven innovative data modeling for supply chain management and customer analytics. This optimization enables the retail giant to identify trends in customer behavior and forecast demand for products to ensure a smooth shopping experience.
This component includes advanced analytics, business intelligence tools, and machine learning to extract business value. For example, Coca-Cola Bottling streamlined its fragmented data ecosystem by integrating Tableau into its data processes and building a unified data platform to use data efficiently. The company-wide initiative allowed Coca-Cola Bottling to make the most of its data scattered across reports and dashboards with the power of analytics.
Modern data platforms offer automated tools to ensure secure data transfers, manage user access, and maintain audit trails for accountability. It helps enterprises follow internal policies and external regulations to keep data compliant.
Organizations seeking to future-proof their operations must focus on transforming their legacy data infrastructure into an AI-ready powerhouse. Here are the key strategies they must adopt to modernize their data platforms.
A modern data storage architecture, such as a data lake or lakehouse, provides a flexible foundation for AI initiatives. These architectures enable organizations to store vast amounts of raw data and allow the integration of batch and real-time processing capabilities, which is essential to train AI systems on diverse and current datasets.
Cloud-based solutions help accelerate AI initiatives and minimize the overheads associated with infrastructure management. With these solutions, organizations can scale computing resources, access advanced AI and ML services, and rapidly prototype and deploy models. As infrastructure management is simplified, adjusting capabilities as AI workloads evolve becomes more manageable.
AI systems react instantly to new data, and modern data platforms must support real-time responsiveness. Technologies like Apache Kafka or cloud-native solutions like Microsoft Fabric allow enterprises to ingest, process, and act on data streams instantly in real time.
High-quality data is the foundation of an effective AI model. Organizations must implement robust data quality checks and automate data profiling, anomaly detection, and standardization for consistency and reliability. At the same time, strong data governance frameworks must be in place to establish clear policies around data usage, privacy, and compliance. This ensures that the AI deployment across the organization is ethical and trustworthy.
To capitalize on AI opportunities, organizations must adopt purpose-built tools and foster an AI-skilled workforce. This includes integrating ML platforms and model management systems, as well as MLOps capabilities to support scalable AI development and deployment.
Additionally, organizations should invest in training programs to build data literacy and AI capabilities and promote a culture of continuous learning and data-driven decision-making across business functions.
AI-driven data platforms are transforming data operations by integrating all data workloads into a unified environment. This convergence of data enables AI, analytics, and data engineering teams to collaborate on a standardized data foundation. As organizations adopt this unified approach, several advancements are further shaping the future of data platforms.
Yet, as organizations accelerate into this future, challenges around biased algorithms, ethics, and sustainability cannot be overlooked. The true differentiator will not be technological capability but an approach that blends ethical frameworks, transparency, and a culture of responsible innovation.
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