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While traditional data warehouses often took years to build, deploy, and reap benefits from, today's organizations want simple, agile, integrated, cost-effective, and highly automated solutions to support insights. In addition, traditional architectures are failing to meet new business requirements, especially around high-speed data streaming, real-time analytics, large volumes of messy and complex data sets, and self-service. As a result, firms are revisiting their data architectures, looking for ways to modernize to support new requirements. DMA is a modern architecture that minimizes the complexity of messy data and hides heterogeneity by embodying a trusted model and integrated policies and by adapting to changing business requirements. It leverages metadata, in-memory, and distributed data repositories, running on-premises or in the cloud, to deliver scalable and integrated analytics. Adoption of DMA will grow further as enterprise architects look at overcoming data challeng...

Evaluated Vendors And Inclusion Criteria Forrester included 14 vendors in the assessment: Alibaba, AWS, Exasol, Google, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, MarkLogic, Micro Focus, Microsoft, Oracle, Pivotal, Snowflake, and Teradata. Each of these vendors has ( see Figure 1 ): A comprehensive CDW offering. Key components of the CDW include the provisioning, storing, processing, transforming, and accessing of data. The CDW should provide features to secure data, enable elastic scale, provide high availability and disaster recovery options, support loading and unloading of data, and provide various data access tools. A standalone data warehouse service running in the public cloud. Vendors included in this evaluation provide a CDW service that organizations can implement or use independent of analytics, data science, and visualization tools. The service should not be technologically tied to or bundled with any particular application or solution. Data warehouse use cases. The CDW service shoul...