Companies understand the value of data. But before data can be analyzed, it must be collected and prepared for analytics engines, and this process can be inefficient and costly.

Moving data to the cloud can offer significant benefits, but only if done intelligently. IDG Research recently surveyed more than 200 IT, data science, and data engineering professionals to learn more about the growing reliance on placing data in the cloud, and what strategies companies are using to achieve the benefits of cloud-focused ETL or ELT, including automating data orchestration and transformation.

Source: infoworld.com