Infographic Why Your Organization Needs a Data Fabric

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Why Your Organization Needs a Data Fabric

It’s critical to capitalize on the value of your data to drive business outcomes and secure a competitive edge. A data fabric built with IBM Cloud Pak® for Data makes this possible.

Challenges and expectations

Visibility is often poor.
Data is distributed and diverse. Dark or inactive data remains hidden and can create vulnerabilities.

Silos are common.
Data architectures have evolved in ways that create pockets of information that don’t interact or exchange with each other.

Governance is lacking.
Platforms, environments and teams all take different approaches, impacting utilization, sprawl, costs and much more.

Portability is important.
Businesses want and need data to be accessible and available as needed, when and where needed.

Data management should be easy.
Ensuring the integrity and safety of data, as well as the ability to scale, flex and maintain compliance, must be uncomplicated.

What is a data fabric?

A data fabric is an operational layer of data, processes and analytics that automates data discovery, management and consumption across distributed environments.

Benefits of a data fabric:

1. Enables self-service data consumption. A data fabric gives users a single point of access for data consumption that is trusted and governed, helping your organization gain insights and increase agility.
2. Automates governance, data protection and security. Reduce compliance and security risk with the active governance layer a data fabric provides. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning models further enhance automation capabilities.
3. Automates data engineering tasks. Eliminate toilsome coding and shorten time to value by using a data fabric to automate data access, delivery, classification and curation.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data with Insight

Achieve a data fabric with IBM® Cloud Pak for Data, a platform run on a Kubernetes-based Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform (OCP) that delivers seamless integration to connect data assets. IBM Cloud Pak for Data helps you build, deploy and manage AI at scale in hybrid environments by simplifying and democratizing the use of trusted data — and ultimately enables your digital transformation. Insight is an award-winning IBM partner and 2020 Red Hat Partner of the Year with hardened expertise in helping organizations realize their cloud, data and innovation initiatives. We’re here to support you with IBM Cloud®.