In cloud migration, also known as “move to cloud,” you move existing data processing tasks to a cloud platform, such as Amazon Webservices (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, to private clouds, and-or to hybrid cloud solutions. See our blog post, What is Cloud Migration, for an introduction. Figure 1: Steps in cloud migration.
One of the really big trends that we're seeing in the analytics space, is the move towards talking about the analytics experience. Analytics experience is about supporting or triggering decisions and transactions. This is a shift from what I would describe as the passive use of analytics, where people were expected to use dashboards and reports that didn't add a lot of value to their transactions or decision making. The difference sounds subtle, but it's really quite profound.
