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Telecommunications companies are currently executing on ambitious digital transformation, network transformation, and AI-driven automation efforts. While navigating so many simultaneous data-dependent transformations, they must balance the need to level up their data management practices—accelerating the rate at which they ingest, manage, prepare, and analyze data—with that of governing this data.

In the ever-evolving landscape of the financial services Industry, change is a constant and transformation is a requirement—to stay at pace with new regulations, risk mitigation, and the technological developments that support transformation. And just as financial services experiences its cycles, this time of year I find myself returning to the topic of cost reduction.

Product-led growth (PLG) is a business model that emerged in the last decade with the enormous success of vendors like Slack and Datadog. Unlike traditional sales-led models, PLG models cut out the middlemen (sales reps, for example) and let customers just download and use the product without third-party onboarding. The relative novelty of the pricing model and its demonstrably successful application in growing these companies attracted a lot of attention.

Cloudera recently released a fully featured Open Data Lakehouse, powered by Apache Iceberg in the private cloud, in addition to what’s already been available for the Open Data Lakehouse in the public cloud since last year. This release signified Cloudera’s vision of Iceberg everywhere. Customers can deploy Open Data Lakehouse wherever the data resides—any public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, and port workloads seamlessly across deployments.