Given the competitive value of analytics and rapid adoption rates across industries, you can’t afford a subpar analytics program. In the late 90s, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane used data to discover undervalued talent and assemble a perennial playoff-caliber team, and he did so on a shoestring budget compared to Major League Baseball’s heavy hitters. Beane’s pioneering use of data analytics became the subject of the bestselling book Moneyball.

Many analytics programs struggle to assimilate data from numerous and unpredictable sources, but automated ELT offers a solution. Why do so many businesses struggle to establish successful analytics programs? A lack of data is not the problem. Data volumes — from hundreds of cloud applications to millions of IoT endpoints — are exploding across organizations and industries.

Implementing a modern, cloud-based analytics stack doesn’t have to be hard — you can do it in three steps, actually. Implementing a modern data stack (MDS) — data integration tool, cloud data warehouse and business intelligence platform — is the best way to establish a successful analytics program as data sources and data volumes multiply.