Originally Published on Sep 17, 2014 What is a data refinery? A data refinery is a facility for transforming raw data into relevant and actionable information. Data refinement services take the uncertainty out of the data foundation for analysis and operations. Refined data is timely, clean and well understood. Who needs a data refinery? Data access and refinement services provided by a data refinery on the cloud can make useful data readily available to everyone who needs it. - Business people - Application developers - IT practitioners and data stewards To learn more about data refinement, please visit: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/refinery/

1. Who NeedsWho Needs
a Data Refinery?a Data Refinery?

2. Business people
who can’t find relevant data on their own
and who must rely on IT to supply the data
for their analytics projects
need a data refinery
. . . though they may not know it

3. Application developers
who build cloud applications
without data integration & governance
because they lack easy access to data and
data services
need a data refinery
. . . and they just might know it

4. IT practitioners and data stewards
who are overwhelmed by data requests
from business people and application
developers
need a data refinery
. . . but they don’t know where to find it

5. A data refinery is . . .
a facility for transforming raw data
into information that is
clean,
timely,
relevant,
useful

6. A data refinery makes data access
as easy as . . .
getting fresh water from a tap
. . . for those who have the right permission

7. A data refinery makes its home . . .
on the cloud
. . . to be close to cloud-based applications
that consume data
. . . to provide low cost and flexibility

8. Current approaches exist
Business-oriented
tools:
IT integration and
governance tools:
Hadoop-based and
integration-based
tools:
Easy to use by business
people …
Enterprise class …
Adequate for their own
special purposes …

9. But they leave serious gaps
Ungovernable,
not scalable for IT use
Not suitable for
business use
Not suitable for
organizations that want
to integrate, govern
and store refined data
Business-oriented
tools:
IT integration and
governance tools:
Hadoop-based and
integration-based
tools:

10. It’s time for data refinement
services
with enterprise-ready power
. . . including built-in governance and protection
and consumer-ready ease
. . . so users don’t notice it’s there

11. It’s time for self-service
data refinement
that makes data work
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