The focus of the big data industry is shifting up the stack from computing infrastructure to extracting meaningful value from the data in a scalable fashion, according to Wikibon Inc. Chief Research Officer Peter Burris. Democratizing the data for use among a business analyst organization requires ingestion from a wide range of computing environments and data sources.

“Today what you’re seeing is, on one hand, this complete democratization within the business, like a standard charter, where all these business analysts are getting access to data. And on the other hand, from the data infrastructure moving into a hybrid multicloud world,” said Prakash Nanduri (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer of data analytics software company Paxata Inc. The company’s software as a service-based platform consolidates and cleans data stores for consumption by business analysts. 

Nanduri spoke with John Furrier (@furrier) and Peter Burris (@plburris), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the BigData NYC summit about Paxata’s data management tool for business analysts.  (* Disclosure below.)

Multicloud, multi-file-type

Modern computing infrastructure is often comprised of a mix of cloud environments, which makes data management challenging. The data not only needs to be cleaned and refined for consumption, but it also must comply with governance, as well as be portable and scalable, according to Nanduri. Paxata’s announcements at the summit around multicloud support aim to alleviate these challenges and support the entire cloud ecosystem.

“In addition to the recent announcements we made on Paxata running natively on the Microsoft Azure HDI Spark system, we are truly now the only information platform that allows business consumers to turn data into information in a multicloud, hybrid world …” Nanduri said. 

In addition to supporting any computing environment, Nanduri also explained that the company’s latest product offering, Intelligent Ingest, expands support to a wide range of data file-types that can be ingested onto its platform. This means analysts don’t need to pay attention to either the cloud configuration or data source and can instead focus on the questions that matter.

“Do I have access to the right data? Can I take that data; can I turn that into something valuable? And then can I make a decision out of it? I need to do that fast [and] at the same time have all of the governance and security and all of that. That’s, at the end of the day, the objective that all of our customers are driving towards,” Nanduri said. 

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of BigData NYC 2017. (* Disclosure: Paxata Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Paxata nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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