Data science technologies such as machine learning are used across many departments in the organization. For instance, machine learning is used in marketing to better understand customer behavior and predict churn. It is being used in operations to predict when a part might fail. It is even used in HR for employee retention.
A cloud data platform is an integrated platform available on public clouds to house diverse data and provide services such as a data warehouse, a data lake, data sharing, analytics, governance, and administrative tooling. The cloud data platform is a single data platform for supporting multiple workloads and data types. It provides one place to store and access data for analytics, data science, and other use cases. As part of the platform, only a single copy of the native data needs to be stored, yet it is made accessible across all nodes.
