It’s hard to believe enterprise BI platforms have been around for three decades. In that time, they have served the purpose of collecting and analyzing large amounts of data to help businesses make more informed decisions. But in today’s data-driven economy, analysts struggle to keep up with the myriad of business intelligence reports from traditional BI tools – which fail to effectively and efficiently analyze and interpret data in real-time.

Embedded analytics has become a priority for many companies today. It means building data visualizations and business intelligence (BI) features right into public-facing apps. However, some businesses don't like this idea. They don't want to feature a third-party solution in their first-party applications - leading to a lack of data and analytics used.

If data is currency in today’s digital environment, then organizations should waste no time in making sure every business user has fast access to data-driven insights.

At Cloudera we’re building the world’s only hybrid data platform that’s founded on open source and truly hybrid. What do we mean by truly hybrid? Well, not only does it seamlessly support on-premises and cloud-based deployments alike, but uniquely, it is cloud vendor agnostic, allowing multi-cloud strategies to thrive.