Uber owns no fleet, and Airbnb owns no real estate. These and other companies have grown very quickly, with relatively little investment, by establishing thin customer-interface layers above complex systems of goods or services owned by third parties.
Point is to keep think semantic layer for faster data access and reduce complexity of Infrastructure harnessing next gen connected data . This is made possible through data minimization, a key concept in the digital transformation world. By minimizing data, through reducing data redundancy, especially at the data-access layer, businesses are able to rapidly gain value. It enables them not only to seamlessly migrate from legacy OLTP and OLAP platforms, but also to do so incrementally, while organizations evolve into their desired, optimal architecture, while all the while still enabling access at the thin data-access layer, and also accelerating that access.
Read more in https://www.datavirtualizationblog.com. Originally published on October 7, 2021
