Data Democratization: Stage 1, Drain the (data) swamp
The proliferation of applications (legacy, cloud), IOTs, databases, unstructured files (images, videos, etc.) has created an enormous gap between data creation and the ability to value out of that data. Hence the enterprises started to store data on low-cost data lake storage. Without a proper way to catalog, clean, and prep such data, it is impossible to get value out of creating such storage. Some teams embark on hiring big teams to curate these vast piles of data using var