What Is A Data Platform?
SiliconANGLE , Monday, July 31,2023
This high-level definition of a data platform is meant to help frame conversations about the category and compare vendors and their place in it. The definition itself is a moving target since the technology is evolving so fast. And different vendors want to define the platform differently.
If you take away only one paragraph, I recommend the strategic positioning.
Strategic positioning
Data platforms are the new development tool for building enterprise applications (Figure 1). Data represents how the business works and captures its history and current state. With artificial intelligence, data predicts a business's future state. Increasingly, changes in operational data, not humans interacting with a user interface, drive applications. In addition, as more and more application logic is embodied in AI models, an enterprise's data actually sets the design-time application logic itself by 'programming' the AI at training time.
So data platform vendors will control how mission-critical enterprise applications get built. As a result, data platforms' capabilities will determine the very capabilities of those enterprise applications themselves.