A Data Platform is not just for analytics

Data is at the heart of every meaningful service, and it’s the effective use of that data which builds a product, and a business.

It’s the data from one service that enables another, whether that’s a closely associated microservice, an anomaly detection pipeline, or any other data-driven service.

A data platform has all the components we need to enable effective use of this data, but so often we tie them to a specific use case or deployment, leaving the rest of the organisation to reimplement or go without.

By building a more generic data platform we open it up to enable many more use cases across the organisation, increasing our impact and generating a greater return on investment for all the great tooling and services we are building.