The public network contains cloud users, SaaS applications, data sources, and edge services.
A cloud user connects to the analytics cloud solution via the network. Human and non-human users may represent one or more of the following roles:
- Knowledge worker and citizen analyst
- Data scientist
- Application developer
- Data engineer
- Chief Data Officer (CDO)
All the different personas have the following common characteristics:
- Self-service is desired.
- They require access to sometime large volumes of data needed to accomplish an analytical task with associated data quality and provenance metrics.
- They require multiple tools and capabilities that may be open-source and consumed from on-demand services.
- Collaboration is ...