Some businesses are still in the early stages of the process, defining their data strategy and deciding which data or workloads to move to the cloud or data lakes and which to keep on-premises in data warehouse. Others have advanced further, with the goal of extracting additional value from their data initiatives or expanding efforts across the entire organization. To gain access to data housed in a siloed system, the most data-mature organizations use several data platforms, some in the cloud, others in private settings, or, in certain situations, utilize a managed services model for scalable data infrastructure.