Managing ETL Vendors

It wasn't but a few short years ago your local technology vendor (IBM, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, etc.) was always looking to enhance your ETL services on premise so you could be in "full control" of your database operations locally. You invested hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not much more!) to build out your local infrastructure to support your data platform of choice. Not to mention all the other costs for hardware, security, environment, expertise, and the list goes on. Today, one of the top projects of any technology leader or CXO is navigating their cloud strategy. Whether you are cloud mature, a hybrid, or really just exploring your cloud options, there is much activity around the cloud.