Why Best-of-Breed is a Better Choice than All-in-One Platforms for Data Science

So you need to redesign your company's data infrastructure. Do you buy a solution from a big integration company like IBM, Cloudera, or Amazon? Do you engage many small startups, each focused on one part of the problem? We see trends shifting towards focused best-of-breed platforms. That is, products that are laser-focused on one aspect of the data science and machine learning workflows, in contrast to all-in-one platforms that attempt to solve the entire space of data workflows.