Google announces plan to make data more available with ‘Datacloud Alliance’

Certain fast-growing data, analytics, storage, and database providers in global technology have teamed up with Google Cloud to create seamless access and insights into the data that is needed for digital transformation to occur. Google Cloud calls this the Data Cloud Alliance.

The founding members of this alliance are Google Cloud, Accenture, Confluent, Databricks, Dataiku, Deloitte, Elastic, Fivetran, MongoDB, Neo4j, Redis, and Starburst.

The above companies have announced their commitment to making data more portable and accessible across diverse business systems, platforms, and environments. The endgame is to ensure that data access is never an impediment to digital transformation.

Brick-and-mortar and partially digitized businesses today face immense pressure to digitally transform. They feel the need to reach consumers on mobile and other OTG platforms, and launch entirely new digital businesses in order to meet increasingly complex compliance standards. Data is the cornerstone of this digital transformation.

Every consumer interaction - searches, e-commerce, online comments, clicks, upvotes- creates more data every minute. The omnipresence of data, and many software and cloud-based applications used to analyse and manage it, means businesses increasingly need common digital data standards, and a commitment to open data, to effectively utilize the digital world.

Data Cloud Alliance is dedicated to quickening buy-ins for data analytics, AI, and ML best practices across sectors through common industry data models, open standards, and integrated processes.

Alliance members will jointly endeavor to assist in reducing customer complexities with data governance, data privacy, data integrity, and global compliance. For the enhancement of customers' data clouds, the Alliance will commit to resolving skills gaps via skill development for practitioners in data and analytics.

Data Cloud Alliance members will provide infrastructure, application programming interfaces (API), and integration support to ensure data portability and accessibility between multiple platforms and products across multiple environments including on-premises, public or private cloud, or hybrid.

Each Alliance member will strive to establish new, common industry data models, processes, and platform integrations to increase data portability and reduce complexity.

"Data is the common foundation for all digital transformations," said Gerrit Kazmaier, VP and GM of Databases, Data Analytics, and Business Intelligence at Google Cloud. He believes that the alliance will be able to drive significant digital transformations for businesses and bridge the global data gap.