There is a critical need among businesses today for a platform that enables them to access any kind of data from anywhere it lives without necessarily moving it to a central location like a data warehouse. In fact, every new innovation in technology or business is driven by better use of increasingly complex and disparate data. Data virtualization represents a straightforward way to deal with the complexity, heterogeneity, and volume of information coming at us, while meeting the needs of the business community for agility and near real-time information.
