As companies face the mandate to quickly migrate their data and analytics systems into the cloud, many of them miss their target expectations of increased analytics speed and agility. Modernization efforts that begin with a “lift-and-shift” strategy of merely taking on-premises systems and moving them to cloud-based platforms will quickly reveal that a more holistic cloud strategy including new cloud-native principles is the key to unlocking the potential with the cloud. For existing data and analytics programs, the modern data architecture is the next-generation mindset that ch