What Are Smart Data Fabrics?
An enterprise data fabric is a new architectural approach that speeds and simplifies access to data assets across the entire supply chain business. It accesses, transforms, and harmonizes data from multiple sources, on demand, to make it usable and actionable for a wide variety of business applications. Smart data fabrics take this approach one step further by embedding a wide range of analytics capabilities, including data exploration, business intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning directly within the fabric, making it faster and easier for supply chain organizations to gain new insights and power intelligent predictive and prescriptive systems, services, and applications.