What is Data as a Service?
How the new Paradigm will make your Data Strategy Accelerate
Most people are familiar with terms like IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service), but what is Data as a Service? Let’s look into it.
Definition and Theoretical Background
Data as a Service is a data management strategy that is using the cloud to enable storage, integration and processing of data over the network connection.
DaaS is similar to SaaS, a cloud computing strategy that delivers applications to users over the network so they don’t have to run them locally on their devices. With SaaS, this eliminates the need to install and manage software locally. Similarly, DaaS outsources most data storage, data integration and data processing operations [2][3].
So to keep it practical, instead of running on self-managed servers via in-house programming and/or software and distributing the data from there, the data from source systems (this can be from OnPrem or already outsourced systems in the cloud) is moved to the cloud via DaaS services and…
