If you Google “modern data platform”, you’ll immediately be bombarded with advertisements and lots of companies professing that they are the one true data platform. Not so helpful, right?
So what the heck is a modern data platform? What does that even mean, and what does it look like in 2021?
The short answer: a modern data platform is a collection of tools and capabilities that, when brought together, allow organizations to achieve the gold standard — a fundamentally data-driven organization.
In this article, I’ll break down what a modern data platform means in practice today. This includes the three core characteristics, six fundamental building blocks, and latest data tools you should know.

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