The difference between business growth and competitive disadvantage in the cloud age is measured in the seconds—or less—between data access, analysis, and action. But right now, nearly one-third of analysts spend more than 40 percent of their time vetting and validating their analytics data before it can be used for strategic decision-making. That’s too much time wasted. And it doesn’t need to be.

Read the new e-book from Talend and Microsoft, How the Cloud Clears Up Your Data Picture—Fast, to learn to move data to cloud data warehouses and data lakes expediently, securely, effectively, and with governance. Making the move will enable faster, more accurate, and greatly simplified access to the data needed to stay ahead in those critical seconds. In this e-book, you’ll see new thinking on how to add elasticity, flexibility, and simplicity to your data warehousing as well as the four steps Talend has developed to overcome data quality challenges. You’ll come away from this short read with a roadmap for your next steps to faster, more trustworthy and secure data to put your data picture in better focus.