Real-time information is becoming increasingly critical to drive business decisions, retain customers and achieve a competitive advantage. However, performing data analysis in realtime requires all data to be in a single system, and most organizations today have multiple real time and contextual data sources. The fact that data typically resides in multiple locations - the data center, the cloud and in SaaS applications - makes matters even more complicated. The difficulty of delivering analytics increases exponentially as businesses strive to gain valuable insights across their expanding variety of data sources and platforms. Traditional data management approaches are simply not agile enough to respond to the business demands for faster analysis.