Infor Data Lake is a data repository that provides high-volume, scalable object storage for real-time data from across your enterprise systems, disparate applications, people, and IoT infrastructure. Using ION to connect your data sources, Infor applications move content into Infor Data Lake and use other consuming applications to query and navigate Infor Data Lake for content related to specific business cases.
What is a data lake?
A data lake is a centralized system or repository for storing data "as-is" across an enterprise. "As-is" data or raw data, can be stored structured, semi-structured, or unstructured, with or without hierarchy, or organization of the individual pieces of data. Additionally, data stored in a data lake, even in its rawest form, is available for reuse at any time. This versatility and flexibility allows a single data lake to meet all of an organization's data storage needs.
How can our organization use a data lake?
Data lakes are uniquely different from structured, highly organized relational databases in that the raw data stored without pre-defined schemas in a data lake can be utilized for an organization's purposes by applying schemas to data on-demand.
Among its numerous potential uses, many enterprises use data lakes as holding areas for information that isn't immediately needed, but that may bring future value. The data stored for future use may be archived in a data lake as per regulatory data-retention requirements. For example, organizations legally obligated to retain records for a specified, minimum amount of time, such as a financial institution or a hospital system may archive data in a data lake in compliance with appropriate laws.