Business analytics, machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies will transform virtually every aspect of the economy in the coming decades. One of the biggest stumbling blocks, however, remains capturing, organizing and delivering the vast amounts of data from sensors, industrial equipment, power supplies and other operational technologies (OT) in a timely fashion to achieve genuine, actionable insights through information technology (IT). Too often, this data — the raw material of business analytics — remains landlocked in disparate systems as getting it out requires inordinate amounts of time and money.