Inside Broadcom’s data simplification strategy that enables 26 business units to use the same data analytics platform

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Managing lots of different business units with all manner of applications is generally not an easy data management task. Making sense of all that information with data analytics can be even more challenging. As Broadcom has grown through the acquisition of numerous software and hardware companies, the company has grappled with the challenge of integrating disparate data sources and systems. Particularly, When the tech giant closed its $61 billion acquisition of VMware in late 2023, it faced a monumental data integration challenge. VMware operated with 1,800 disparate applications and a staggering 187,000 product SKUs. For most acquiring companies, the playbook would be familiar — implement master data management systems, build elaborate data lakes and create complex integrations to bridge the systems while gradually migrating them over several years. Broadc ... Read full article.