ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Cloud analytics

Okay, let's imagine that you have a big box of toys that you need to organize. But instead of doing it all on your own, you can ask your friends to help you. This is kind of like what cloud analytics is.

When a company has a lot of data, they may need help organizing it and understanding it. So instead of doing it all on their own, they can use cloud analytics. This means that the company's data is stored on machines that are owned by a big company like Google or Microsoft. These companies have lots of machines that can work together to quickly analyze all the data.

It's like if you wanted to count how many legos you have, and you asked all your friends to count with you. You would be able to count a lot faster if everyone was helping.

Cloud analytics can help answer questions like: How many people buy our product each day? Who are our top customers? What are our most popular products?

And once the data is organized, the company can use it to make better decisions. They can figure out what products to create, which customers to focus on, and how to improve their business overall.

So, think of cloud analytics as a way to get all your friends together to help count your legos, except it's big companies working together to help other companies count their data.