Traditional ways to share data

Sharing data is nothing new and users did this before. Some examples of how users used to do data sharing in the past are:

• Send data via email
• Share data through an FTP server
• Use application-specific APIs for data extraction
• Leverage vendor specific tools to copy relevant data

While these methods work in general, they come with certain drawbacks:

• Managing separate processes for data extraction, preparation or remote access are labor-intensive.
• Extracting and duplicating data is prone to data staleness.
• Architectures and processes can become very difficult to maintain and hard to scale.
• Redundant data extraction can introduce format compatibility issues.
• Data extraction and preparation must handle sensitive information properly.