Abstract the connection to data and allow seamless access agnostic to the locations of computation and data or the data API and protocol
Secure data usage and enforce governance by intermediating all input and output flows
Control and optimize the workload behavior by orchestrating data functions and data mobility. Optimize performance using technologies such as caching, copies and more
Provides instrumentation to observe the use of data by enabling the seamless platform-level collection of metrics, logs, audit and data provenance information