The document discusses building multi-disciplinary analytics applications on a shared data platform. It describes challenges with traditional fragmented approaches using multiple data silos and tools. A shared data platform with Cloudera SDX provides a common data experience across workloads through shared metadata, security, and governance services. This approach optimizes key design goals and provides business benefits like increased insights, agility, and decreased costs compared to siloed environments. An example application of predictive maintenance is given to improve fleet performance.