1. An expert integrated system comprising: a plurality of deployments; and an analytics platform; and a subnet that is at least substantially limited to providing communication between the analytics platform and the sets of management nodes of the deployments of the plurality of deployments; wherein: each deployment is respectively characterized by a plurality of patterns, with each pattern representing a set of data processing tasks; each deployment includes a plurality of virtual machines programmed to perform the data processing associated with the deployment's plurality of patterns; each deployment further includes a set of management nodes structured, programmed and/or connected to manage the deployment's plurality of virtual machines; the analytics platform is structured, programmed and/or connected to collect analytics input data from the set of management nodes of each deployment of the plurality of deployments; and the analytics platform is further structured, programmed and/or connected to perform analytics processing on the analytics input data to provide analytics output data that relates to operational performance of each deployment.