Unlocking the Big Data Silos Through Integration by Theo Priestly.
From the post:
Big Data, real-time and predictive analytics present companies with the unparalleled ability to understand consumer behavior and ever-shifting market trends at a relentless pace in order to take advantage of opportunity.
However, organizations are entrenched and governed by silos; data resides across the enterprise in the same way, waiting to be unlocked. Information sits in different applications, on different platforms, fed by internal and external sources. It’s a CIO’s headache when the CEO asks why the organization can’t take advantage of it. According to a recent survey, 54% of organizations state that managing data from various sources is their biggest challenge when attempting to make use of the information for customer analytics.
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Data integration. Again?
A problem that just keeps on giving. The result of every ETL operation is a data set that needs another ETL operation sooner or later.
If Topic Maps weren’t a competing model but a way to model your information for re-integration, time after time, that would be a competitive advantage.
Both for topic maps and your enterprise.