Hi Robert,
You may want to look at research published by organizations such as Gartner and Forrester on topics such as “Data Integration” and “Enterprise Application Integration (EAI),” which show growing trends for investments in these spaces (and the technologies, tools, and services to support them). Every system/application is a data silo, and the more of these silos you have the higher your complexities, costs, and time to integrate between silos will become if certain patterns are not implemented.
Also, I would suggest that you think of the fact that silos are not necessarily “problems” so much as they are “challenges,” as their are good things about silos, too, such as productivity, repeatability, creativity, and innovation.
Anyhow, I hope this helps.
My very best wishes for a Happy Holiday Season to you and yours,
Frank
--
Frank Guerino, Chairman
The International Foundation for Information Technology (IF4IT)
http://www.if4it.com
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All,
Data silos are often asserted as being a problem, and a justification for ontologies. Do you know of any publications or studies that actually demonstrate that data silos cause problems? (please cite any publications)
Happy holidays.
Best, Robert Rovetto
P.S. If you know of opportunities to formally work on onto-related projects, feel free to contact me. thank you.
rrovetto[at]buffalo[dot]edu -- For general communication ontologos[at]yahoo[dot]com -- For ontology-specific communication only
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