When you empower all your teams with a Data Dictionary You will See Positive Results
Product has a database, Ops has a database, Finance has a database, Sales has a database. Quick, tell me which fields they have in common. Now tell me how someone in product can quickly and intuitively combine their data and queries with the sales activity data.
Data silos have been a topic for quite some time. How do we solve this data siloing? Throw all the data into a data warehouse? a data lake? today's storage and data hotness? Sure. That is a solution to the problem faced by data silos. Then the tasks of data discovery, data availability, etc. are moved to a centralized team with possible, and highly likely, competing priorities.
While data lakes, data warehouses and other leading edge data aggregation, normalization and storage solutions may be the right solution for your company. Those solutions are quite often relative end-state solutions. Creating, sharing and continuously updating a shared data dictionary can aid your teams (internal and external) to quickly:
- Gain insight into hidden or underutilized data within your organization
- Empower the entire organization to create new internal insights and new product opportunities
- Prepare your organization for data integration and normalization activities
Does your company have siloed data? Are you wondering how to empower your entire organization to use the disparate sources of data to drive revenue growth? If you can answer yes to these questions reach out today and I will help you evaluate data dictionary technology and uses for your business.
