In the stream age - how do we commoditise our data?

By Neil Thompson2019-01-25T06:00:00

If we look outside the sector for inspiration we can find new ways of approaching our data that can bring a singular change in the way we do things

Common questions at the early phase of a project sound something like: Where are we going to put all our data? Who needs access to what? Where should we host it? And they generally end with the selection of a single vendor and centralised information management.

That sounds sensible, right? Centralise the data and have one source of the truth? Wrong.

We are seeing such a shift in tech capability that instead of centralising information, we can just connect it – streaming data instead of pushing digitised paper around.

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