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Threaded View User Rank: Strategist 8/23/2014 | 2:25:08 AM Re:
Silos and lack of strategy So true. Using data without a long
term vision for where it can be used, metrics and analysis which
can be incurred and a proper data strategy just means one thing
- plenty of blind spots and chaos. The price for acquiring such
data which isn't even stale , but dead/dark data is often paid
by IT data strategy personnel (though the cost is billed on the
company). You need a tool like HAVEN to make more sense of it (
User Rank: Ninja 8/15/2014 | 11:04:21 AM Silos and lack of
strategy As another commenter posted, silos are a serious
contributing factor to organizations accumulating dark data.
 However as a recent IDG SAS survey showed, the surprisingly
hack lack of a data strategy plays a key role here as well.
Without a serious understanding of what you want to get out of
data - and an understanding of how to do it, data will fail to
fully realize its potentia