Building the Snowflake Data Cloud: Monetizing and Democratizing Your Data

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A. CarruthersBuilding the Snowflake Data Cloudhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8593-0_2

2. Breaking Data Silos

Andrew Carruthers¹  

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Birmingham, UK

 

Every organization has data silos —those segregated, highly controlled IT systems and data repositories controlled by a limited, select group of individuals who closely guard their data. Traditionally, each silo operates as a self-contained micro-business, with minimal overlap and essential data interchange. Furthermore, in larger organizations, data silos have coalesced around common industry-leading applications, each with its own embedded data model leading to further challenges to data integration. And ...