In organizations of all shapes and sizes, data is locked in silos. It takes time to locate data, integrate it, and share it so insights can be obtained. Therefore, decisions are made on intuition rather than fact.
Companies face a range of challenges when they need to share data internally between departments and externally across suppliers, customers, and vendors. The time it takes to extract this data from the many disparate data sources that exist, to transferring the data using something like FTP, ...