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sharing data across an enterprise enables and fosters increased levels of business intelligence and drives timely and informed business decisions.
But within an enterprise, data is often locked in silos. Mergers or acquisitions, firewall restrictions, or other business or tech- nology barriers often restrict an enterprise from easily sharing data across its organizations. These physical or logical separa- tions of infrastructure can prevent two or more organizations from accessing all available data within an enterprise to deliver all-inclusive, data-driven insights. These data silos emerge when an enterprise relies on a traditional, on-premises data warehouse or a traditional data warehouse ported to the cloud.
Between enterprises: Outbound
data sharing
External data sharing takes place all the time between different companies. It can be a vendor-supplier relationship, a partner relationship, a developer-producer relationship, or any number of other business relationships that require two or more enter- prises to collaborate with data to drive business. In Figure 3-1, the primary organization is sharing data, outbound, to the partner organization.
FIGURE 3-1: An enterprise, acting as the data provider, shares data with its supplier, the data consumer.
For example, in a vendor-supplier relationship with data sharing, a supplier knows in advance when to replenish the stock of a par- ticular item. Well-managed inventory also prevents overstock- ing, minimizing the need to significantly reduce prices, which can reduce a company’s margin.
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