I thought to myself: Now why would I pay that money to just move my personal content from one data silo to another? Why not put it all out in the cloud where I can access it from wherever I log in?
1 Comment - You're right - there is no simple answer to the data silo problem. The CEO of my company (Synata) explored a few approaches in a piece on VentureBeat this week
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) as a category has been so much about the organization of content across the many data silos, but ECM has become yet another data silo, as identified by AIIM CEO John Mancini in his most recent CMSWire article Digital Chatter, Information Overload, and How to Get it Under Control
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Social has the ability to pull together ideas, discussions, and activities from across internal groups -- which would otherwise sit in data silos, such as email, or even restricted SharePoint groups or sites. The entire culture of the Yammer team (historically speaking) has been to unlock data silos by including everyone in the dialog, allowing people to join a discussion and share expertise that may or may not be part of their current job descriptions
In an article for MarketsForGood.org earlier this year ( Avoiding the Silo Gap ), I wrote about the tendency organizations have to build out data silos around business units (sales, marketing, support, engineering) and, even within these business layers, around specific roles (project management, developers, HR)
Social has the ability to pull together ideas, discussions, and activities from across internal groups -- which would otherwise sit in data silos, such as email, or even restricted SharePoint groups or sites. The entire culture of the Yammer team, for example, is to unlock data silos by including everyone in the dialog, allowing people to join a discussion and share expertise that may or may not be part of their current job descriptions
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More and more these point solutions are being expanded to connect with and interoperate with the Big Data Silos. Where these silos represent Line of Business (LOB) solutions that drive various aspects of the business
Here's how I explain the values of social to mu customers: It improves team communication -- While the terms "social" and "collaboration" are often blurred, I like to separate their definitions by saying that social technology helps teams collaborate by providing a communication channel across traditional data silos. Social is the tool by which collaboration is achieved
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As the leading document management and collaboration platform, SharePoint—and its online successor, Office 365, which also includes web-based email and communications services—has helped enterprises to break down many of the data silos surrounding their content and business processes