Everyone has had this experience: you’re sitting in a bar or the airport and your head starts bobbing to a catchy song. Type a few lyrics into Google and framed at the top of the first results page you get the song name, plus contextual information like the artist, genre, release date, related songs people search for, music videos you can play without leaving the page, and links to listen on Spotify and other music services. That experience is powered by a knowledge graph. And it can be the backbone of data-driven culture within enterprise companies.
Most businesses have more data than they know what to do with and much of it buried in silos and hard to access. When speed is the ultimate competitive advantage, it follows that your teams should be able to quickly surface useful data while it’s still useful. But at most companies, this takes way too long. Usefulness declines as time slips away.
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Source: IT Strategy