Data Silos

Most businesses can answer thousands of questions instantly — until the question crosses two systems. The data almost always exists. It just lives in a CRM here, a finance system there, a procurement tool somewhere else, and a spreadsheet that no one fully owns. Four scenarios where that disconnect becomes a real commercial problem — and why it's becoming more urgent with AI.

Chaining six facts together in a relational model can mean an eleven-table join. Graph databases traverse nodes and links instead, sidestepping the mapping tables that make enterprise data so slow to query.