Fedegration - one big piece of information consulting
Mark Lewis writes about “Fedegration” which he defines as “leverage data and content across applications for new purposes (new applications, analytics, governance) and still leave it (and manage it) in place for the existing application.”. Pretty good definition and a good example of why information consulting is going to be important in future years for our large clients. Working in the Cable world now I see many companies that grew primarily through acquisition and they have this issue in spades - how to make the data consistent yet not redo the complete set of systems (usually in the 10s or even 100s of systems). Fedegration was the number 1 issue for CIOs that Mark talked to at the current EMC World conference. We used to talk about not having enough software to do all the jobs we could do with software - now we are getting critical mass and we are dealing with the more challenging problem of how they all work together. Disclaimer - I work for EMC also.
From: http://ping.fm/s7cWS
