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In the last post, we looked into what Master Data mean. Now I will talk about the why it is so important in today’s competitive business landscape.

Over the next 10 years the amount of data we capture and store will grow to over 2,400 times the total storage capacity of every human brain on Earth. If we don’t want to be overwhelmed by this, we are going to have to re-invent how we explore and analyze data.

Master Data, when maintained in a centralized fashion, can lead to all parts of the business singing from the same sheet of music. This makes managing an enterprise as well as deriving business intelligence out of such data much easier than if different units and systems used different core data.

Mark Gimein (of Slate’s “The Big Money”) recently posited that Twitter is “collapsing under its own weight” due to the sheer number of Tweets we all have to wade through. I agree. I recommend three steps to the leaders of Twitter to both make the service more useful and create a revenue driving service…

Use of modularity and encapsulation if one of the most powerful approaches to scaling architecture (your ability to built it, your cost to operate it–AND the value you can obtain from it). Those enterprises who incorporate this into the DNA of their technology create “killer networks” that can used to generate enormous value…

FAQs are most natural, intuitively social way to share knowledge and provide support. However, they are next-to-impossible to manage at enterprise scale. By harnessing the power of Enterprise 2.0, you can build Interactive FAQs that scale and quickly response to needs of your staff and customers – adding a new level to customer care and internal support…