Beautiful Data

Enterprise Discoverability

When new information arrives in the organization, whether that is a new employee, a change to an employee record, shoplifter information, or a loyalty club enrollment, one needs to know what other organizational data relates to this information.

One common approach to enterprise discovery involves a technique known as "federated search," the passing of a query to every relevant operational system. As we shall demonstrate, this does not work for data finds data systems. Discoverability, especially within large-scale, real-time environments, necessitates directories.