If you’re an armchair student of public policy, you know that infrastructure (transportation, communication, etc.) really matters in any economic growth discussion.

Invest in the right kind of infrastructure — at the right time — and you get great results. Make a poor choice, and the results are usually obvious as well.

If all of our organizations are trying to get more data and information literate — inform better decisions, re-engineer processes around connected data, etc. — there’s going

There’s a drawing I’ve seen literally dozens of times in customer conference rooms.

On one side, there’s a long list of potential data sources. Different applications, different data, different formats, different owners.

On the other side, there are one or more really important business processes that want to cut across a majority of that data in interesting ways.

And the team is trying to figure out that middle part. It can be a hard problem.

Let’s say a bank wanted