Gartner predicts that one third of Fortune 100 companies will be facing an information management crisis by 2017 due to the large amounts of unmanaged data that has been acquired. Within the walls of these large corporations, data has been gathered and stored with minimal security and data management processes, as well as the technology and hardware to support it.
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Corporations need to begin managing the data and what they are doing with it instead of just maintaining it. An Enterprise Information Management (EIM) discipline needs to be built and managed in order for the big data gathering to continue. The power a well-managed, information-sharing system can provide is endless.
Hype or Ripe: Going forward, will these large organizations be able to continue gather and store the data at the rate, or be able to trust the data quality?