It’s likely that your company’s current IT requirements won’t be the same in five years’ time. In communicating with company executives, and those responsible for business development, you’ll gain an overview of future plans. These can include organic business growth, future service offerings, possible mergers and acquisitions, and the data acquisition that comes with these movements.
To allow for growth, you need to use systems that can be expanded in an instant. They need to be capable of ingesting data from new sources as quickly as possible so that you always have a single, well-defined version of all the data entities in your company’s ecosystem. In other words, you need to have a ‘‘golden master’’ of every data file.
