2021 Trends in Big Data: The Interoperability Challenge - insideBIGDATA

The dictates of big data--its inner manipulations and trends--have defined the very form of the data ecosystem since the inception of these technologies nearly a decade ago. It's become entrenched in the most meaningful dimensions of data management, implicit to all but its most mundane practices, and indistinguishable from almost any type of data leveraged for competitive advantage. As such, current momentum in the big data space isn't centered on devising new expressions of its capabilities, but rather on converging them to actualize the long sought, rarely realized, time honored IT ideal of what Cambridge Semantics CTO Sean Martin termed "interoperability. And, the more the data starts to support that, the more interesting that gets, too." The grand vision of interoperability involves the capacity to readily interchange enterprise systems and resources as needed to maximize business productivity without technological restrictions.