Accenture_Technology_Vision_2014

TREND 3: DATA SUPPLY CHAINTREND 3Data supply chain:Putting information into circulationYes, data technologies are evolving rapidly, but most have beenadopted in piecemeal fashion. As a result, enterprise data isvastly underutilized. Data ecosystems are complex and litteredwith data silos, limiting the value that organizations can getout of their own data by making it difficult to access. To trulyunlock that value, companies must start treating data more as asupply chain, enabling it to flow easily and usefully through theentire organization—and eventually throughout each company’secosystem of partners too.43ACCENTURE TECHNOLOGY VISION 2014