To be kind, most enterprise data is less than optimal. Want to test this statement out at your company? Just ask where the customer data of record resides. If you ask someone in four different departments, you’ll get four very different answers.
This issue is the natural byproduct of 20 to 30 years spent creating new databases using whatever database was popular at the time. This includes databases for mainframes, big relational databases, open source SQL, object databases, and now, special-purpose databases.
