Do you know that the amount of data you have to manage is growing exponentially.  Of course you do.  If you cannot find what you need in the deluge of data splayed in front of you, how will you find tidbits of trustworthy insight from twice as much information next year?

Let's put it in perspective:



Back only 20 years ago, the typical medium for storing information was tape.  The maximum storage of a tape was 140 megabytes.  Mainframe drives were 640 Megabytes, and the largest space you could ever consider working with was 2 Gigabytes. 

Today, it is commonplace to buy personal computes with 1 Terabyte hard drives (enough to store 200,000 songs on iTunes) and Google processes 1000 times more data than that every 72 seconds.  With the advent of images filling up our storage, Web 2.0 and RFID technologies, expect to be in these stratospheric data volumes very quickly. 

What you need cannot be fixed by making some small changes to what was essentially designed twenty years ago.  That has been done for the past twenty years, and the value of incremental changes is beginning to dwindle because the foundation holding these incremental changes is beginning to crumble.

The good news is that much of what you have today is sound and does work, and the changes to get you to where you need to go are not massive, but it does require some retooling in both tools and processes used to get you back on the right road.