To the outside world, your business is a highly organized structure. But on the inside, it's a cauldron of raw material collected from databases, documents, and a multitude of other sources. This material - a.k.a. data - has all the potential in the world to help your business transform and grow, so long as you properly corral it all through a process called data consolidation.
Data Consolidation Defined
Data is generated from many disparate sources and in many different formats. Data consolidation is the process that combines all of that data wherever it may live, removes any redundancies, and cleans up any errors before it gets stored in one location, like a data warehouse or data lake.