Disconnected data – What is it?
The spreadsheet that your warehouse manager has off to the side to track his inventory levels and expected shipments from your key suppliers.
The email orders from your dealer portal waiting to be manually keyed into your ERP.
Disconnected data is a set of information stored separately from the main system that is used to run your business (your ERP system). The data is valuable and lack of visibility to that data creates problems throughout the organization. Far more than you realize.
A 2023 study by enterprise automation provider Snaplogic and Vanson Bourne researchers showed the following: