Data held by one team or system that other parts of the organization cannot easily reach, often stored in a format no one else uses.
Data Silos are a common cause of Technical Drag and of failed AI projects. If a model can see only a fragment of the enterprise's knowledge base, its predictions will be incomplete. Data Lakehouses and unified Vector Databases are designed to bring siloed data together.
See also Technical Drag, Data Mobilization, Data Lakehouse and Vector Database.