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Data proliferates. Whether you are a small team or a multinational enterprise, information grows at an accelerated rate over time. As that data proliferates, you can run into issues of interoperability, duplication, and inconsistency that slows down the speed with which actionable insights can be derived. In order to mitigate this natural tendency, we develop and enforce standardized data models.