Over the last few years, companies have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of data that has to be managed, but the hard work of making that data useable and actionable has not changed. This is particularly challenging in the Refining and Petrochemicals space where data has historically been kept siloed in individual applications and the need to integrate IT and OT data to get a complete view of the business is paramount.

 To get value out of this sea of data, experts with strong technical and industry expertise must create relationships between data sources that can surface that data easily and performantly. At MCTK, we believe that Federation of data plays a role in this process at small scale, but we recommend integrated data environments as the only proven way to efficiently handle large data volumes