Will enterprise intelligence be in LLMs?

Oct 9, 2024

Enterprise data dictionaries should be a piece of cake compared with the Oxford English Dictionary.  Most systems have <5,000 fields of which <250 are commonly used, while English has a hundred times as many (~500,000 words of which we use <25,000).  Alas it is not so.  Why?   The OED would be useless if we didn’t inherently know how to use words-if the “deep structure” of language were not embedded in our brains.  The functional equivalent for an enterprise-its “logical data model”-has never been successfully established.  The closest analog-Master Data Management-has had mixed success.  The under-achievements of MDM are often attributed to data or resource limitations.  But the real reason is that MDM has struggled to synthesize the logical underpinnings of data.  This is precisely where LLMs can work magic.  We can use LLMs to catapult MDM to LDM-Logical Data Management.