It would not make sense if you are a high-tech software development company and you decided on the silo used primarily by industrial companies. The structure of the silos as well as the analysis protocols within them usually has some form of bias toward a particular industry. Active Warehouse rather than CyberDialogue's product favored by Internet companies and subsidiaries. The second element to be considered, and by far the most important, is the information provided by the silo solution. As for your company, you must determine what information you want to extract from the data.
Data silos can even provide data extrapolation and interpolation for a variety of categories.
For example, publicly traded Business Objects provides a solution called WebIntelligence that allows communication and sharing of strategic data over intranets and extranets. Essentially, WebIntelligence takes data and puts it in a format that makes sense to buyers, vendors, suppliers, etc. The WebIntelligence solution may be the best way to proceed if you are interested in maximizing communication and interpreting performance of intra-corporate communications and business process flows. You can see how the Business Object approach differs from FutureNet's e-Business Intelligence suite, which is a more internal solution that provides information on customer buying habits for the benefit of employees and customer service channels. Although those two product names are awfully close, their applications are worlds apart.