stovepiping

Thân thiện

A researcher encounters stovepiping while searching for data across separate systems.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • The retrieval of information from separate, unconnected databases: "Stovepiping" refers to the process of accessing data from isolated systems that do not communicate with each other.
   • The situation requiring exiting one database to enter another: It describes the inefficient condition where a user must completely leave one database system to search for related information in a separate, unlinked system.
   • A security measure: In some contexts, this isolation is intentionally used as a protective technique against unauthorized access or cyber threats.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The agency's intelligence analysis was hampered by persistent stovepiping of data.
  • To get a complete customer profile, the clerk had to engage in stovepiping, logging out of the sales system and into the service history database.
  • The network's security relied on stovepiping to compartmentalize sensitive information.

Advanced Usage

• "To create stovepipes": To design or maintain systems that are isolated and non-interoperable.
  • The legacy software architecture created stovepipes that made data sharing impossible.
• "Stovepiped systems": A compound adjective describing isolated, vertical information systems.
  • The company operated with stovepiped systems, leading to duplicated efforts.

Variants and Related Words

• Stovepipe (n): Can refer to the isolated system or database itself.
  • Each department maintained its own informational stovepipe.
• Stovepiped (adj): Describing information or systems that are isolated.
  • The stovepiped data prevented a comprehensive analysis.

Synonyms

• Data siloing: The practice of keeping data in isolated systems.
• Information compartmentalization: The separation of information into distinct, non-communicating units.

Related Phrases

• "Break down the stovepipes": An idiom meaning to integrate isolated systems to allow data sharing.
  • The new CIO's goal was to break down the stovepipes between departments.
• "Stovepipe organization": A term describing a rigid, vertically structured organization with poor cross-communication.
  • The military was criticized for being a stovepipe organization.

Học thuật

Noun

1. retrieval of information from unconnected databases; the situation that exists when it is necessary to climb out of one database in order to climb down into another; sometimes used for protection against wandering hackers