Siloization

The act or process of placing identical data into a multitude of separate electronic places or electronic containers, resulting in inefficiency of data altering and challenges with data consistency.

The manager’s biggest challenge in streamlining his company’s workflow was the siloization of their data that had occurred as they expanded and just kept buying different programs to plug gaps.

Siloized

The aftermath of the act of splitting personnel, data, etc. into isolated units that have little or no communication and collaboration with each other.

When we siloized the implementation teams we lost sight of what the other teams were working on resulting in overlapping work.