Building on the popularity of cloud storage, combined with an age-old banking business model, I have long anticipated the emergence of “information services organisations”. Such companies will provide not just storage and access to information assets, but also a full range of banking-type services including: lending (licensing), interests (enrichment and cleansing), investment (new forms of monetization), credit (using information as a form of payment or collateral), portfolio analysis (measuring and reporting on information health), and advice.
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