What Enterprise Knowledge Really Is

The current landscape: vast datasets, limited business intelligence

Companies today generate and store more information than ever before, yet a significant proportion of that data remains unused. Industry reports estimate that between 60% and 73% of enterprise data is never analysed or leveraged for decision-making.

This “dark data” represents not just lost opportunity but real cost: unnecessary storage spend, compliance risk, duplicated effort and, most significantly, decisions made with partial or outdated information.

At the same time, many organisations continue to rely heavily on manual processes. Studies consistently show that a large majority of teams still depend on manual workflows in core business activities, limiting speed, accuracy, and scalability.

What do we mean by enterprise knowledge?

Enterprise knowledge is the structured, contextualised understanding of how a business actually operates — its systems, people, processes, rules, dependencies, risks and opportunities.

It is more than raw data. It is the semantic layer that explains:

  • how things are connected,

  • why events or failures occur,

  • and what impact a decision will have across the organisation.

When enterprise knowledge is made explicit and accessible, complex questions become answerable: root causes, change impact, operational risk, revenue drivers and cross-departmental dependencies.

The economic cost of poor data quality

Poor-quality data is no longer a technical inconvenience — it is a financial issue. Analysts estimate that organisations lose an average of around $13 million per year due to data quality problems alone.

These losses manifest as operational inefficiencies, billing errors, regulatory exposure, incorrect or delayed reporting, and missed commercial opportunities. In an era of automation and AI, incorrect data quickly compounds into incorrect insights, amplifying the financial and operational impact.

Knowledge Graphs: turning data into structured intelligence

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) map entities and their relationships in a connected, machine-readable format. For enterprises, this provides:

  • A unified view across disparate systems and data sources

  • High-quality, contextualised information

  • The ability to answer complex, cross-functional queries

  • A reliable foundation for AI models, including RAG/GraphRAG and domain-specific small language models (SLMs)

Where traditional databases store facts, Knowledge Graphs store meaning — enabling reasoning, explainability and interoperability.

What makes Velorum different?

Velorum is a modular enterprise platform built natively on Knowledge Graph technology. Its purpose is simple: to transform fragmented digital environments into coherent, actionable intelligence.

Velorum:

  • Automatically builds an enterprise Knowledge Graph from existing systems

  • Creates the MCP / Intelligent System Core — a central semantic layer for the business

  • Makes implicit knowledge explicit, revealing how your organisation truly works

  • Reduces architectural complexity by replacing point-to-point integrations with modular intelligence

  • Provides a trusted information layer for automation, analytics and AI agents

In essence, Velorum converts organisational complexity into a semantic twin of the business — a living model of knowledge that both humans and AI can rely on.

What organisations can expect

Adopting Velorum leads to measurable impact. Organisations typically experience reduced losses associated with poor data quality, a sharp decrease in unused or siloed data, more reliable automation powered by verifiable, contextual knowledge, clear traceability behind decisions, predictions and AI outputs, and faster alignment between teams, systems and strategic goals.

The result is a business where information flows smoothly, decisions are grounded in truth, and AI becomes safer and more effective.

Ready to explore what Velorum can uncover?

If you would like to see how Velorum can map and activate your organisation’s knowledge in weeks, our team can provide a tailored demonstration and a complimentary assessment of your current knowledge landscape.