Democratisation of data inside a company to make a business agile is important, says Kee Siong Ng, senior data scientist at EMC's Greenplum.Traditionally, he says, there is a conflict over how to classify data mining -- is it an information technology application or part of the wider business. "You see it moving back and forth," said Kee Siong in his keynote address at the 2012 SUNZ Conference in Wellington last week. "One thing you must do is try to formalise that relationship, and really emphasise this collaborative environment," he says. "You might have the infrastructure being managed by IT, but the data side is really owned by the business." This division, he says, is a major problem in a lot