Small data refers to data that humans can understand, comprehend, observe and process personally. They are "small enough" for people in contrast to so-called big data. There are many reason and conception for small data, from the perspective of company users there are several advantages of small data approach:
- user get only data they need fro the job (and they don't have a lot of data they don't need)
- data are availabe to users without need of integration from many sources
Impact of small data approach to enterprise software
- less integration
- less information noise
- users enter (create) necessary data only