It is obvious that full incorporation of externaldatasources is going to be a long-term effort, involving changes to data processing technology, analytics, business relationships, and ways of working.
ClearStory Data, a startup that has not revealed its capabilities, has declared that it will be in the business of providing a platform and user model that makes it easy and intuitive to find high value externaldata from numerous trusted sources and cross-pollinate this data with private and corporate data for fast, richer analysis.
Splunk also provides the infrastructure to store this data over time, correlate this data with other datasources from within the enterprise or from externalsources, make the data available to other applications or services across the enterprise, and export the data for other purposes as needed.