Enterprise Information Management: Strategy, Best Practices & Technologies on Your Path to Success

Authored by Frank Dravis, Baseline Consulting, this paper discusses: (1) EIM strategy development and (2) enabling information management technology. Understanding these two areas is crucial to starting, planning and executing an EIM initiative. And while there are other important technology concepts in EIM—such as data warehousing and data security—only a corporate-wide data management vision can bind disparate, heterogeneous data sources together in a framework for access and sharing of data. As such, the paper also discusses metadata management, master data management, data quality, and data migration—all of which play important roles in integrating and managing data.