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What Is Enterprise Information Management?
For an enterprise to carry out its functions, it needs an ecosystem of business applications, data platforms to store and manage the data, and reporting solutions to provide a view into how the enterprise is performing. Large enterprises with multiple strategic business focus areas need many such applications, and as often seen, over the years the enterprise landscape gets into a spaghetti-like situation where it becomes incomprehensible to articulate which application and which data store does what! Various reasons can be attributed to such a state: lack of enterprise-wide data standards, minimal metadata management processes, inadequate data quality and data governance measures, unclear data archival policies and processes, so on.…