Building an Enterprise Information Management Solution

Abstract

In Chapters 4 through 11, I discussed each of the key pillars that go into building an enterprise information management (EIM) solution. Although interrelationships between the pillars were discussed, for instance, in a master information management program there is significant dependence on information governance and quality, there is a need for end-to-end understanding of how the pillars need to be built to address the enterprise business vision. Although I covered the need for EIM reference architecture in Chapter 3, it is vitally important for an enterprise to have a program governance in place for all EIM initiatives. This helps to define the blueprint for EIM, which looks at both its support of the enterprise vision and business objectives as well as its adherence to the EIM reference architecture. This becomes more important with the advent of big data solutions resulting in more complex integration scenarios as well as the robust need for information governance and quality. As a lot of the unstructured data that enterprises now analyze are generated outside of firewalls, the need for a “big picture view” is essential to understand how these new data types influence the EIM reference architecture and the need for stronger program governance to address the objectives of the enterprise-wide EIM program.