Enterprise Information Management in Practice: Managing Data and Leveraging Profits in Today’s Complex Business Environment

CHAPTER 3

Components of Enterprise Information Management

With an understanding of what enterprise information management (EIM) is and how the information lifecycle works from creation/receipt to retirement, I now move to the core components of an EIM solution. The key or core components of an EIM solution are associated around the governance; quality of the data sourced for consumption; the integration patterns of data types; the associated data architecture and data models; the ability to manage associated master data and metadata; and the challenges posed by the increasing interest in new data types such as machine data, sensor data, weblogs, ...