Many organizations today have begun to realize that the data and information they create every day are valuable enterprise assets. Those with accessible and higher quality information will make more informed and more effective business decisions. This is true for all organizations since all enterprises need quality information to guide their decision-making and to provide optimum service to their customers.

Enterprise Information Management (EIM) is the set of business processes, disciplines and practices used to manage the information created from an organization’s data as an enterprise asset. EIM functions ensure that high quality information is available, protected, controlled and effectively leveraged to meet the knowledge needs of all enterprise stakeholders, in support of the enterprise mission.

Full organizational commitment to managing information as an enterprise asset requires the establishment of enterprise policies and the development of a support environment shared by the organization. That is what an EIM program provides.

Even for organizations that have identified the need to manage information as an enterprise asset, determining what that really means and how to get started can be very difficult. The discipline of EIM is not as mature as some other disciplines that have evolved over time to manage the enterprise assets of money and people. The management of information is an enterprise effort, and cannot be left to each department or business unit without impacting the overall effectiveness and business value EIM can provide.

This tutorial will offer a methodology for creating and implementing an enterprise information management program. The attendee will gain an understanding of the importance of enterprise information management, the various types of information management components and proven approaches to the establishment of an enterprise information management program. In this EWSolutions-certified course, you will develop a plan for implementing your own enterprise information management program.

Audience

• Enterprise Information Management Professionals
• Data Architects
• Enterprise Architects
• Data Administrators
• Business Analysts
• Project Managers
• IT Professionals

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how to iteratively develop an enterprise wide information management program
• The return on investment (ROI) that enterprise information management can provide
• The foundation of sharing data assets across entire organization
• Fundamentals of enterprise information management
• An overview of EIM components relationship (data governance, information architecture, information quality management, reference & master data management, data warehousing & business intelligence, structured data management, unstructured data management, meta data management, and information security management)
• The importance of enterprise information management to an organization

You will understand:

• Importance of an EIM program for your organization
• How to adopt EIM guiding principles and best practices for your organization
• The components that comprise a well defined EIM program
• Roles, responsibilities, and dependencies in a EIM program
• EIM Maturity and Assessment Models
• Data standards and how to apply them
• EIM Technologies

Benefits To Your Company

• Increased accuracy and consistency of information distributed to internal and external customers
• Data effectiveness is increased, planning and execution improve, with an EIM program
• Operational efficiencies will increase with an EIM program
• Enterprise data will be available for program planning needs and customer data will be safeguarded from misuse
• An EIM program provides organizations with increased flexibility and agility in operations allowing them to meet dynamic market demands

What Makes This Certified Course Unique

This EWSolutions-certified course provides participants with practical, in-depth understanding of how to implement a successful enterprise information management program. Through case studies and team interaction attendees will attain the real-world implementation skills necessary to build a program for their organization. Attendees will receive examples of the various artifacts that form the documentation of a enterprise information management program, and will be able to interact with other attendees to extend their understanding of the importance of starting and maintaining a enterprise information management program. This course enables business and technical staff to develop a cohesive understanding of EIM and its components.

Seminar Outline

• Information as a Enterprise Asset
  • Business value of managing data and information
  • Definitions
• Enterprise Information Management – Introduction
  • What is EIM?
  • EIM framework
  • EIM goals
  • EIM guiding principles
  • Issues and challenges of implementing an EIM program
  • Key attributes to a successful EIM program
  • The EIM organization structure
• Introduction to EIM Framework Components
  • Data governance
  • Information architecture
  • Information quality management
  • Reference & master data management
  • Data warehousing & business intelligence
  • Structured data management
  • Unstructured data management
  • Meta data management
  • Information security management
• Implementing a Enterprise Information Management Program
  • Defining EIM requirements
  • Identifying data and meta data sources
  • Approaches to EIM implementation – roadmap approach
  • Creating the EIM organization structure – EIM Center of Excellence
  • Relationship between the EIM organization and data governance
  • Creating the EIM project plan
  • EIM program artifacts
  • EIM Maturity and Assessment Model – measuring your organization
  • EIM technologies overview
  • EIM component artifact relationships & dependencies
  • Measuring EIM program success
  • Future of EIM
• Workshop conclusion
  • Summary, additional exercises, sources for further reading, etc.