Information Is Power

Enterprise Information Manage (EIM) is the moniker given to the discipline of handling all unstructured data within and between an enterprise and other organizations.  This represents 90% or more of an organization’s data; however, until recently the practice has garnered less focus than structured data management, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for example.

More notably, we have become so good at generating unstructured data as a civilization that estimates place the rate at which information is generated and captured as doubling every 90 days. From a business perspective, without the ability to capture, preserve, and make this information usable, we place ourselves in an untenable situation for the future.

Unstructured data encompasses everything from email and business processes to the handling of office and PDF documents, and even communicative, transient data like fax transfers, collaborative communications, and large managed files.  This type of data composes the preponderance of information amassed and managed by today’s enterprise systems.  It holds huge volumes of unlocked value for organizations poised to capitalize on their enterprise information strategy.

Read the more in Enterprise Information Management (EIM): The Next Generation of Enterprise Software