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This report investigates the level of Information Architecture (IA) implementation and usage at the enterprise level. The primary support for the report is an analysis of a 2013 DATAVERSITY™ survey on Data and Information Architecture. This paper is sponsored by: HP, Vertica, Denodo, Embarcadero and CA Technologies.

When enterprises consider the benefits of data analysis, what's often overlooked is the challenge of data variety, and that most successful outcomes are driven by it. Yet businesses are still struggling with how to query distributed, heterogeneous data using a unified data model. Fortunately, Knowledge Graphs provide a schema flexible solution based on modular, extensible data models that evolve over time to create a truly unified solution. How is this possible? Download and discover: • Why businesses should organize information using nodes and edges instead of rows, columns and tables • Why schema free and schema rigid solutions eventually prove to be impractical • The three categories of data diversity including semantic and structural variety

SAP® solutions for enterprise information management (EIM) support the critical abilities to architect, integrate, improve, manage, associate, and archive all information. By effectively managing enterprise information, your organization can improve its business outcomes. You can better understand and retain customers, work better with suppliers, achieve compliance while controlling risk, and provide internal transparency to drive operational and strategic decisions.

Getting people successfully through a new enterprise information management (EIM) initiative requires a focus on the change’s impact to your organization’s data culture, processes and policies.

Metadata defines the structure of data in files and databases, providing detailed information about entities and objects. In this white paper, Dr. Robin Bloor and Rebecca Jowiak of The Bloor Group discuss the value of metadata and the importance of organizing it well, which enables you to: - Collaborate on metadata across your organization - Manage disparate data sources and definitions - Establish an enterprise glossary of business definitions and data elements - Improve communication between teams

There are multiple considerations for collaborating on metadata within an organization, and you need a good metadata strategy to define and manage the right processes for a successful implementation. In this white paper, David Loshin describes how to enhance enterprise knowledge sharing by using collaborative metadata for structure, content, and semantics.

Data management is becoming more and more central to the business model of enterprises. The time when data was looked at as little more than the byproduct of automation is long gone, and today we see enterprises vigorously engaged in trying to unlock maximum value from their data, even to the extent of directly monetizing it. Yet, many of these efforts are hampered by immature data governance and management practices stemming from a legacy that did not pay much attention to data. Part of this problem is a failure to understand that there are different types of data, and each type of data has its own special characteristics, challenges and concerns. Reference data is a special type of data. It is essentially codes whose basic job is to turn other data into meaningful business information and to provide an informational context for the wider world in which the enterprise functions. This paper discusses the challenges associated with implementing a reference data management solution and the essential components of any vision for the governance and management of reference data. It covers the following topics in some detail: · What is reference data? · Why is reference data management important? · What are the challenges of reference data management? · What are some best practices for the governance and management of reference data? · What capabilities should you look for in a reference data solution?

This paper presents a practitioner informed roadmap intended to assist enterprises in maturing their Enterprise Information Management (EIM) practices, with a specific focus on improving Reference Data Management (RDM). Reference data is found in every application used by an enterprise including back-end systems, front-end commerce applications, data exchange formats, and in outsourced, hosted systems, big data platforms, and data warehouses. It can easily be 20–50% of the tables in a data store. And the values are used throughout the transactional and mastered data sets to make the system internally consistent.

Data governance is a lifecycle-centric asset management activity. To understand and realize the value of data assets, it is necessary to capture information about them (their metadata) in the connected way. Capturing the meaning and context of diverse enterprise data in connection to all assets in the enterprise ecosystem is foundational to effective data governance. Therefore, a data governance environment must represent assets and their role in the enterprise using an open, extensible and “smart” approach. Knowledge graphs are the most viable and powerful way to do this. This short paper outlines how knowledge graphs are flexible, evolvable, semantic and intelligent. It is these characteristics that enable them to: • capture the description of data as an interconnected set of information that meaningfully bridges enterprise metadata silos. • deliver integrated data governance by addressing all three aspects of data governance — Executive Governance, Representative Governance, and App

Increasing dependence on enterprise-class applications has created a demand for centralizing organizational data using techniques such as Master Data Management (MDM). The development of a useful MDM environment is often complicated by a lack of shared organizational information and data modeling. In this paper, David Loshin explores some of the root causes that have influenced an organization’s development of a variety of data models, how that organic development has introduced potential inconsistency in structure and semantics, and how those inconsistencies complicate master data integration.

With information streaming in from more varied sources and at a faster pace than ever before, organizations are having an increasingly difficult time deriving accurate meaning from their data. Data governance systems that were once able to organize and process enterprise information are becoming too slow and limited.   Semantic information management makes it easier to reconcile data from different sources by compiling and organizing information about that data, its metadata. By connecting all kinds of data and metadata in a more accessible way, semantic information systems empower users, data stewards and analysts to unlock and use the true meaning and value of their organization’s data.     Learn more about the challenges in the evolving data landscape and how a semantic approach can help.

With information streaming in from more varied sources and at a faster pace than ever before, organizations are having an increasingly difficult time deriving accurate meaning from their data. Data governance systems that were once able to organize and process enterprise information are becoming too slow and limited. Semantic information management makes it easier to reconcile data from different sources by compiling and organizing information about that data, its metadata. By connecting all kinds of data and metadata in a more accessible way, semantic information systems empower users, data stewards and analysts to unlock and use the true meaning and value of their organization’s data. Learn more about the challenges in the evolving data landscape and how a semantic approach can help.

This Dive Deep analyst report looks at the process of building an environment for what can be aptly termed Agile Business Analytics.

This paper examines the root causes of data centralization failure and then reviews straightforward best practices that can help avoid such failures but are typically ignored when systems are designed in an ad hoc, organic manner.

One of the biggest challenges in a data management initiative is aligning different and sometimes competing organizations to work towards the same long-term vision. It is very difficult to execute a data management program all at once, or as a “big bang” approach. Rather, the program should be deployed in phases over time, starting in one area and incrementally building out and adding value to the rest of the organization over time.

A new approach to rapid, high-quality data integration, data services, and data governance.

Transform your finance operations into a strategic, data-driven engine Data inundation and information overload have burdened practically every largescale enterprise today, providing great amounts of detail but often very little context on which executives can act. According to the Harvard Business Review,1 less than half of an organisation’s structured data is actively used in making decisions. The burden is felt profoundly among finance executives, who increasingly require fast and easy access to real-time data in order to make smart, timely, strategic decisions. In fact, 80% of analysts’ time is spent simply discovering and preparing data, and the average CFO receives information too late to make decisions 24% of the time.2

Enterprise analytics has quickly evolved from a centralized business intelligence function for historical reporting and dashboards to a democratized capability where anyone can access, analyze and act on all available information, often in real-time while employing advanced techniques. But the complex, dynamic and urgent nature of modern data analytics demands a new approach to data integration.

Current methods for accessing complex, distributed information delay decisions and, even worse, provide incomplete insight. This paper details the impact of Unified Information Access (UIA) in improving the agility of information-driven business processes by bridging information silos to unite content and data in one index to power solutions and applications that offer more complete insight.

Application management requires visibility from multiple vantage points within the IT enterprise, combined with a centralized information store that pulls the technology pieces of the application puzzle into a coherent whole.

This comprehensive PBX Buyers Guide explores the PBX technology (both hosted and traditional) and empowers the mid to enterprise business PBX buyers with critical information necessary that is helpful in selecting the right phone system for any business.

Today, mobility is no longer a trend. It’s an established reality, reshaping the enterprise. This white paper is the second in a three-part series on enabling the mobile desktop while securing information and protecting your organization.

Today, mobility is no longer a trend. It’s an established reality reshaping the enterprise. This white paper is the third in a three-part series on enabling the mobile enterprise while securing information and protecting your organization.

• Enterprise Content Management is a market in transition. And as demand for modernization becomes widespread, long-time leaders are investing in new capabilities to keep up — and bringing more of the market to the cloud to meet the needs of users and IT managers alike. • • This report shows how a range of providers measure up to help companies make the right choice when • requirements are skewed to the needs of information workers who need to create, collaborate on, share, and find enterprise content. • • Use the 2017 Forrester Wave™ report to: o Get educated. Gain an understanding of how the ECM market is changing and why complex, on-premises ECM suites are giving way to Cloud Content Management platforms like Box. o Define your needs. Forrester ranks the top 15 ECM business content vendors based on current offerings, strategy and market presence to help you evaluate vendors that suit your needs. o Select a vendor. Learn how cloud content management platforms like Box are designed

• In today's ever-evolving world, content management is a moving target. With content flowing from a multitude of places, keeping up with the speed of business requires a content management strategy that's more flexible than traditional Enterprise Content Management (ECM). • As digital transformation forces organizations to rethink their processes, it's never been more important to focus on deploying a platform that works across all of your content so you can get more value out of each asset and protect yourself against technology stagnation. • Check out our ebook, 5 Considerations For Transforming Your ECM Strategy With Cloud Content Management, and learn how to bring your people and information together in the cloud.