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by Alan Alper, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Thursday, December 21, 2006 4:06:00 PM   | Abstract: | Here's a look at excerpts from a Gartner report that lays out a seven-layer strategic framework that supports more effective product information management. |
| Keywords: | Gartner, enterprise information management, enterprise application architecture, product information management, IT governance, business process, data cleansing |
Looking to get your master data mess under control? Well, IT research giant Gartner Inc. has come up with a seven-layer framework that starts with vision and ends with metrics for getting the job done. The framework enables organizations to start building an enterprise information management (EIM) framework that jibes with their enterprise application architecture. EIM's objective, in Gartner's words, is "to address the decades of silo-based system development, in which each application maintained its own version of data and processes rules to suit local performance needs." EIM resolves semantic inconsistencies and master data management issues, which according to a Gartner research brief, have added "significant cost and complexity to application integration and cross-functional success." Without an EIM strategy, Gartner believes, a company's SOA aspirations will be severely undercut. In fact, organizations that create an EIM framework will increase their chances of SOA success by 70%, the researcher contends. "[It's] one of those things that really should have been talked about before SOA," notes Gartner vice president Andrew White in an interview with Managing Automation. Organizations, he adds, need to make EIM a central part of their IT architectures and strategies. "If not, their SOA [plans] will come to a grinding halt." [Click to continue] |