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Enterprise Information Management

Aerospace and Defense organizations have an increasing need to access structured data, such as transactional database information, and unstructured data, such as design documents and reports, within a common, intuitive framework.  Most programs, executing within the organization, have their own set of process, documentation and reporting guidelines, which do not look to share valuable information across a program team or the organization.  As such, it can be daunting to try to address such as broad topic as Enterprise Information Management within most Aerospace and Defense organizations.

Key challenges faced by A&D leadership, including Program Managers, when trying to address a common framework for Information Management enterprise-wide include:

  • Multiple stakeholders that deal with similar information, but utilize separate and autonomous processes and procedures to manage their intellectual capital
  • Enterprises that may have multiple producers of information; in some cases they even attempt to produce the same information with little to no success
  • Enterprises have multiple consumers of information that must sort through existing artifacts making assumptions-based decisions around which information is the most current or correct versions of the truth
  • Multiple technologies and architectures which create barriers to integration and information exchange that may add significant value

While working with many organizations, having problems addressing the ability to tackle such as broad topic of Enterprise Information Management, Hitachi Consulting has established a common methodology that categorizes the different areas of Information Management and breaks each area into a consumable enterprise improvement strategy.

Overall Information Management is broken down into six key categories:

  1. Enterprise Data Management
    1. Data Quality
    2. Data Security
    3. Data Hubs
    4. Taxonomy
    5. Master Data
  2. Business Intelligence
    1. Data Warehousing
    2. Reporting/Analytics
    3. Dashboards/Scorecards
  3. Knowledge Management
    1. Intranets
    2. Search
    3. Unstructured Data/Documents & Records
  4. Enterprise Portals/Applications
  5. Data Governance
  6. Program Governance 

By identifying high quality and high value information in each one of these categories, the information management team can focus their efforts in a smaller, more defined area, with the larger picture of Enterprise Information Management as the end goal.

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