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As commerce becomes more complicated, and companies look to increase automation and collaboration, data is now emerging as a major market battleground. EIM will become critical as companies move toward architectures that support business efficiency and agility by design.  Read More How PIM Provides Global Data Synchronization Armstrong World Industries is achieving global product data synchronization with a product information management solution that unifies data from multiple sources throughout the company. GDS is a core strategy for reducing supply chain costs that provides a basis for radio frequency identification. Enterprise Information Management Is a Core Element of Your IT Architecture EIM is the logical layer of an IT architecture. Develop an EIM strategy and use it for your application and integration programs. Enterprise content management and EIM strategies should be reconciled to simplify the approach, rationalize tools and streamline investments. Implement Best Practices to Develop Your Optimum Enterprise Information Management Strategy Consider a range of techniques and technologies when developing an enterprise information management strategy. Knowing their strengths and weaknesses will help you determine the best configuration for your company. Data Integration Forms the Technology Foundation of EIM Several technologies are relevant in delivering a holistic approach to enterprise information management. Data integration, in multiple styles, will play a leading role in dealing with the syntax and semantics of master data. Master Data Governorship Begins With a Reference Model Large organizations should not attempt to resolve issues of governorship and control of reference data until they have adopted and published a reference model. This model describes the stakeholders and the different types of data and their uses. Include Technical Product Data in EIM System Design Most product-related decisions, processes and commercial transactions involve technical product data either directly or indirectly. Product data directly supports product information needs for design, sourcing, manufacturing, service and repair processes. The data indirectly supports buy and sell processes. We describe the impact of technical product data on business performance of various activities. EIM Has Become Increasingly Important to Human Capital Management As companies expand globally, enterprise information management of person data becomes critical. Organizations with knowledge workers worldwide need accurate head counts and an understanding of employees' expertise and competencies to properly match people, roles and tasks. Enterprise Information Management Requires ERP Although enterprise resource planning centralizes transaction data and ensures transaction consistency, it was never designed for semantic persistence. However, because master data is embodied in transactions, you cannot achieve EIM without ERP. Companies Should Align Their Structured and Unstructured Data Tools are evolving to bring content under greater control. This means "unstructured data" is increasingly becoming closer to "structured." Such alignment is necessary to ensure semantic consistency within the company. However, we don't yet know under what auspices this alignment will take place. Enterprise Asset Management Thrives on Data Consistency To develop an effective enterprise asset management system, organizations need to create and support structured and unstructured data.