Hello and welcome to my Enterprise Information Management Blog.
First of all, I would like to give a brief introduction to myself and the purpose of this Blog. Denmark is my home country and my name is Christian Frank, I’m a student at the Copenhagen Business School where I’m studying a combination of computer science and economics. Currently I’m working on my master thesis and the topic is Enterprise Information Management. The inspiration for this topic came from working as a support consultant at Component Software. Hopefully this Blog can give some feedback to my thoughts and inspiration to others with the same interest.

What is Enterprise Information Management (EIM)?
I think that EIM is a fussy concept and would like to hear your opinion about what EIM is?
It is not difficult to find sites about EIM, but few bother giving it a definition. The following definitions of EIM are from Gartner Inc., a research and advisory firm:
“Defined enterprise information management (EIM) as a organized program to design, catalog and safeguard all information assets (including content found in databases, transaction systems, data warehouses, documents and rich media) to maximize their value, usefulness, accessibility and security.” (Source: EIM Reference Architecture: An Essential Building Block for Enterprise Information Management, 14 September 2005).

“EIM is defined as the set of disciplines, technologies, and solutions used to create and maintain consistent interpretation of business data by all stakeholders (users, applications, processes, enterprises).” (Source: Enterprise Information Management Is a Core Element of Your IT Architecture, 17 January 2005).

“Gartner defines EIM as an organizational commitment to define, secure and improve the accuracy and integrity of information assets, and to resolve semantic inconsistencies across all boundaries to support the technical, operational and business objectives of the company's enterprise architecture strategy.” (Source: Enterprises Must Adopt a Comprehensive View of EIM, 24 August 2005).

“Definition: Enterprise information management (EIM), previously called heterogeneous data synchronization, is the set of related disciplines, technologies and solutions used to create and maintain consistent interpretation of structured and unstructured data (semantics, syntax and structure) that business applications use between heterogeneous systems.” (Source: Hype Cycle for Business Application Technologies, 18 July 2005).