Achieving Unified Information Management

July 5, 2007; 04:37 AM
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c61747) has announced the addition of Achieving Unified Information Management to their offering.

Unified information management (UIM) encompasses the concept, the approach and the techniques for dealing with rapidly increasing volumes of business-relevant information. This information may be stored in any number of formats or locations, but must be current, consistent and readily accessible if it is to support business processes and decision making. Enterprises and the IT vendors that support them need strategies to maximise and exploit the value of such information, whether structured or semi-structured. Such strategies will need to leverage a range of software tools but, most importantly, will require a holistic view of an organisation’s information assets, its corporate memory.

Key messages

The dawn of unified information management

A perfect storm drives data management demand

    --  Potential benefits are also critical UIM drivers

Emerging standards facilitate UIM

XML as the default data format
There is no such thing as unstructured information

Starting points for UIM

Search and integrated UI as initial UIM stages
Other UIM technology 'quick starts'

Records management is no longer just an adjunct to document management

UIM is a journey not an end point

Leading vendors mount ILM/UIM initiatives

Visualisation enables understanding
UIM market characterised by acquisitions and consolidation
IBM
Microsoft
Oracle
EMC

Infrastructure players cannot do it all

Companies Mentioned:

    * EMC
    * IBM
    * Microsoft
    * Oracle

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c61747

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