Achieving Unified Information Management

Publication Date	May 2007
Publisher	Ovum
Product Type	Report
Pages	16
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	OVM00352

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Summary

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.

Content

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