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Information Management

Information Management covers Business Intelligence, Content Management and Data Management. This recognises that the historical boundaries between those three disciplines are breaking down as organisations understand that they need to exploit the totality of their information assets to gain competitive advantage. In addition it acknowledges that the vendor community is itself consolidating and partnerships are being drawn between for example BI and enterprise search providers.

It also reflects the business reality of the ever expanding compliance agenda, and the fact that being able to demonstrate compliance using secured and authenticated information, is as important as the compliance itself.

The focus is on the strategic plans and decisions that CIOs need to make to ensure that the information which forms the corporate memory of the organisation is managed securely and effectively from creation/capture, through storage and retrieval, through to publishing and disposition. It will include the development of content-centric applications and processes and will cover the issue Digital Rights Management.

Areas of coverage

Business Intelligence

Enterprise reporting	OLAP	Real time analytics	Performance Management
Data mining	Data quality	ETL, EII	Metadata
Data warehousing	BI platforms

Content management

Document management	Electronic report management	Records management
Email management	Imaging	Web content management
Change management	Output management	Web publishing
Digital asset management	Scanning	Information lifecycle management

Data management

RDBMS, both proprietary and Open Source	Very Large Databases	Information Lifecycle Management	High Availability Databases
Automation of data management	Supporting Operational BI	Data Quality	Data Governance
Master Data Management	Data visualisation	Supporting Compliance	Data warehouse DBMS servers