The value of harnessing unruly company data in order to serve the greater good of enterprise efficiency (and gain one version of truth) has been discussed, debated and dissected for many years. I think it’s high time we throw some cold water on this overheated conversation with three calming words: enterprise information management (EIM).
For the uninitiated, SAP TechEd Shanghai provides the perfect opportunity to learn more about the benefits of EIM. From on-boarding data (data migration, data quality, data storage), to the ongoing management and use of data (quality, governance), to dealing with unstructured content (document management), EIM holds the key to managing the data deluge. In fact, some SAP customers have realized EIM benefits such as reduced data duplication from 25% down to 2%, migration of over 30 disparate ERP systems to two, and have saved over one billion dollars by fixing data issues. How?
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