Enterprise Information Management (EIM) is an organizational commitment to define, secure, and improve information accuracy across boundaries to support business objectives. There are 7 key trends in EIM: 1) Focus is shifting from control to access and prioritizing people over content. 2) Keyword search is no longer effective and alternatives like machine learning are needed. 3) Systems are becoming more complex while users prefer simplicity. 4) Ease of use, implementation, and integration are important. 5) SharePoint focuses too much on content before people. 6) Communication tools are still used more than dedicated collaboration systems. 7) Information architecture models need to evolve to better solve problems. Research shows user adoption and experience are most critical for technology success

1. Enterprise Information Management7 Trends & Why They MatterBilly Cripe | VP Marketing | Fishbowl Solutions

2. EIMOWhat is Enterprise Information Management7 Trends in EIMWhy You Should Care

3. EIMWhat is Enterprise Information ManagementEnterprise Information Management as defined by Gartner is �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 technical, operational and business objectives of a company's enterprise architecture strategy.

4. EIM Trends – People FirstPeople first then Content focus shifting from control to access

5. EIM Trends – Keyword Search Is DeadKeyword Search is Dead, Long Live Keyword Search:The business world is at a point where alternatives, including machine-generated And social search techniques, must be explored. Information Recall, Information Location,Information RelevanceIs the focus.Search, at best, is a means to an end

6. EIM Trends – Power + DesirabilitySimplified Sophistication.E20. Power and Ease Sexiness and ReachSystems get more complex, people turn to simple, consumer web 2.0. But web 20 lacks the reach and scope and security and approval of the enterprise. Enter Enterprise 2.0. But who will win and how will they do it?

7. Ease of Use, Ease of Implementation, Ease of Integration – Simple doesn’t mean simplistic. Integration means enterprise ecosystem is vitalEIM Trends – Easy, Simple, Integrated

8. EIM Trends – SharePoint Is Doing It WrongMicrosoft SharePoint is doing it backwards,focusing first on Content features then on People Eagerness means they will buy, force or fight their way in.SharePoint is in Feature Catch-Up ModeMasquerading as a Mature System

9. EIM Trends – Communication WinCommunication tools(still) being used to collaborate & publish more than ECMmore than E20 more than collaboration Long live Email.

10. EIM Trends – IA Must Evolve Information Architecture Must Evolvecant use old models to solve existing problems and expect dramatic results. Early models of ECM replicated old models of document management – filing cabinets, folders, locations etc. Fundamental limitations ensued.

11. EIM – Research Agrees – It’s People

12. EIM – Research Agrees – It’s PeopleUser Adoption and Experience is the only thing that makes technology successful as a means to “competitive advantage”Data suggest that most firms have not merged information system (IS) integration with the right complementary organizational resources. The findings also support the notion that competitive advantage does not arise from replicable resources, but from complex, firm-specific and intangible resources and capabilities. The findings help to explain why some firms struggle while others flourish with the same ITs, and why IT-based advantages tend to dissipate so rapidly.Title: A survey on integrated IS and competitive advantageAuthor(s): VincenzoMorabito, MarinosThemistocleous, Alan SerranoJournal: Journal of Enterprise Information ManagementYear: 2010 Volume: 23Issue: 2Page: 201 - 214

13. EIM – Research Agrees - Technology Still Matters

14. EIM – Research Agrees - Technology Still MattersUser Adoption is more influenced by technological and organizational factors than environmental factorsThe results reveal that the factors influencing SMEs' adoption of enterprise systems are different from the factors influencing SMEs' adoption of other previously studied information systems (IS) innovations. SMEs were found to be more influenced by technological and organisational factors than environmental factors. Moreover, the results indicate that firms with a greater perceived relative advantage, a greater ability to experiment with these systems before adoption, greater top management support, greater organisational readiness and a larger size are predicted to become adopters of enterprise systems.Title: Predicting SMEs' adoption of enterprise systemsAuthor(s): BoumedieneRamdani, Peter Kawalek, Oswaldo LorenzoJournal: Journal of Enterprise Information ManagementYear: 2009 Volume: 22Issue: ½Page: 10 - 24

15. Fishbowl & EIMFishbowl Solutions Understands:EIM – We Are The ExpertsBusiness Problems – And How To Solve ThemThe Business Ecosystem – And How to engage the power of sophisticated systems with the simplicity that secures user adoption

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