Enterprise Information Management

In a recent blog post by Billy Cripe at Oracle, he discusses the importance of harnessing all the information that has the potential to get lost in the organization. In the future, Cripe states, it will be vital businesses to adopt an effective form content management.

Cripe believes that the wealth and importance of information often falls through the cracks, and information management will be the way to capture and use that data in the best possible way. With the ocean of information, humans swimming through often miss many of the important items because they note what they think is relevant to them.

It will be important for companies now, to be able to use an enterprise information management system that has the ability to capture all of these key tools: programmatic indexing, entity extraction, topical mapping, social inputs, sentiment and semantic awareness. Utilizing these tools will propel companies with their knowledge of information to the next level of business tools.

The Challenges of Being in the Middle

In a recent article at EWeek, Pedro Pereira takes a look at the challenges that solutions providers face due to being in the middle of the information flow process, many providing the business process management software we use today. As a result of the constantly changing business aspect, these providers have become business solutions providers. It’s their responsibility to align the business with technology, which as proven not to be easy.

When developing their products, not only do they have to fulfill the needs of the customer, but they also have to work with the vendors and distributors who put their products out in the market. The distributors are trying to sell the product, so they’re constantly vying for attention. The end user is using the products at home and as a result they bring their new expectations of the software at work.

But as the article points out, since the solutions providers are in the middle of the chain, they have the opportunity to see to both ends of the chain, making it easier to provide solutions to both ends.