Enterprise Information Management

“Abracadabra” as childhood this is related to something appearing in hand of magician by just uttering these words.  Making something appear has always fascinated me since childhood be it magician in circus show or locating your lucky shirt when you need it most or now in professional world searching for content from huge data stored in digital format.

Yes I am referring to upcoming stream called “ediscovery”. This means process through which we can make things appear which are stored in computer or network for purpose of reproducing them as evidence in court of law. Law Instructed or Government backed ethical hacking also comes in preview of this domain

With new nature of frauds coming into our way and most of state governments working on laws to protect cyber crimes and ensure quality of output it becomes all the more important to focus on this stream.

Although “eDiscovery” has recently caught my attention and I am still thinking about this. To me it is more than technology. It deinately has some element of law, security and compliance all built into it. Though I am not a law expert but I can certainly pay attention to IT related issues where technology can be used

Few Scenarios which can boost this stream of work are:

1.       With search coming into shape and latest technologies coming our way to perform advanced searches. It makes it possible to search digital content using advanced algorithms

2.       Digital Data once written over network cannot be lost easily. Retention and Archiving Policies make sure that we can retrieve desired information back

As part of ediscovery all kind of data can be searched ranging from images, movies or text content. Emails and Chat Messages are another important source of information which can be required to search and reproduce.

This whole stream can be serviced with following services:

1.       Data Analysis

2.       Data Retrieval and Conversion

3.       Scanning

4.       Metatagging data for easy retrieval

5.        Indexing and Processing of data

6.       Exporting

7.       Printing

8.       Quality Control

9.       Recognition of data

With lot of legality and complexity involved in this topic I intend to DISCOVER (and invent) more and write about it.

Any thoughts from your side?

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Every one's been talking about "Enterprise" word, and BI is no exception. We all have been hearing and providing multiple roadmaps on Enterprise BI/Reporting, & agree that its not an easy nut to crack - multiple reasons attributed to it. Diversified business, products, customers, geographies organization operate globally, departmental goals and systems to support them never were built to hand shake. What this effectively boils down to is a huge data store which is there to sort our problems, but instead we got lost in trying to integrate, and make business/strategic sense out of this.

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There are times when a company wants to change the way they are working in order to bring in efficiencies at different levels. This change has become mandatory to them because their current processes or systems are not able to help them meet their strategic goals and therefore making a negative impact on their overall performance. In such cases the company management decides to change systems that they think are causing the bottleneck and embarks on a mission that will remove the bottlenecks or implement a new system that will help them perform certain functions better and faster. Such initiatives can help them meet their immediate goal or solve the problem they are facing. In the long term these bottlenecks will start surfacing again in different forms. Even well thought long term solutions need to be revamped and modified periodically but the cost of doing this will be much lesser because this will be done less frequently and changes can be controlled. Therefore, it is very critical for a company to know if the decision they are making about implementing a new project is right or not.

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I'm excited to discuss the Infosys M-Fabr1k© solution , a DW Migration Factory, that anchors on principles of Automation, Acceleration and Accuracy. As of today, this solution  
-    Provides complete migration solution from any RDBMS to Netezza
-    Provides a Factory based migration approach which is in line with the principle of DW Appliance
-    Accelerates various stages of migration life cycle by 35% !
-    Provides faster analysis techniques, Migration solution and robust testing solution & framework
-    Reduces the migration timelines with high productivity gain and greater degree of  automation
-    Guarantees the ROI on future DW Platform
-    Helps the customer to accrue incremental benefits earlier than traditional approach

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Enterprise Information Management – it’s quite a mouthful, and sounds very intimidating and gargantuan in its scope, as in trying to boil the ocean…….
So wouldn’t it be nice to be able to digest it in smaller nuggets, and get your arms wrapped around specific concepts, that could be broken down further, which in turn can be translated & mapped into actionable projects. Then, I would know how my specific initiative fits into the overall landscape of EIM for my organization.
For me, the ABC’s of EIM can be most easily remembered as the 3 C’s –

Consolidate ………Information
Convey ………………Actionable insights
Conserve ………… the Information fabric

Posted by Rajiv Sabharwal, Chief Solutions Architect, HCLS

So here we are again... First of all let me thank those who provide me with very valuable feedback on my previous post. It was highly appreciated as it was my first attempt at blogging. It is difficult to teach an old dog, new tricks...

Now to business. As promised in my last post, today I will talk a bit about the ILM imperatives in the provider space. Providers being the entities and/or personnel that provide care giving services, such as hospitals, labs, physicians, nurses, hospices etc. Healthcare providers in US (for that matter pretty much everywhere) are a varied and highly disjointed lot... no surprises there. There are many disparate systems that contain patient's medical information and obviously they do not talk to each other. Infact till very recently there wasn't even a common standard for data exchange. For that matter even now, though there is an attempt at a few standards, none of them are universally accepted/adopted.

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By Rajiv Sabharwal, Chief Solutions Architect, Healthcare & Life Sciences

Every industry has its own unique perspective of a horizontal technology/platform, with its own nuances regarding the context and content of the outcome. Healthcare and Life Science is no different. If anything, information storage and delivery takes added significance in this highly regulated industry, simply because of protection provided to patient information thru multiple regulatory mandates.

Over the next month or so, I will make an attempt at discussing a few ILM (Information Lifecycle Management) imperatives in context of healthcare and lifesciences thru a series of blogs, specifically directed at individual implementation scenarios. I would sincerely appreciate feedback not only from horizontal perspective but also from industry and domain perspective.

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Many architects still believe that BI/DW and SOA are divergent Architectural paradigms and SOA is not applicable to BI. Some of the key reasons are

1.       BI requires detailed understanding of the data for adhoc analysis while SOA encapsulates data behind the service interface.

2.       BI requires high volume data being handled in batch mode while SOA serves a specific transaction which is well defined and data volume is low.

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As a small business matures to become an organization, the 'information' it houses, becomes of interest to numerous parties within and outside that organization. This information becomes one of the key factors for that business to sustain and measure growth and establish partnerships. This blog entry will provide an introduction to the IT practice of managing this information – Enterprise Information Management (EIM) and discuss how it can be used during different stages of the information lifecycle.

I will talk about the following six stages of the Information lifecycle:

• Information Collection
• Information Sharing
• Information Access Control - AAA
• User Empowerment & Governance
• Information Search
• Information Intelligence

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