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SAP Thought Leadership Paper Enterprise Information Management Implementing an Enterprise Information Management Strategy An Approach That Mitigates Risk and Drives Down Costs

Considerations for Moving Forward Think Globally, Act Locally Vision and Planning Going Live with Your Solution How SAP Can Help Planning Implementation

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could use any content in your organization to enrich business processes? Wouldn’t it be good to connect any content to improve visibility, increase production system performance, and improve compliance? Wouldn’t you like to manage your content in a more cost-efficient way, reducing your total cost of ownership? Read on to gain insights into how a combined approach to information lifecycle management and enterprise content management can make this a reality for your organization today.

Tackling the Divide Between Structured Data and Unstructured Information Content and Opportunity Data, information, content – call it what you will, it’s essential to business success. Due to new technologies and a seemingly unquenchable thirst for insight, it’s also growing exponentially, which makes it difficult to manage. Companies that can manage the volume and variety of data in an agile manner can react better to shifting consumer preferences and changing market con­ ditions, which means ongoing business advantage. One practice that stands in the way is based on a technical...

Enterprise Content Management and Information Lifecycle Management A Combined Approach A combined approach to managing structured and unstructured data brings together the worlds of information life­ cycle management (ILM) and enterprise content management (ECM). ILM – which focuses on structured data – enables you to manage data volumes and compliance with legal and regulatory mandates at the same time. It helps you apply retention times and destroy data after the expiration date is reached. ECM – which focuses on unstructured data – typically involves a methodology and underlying software...

Analysis, Planning, and Implementation Considerations for Moving Forward Think Globally, Act Locally So how do you get there from here? Our advice is to start by thinking globally. Content management is an enterprise issue – not the domain of any specific line of business or department. Start by analyzing the content man­ agement needs of the enterprise. Do you already have a system or strategy for managing either structured or unstruc­ tured content? If so, you may want to extend one or the other to meet the needs of the enterprise rather than those of a particular unit within your...

Services, Solutions, and Expertise How SAP Can Help Planning During the planning phase of your combined ILM and ECM project, SAP Consulting teams up with you to design a global approach that works best for your organization. Our seasoned consultants help analyze your environ­ ment and devise a plan for moving forward based on what you may already have in place. We also work specifically with your business area domain experts to best understand the kind of data you create and store and which data is relevant for retention. Working with you to identify and classify your data with an in-depth...

Learn More A combined approach to information lifecycle management (ILM) and enterprise content management (ECM) enhances business processes by linking structured and unstructured content. It offers you a central retention management instance that automatically links structured data and unstructured content from the time of creation to destruction. This linkage enables you to move more content into less costly archives while still maintaining accessibility. And with clear policies in place to manage the archiving, you’ll enable regulatory compliance and reduce the business risk of your...

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