Develop Information Architecture
Develop Information Management Strategy & Architecture, and Implement Enterprise Content Management Systems
Information is the lifeblood of your organization, and your most important asset. At the heart of most business and government problems are information problems, almost no one is using information well.
The most meaningful way for business organizations to differentiate their enterprise from their competition is to do an outstanding job of gathering, managing and using information to create and distribute their products/services and to serve their customers well. And for government organizations; the most outstanding way to improve citizens satisfaction with the service they deliver is to do an outstanding job with information as well.
One of the major challenges of doing an outstanding job with data and information is maintaining a consistent set of data definitions. The inconsistencies that exist and will continue to exist your operational data—that is, data contained in enterprise applications mandate that a single source of informational data—that is, data required to support decision making must be defined.
Rational Steps help organizations to develop the strategy and architecture that organizations required to do an outstanding job of gathering, governing/managing and using information.
Examples of some of our information management strategy and architecture deliverable are:
- Current Data & Information Catalog—that consists of or identifies all the data you have, what they are, which are the most important, how you currently use them, where they come from, their security classification, and what they are worth
- Target Data & Information Catalog—consists of data and information assets that are required to support the realization of your enterprise goals and objectives
- Master Data Definition (MDD) and Model (Logical Data Model)—to serve as a single source of definition for all the entities your organization must create and maintain information about—as contained in your data and information catalog. This will help to standardize your data and consequently improve its quality
- Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Strategy—required for managing your data and information assets across their entire life-cycle (from creation to destruction)
Business and government organizations require the deliverable above in order to effectively govern how they create, manage and use their data and information assets, and to successfully implement enterprise data warehouse, business intelligence and enterprise content management systems.