The ever increasing need for timely data in decision making and as a strategic differentiator has made information management and analytics a top priority for chief information officers (CIOs) as well as chief strategy officers (CSOs).

However the ever increasing complexities in the business environment are changing the landscape of EIM solutions such as the factors given in the following:

§  The need for information sharing in global supply chains with trading partners and suppliers.

§  The emergence of big data needs (high volume, new varieties of data, high speed of processing).

§  Lowering costs of information management.

§  The rising needs of data privacy, security, and compliance report.

§  The emergence of social media data as providing unique insights about customer decision making.

These key trends emerging are:

§  Adoption of Hadoop and NoSQL

§  Information Governance

§  Social Master Data Management

§  Emergence of Cloud-Based Information Warehouses

§  Internet of Things

§  Streaming Analytics