Unified information management (UIM) encompasses the concept, the approach and the techniques for dealing with rapidly increasing volumes of business-relevant information.
This information may be stored in any number of formats or locations, but must be current, consistent and readily accessible if it is to support business processes and decision making.
Enterprises and the IT vendors that support them need strategies to maximise and exploit the value of such information, whether structured or semi-structured.
Such strategies will need to leverage a range of software tools but, most importantly, will require a holistic view of an organisation’s information assets, its corporate memory.