Information Management

What is information?
Organized form of data is known as information
 What is Information Management?

• Application of Management techniques to

collect information, communicate it within
and outside the organization, and process it to
enable managers to make quicker and better
decisions.
Managing information is important to an
organization because:
• Managing your information saves you money
• Managing your information makes you money
• Managing your information keeps you out of
trouble
 Information Corpus
• Files Most sizeable companies have huge stores of electronic files
scattered throughout the enterprise (a legacy of desktop networking).
Letters, memos, reports, spreadsheets, database files, presentations, etc.
• Databases Companies usually maintain a number of databases on several
different hardware and software platforms.
• Email Most employees communicate with email and much of an
enterprise’s internal and external business communication is done via
email (and attachments).
• Instant Messaging (IM) This is becoming the way employees talk to one
another in real-time.
• Electronic Publishing Most companies produce printed material such as
catalogs, brochures, flyers, contact sheets, product specification sheets,
newsletters, business reports, etc. Also, an increasing amount of
information exists only in electronic format (e.g. Web pages, PDF
documents).
 Benefits of Information Management

• Improved utilization
• Simplified management
• Simplified backup and recovery
• Maintaining compliance
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership
Information Management is the only way to provide
• Right information
• To the right person
• At the right time
 Big data management
• Big data management is closely related to the
idea of data lifecycle management (DLM)
 Big Data Management Benefits
• Increased revenue
• Improved customer service
• Enhanced marketing
• Increased efficiency
• Cost savings
• Enabling new applications
• Improved accuracy for analytics
• Competitive advantage
 Big Data Management Services
• Data cleansing: finding and fixing errors in data sets
• Data integration: combining data from two or more sources
• Data migration: moving data from one environment to another, such as
moving data from in-house data centers to the cloud
• Data preparation: readying data to be used in analytics or other applications
• Data enrichment: improving the quality of data by adding new data sets,
correcting small errors or extrapolating new information from raw data
• Data analytics: analyzing data with a variety of algorithms in order to gain
insights
• Data quality: making sure data is accurate and reliable
• Master data management (MDM): linking critical enterprise data to one
master set that serves as the single source of truth for the organization
• Data governance: ensuring the availability, usability, integrity and accuracy of
data
• Extract transform load (ETL): moving data from an existing repository into a
database or data warehouse
 Big Data Management Vendors
• Alation
• AtScale
• Cloudera
• Collibra
• Confluent
• Hortonworks
• IBM
• Informatica
 Big Data Management Best Practices
• Involve team members from all the relevant departments
in your big data management efforts.
• Create a written strategy and policies for data lifecycle
management.
• Identify and protect sensitive data.
• Deploy strong identity and access management controls
that include an audit trail.
• Invest in training for employees.
• Enable data sharing across your organization.
• Consider appointing a chief data officer (CDO).
 Intelligence
• Intelligence is ultimately an information about
anything that can be known regardless of how
it is discovered.
 Geospatial intelligence
• Geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) is a broad
field that encompasses the intersection of
geospatial data with social, political,
environmental and numerous other factors.
The Intelligence Community defines geospatial
intelligence as “the use and analysis of
geospatial information to assess
geographically referenced activities on Earth.”
 Uses of Geospatial Intelligence
• The role of machine learning and GEOINT in
disaster response
• Open geospatial data platforms and food
scarcity
• Interoperability for GEOINT applications and
data in the military
• The role of data stewardship in crisis mapping