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Enterprise Information Architecture

Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) serves as the basis for coordinating enterprise content to respond to business objectives and processes, and to integrate technological infrastructure and applications. It results from a horizontal analysis that first defines an organisation-wide strategic vision for sharing, re-using, safeguarding and preserving enterprise content, independently of the applications involved.

Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) is the driving force behind the various Enterprise Content Management (ECM) modules, including:
  • Electronic Document Management
  • Web Content Management
  • Process Automation (Workflows)
  • Collaboration
  • Portals
  • e-Mail Management
  • Imaging
  • Electronic Forms

Why produce an Enterprise Information Architecture

Enterprise content is typically complex in nature and often includes aggregated information, with multiple embedded compound objects. EIA tackles this complexity through structured approaches that, among others, take into consideration the information life cycle. It has a direct impact on the multiple facets of content management and its integration with enterprise applications and solutions. It provides a component-based orientation, paving the way to modular systems that are much easier to maintain and upgrade.

EIA makes it possible to optimize information and organise it globally within the organisation, sometimes even reaching beyond its boundaries. In this context, information is organised and managed holistically and used throughout the organisation, in a coordinated fashion. It is accurate, reliable, up-to-date, complete, relevant, accessible and simple to use in the context, the application or the module it drives.

How to put the expertise of InterDoc at your service

Our Management Consultants have, during the last few years, guided large organisations in the development of Enterprise Information Architectures. Their expertise, along with our Alex methodology, has been instrumental in the success of these projects. Our approach is articulated around three major steps characterized by the following:

  1. Collection of information - carried out with tools that help obtain qualitative and quantitative data from a variety of sources. The analysis of related applications, processes and technology reveals a dynamic, timely and global picture of the current situation.
  2. Organisation of information - conducted using proven architecture design and modelling techniques. This step is closely coupled with business strategies, goals and objectives; it is a prerequisite for recommendations on the target structure of information as regards the Enterprise Content Management modules in place.
  3. Action Plan - developed to harmonise with the organisation's business strategies and needs, it outlines the deployment of the architecture and the migration of contents.