Enterprise Information Management (EIM) provides consistent and reliable architectures, guidelines, standards, tools, and services for the analysis, design, management, delivery, and integration of institutional data. EIM is a key component to realizing the overall administrative systems strategy by rationalizing and improving upon our valuable data assets of the university.
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Enterprise Information Management is the connector between systems, the mechanism for consolidating information
and a set of tools to enable flexible business processes. EIM has five major initiatives:
- Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)
- Enterprise Integration
- Enterprise Workflow
- Enterprise Document Management
- Enterprise Portal
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Each of the five EIM initiatives has an initial time period to establish a foundational infrastructure and demonstrate value through pilot projects.
After the initial period ends each EIM initiative enters an iterative period in which the different application areas can rapidly
apply new functionalities. |
Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) |
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Information flows out of source systems into the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) for powerful cross-domain analytics. The EDW will be the single source of truth for University information. It will include well-documented data definitions, reducing misinterpretation and providing powerful analytical capabilities for decision-making.
- Continue to build out the EDW, the central repository for UW administrative information, into an integration and presentation layer
- Migrate the Planning & Budgeting database into the EDW, a major step in providing an integrated, single source of truth for decision making across subject areas
Directly support several strategic University initiatives, including Activity Based Budgeting and the Provost Program Evaluation metrics. |
Enterprise Integration |
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Enterprise Data Integration takes advantage of metadata, consistent data definitions and security rules to securely and reliably provide access to information across functional domains.
- Provides new standards and secure and reliable methods for sharing information between functional areas via a data traffic control system
- Includes new Web services for delivery of information; enables rapid development of new Web applications; Web services for finance and student data in use by UW community
- Includes a new "event handler" capability that will push relevant data to applications when a specific business event occurs.
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Enterprise Workflow |
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Enterprise Workflow enables business process automation via electronic routing and approval of documents across multiple organizations.
- Enables automation and streamlining of manual paper-based business processes
- Uses the community-developed, open-source Kuali Rice Enterprise Workflow platform
Completed two successful pilots in 2011. Future projects include automating bulk JV submission. |
Document Management |
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Document Management provides a central repository of digital business documents that include mechanisms for imaging, storing, searching and collaboration.
- Increase efficiencies by providing a central repository of digital business documents
- Include mechanisms for imaging, storing, searching and document collaboration
Work is now underway to define enterprise document management requirements and choose a vendor for enterprise pilot projects. |
Enterprise Portal |
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The Enterprise Portal serves as a single Web site that highlights information relevant to the individual, and serves as a starting point for engaging and conducting “business” with the University, as a student, faculty member, staff member, researcher, or clinician.
- Provides relevant content to UW community members based on affilitation with the University
- Provides personalized content to indviduals, such as schedules, events, notifications, reminders, status and alerts
- Serves as a platform for content providers to publish dynamic content relevant to University audiences
- Serves as a platform for application developers to integration information and publish personalized content
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UW Data Map |
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TheUW Data Map is a data and business process classification scheme developed by the Data Management Committee to provide consistency in cataloguing and maintaining institutional data.
The map shows the progress of the Enterprise Data Warehouse build-out by subject area, with the relative percentage complete in each area. Master Data represents key data points that span across subject areas and are used to help cross-domain analysis.
More information on the Data Management Committee.
More information on the UW Data Map. |
