Financial transparency. Auditability. Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Thanks to governmental, industry and stockholder pressures, the work of financial managers has never been scrutinized so closely.

Do you feel the pressure? Of course you do. What’s the first step you should take? Investing in one of your enterprise’s most valuable assets: its data.

Where do you start? You may have invested in many IT systems in the past that promised data nirvana, commonly referred to by the IT community as a “single version of the truth” and are justifiably skeptical. We are going to take a different approach in this blog. We are going to examine your data from a holistic view across your enterprise – financial, marketing, sales, human resources, etc. We will discuss why, how and where to approach transforming your data into an enterprise information asset with Enterprise Data Management (EDM). This is not a product but an approach that you can act upon to dump your data silos and give your data the respect it deserves.We want the business person to begin to understand what it will take to achieve the information nirvana that they thought they were buying with previous IT investments. And we want the IT architect and other professionals to understand their business peoples’ data frustrations and start to understand how to bridge the gap to enable that information nirvana.

Tell me about your struggles, concerns and frustrations with getting the right business information to the right business people at the right time (when they can make decisions) and in the right form (high quality, consistent information.)

And of course, tell me of your successes!