Seth Earley Talks About Enterprise Information Architecture

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Enterprise Information Architecture
A Foundation for Portals, Knowledge Management,
Business Intelligence, and Process Integration
Seth Earley
CEO
Earley & Associates, Inc.
follow me @sethearley

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Enterprise
Information Architecture
Enterprise Taxonomy
Metadata Structures
• Search
• Content Management
• Knowledge Management
• Findability
What are we talking about?

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Good news: Challenges are surmountable

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Silos are normal

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It is the nature of the beast

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• New applications
• New solutions emerge to solve
problems
• Enterprise can’t keep up
• Disconnected

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• Build a foundation
• Better integrate
your environment
• More agile
ecosystem

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Not a DATA problem

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• Information frameworks &
structures
• Foundation for new apps
• Help information flow more quickly
throughout the enterprise

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Enterprise architecture
“A comprehensive framework used to manage
and align an organization's Information Technology
(IT) assets, people, operations, and projects with its
operational characteristics. In other words, the
enterprise architecture defines how information and
technology will support the business operations and
provide benefit for the business.”
The National Institutes of Health http://enterprisearchitecture.nih.gov/About/What/

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Managing and aligning
• Assets
• People
• Operations

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Enterprise Information
Architecture Initiatives Require a
Core Foundation in Information
Architecture in Order to Achieve
Long Term Success

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Search,
Collaboration
& Portals
Digital Asset
Management
Workflow
Management
Knowledge
Management
Rights
Management
Content
Management
Product
Information
Management
Multi-Channel
Commerce
Creating Digital Experience through Usability-Driven Design
Enterprise Information Architecture & Taxonomy
Organizing principles Metadata structuresTerminology

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The Environment | Complex and Heterogeneous
Search/Tagging/Taxonomy Integration Framework
Data Sources
Access Mechanisms
BI Integration
Auto categorization/
Clustering
Entity
Extraction
Faceted
Search
Semantic
Search
Business Intelligence
Customer Relationship Mgt
Document repositories
Custom databases and applications
Intranets/web pages
Product Lifecycle Management
Digital Asset Management
Data Warehouses
Messaging
ERP Systems
Ontology Navigation

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When do you need Enterprise
Information Architecture?
Structured Projects Unstructured Projects

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Information Architecture gives us consistent
naming across applications for:
• Locating information
• Roll ups
• Colsolidation
• Comparisons
• Unification
• Eliminate
redundancy,
ambiguity
Structured Data

Want a single source of truth?
Eliminate redundancy.

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Unstructured Systems
Information Architecture
provides a consistent way of
looking at content processes
for:
• Enterprise Content
Management
• Social Media
• Knowledge Management
• Portals
• Search Based Applications

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Consistancy across
structured and unstructured
data sources makes it
possible to drive a UNIFIED
way of looking at
information

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“In order to leverage the value of
managing and organizing terminology
make it part of change processes and
project onboarding.”

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1. Make the business case
2. Align initiatives with goals of the
business
3. Justify them from a cost/benefit
perspective
How do you make it work?

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Founded – 1994 Headquarters – Boston, MA
What we do – Help organizations make information more findable, valuable and
usable through taxonomy, metadata, information architecture
Our core team – Information and system architects, library scientists, process
improvement consultants, project managers and other information management
specialists
Our services – Taxonomy, Metadata, Information Strategy and Architecture,
Search Strategy and Implementation, Enterprise Content Management, Digital
Asset Management
Our unique solutions –
Earley & Associates Overview
 Knowledge Management with Enterprise Search & Findability
 Dynamic Content & Digital Asset Strategies with Content Choreography
 Product Information Architecture with Multi-Channel Product Agility

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Want to learn more?
Seth Earley
CEO
Earley & Associates
seth@earley.com
781-820-8080

Seth Earley Talks About Enterprise Information Architecture

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