Letter From The Editor

The May issue of EIMInsight Magazine contains articles written independently of one another, yet coherently present an overview of the state of the art of current trends in Enterprise Information Management, and pitfalls to avoid. David Marco leads off with an eye- opening article on the critical intersection of Meta Data and Service Oriented Architecture. Anne Marie Smith addresses succinctly the issues, do's and don'ts of Enterprise Data Modeling, and Sid Adelman informs us of our most human of shortcomings in his "Worst Practices" article. Bruce Johnson concludes his popular series on staffing a Data Warehouse and Mark Mosely asks, "What's in YOUR data architecture."

These articles provide real world insight necessary for understanding your Data and how to approach Enterprise Information within your organization, and its relationship to the your larger enterprise. I encourage you to visit our Library where you will have easy access to current and past columns.  To find an article written by one of our monthly columnists go to Meet The Experts, where we provide access to each columnist's contributed EIMInsight articles.

I encourage you to join EIMI, it's free and will provide you with a wealth of research now and in the future. Articles are constantly added to the archives and resource portals, so join us now!

If you have any questions or comments about the magazine or the institute, please contact me at cklima@EIMInstitute.org