The Business Case for

Information Management
An Oracle Thought Leadership White Paper
December 2008

Submitted by:
ANKUSH BHATNAGAR
NISHANT GOYAL
RICHA GARG 09609033
 INFORMATION IS AN ASSET

This is the value proposition and raison

d’être for
• Business intelligence (BI)
• Performance management (PM)
—the

Information

Human
Capital Resources

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 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN
MANAGEMENT PROCESSES
“Information management
comprises of all processes and
Transactional process technologies that help create high
quality information, where all
elements are clearly defined and
can be combined with each other
in a meaningful way, in order to
support the management
processes.”

Management process

Oracle’s strategy-to-success framework1.

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 Subcategories of information management at Oracle

Master data Data

Data quality Metadata management integration
To be able to
managemen To bring the
combine
to create t information from data together
different domains (physical or
high and sources on virtual) for
quality To clearly all levels of
all
aggregation
informati define all through a management
on elements common set of processes to
hierarchies use

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 Building The Business Case

Estimate future Estimate future

expected costs expected benefits

Compare implied
Determine
return to
implied return
alternatives

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 Information Management Business Cases

●
● Making changes easier, faster and error
Tactile
free

Strategic ●
● Closing the books faster

●
● Value chain integration
Transformational ●
● Mass customization

●
● Business/IT alignment framework for its
Foundational content for business.

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Making Changes Easier, Faster, Less Error Prone And
Less Costly

• Many information management

processes are fairly unstructured.
• Having a single management system,
with a central repository for metadata
and master data, and with approved
data, creates a more reliable process.
• In a mid-sized organization, this can
easily lead to tens of thousands of dollars
in cost savings and for large
organizations, the savings are significant.

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Closing The Books

• Earlier feedback to senior

management allow organizations
to file their external report
earlier.

• Benchmark for rest of the

market.

• Cost saving.

• Accurate and timely numbers

can be reported with
confidence.

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 Enterprise Information Management (EIM)

• Aimed more at chief information officer

(CIO)
• Allows systems to change data in real time

• Changes the role of data warehouse ,making it a part of “closed loop”

architecture.

• All of this is able to be implemented because of service oriented

architecture.

• It requires a separation of data and process so, that components

make use of common data.

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 Mass Customization

• It is generally meant to be producing different product configuration

through a standard mass production .

• But at the other end in customization process nowadays ,

customers are also involved making it a complex process

• Automotive, fashion industry, financial services are some examples

of customization process.

• Pricing plays an important role in this process.

• Without strong information management it is impossible to

implement.

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 Conclusion

• It is clear from the study that information management is one of the

important element of an organization.

• Data or information is an asset to the company like labor , capital

etc. so , it must be managed optimally

• Help in making changes easier, faster, less error prone and less
costly through a single information management system.

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