About Data GovernanceData Glossary - E
EA
see Enterprise Architecture
EAI
see Enterprise Application Integration
EDI
see Electronic Data Interchange
EDM
see Enterprise Data Management
EDQ
Enterprise Data Quality
Effectiveness
Deals with information being relevant and pertinent to the business process as well as being delivered in a timely, correct, consistent and usable manner. (COBIT definition)
Efficiency
Concerns the provision of information through the optimal (most productive and economical) use of resources. (COBIT definition)
EIM
Enterprise Information Management
EIS
Executive Information System
EIS
see Executive Information System
Electric Data Interchange (EDI)
The electronic exchange of data from customers to suppliers and from suppliers to customers.
Electronic Data Interchange
Electronic Signature
A traceable e-mail or a biometric applied to a message. See also Digital Signature.
EMM
Enterprise Marketing Management
Empirical
Quantifiable. Empiracle evidence is often contrasted with subjective evidence.
Encryption
The process of systematically encoding a bit stream before transmission so that an unauthorized party cannot decipher it.
Encryption
see Data Encryption
Enterprise Application Integration
A software system that is used by multiple business units or functional teams. The data in enterprise applications is expected to be standardized to the extent needed to allow for integration.
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
An emerging category of products that provide messaging, data transformation, process flow and other capabilities to simplify the integration of enterprise resource planning, legacy and other applications. (Gartner definition)
Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a comprehensive framework used to manage and align an organization's business processes, information technology (IT) software and hardware, local and wide area networks, people, operations and projects with the organization's overall strategy. (DMReview definition) Enterprise Archiecture is often subdivided into four architectural domain: Application Architecture, Business Architecture, Data Architecture, and Systems Architecture. Other types of architectures (security, compliance, controls, etc.) may be considered as part of EA, or they may be aligned with EA. In some organizations, EA is primarily focused on Business Architectures and Business Process Management.
Enterprise Data
Data that is defined and structured for use across a corporate environment. This is in contrast to "local" or "silo" data, which has meanings specific to the group that uses it.
Enterprise Data Architect
The senior data architect responsible for developing, maintaining and leveraging the enterprise data model.
Enterprise Data Management
An holistic approach to managing all of an organization's data. In the Finanical Industry vertical, the management of data involved in Financial Transactions. see Data Management
Enterprise Modeling
The development of a common consistent view and understanding of data elements and their relationships across the enterprise. This involves all the skills of any other approach to Data Modeling, but requires a broader perspective and an understanding of boundary-spanning requirements for Enterprise Data. This is a key component of the development of a Data Architecture, which is one of the four Enterprise Architectures (along with Business Architecture, System Architecture, and Application Architecture).
Enterprise Portal
A technology solution to a business need for information. A portal generally uses a Content Management System and other technologies to display information in web pages, accessible via standard browser technologies. It collects and consolidates business intelligence objects (reports, documents, spreadsheets, data cubes, etc.) generated anywhere in the enterprise by any application and makesg them easily accessible, subject to security authorization.
Enterprise Process Architect
Senior business process analyst responsible for overall quality of the enterprise process model and enterprise business model.
Entity
A person, place, thing, concept, or event that the organization wants to store information about. Entities are the "nouns" that appear in transactions. Examples are Customer, Location, Product, Project, Document. Entities have relationships to each other. Information about entities are stored in attributes.
Entity Relationship Diagram
A diagram representing entities, the relationship among them, and certain properties of the relationships, especially their maximum and minimum cardinalities.
Entity Resolution
see Deduplication
Entry Criteria
A pre-defined set of conditions used to determine the readiness of initiating a process.
Environment
A subset of the IT Infrastructure that is used for a particular purpose. For Example: Live Environment, Test Environment, Build Environment. It is possible for multiple Environments to share a Configuration Item, for example Test and Live Environments may use different partitions on a single mainframe computer. Also used in the term Physical Environment to mean the accommodation, air conditioning, power system etc. (Baseline IT definition)
Environment
In the context of information technology, environment refers to the conditions surrounding data, such as databases, data formats, servers, network and any other components that impact the data. Also a subset of the IT Infrastructure that is used for a particular purpose. For Example: Development Environment, Test Environment, Live/Production Environment.
ER
see Entity Relationship
ERD
see Entity Relationship Diagram
ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning
eSecurity
Short for Electronic Security, the term refers to the protection of electronic information.
ETL
Extract Transform Load
ETT
Extraction Transformation Transport
Executive Information System
An Executive Information System (EIS) is a specialized form of a Decision Support System (DSS). It's a type of management information system intended to facilitate and support the information and decision making needs of senior executives through graphical displays, easy-to-use user interfaces, and drill-down capabilities. In recent years, the term EIS has been generally replaced by the term Business Intelligence.
Exit Criteria
A pre-defined set of conditions used to verify the process has been completed and its outputs are of acceptable quality.
Extendibility
A synonym for extensibility. The ability to easily add new functionality to existing services without major software rewrites or without redefining the basic architecture.
Extract Transform Load
Extract, transform and load (ETL) is a process used in data warehousing that involves extracting data from outside data sources, then transforming it to fit business needs, then loading it into a data warehouse.
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