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In most organizations today, data and other information is managed in isolated silos by independent teams using diverse information management tools for data integration, quality, profiling, federation, meta- and master data management, and so on. However, there's a trend toward enterprise information management (EIM), a practice that holistically coordinates teams and integrates tools. Through team collaboration and tool interoperability, EIM seeks to improve the “four Cs”, namely the completeness, cleanliness, consistency, and currency of structured and unstructured data.