A large direct health and insurance medical provider needed an enterprise information management (EIM) system to enable enterprise wide information management and to support the effective use of data for critical cross-functional decision making. In addition, the company needed to resolve issues related to data redundancy, inconsistency, and unnecessary expenditure. The company faced several information challenges:
The company data resided in multiple locations, the data were developed for department-specific use, and there was limited enterprise access. In addition, data definitions were created by individual departments and were not standardized, and data were being managed by multiple departments within the company.

QUESTIONS:
1. What solution would you propose for this company?
2. Discuss the role that data modeling would play in a project to solve this problem.