The EDM Council

The EDM Council is a global organization, with over 200 member organizations from the US, Canada, UK, Europe, South Africa, Japan, Asia, Singapore, and Australia, with over 200 organizations and 10,000 data management professionals as members.

The EDM Council provides a venue for data professionals to interact, communicate, and collaborate on the challenges and advances in data management as a critical organizational function. The Council provides research, education and exposure to how data, as an asset, is being curated today, and a vision of how it must be managed in the future.

The DCAM User Group

EDM Council members work collaboratively to define and publish best practice for effective Data Management. All Best Practice work is grounded in the WHAT – essential principles found in the Data Management Capabilities Assessment Model (DCAM®). The Best Practice Program objective is to develop the How – documenting the experiences of data management practitioners to support the development and refinement of standard Data Management processes and tools across the full range of capabilities.

The Council also conducts a biennial benchmarking study as a baseline for evaluating progress, publishes a business glossary of data management terms to support stakeholder communication and engages with global regulators to promote more effective public/private partnerships.