Typical outputs of this activity include an enterprise data model consisting of entity–relationship diagrams (ERDs), XML schemas (XSD), and an enterprise wide data dictionary.
Producing such a model allows for a business to get a 'helicopter' view of their enterprise.
In EAI (enterprise application integration) an EDM allows data to be represented in a single idiom, enabling the use of a common syntax for the XML of services or operations and the physical data model for database schema creation.
It is independent of “how” the data is physically sourced, stored, processed or accessed.
The model unites, formalizes and represents the things important to an organization, as well as the rules governing them This computer science article is a stub.