Newsroom What Is EDM? EDM enables users at a central location, like the company headquarters, to maintain selected portions of the databases for applications running at multiple remote locations and collect raw or summarized data from the locations. EDM maintains a central database with the data from the remote locations and provides powerful tools for managing and updating the data and synchronizing the data between the central database and the remote locations. Benefits of EDM Multi-Location Data Management Maintaining Data for Multiple Locations Users can configure and maintain data for multiple, remote locations from any central location including the company headquarters, a regional office, or a franchise headquarters. For example, the corporate headquarters for a restaurant chain may want to maintain the menu items and prices for all its restaurants while leaving maintenance of employees to the restaurant managers. Using EDM, users can add new items, change prices, update recipes and make any other necessary changes to the remote application databases. Changes made at the central location will be sent to the remote locations and applied to the database. Changes to the database can be made at either the central location or a remote location. EDM will make sure that the central database and remote databases are always synchronized.