Information management

Research opportunities and challenges

Today, exabytes of digital information are created, captured and replicated, and it is complex and time-consuming to manage and exploit information at this massive scale. Enterprise customers are demanding information management technologies that deliver speed, agility, competitive differentiation and compliance. Knowledge workers expect to be able not only to access relevant information quickly, but also to extract business insights from rich information resources.

Two significant components comprise Information Management. The first is managing information, which includes not only acquiring and storing data, but also organizing, auditing, policy enforcement and security. The second is exploiting information: the ability to efficiently mine vast landscapes of formal (structured) and ad hoc (unstructured) content resources and repositories for valuable, actionable business insights. Technologies and services that support the ability to manage and exploit information across the enterprise include information integration, business intelligence (large-scale and real-time), content analysis, and information storage and processing platforms.