Today in the era of globally expanding businesses, global workforce working behind the business it becomes indispensable to avoid the management of the information life-cycle.
An enterprise is a global business having huge amount and variety of information being produced and used every business minute.
Going by the fact that enterprise information becomes very crucial as the whole business has minute by minute dependency on the information so it becomes highly important for the business to manage the information efficiently avoiding any chaotic situation.
As technology changes its face with every day passed affecting the forms or rather delimiting the forms in which information can exist.
Information may be available in the form of hard copies, databases, emails, word processing software format etc and at the same time information in any form has a direct or indirect impact on the business so all the forms of information should receive its due importance and must be managed efficiently so that when demanded by the business retrieval should not be compromised or delayed because of ineffective management of the information Nowadays web information is turning out to be the synonym to the word "information".
It becomes mandatory to shift our focus to manage the web information effectively.
To those who are familiar with web may find it easy to understand that web information can take any format from a simple.
txt file to xml format in text and multiples picture and audio video formats.
Before we discuss the management of the web information let's define the life of information in business by addressing the phases it passes through Phase 1 Any business works on the information which it has pooled over the time by implementing the data mining methodologies over the information.
Outcomes of the analysis done over the information pool drive the crucial business decisions.
So every business has to start with collecting some kind of information to move further and its very important to capture the right information.
Phase 2 This is the phase in which the information management techniques are implemented to manage the captured information in the previous phase.
Important is how fast information can be accessed anytime, how fast it can be updated, how are the versions maintained.
All this has to be considered here.
Phase 3 On one side is the huge information flow to and from the business and other side is limited and costly storage space.
So it becomes very logical to decide which piece of information should be stored or skipped otherwise.
For including the new information which old information should be purged or archived.
Phase 4 Information which is taking a center stage in managing the business should be preserved in order to remain useful over the time.
Here some of the data preserving methodologies are used.
It becomes a point of concern how the information is preserved so that when demanded how soon it can be fetched.
Phase 5 This is the phase which justifies the need of all the above phases as any business has to provide its stake holders the information whenever asked.
A typical example can be a case when a user looks for the current price of a product on the website of the product company.
How well the information is delivered is the sole goal of having information management implemented in the business.
An enterprise is a global business having huge amount and variety of information being produced and used every business minute.
Going by the fact that enterprise information becomes very crucial as the whole business has minute by minute dependency on the information so it becomes highly important for the business to manage the information efficiently avoiding any chaotic situation.
As technology changes its face with every day passed affecting the forms or rather delimiting the forms in which information can exist.
Information may be available in the form of hard copies, databases, emails, word processing software format etc and at the same time information in any form has a direct or indirect impact on the business so all the forms of information should receive its due importance and must be managed efficiently so that when demanded by the business retrieval should not be compromised or delayed because of ineffective management of the information Nowadays web information is turning out to be the synonym to the word "information".
It becomes mandatory to shift our focus to manage the web information effectively.
To those who are familiar with web may find it easy to understand that web information can take any format from a simple.
txt file to xml format in text and multiples picture and audio video formats.
Before we discuss the management of the web information let's define the life of information in business by addressing the phases it passes through Phase 1 Any business works on the information which it has pooled over the time by implementing the data mining methodologies over the information.
Outcomes of the analysis done over the information pool drive the crucial business decisions.
So every business has to start with collecting some kind of information to move further and its very important to capture the right information.
Phase 2 This is the phase in which the information management techniques are implemented to manage the captured information in the previous phase.
Important is how fast information can be accessed anytime, how fast it can be updated, how are the versions maintained.
All this has to be considered here.
Phase 3 On one side is the huge information flow to and from the business and other side is limited and costly storage space.
So it becomes very logical to decide which piece of information should be stored or skipped otherwise.
For including the new information which old information should be purged or archived.
Phase 4 Information which is taking a center stage in managing the business should be preserved in order to remain useful over the time.
Here some of the data preserving methodologies are used.
It becomes a point of concern how the information is preserved so that when demanded how soon it can be fetched.
Phase 5 This is the phase which justifies the need of all the above phases as any business has to provide its stake holders the information whenever asked.
A typical example can be a case when a user looks for the current price of a product on the website of the product company.
How well the information is delivered is the sole goal of having information management implemented in the business.