A Diagram of Flow of Information

Business and career success depends on understanding and leveraging all types of data, from structured transaction data to unstructured texts. As data types and sources have changed so have information management technologies. Information deals with how information is stored and organized; and the speed at which it is captured, analyzed, and reported. Smashups are a familiar example of information management technology. Consumer smashups are applications that collect and combine data from multiple public sources and then organize them through a browser user interface.
Enterprise mashups, also referred to as business mashups, combine data from multiple internal and public sources and publish the results to enterprise portals dashboards, or the cloud. Enterprise mashups are widely used in social media and to support performance management and reporting. In the past few years, information has increased in volume, velocity, variety, and complexity. Images, audio, video, location data, and social data from within and outside the enterprise are being captured for business purposes. These trends have major mobile, connected, interactive, immediate and fluid and dependent on how well information is managed.
The overall goal of information management is the design and implementation of a well-planned out IT architecture, policies, and procedures needed to effectively and efficiently support the information and decision needs of an organization. Business to specific purposes such as enterprise resource planning, supply chain optimization, or customer relationship management.
Major organizations have over 100 repositories of information. In many companies, the integration of these disparate ISs is limited as is user’s ability to access all the information they need. Providing easy access to large volumes of information is just one of the