InformationWeek is a digital magazine which conducts corresponding face-to-face events, virtual events, and research. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was first published in 1985 by CMP Media, later called Informa. The print edition of the magazine ceased in 2013. The last print issue appeared on June 24, 2013.
History
The print edition began in 1985 using the name Information Week.
April 1999 - Information Week began its 14th international edition: Brazil.
May 1997 through 2000 – The worldwide regional publications of LAN Magazine were renamed to the already existing Network Magazine. Networkmagazine.com and lanmag.com now redirect to informationweek.com
September 2005 – Network Magazine was renamed IT Architect. The offline publication was shut down after the March 2006 issue. itarchitect.com now redirects to InformationWeek.
June 2006 – The company announced that offline publication of Network Computing would be merged with Information Week. Online, Network Computing would provide technical content, whereas informationweek.com would provide news. UBM renamed CMP Media to CMP Technology.
2008 – CMP Technology was restructured into four independent operating divisions under the common banner of UBM.
2013 – The printed Information Week magazine ceased publication. It had 220,000 print magazine subscribers.
2018 - InformationWeek owner UBM merged with Informa.
Mission
InformationWeek's stated mission is "the business value of technology". The InformationWeek website features news, an array of proprietary InformationWeek research, analysis on IT trends, a whitepaper library, and editorial content. InformationWeek Research identifies and interprets business technology trends and issues, producing more than 100 studies each year. Among its studies and reports are:
InformationWeek runs events such as the InformationWeek 500 Conference & Gala Awards.
The BrainYard
The BrainYard is a news and commentary website focused on social business produced by InformationWeek and the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. It covers the business uses of social media and collaboration technologies, including enterprise social networks for internal collaboration, social communities for customer support, and the sales, marketing, and customer support uses of public social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. The site also covers other enterprise collaboration technologies, such as videoconferencing and unified communications, particularly to the extent these are converging with social software. The website was launched in April 2011. A year later, The BrainYard was named the winner of the min's Best of the Web Award for the best new business-to-business publication website.
