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Information explosion is a topic related to the world's largest information repository, which is the Internet; it provides instant access to web sites for people around the globe. And most of the information on the Internet is free. Resource and information varying from English as a second language, people can have access to different kinds of information like sports, news, finance, etc. We are now in an information explosion age. The problem now is not with lack of information but with choosing the right information. Of course, grade members are aware of one of the latest additions to the Web, i.e. the Executive Grade Resource and Information Network (EGRIN) web site.

This giant resource and information bank is not without its shortcomings. Since the Internet has no central hub or administration, the challenge faced by users is the ability to wade through billions of web pages to gather the required information. Thanks to such search engines and directories as Google, Yahoo, and Baidu on the Internet, it should not be too difficult even for a beginner to locate information on specific topics.

Unstructured data is the "stuff" that makes up 80 to 90 percent of the information in an organization as the Word and PowerPoint files, the emails, and the intranet newsletters -- the files that store the words that run the companies. Too often, employees grumble about reinventing the wheel when starting a new project, about how long it took them to track down a long-lost file. Information Technology departments are now crusading for users to capture and use more of the data in an organization, and to relate this data to a broadening range of organizational activities.

So there is no doubt users want to pull data from relational databases and documents from content collections through a portal, but again, it is not sufficient or productive to provide multiple pages of "best guess"-quality links. Users need content analytics technology to reveal patterns and anomalies, and information visualization capabilities to reveal and manipulate meaningful knowledge. It's no good to search; knowledge workers need to find it.

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Knowledge Management caters to the critical issues of organizational adaptation, survival, and competence in face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change. Essentially, it embodies organizational processes that seek synergistic combination of data and information processing capacity of information technologies, and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings.

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Originally, a document management system was a computer program (or set of programs) used to track and store images of paper documents. More recently, the term has been used to distinguish between imaging and records management systems that specialize in paper capture and records respectively. Document management systems commonly provide check-in, check-out, storage and retrieval of electronic documents often in the form of word processor files and the like.

A product is defined as anything that is capable of satisfying customer needs. This definition includes both physical products (e.g. cars, washing machines, DVD players) as well as services (e.g. insurance, banking, private health care).

Businesses should manage their products carefully over time to ensure that they deliver products that continue to meet customer wants. The process of managing groups of brands and product lines is called portfolio planning.

So "Product Life Cycle" is commonly known as the stages through which individual products develop over time.

A content management system (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a Web site. Typically, a CMS consists of two elements: the content management application (CMA) and the content delivery application (CDA). The CMA element allows the content manager or author, who may not know Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), to manage the creation, modification, and removal of content from a Web site without needing the expertise of a Webmaster. The CDA element uses and compiles that information to update the Web site. The features of a CMS system vary, but most include Web-based publishing, format management, revision control, and indexing, search, and retrieval.

Collaboration links processes and people to create a combined work environment where ideas and knowledge are shared to accomplish a project. Examples are e-mail/IM, application sharing, web conferencing, intranets/extranets, groupware (eRoom), and repositories.

The process of storing, retrieving and distributing digital assets (files), such as logos, photos, marketing collateral, documents, and multimedia files in a centralized and systematically organized system, allowing for the quick and efficient storage, retrieval, and reuse of the digital files that are essential to all businesses. The digital content is stored in databases called asset repositories while metadata such as photo captions, article key words, advertiser names, contact names, file names or low-resolution thumbnail images are stored in separate databases called media catalogs and point to the original items.

Storing e-mail in a scalable document management system enables firms to make e-mail part of a unified engagement, project or matter file. Interwoven E-mail Management reduces the burden on e-mail servers, and transforms e-mail from an isolated knowledge source, visible only to the person to whom it is addressed, into an asset that can be shared across all offices, easily and securely. Examples of email management products are WorkSite Communications Server, FileSite , IBM Lotus Notes, MS Outlook.

Business Process Management (BPM) is the automation and coordination of the countless assets and tasks that make up a business processes. These assets and tasks can be internal or external to organizations. Effective BPM requires the coordination of people and information technology assets both inside a business and in a network of customers and partners.

Collaboration is a process that links individuals across the enterprise, by creating a work environment where teams can share and circulate ideas, experience and knowledge. All the information created as a by-product of collaborative work are securely captured, managed, and transformed into invaluable corporate knowledge. These knowledge assets are preserved in a repository as contents for shared and reused through an organization.