Information management (IM) is the process of collecting, storing, managing and maintaining information in all its forms. Information management is a broad term that incorporates policies and procedures for centrally managing and sharing information among different individuals, organizations and/or information systems throughout the information cycle. Information management may also be called information assets management.

Information management is generally an enterprise information systems concept, where an organization produces, own and manage a suite of information. Information management deals, with the level and control of an organization's governance over its information assets. Information management is typically achieved through purpose-built information management systems and by supporting business processes and guidelines.

Moreover, Information management also focuses on how that information is shared and delivered to various recipients, including individuals and different computing devices such as an organization websites, computers, servers, applications and/or mobile devices. organizations are very complex environment in which to deliver concrete solutions. There are many challenges to be overcome when planning and implementing information management projects. When confronted with this complexity, project teams often fall back upon approaches such as focus on deploying one technology in isolation, purchase a very large suite of applications from a single vendor, in the hope that this can be used to solve all information management problems at once.