InformationWeek

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^[1] by CMP Media,^[2] later became part of Informa TechTarget. The print edition of the magazine has ceased, with the last issue published on June 24, 2013.^[3]

InformationWeek

Screenshot of the website in December 2024
VP, Editor In Chief	Rob Preston
Categories	Technology B2B
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	220,000
Founded	1985
Final issue	June 24, 2013 (print)
Company	Informa TechTarget
Country	United States
Based in	San Francisco, California
Website	www.informationweek.com
ISSN	8750-6874

History

The print edition began in 1985 using the name Information Week.^[4]

• April 1999 - Information Week began its 14th international^[1] edition: Brazil.^[5]
• 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^[6][7][8][9]
• September 2005 – Network Magazine (networkmagazine.com) was renamed IT Architect (itarchitect.com).^[10][11] The offline publication was shut down after the March 2006 issue.^[12] 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 (networkcomputing.com) would provide technical content, whereas informationweek.com would provide news.^[13] UBM renamed CMP Media to CMP Technology.^[14]
• 2008 – CMP Technology was restructured into four independent operating divisions under the common banner of UBM.
• 2013 – The printed Information Week magazine ceased publication.^[15] It had 220,000 print magazine subscribers (many of whom received free promotional subscriptions).^[16]
• 2018 – InformationWeek owner UBM (since 2008) merged with Informa.
• 2024 – Informa Tech's digital business merged with TechTarget, became Informa TechTarget which included InformationWeek.

Mission

InformationWeek's stated mission is "the business value of technology".^{[citation needed]} 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.^[17][18] Among its studies and reports are:

• The annual InformationWeek 500^[19] (a listing of the nation's top users of information technology)
• The National IT Salary Survey^[20] (IT employee-based compensation and benefits study)
• The Global Information Security Study (6 languages, more than 15 countries participate)

InformationWeek runs events such as the InformationWeek 500 Conference & Gala Awards.^[21]

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.^[22] 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.^[23][24]

See also

• Omniture

References

1. "Print - CMP Media to launch 'Information Week' in U.K." Advertising Age. January 13, 1997. CMP Media to launch 'Information Week' in U.K.. ... Its U.S. forerunner, launched in 1985, now has 350,000 readers.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
2. "CMP Media Inc. History". Funding Universe. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
3. "Bride magazine ends its print run. A list of others who did the same thing". Fox Business. May 15, 2019. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
4. "Information Week (Journal, magazine, 1985)". Information Week. 1985. OCLC 802627801. Information week... Publisher: Manhasset, N.Y : CMP, 1985
5. ""Information Week" magazine goes Brazilian". Advertising Age. April 28, 1999. Archived from the original on September 22, 2018. Retrieved September 21, 2018. Information Week, the U.S. magazine owned by CMP Media Inc., has launched its fourteenth version in Brazil
6. "Alan Zeichick". camdenassociates.com. Under the Technical Publishing heading. Archived from the original on April 14, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
7. "New name, hot technologies.(Editorial)". May 1, 1997. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
8. "Gazing through the crystal ball - Editorial". networkmagazineindia.com. India edition (Network Magazine). August 2001. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
9. "The Networking Reference Library". Archived from the original on September 22, 2018. Retrieved September 21, 2018. ... a vendor's technical manual, on the Internet, or even in the pages of Network Magazine. ... The book's title is overly modest; in fact, it comprehensively presents the technical underpinnings... the founder of LAN Magazine , which became Network Magazine in 1997.
10. "CMP Media's Network Magazine Changes Name to IT Architect". BoogarLists Directory of Market Publications. For some time, they've been writing Network Magazine for the new IT professional who is ... Their new name, IT Architect, better reflects their content and ...
11. "CMP Media's Network Magazine Changes Name to IT Architect Effective with September 2005 Issue". prnewswire.com. September 1, 2005. Archived from the original on April 13, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
12. Alan Zeichick (June 13, 2007). "CMP whacks Network Computing, Optimize". blogspot.com. Seventh paragraph: Former editor-in-chief of Network Magazine. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
13. "In Major Restructuring, CMP Focuses Online". foliomag.com. June 13, 2007. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
14. "United Business Media consolidates health care; CMP Media changes name to CMP Technology". May 23, 2006. Archived from the original on September 22, 2018. Retrieved September 21, 2018.
15. "The end of print". Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine. April 12, 2013. Archived from the original on September 23, 2018. Retrieved September 23, 2018. ... business model no longer includes print. Information Week ... will continue online
16. BPA Worldwide, InformationWeek's December 2012 Audit Statement
17. "InformationWeek Reports". informationweekanalytics.com. Archived from the original on February 7, 2009. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
18. "InformationWeek Reports". informationweekreports.com. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
19. "InformationWeek 500". InformationWeek. Archived from the original on January 15, 2014. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
20. "Informationweek.com Reports". Archived from the original on April 17, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
21. "Events". InformationWeek. Archived from the original on November 11, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
22. "UBM TechWeb Introduces The BrainYard" (Press release). Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved July 26, 2015.
23. "The BrainYard Wins 2012 min's Best of the Web Award". Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved July 26, 2015.
24. "Min's Best of the Web 2012 Winners". Archived from the original on June 8, 2015. Retrieved July 26, 2015.

External links

• Official website