1.Supply work, business and consumption processes with information.
2. Improve and speed up business work and consumption processes through information use and efficient information processing.
3. Information is not only one of the inputs to the work process.
4. By improving information supply and its processing, the whole process usually can be made more efficient.
5. Create and maintain competitive advantages through new, IT-based work and business processes: Often, information technologies allow the reorganization of work in completely new ways and the creation of totally new businesses.
6.Efficient use of an organization's information assets.
7. Reduce unnecessary complexity of information processing systems, protect against information overload.
Accessibility problem:
1. Broadly, there are sub-dimensions to the problem.
2. One is distributed information the information is stored in different computers and managed by different information management systems or by different applications.
3. This, in turn, has two cases, depending on whether the existence, location and access requirements of some elements of the distributed information are known or not know.
4. Another dimension of the accessibility problem is the semi-structured data and multimedia data.
5. While such data as records in a relational database table, and records in files are regarded as structured data, such data as emails, XML documents, and all types of forms are regarded as semi-structured data.
6. Multimedia data includes photographs, satellite images, video clips, audio clips, television broadcasts, etc.
7.If semi-structured data or multimedia data are not impossible for computers to search for them or match them with given sample data.
8. There are commercial products for automatically matching images, such as fingerprints and faces, matching audio, including voice, music, and sound, recognizing anomalies in images and audio, creating indexes for fast search and matching of images, audio, and video, etc.
9. This refers to the retrieval and presentation of too much information that is not relevant to the needs or intentions of the people seeking such information, even when the information access problem has been addressed.