DataManagement had been an important priority within the InformationResourceManagement (IRM) mandate. There are processes and methods associated with the discipline that focussed on the lifecyle of data within a company. Some of these were intended to drive infrastructure projects that individual business units in an organization would fail to address.
During its heyday some of the buzz words nd concerns were:
Database Management, being the technical and operational arm of IRM, examine database architectures and performance and uptime stats, etc.
SecurityManagement aspects
In the beginning the topic was off the radar screen, as there were no such thing as Internet for business use.