It is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was first published in 1985[1] by CMP Media,[2] later became part of Informa TechTarget.

InformationWeek Research identifies and interprets business technology trends and issues, producing more than 100 studies each year.

[21] The BrainYard is a news and commentary website focused on social business produced by InformationWeek and the Enterprise 2.0 Conference.

The site also covers other enterprise collaboration technologies, such as videoconferencing and unified communications, particularly to the extent these are converging with social software.

[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.