The author examines the most relevant challenges of informational and technical support of forensic economic examinations: the need to accumulate, store, process, and analyze large volumes of information; issues of protection of information from leaks and unsanctioned access; the demand in mechanization and automation of operations involving large data array processing and analysis, etc. The article notes difficulties in unification of information provided in different, usually incompatible, data storage formats. The publication highlights the importance of forensic experts having additional professional skills of using the respective equipment and software.