KMWorld articles from April 2004

KMWorld archives from April 2004

KM, IT and the future.
April 1, 2004... As part of an occasional series, analysts are sharing their thoughts about what users of IT and KM can, and should, expect in the future. Historically, buyers of KM and information technologies have purchased point solutions--products and...

Sarbanes bullet dodged ... for now.(News Analysis)
April 1, 2004... The hype cyclists have been pedaling hard and uphill to convince the IT community that regulatory compliance in general--and Sarbanes-Oxley in particular--represented the biggest crisis since Y2K. As KMWorld has reported already, the response...

WCM, meet records management.
April 1, 2004... Designed to create, analyze, manage, deliver and archive Web content in a compliant, automated and auditable environment, Documentum's (documentum.com) Web Compliance solution combines Web content and records management components of the...

We're not spinning a yarn.(News)
April 1, 2004... A new product development system is helping a Greensboro, N.C., textile supply company stem the tide of overseas competition. Officials at Unifi (unifi-inc.com), a textured yearns producer and processor, wanted to increase new products and...

Searching in Muskego.(News)
April 1, 2004... The city of Muskego, Wis., has beefed up the search capabilities of its intranet and public Web site (ci.muskego.wi.us). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Muskego now offers citizens and visitors the ability to search and browse a wealth of...

Collaborative consultations.(News)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... A pilot project at New York-Presbyterian Hospital (nyp.org), involving collaborative software, enabled physicians to consult online regarding medical diagnoses regardless of where they were located. The project linked heart surgeons and other...

More insight, better decisions.(News)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Emco, a large Canadian distributor and manufacturer of building materials, wanted better visibility to all the information essential to making sound business decisions. "Despite receiving hundreds of reports and spreadsheets from our...

Harnessing intellectual capital.(News)
April 1, 2004... A global knowledge management initiative is delivering results for GE Medical Systems OEC (gemedicalsystems.com). The initial step in the phased implementation has helped the company create a knowledge exchange for best practices in problem...

Records management.(Roundtable Discussion)
April 1, 2004... KMWorld recently hosted a roundtable discussion about records management that included Lynette Downing, records and information manager, HLB Tautges Redpath (hlbtr.com); Richard Medina, principal analyst, Doculabs (doculabs.com); and Cheryl...

Creating a collaborative government.(Culture is Key)
April 1, 2004... Several local and state agencies in California, New York and Colorado illustrate how sharing information through knowledge management initiatives can enhance the way government operates and relates to citizens. After moving beyond the silo...

The smart enterprise suite--gateway to the KM vision.
April 1, 2004... The smart enterprise suite (SES) is a relatively new category of software, defined by Gartner (gartner.com) two years ago. It is comprised of an integrated set of software solutions, including content management, collaboration and business...

The inflection point for better business.(Data and Content Integration)
April 1, 2004... I have a fantasy, and it goes like this: If all the money that is currently spent from corporate IT budgets on integrating new applications into the enterprise suite could be recovered, and that money could be re-directed toward something noble...

Evolution of data integration.
April 1, 2004... In the next years, the need for data integration and data exchange will continue to increase in complexity, volume and frequency. The growth of business analytics and e-business will force organizations to implement bigger data warehouses,...

Rev up your EAI solution: link your partners and customers.
April 1, 2004... You've re-engineered your business processes, streamlined data flows between different groups and integrated disparate applications around a common middleware solution. Is your EAI project finally done? Before you take a break, consider if...

KMWorld's 100 companies: that matter in knowledge management.(View from the Top: Special Advertisement Section)(Cover Story)
April 1, 2004... With the drumbeat of consolidation growing ever louder since we first put this list together in 2000, you'd think identifying a hundred companies that matter in knowledge management would be increasingly easier to assemble, right? Heck, it...

The social life of echo chambers.(Opinion)
April 1, 2004... Here's an idea we could do without: The Internet is a set of echo chambers in which people get together to talk with people who believe exactly the same thing as they do. As a result (so goes the idea), rather than the Internet being a force...

Verity announces K2E 5.5.(Industry Watch)
April 1, 2004... Verity (verity.com) has released K2 Enterprise (K2E) 5.5, its flagship search, classification and recommendation software. The latest version includes five new capabilities said to enable intellectual capital management (ICM) system...

Integrify forms SOX alliance.(Industry Watch)
April 1, 2004... Integrify (integrify.com, formerly Buoy 5) and Visage Solutions (visagesolutions.com) have formed an alliance that they say will help customers comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act while improving financial and operational performance. The...

Nstein and Cognos partner.(Industry Watch)
April 1, 2004... Nstein Technologies (nstein.com) has joined the Cognos (cognos.com) Partner Program as technology partner. The move combines Nstein's technology solutions to Cognos' business intelligence offerings, giving customers the ability to explore their...

Merant premiers Collage 4.5.(Industry Watch)
April 1, 2004... Merant (merant.com) has introduced a new version of its Web content management (WCM) solution, Merant Collage 4.5, which features automatic workflow generation, incremental content deployment, and broader support for Web Services and industry...

Connect the dots.(Industry Watch)
April 1, 2004... Version 4.0 of Inxight Software's (inxight.com) SmartDiscovery includes significant enhancements to its existing search, entity extraction, categorization and taxonomy capabilities, as well as a fact extraction capability said to "connect the...

ServiceWare upgrades its offerings.(Industry Watch)
April 1, 2004... ServiceWare (serviceware.com) has announced enhancements to its flagship product, ServiceWare Enterprise. Enterprise 5.5 now supports Unicode, introduces a new user interface for ServiceWare Self-Service and includes the addition of ServiceWare...

Hummingbird unveils Enterprise 2004.(Industry Watch)
April 1, 2004... Hummingbird (hummingbird.com) has released Enterprise 2004, the latest version of its enterprise content management solution. The company reports Enterprise 2004 will enable customers to create, manage, deliver and archive the content that...

Calendar.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
April 1, 2004... May 04 Records and document management Solutions for digital asset management/information delivery June 04 Document capture/forms, items processing Solutions in pharmaceutical/research Enterprise application...

Kofax introduces new offering.(Industry Watch)
April 1, 2004... Capture vendor Kofax (kofax.com) has entered the forms processing market with Xtrata, which uses adaptive registration to ensure low maintenance and consistent automatic results for existing forms, extending forms processing to organizations...

eiStream acquires Identitech suite.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... eiStream (eistream.com) has acquired Identitech's (identitech.com) business process management systems business, including its software product suite, professional services, and the technical support of all Identitech BPM customers. ...

Looking at the "who," not the "what".(Editorial)
April 1, 2004... Like most of us, this edition of the KMWorld Buyers' Guide shows some of the changes that time and circumstances have inflicted over the years. Now 10 years old (although it--also like many of us--has gone under other names), this Buyers' Guide...

Boosting efficiency.(Business Process Automation)
April 1, 2004... Imagine a large company whose process for sending an invoice requires a series of 10 to 12 "touches" by various employees. Perhaps a salesperson's written invoice must be handed off to the boss, who approves it before sending it to data entry,...

Profiles 2004.(Buyers' Guide)(Directory)(Cover Story)
April 1, 2004... 80-20 Software 3055 112th Ave. NE, Suite 120 Bellevue, WA 98004 PH: 425.739.6767 FAX: 425.739.9228 info@80-20.com www.80-20.com 80-20 Software is a leading provider of enterprise content management software,...