KMWorld articles from April 2005

KMWorld archives from April 2005

Smart by any name--enterprise suites offer broad benefits.
April 1, 2005... Organizations seeking a broader range of functionality in their software solutions often turn first to new offerings from a vendor with an established presence in their organization. The possibility of being able to engage in more business...

Managing the content explosion.(From the Cover)
April 1, 2005... We at Ovum (ovum.com) have long nagged about the importance of properly managed digital information, and the need for that message to reach a much wider audience. We intend to keep up the nagging. The problem is, it is such a dull topic that...

A year in search: a real market.(Trend Watch)(Enterprise Search Summit)
April 1, 2005... On the eve of the second annual Enterprise Search Summit (May 17 to 18, Hilton New York), the marketplace for enterprise search is beginning to show all the traits of a bona fide "software category"; adoption cycles, market consolidation,...

European vendors tough it out.(Fast Search and Transfer)(Autonomy)
April 1, 2005... The wait for Q4 and end-of-year financial results in the enterprise search market brought with it an unusually high level of suspense this year, as we waited to see whether up-and-coming Norwegian vendor Fast Search and Transfer (FAST,...

Aurora illuminates a CM aura.(E-Government News)(content management)
April 1, 2005... The city of Aurora (auroragov.org), Colo., has scaled content management software across its enterprise to improve productivity and access to information. Aurora, the state's third-largest city with 290,000 residents, is using Stellent...

Saving time in Jacksonville.(E-Government News)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The city of Jacksonville (coj.net), Fla., has cut the time it takes to process forms from weeks to days. Its new digital document solution combines Xerox (xerox.com) DocuShare 4.0 enterprise content management software with Verity's...

Police search more easily.(E-Government News)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... A Connecticut police department has chosen an ISYS Search Software (isys-search.com) solution to provide its investigators and staff with advanced search functionality across investigative databases, document repositories and desktops. The...

Army evolves to e-forms.(E-Government News)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The U.S. Army (army.mil) has embarked on an e-form modernization project that includes a multi-year contract with PureEdge Solutions (pureedge.com) to upgrade its inventory of more than 100,000 forms. PureEdge's XML-based e-forms software...

Automating urban renewal.(E-Government News)(Chicago Housing Authority, Tenant Relocation Services Application )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The Chicago Housing Authority (thecha.org) is redeveloping and rehabilitating 25,000 units of housing, but before the units can be rehabbed or built, the Authority must relocate residents. The Authority's Tenant Relocation Services...

A new approach to conference learning.
April 1, 2005... Haven't had time to read the latest book on leveraging knowledge to achieve breakthrough performance? Looking to select a new product or tool to support your knowledge and learning work? Been a while since you networked with colleagues working...

Unlocking enterprise data: metadata holds the key.
April 1, 2005... With sales of about 300,000 vehicles per year and a network of more than 700 car and truck dealers, Mazda North America (mazda.com) has major, ongoing requirements for searching its relational databases to support a variety of business...

Search sourcebook 2005.
April 1, 2005... Ektron content and document management solutions, with powerful built-in search capability, provide fast, personalized search capabilities for Web sites, intranets, extranets, and other Web-based applications, as well as enterprise documents...

E-mail management hits center stage--part 2.
April 1, 2005... The first part of this article, published in the March issue of KMWorld, focused on how regulatory compliance issues, loosened IT purse strings and the health of the broader enterprise content management market are combining to create the...

Understanding search: seven critical questions (and answers).
April 1, 2005... Search is the most active segment in the information management marketplace, and the least understood. That was the starting premise for a wide-ranging series of communications that were recently exchanged between KMWorld and some of the...

A roadmap to search as a strategic enabler.(Search Best Practices:)
April 1, 2005... This is the beginning of the Age of Search. Whether enterprises realize this or not, search is becoming the de facto way of finding information, driving new business models and gaining operational efficiencies. As many traditionally separate...

Assessing the right search platform for your enterprise.
April 1, 2005... Advances in technology have made a depth and breadth of information available that challenges the capacity of humans to fully comprehend, easily process and quickly find what they looking for, when they need it. Unfortunately, software...

Guiding visitors to become customers with hosted search.
April 1, 2005... People visit retail and corporate Web sites to obtain information about services and products. To virtually window shop on a retail Web site, for example, they can browse product pages until they find a desired product. If they already know...

Four results to expect from enterprise search: with proof from four customers.
April 1, 2005... There is finally a better way for people to quickly and easily find the relevant information they need, and you can save your enterprise significant costs by bringing it to them. Better enterprise search is at last made possible by new...

Search and the strategic value to the enterprise.
April 1, 2005... It's impossible to know how much content on your intranet or corporate Web site people need to find but can't. What is known is the amount of critical information generated across an enterprise continues to multiply like never before. According...

"Findability": the key to enterprise search.
April 1, 2005... The enterprise search business has evolved significantly over the last few years as main-stay vendors and some new entrants jockey for market share and the opportunity to enhance the findability of information from within numerous company data...

Searching for a reason: when information is part of your core business processes.
April 1, 2005... We all search the Internet, sometimes for fun, sometimes to purchase something, often for educational purposes. Thanks to the Web search companies (and their advertisers who pay for it), the tools that enable us to find what we need on the...

Unified search: breaking the information access barrier.
April 1, 2005... Businesses have a tendency to grow fast. Information always grows faster. The number of content sources contributing to the explosion of information inside a business changes on an hourly basis. The exponential growth of information sources and...

Search for the integrated enterprise.(Enterprise Content Management)
April 1, 2005... Enterprise Content Management (ECM) represents a critical new stage in the advance of the information age. In a marketplace largely driven by the innovations of emerging products and solutions, ECM is much more than the next must-have answer to...

Fulfilling the promise of enterprise search.
April 1, 2005... The fundamental objective of enterprise search couldn't be more straightforward--to help people find information fast. Unfortunately, some vendors continue to speak in tongues, proffering technology that requires a Ph.D. to understand and a...

XML search and query: a new frontier for search.
April 1, 2005... The term "best practices" describes methods, processes and practices that have performed exceptionally well, and are widely recognized as improving an organization's performance and efficiency. This article describes best practices in...

Avoiding pitfalls in enterprise taxonomy projects.
April 1, 2005... According to Gartner, more than 70% of firms that invest in unstructured information management initiatives will not achieve their targeted return on investment due to underinvestment in taxonomy building. (1) The three biggest obstacles...

M&As pick up steam.(From The Editor)
April 1, 2005... We all keenly watch the software market, but it's rare, for me anyway, to come across a cogent and well-researched study thoroughly describing the financial dynamics driving it. So I was quite pleased to discover Software Equity Group's (SEG)...

Trusting Times.(Opinion)(New York Times )
April 1, 2005... The New York Times this month is relaunching nytimes.com, one of the most trafficked sites on the Web. The changes are going to embed The Times straight into the Web's content infrastructure, but, I'm afraid, its very virtues are going to make...

Delivering on the promise of enterprise portals--Part 2: portals have assumed a requisite place in the IT infrastructure of major enterprises. So what functionality do most of the leaders bring to the table, and by what strategic factors can you tell them apart?
April 1, 2005... Part 1 of this article, which appeared in KMWorld's February issue, provided an overview of such portal functionality as personalization, search, collaboration and process management, and discussed the specific features offered by two portal...

Enhancing entity extraction.(Industry Watch)(Inxight ThingFinder )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Inxight (inxight.com) has launched ThingFinder advanced, an add-on module to the original product, which identifies and extracts 27 key entities--such as people, dates, places, companies--from any text data source, in multiple languages. The...

Ixiasoft releases TEXTML Server 3.5.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Ixiasoft (ixiasoft.com) has introduced TEXTML Server 3.5, which builds upon its native XML storage and information retrieval technology. This latest version also introduces new features designed to help OEM partners develop enterprise-scale...

Boosting Reputation management.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Factiva (factiva.com) reports it has integrated Web content from Moreover Technologies (moreover.com) into its Insight for Reputation offering. Moreover will provide access to online news articles aggregated from nearly 10.000 editorially...

Opening the coffers for Linux.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... IBM (ibm.com) reports that in response to high double-digit growth in 2004 in the number of customers deploying IBM collaboration software on the Linux platform, including WebSphere Portal, Lotus Notes/Domino and IBM Workplace, it plans to...

Hummingbird announces Enterprise 2005.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Hummingbird (hummingbird.com) has unveiled a new generation of its ECM platform: Hummingbird Enterprise 2005. The company reports the offering has been designed to address three specific market requirements: * the ability to manage...

Hyperwave delivers new Suite.(Industry Watch)(Hyperwave Information Management Inc.)(eConferencing Suite)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Hyperwave (hyperwave.com) has released Version 2.1 of its eConferencing Suite, which combines desktop conferencing with an efficient collaboration solution. A notable new feature in Version 2.1 is its deeper integration with the Hyperwave...

Calendar.(Calendar)
April 1, 2005... May 05 Records and document management Solutions for digital asset management/information delivery June 05 Collaboration/activity management Solutions for pharmaceutical/research Solutions for e-government ...

Canto releases Cumulus 6.5.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Cumulus 6.5, the new digital asset management software from Canto (canto.com), features enhanced authentication methods, including LDAP support, and new administration tools for increased system control. The company adds that this latest...