KMWorld articles from February 2008

KMWorld archives from February 2008

Knowledge worker: do you relate?(Column)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Despite the fact that there are 56 million of us out there, people continue to struggle both with the definition of a knowledge worker as well as with self-identification. In a casual setting, such as a pub, a...

Probing the knowledge market.
February 1, 2008... Google (google.com), according to Credit Suisse's (credit-suisse.com) analyst Heath B. Terry, is a company with an advertising operating system, as reported in the firm's Nov. 20, 2007 report, "Building Advertising's Operating System." With...

ITIL 3: executive validation for KM.
February 1, 2008... Information technology is the nervous system of every enterprise. Supporting IT has matured from costly annoyance to major strategic component of corporate governance. There are objectively "right" and "wrong" ways to run IT. The broadly...

Top U.S. priorities for KM improvement in 2008.
February 1, 2008... Top U.S. Priorities for KM Improvement in 2008 Sourcing and Procurement 5% Financial Processes (Invoicing, Accounts Payable, etc.) 8% Governance, Risk and Promotion ...

Making floral delivery faster.(News)
February 1, 2008... A French florist is using technology from A2iA (a2ia.com) to automate its flower orders for quicker, more cost-effective delivery. Interflora (interflora.fr) has chosen the A2iA's FieldReader solution to centralize the processing of more than a...

Universal access to every book.(News)(Carnegie Mellon University used Optical character recognition technology from ABBYY Software House)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Million Book Project, an international undertaking led by Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu), has reached the milestone of having digitized 1.5 million books. The project seeks to digitize the published works...

Search solution aids Wethersfield police.(News)(ISYS Search Software)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... A Connecticut police department is using enterprise search technology to help with its accreditation process as well as its investigations. ISYS:desktop from ISYS Search Software (isyssearch. com) will make it easier for investigators and staff...

Accelerating the drug discovery process.(News)
February 1, 2008... To help discover, analyze and share scientific information, Laboratoires Fournier is deploying a text analytics solution. The French affiliate of Solvay Pharmaceuticals (solvaypharmaceuticals.com) will use TEMIS' (temis.com) Luxid for Life...

A new lease on learning.(News)
February 1, 2008... To manage education enterprisewide, China-based Internet and telecom value-added service provider Tencent (tencent.com) is deploying software from SumTotal Systems (sumtotalsystems.com). Tencent has purchased SumTotal's TotalLMS, which...

ECM market overview 2008.(Company overview)
February 1, 2008... Without doubt, 2007 was an important transitional year for enterprise content management (ECM). We saw the emergence of the MOI vendors--Microsoft (microsoft.com), Oracle (oracle.com) and IBM (ibm.com)--as serious players in the market, with...

KM for legal apps: time is money.
February 1, 2008... Law offices handle most of their documents electronically, but a substantial minority of their work arrives in paper form, and getting it to the intended recipient can create a bottleneck in the workflow. Bromberg and Sunstein...

A sea change for search.(Opinion)
February 1, 2008... Less than two hours before our inviolable press deadline, the news broke about Microsoft's offer to acquire Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) for a reported $1.2 billion. Because the deal will likely forever change the face of enterprise search,...

The commoditization of knowledge.(Opinion)
February 1, 2008... As we sit around the table at the academic center I'm at, most of us have our laptops open. We've taken to warning visitors about this. We're not being rude, we say, we're just engaging on multiple levels. The truth is, of course, that...

BPM takes on the tough challenges.
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Business process management (BPM) has been one of the most successful types of enterprise applications. Rather than becoming shelfware, it tends to proliferate throughout an organization once its capabilities are...

KM make inroads into retail.
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Retailers are incorporating knowledge management into their processes to gain advantage over their competitors, enabling executives and lower level managers to quickly run reports on sales and other performance...

Kazeon enhances information server.(Industry Watch)
February 1, 2008... Kazeon (kazeon.com) has released Version 3 of its Information Server product line. The company reports it now addresses a wide range of electronically stored information beyond the data center--including e-mail, laptops and desktops--and...

Recommind and Anacomp partner.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... Recommind (recommind.com) and business process management company Anacomp (anacomp.com) have formed a partnership that combines Recommind's Axcelerate eDiscovery technology with Anacomp's CaseLogistix litigation support solution. The companies...

Legal compliance.(Industry Watch)
February 1, 2008... AXS-One (axs-one.com) has released Version 3.7 of its Compliance Platform, which, the company says, is the first archiving solution to provide comprehensive, integrated functionality to ensure that records pertaining to a specific case or cases...

Mobile search gets personal.(Industry Watch)
February 1, 2008... FAST (fastsearch.com), which Microsoft has announced an offer to acquire, has introduced significant new functionality to its Active Mobile product suite. By learning the interests of mobile subscribers, says the company, Active Mobile...

Full-featured SaaS BPM.(Industry Watch)
February 1, 2008... Integrify Software (integrify.com) reports its SaaS offering, Integrify 4.5 OnDemand, now offers full support of directory services including Active Directory and LDAP. The company explains that Integrify 4.5, which is available both...

Liberty IMS and ABBYY team up.(Industry Watch)
February 1, 2008... ABBYY (abbyy.com) and LibertyNet (libertynet.com) have formed a strategic partnership that enables full integration between ABBYY Flexi-Capture and LibertyNET. The combined offering enables users to scan and intelligently extract data from...

Open Text releases Genio 7.(Industry Watch)
February 1, 2008... Open Text (opentext.com ) has unveiled Genio 7, its content and data integration solution used to transform, cleanse and direct unstructured and structured information across the entire spectrum of decision support systems and corporate...

Content management suite.(Industry Watch)
February 1, 2008... Mediasurface (mediasurface.com) has unveiled Immediacy WCMs 6.0, which has been built using the latest Net 2/3 technology and designed for both scalability and flexibility, says the company. Immediacy was acquired by Mediasurface in July 2007....

Calendar.(Industry Watch)(Calendar)
February 1, 2008... March 08 Enterprise content and document management 100 Companies That Matter" special report April 08 Enterprise search mail management Solutions for local/state government May 08 Records management Solutions in...

Alfresco raises the bar.(Industry Watch)
February 1, 2008... Alfresco raises the bar Alfresco Software (alfresco.com) has introduced its Social Computing Platform, which integrates Alfresco's ECM software with Web 2.0 tools and services such as Facebook, iGoogle, Adobe Flex, MediaWiki, TypePad and...

Exalead upgrades search offering.(Industry Watch)
February 1, 2008... Exalead (exalead.com) has released Version 4.6 of its enterprise search software product, with several new enhancements that are designed to help organizations easily configure and customize business applications, including hybrid vertical...

CMS400.NET 7.5 launched.(Industry Watch)
February 1, 2008... Ektron (ektron.com) has unveiled Version 7.5 of CMS400.NET, which includes search and forum enhancements, a comprehensive and complete Web 2.0 toolbox and full support for social networking. The company reports the new social networking...

SurfRay acquires Mondosoft.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... SurfRay (surfray.com) reports its acquisition of Mondosoft (mon dosoft.com) extends its position as a global provider of search technology, with solutions covering DB systems, the Internet, intranets and extranets almost every technical...