KMWorld articles from February 2009

KMWorld archives from February 2009

Learning about Google via Google.
February 1, 2009... A visit to a neighbor's house last week taught me something about Google's demographic attack on the TV establishment. A 12-year-old had a laptop with YouTube.com videos and an instant messenger running. She also had a mobile phone and was...

Everything is fragmented--an unusual, but effective idea.(From the Cover)
February 1, 2009... Ten percent of most projects create 90 percent of the grief (change the percentages to suit your own experience), but you can handle that difficult portion using a technique known as social network stimulation. That approach uses the three...

Rise of the knowledge librarian.(The future of the future)
February 1, 2009... Both the private and public sectors have been steadily downsizing and closing their physical libraries, which some consider to be nothing more than warehouses that take up space and lose money. Thinkers like us saw them as nice, quiet spaces...

Digital asset management spending.
February 1, 2009... Digital Asset Management Spending 2007 $203 million 2014 $558 million Source: Research and Markets

Knowledge management: naturally green.
February 1, 2009... "Going green" has become a topic of increased attention lately, but it's nothing new to knowledge management. By its nature, knowledge management promotes efficiency and optimal use of resources, which often reduces the amount of energy...

Google in the enterprise.(Company overview)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Today Google (google.com) has moved from being simply a consumer-oriented search engine to offering a wide range of enterprise applications. Having spent the last months evaluating the tools and interviewing Google...

BPM from modeling to implementation.(Company overview)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Despite the troubled economy, business process management (BPM) software products seem to be headed for robust growth. Gartner (gartner.com) estimates the 2008 market at $1.26 billion, growing to $5.1 billion by...

Text analytics--improving the use case for unstructured text: instead of manually analyzing unstructured text, the relatively new technology of text analytics automates the process with great results.
February 1, 2009... Text analytics is one of the more arcane but useful technologies under the big content management tent. According to Hurwitz and Associates (hurwitz.com), text analytics is "the process of analyzing unstructured text, extracting relevant...

Law firms discover the value of KM.
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Law firms are using knowledge management tools to improve customer service, to ease the discovery process and to better manage client billing and communications when working remotely. Reed Smith (reedsmith.com)...

The agility imperative.(From The Editor)
February 1, 2009... It's no mystery that 2009 isn't getting off to a great start. The global recession is hammering the IT sector hard. The spending forecasts of even three months ago have been significantly adjusted downward, and although in most cases very...

Resolutions: folders, wisdom and Tabasco.(Opinion)(Editorial)
February 1, 2009... Ah, 'tis the season to lie to yourself, and, if standing under mistletoe, to others. (Am I getting those traditions right?) Yes, it's time to resolve to be a better person, to do things right, and to not learn from one's experience that New...

An online repository of patient data.(News)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Physicians and employees at Bon Secours Health System Inc. (bshsi.com), which is headquartered in Maryland, will have immediate access to patient information through a new electronic medical records (EMR) system. The healthcare system...

Live, over-the-Web training.(Electronic Scrip Inc. )(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Electronic Scrip Inc. (ESI, also known as eScrip, escrip.com) will facilitate online training for education fundraising with a solution from Cisco (cisco.com). ESI will use Cisco's WebEx Training Center to share training information and best...

Traction announces Live Blog.(Industry Watch)
February 1, 2009... Traction Software (tractionsoft ware.com) has introduced Live Blog micro-messaging for TeamPage 4.0. The new offering enables users to write brief notes from wherever they are and share them instantly over Traction's TeamPage enterprise wiki...

Open Text partners with Recommind.(OpenText Corp.)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Open Text (opentext.com) has announced what it calls a major expansion of its e-discovery capabilities with an early case assessment solution designed to help organizations reduce the costs associated with e-discovery activities. Called Open...

Personnel diagnostics.(Trampoline Systems to unveil SONAR Diagnostic)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Trampoline Systems (trampoline systems.com), a social network analytics company, has unveiled SONAR Diagnostic, a new service that reveals the inner workings of a business by analyzing corporate social network data including e-mails, instant...

IBM releases Lotus Sametime Unyte.(Industry Watch)
February 1, 2009... IBM (ibm.com) has released the next version of Lotus Sametime Unyte, a new cloud service for Web conferencing. IBM also announced a new distribution partnership with InterCall (intercall.com), which will deliver online meeting capability to...

Making WCM easier, more efficient.(Industry Watch)
February 1, 2009... FatWire Software (fatwire.com) has launched Content Server 7.5, which has been engineered to drive greater efficiencies in content management and promotions online, and delivers powerful capabilities to make content publishing more transparent,...

Calendar.(Calendar)
February 1, 2009... March 09 Enterprise content and document management Solutions in healthcare KMWorld's 100 Companies That Matter April 09 Enterprise search/information access Text analytics and sentiment analysis E-mail...