KMWorld articles from January 2003

KMWorld archives from January 2003

Building knowledge: Entopia release smooths search for Legacy content.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Entopia (entopia.com) has launched its new Knowledge Builder software, which the company says, is designed to enable users to easily migrate electronic content to the knowledgebase. Entopia describes Knowledge Builder as a taxonomy discovery...

Knowledge in context: BrainEKP 3.0 visualizes information relationships.(TheBrain Technologies)
January 1, 2003... With new features such as advanced e-mail integration and instant authoring for one-step knowledge contribution, BrainEKP 3.0 is available immediately from TheBrain Technologies (thebrain.com). BrainEKP is a Web-based KM offering that...

Far from simply search: Intelliseek unveils EES V 4.5 with improved results.(Intelliseek's Enterprise Search Server)
January 1, 2003... Intelliseek (intelliseek.com) reports that Enterprise Search Server (ESS) 4.5 builds on the software's already proven ability to simultaneously search, through real-dine federated search architecture, a variety of disparate sources and includes...

Enterprise KM and BI software market.(knowledge management and business intelligence)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
January 1, 2003... Enterprise KM and BI software market 2002 $16 billion 2006 $21 billion Note: Table made for bar graph

Dynamic dance with data. (News).(Endymion)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Endymion (endymion.com) recently introduced the Mambo Enterprise Navigation Portal. The company reports the offering, built on a navigation engine, enables users to easily navigate large databases--unstructured or structured--without the need...

Semagix enters U.S. market. (News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Semagix (semagix.com), which has been awarded contracts from the U.S. Department of Defense and NASA, claims it differentiates itself from content management and categorization software vendors by being the only company to aggregate structured...

BI in a box. (News).(PeopleSoft's release of Enterprise Warehouse 8.8)(business intelligence)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... PeopleSoft (Peoplesoft.com) has released Enterprise Warehouse 8.8, which is said to provide organizations with pre-packaged analytic content, a portal interface and Web services capabilities that can reduce the cost and time of deploying,...

SiteScape's seventh heaven. (News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... SiteScape (sitescape.com) has released Enterprise Forum 7.0, which is said to offer significant enhancements over previous versions in integration, usability and scalability. Version 7.0 now runs on a choice of SQL-compliant databases,...

Inktomi raises the bar. (News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Inktomi (inktomi.com) has released the latest version of Enterprise Search, which is designed to find and identify relevant content across corporate networks and Web sites, and provides system administrators with more intuitive, streamlined...

Tackling taxonomies. (News).(Mohomine and Wordmap's technology partnership and product launch)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Mohomine (mohomine.com) and Wordmap (wordmap.com) have announced a technology partnership and the launch of an integrated solution for classification and enterprise taxonomy management. The new offering combines Wordmap's Taxonomy Management...

Web site management. (News).(Watchfire)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Watchfire (watchflre.com) has released WebXM 2.0, which, the company says, automates Web site testing and analysis to help detect and manage content quality, privacy and accessibility issues on large enterprise Web sites. New in 2.0 is a...

Ch-ch-ch-ch ... changes. (News).(Serena Software)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Serena Software (serena.com) has released ChangeMan ECP 3.2, the latest version of its enterprise change portal, which is designed to automate change to enterprise code and content. The new offering employs XML services, giving customers...

Search one, search all. (News).(Eighty/20 Software Inc)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... 80-20 Software (80-20.com) has introduced 80-20 One Search, its consolidated enterprise search solution that combines 80-20 Discovery and 80-20 Retriever. The solution brings the accuracy and speed of both technologies together in one intuitive...

Open Text livens it up Vignette acquires Epicentric. (News).
January 1, 2003... Open Text (opentext.com) has announced a host of new offerings designed to enhance Livelink, its enterprise KM solution. Livelink Naturalizer, which will be offered as part of the core Livelink product, improves search precision by using...

Stratify unveils Discovery. (News).
January 1, 2003... Stratify (stratify.com) reports the new version of its unstructured data management system, Discovery System 2.0, includes features that focus on automatically building, refining and optimizing taxonomies, as well as consistently classifying...

Serving enterprise CM. (News).(Microsoft's Content Management Server 2002)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... With its .Net and Web services capabilities, Microsoft (microsoft.com) believes its Content Management Server (CMS) 2002 provides a significant alternative to other enterprise CM offerings. CMS 2002 is part of Microsoft's .Net Enterprise Server...

Knowledge management 2002-2003: The end of the beginning. (KM Past & Future).(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2003... Most people in the IT industry will be glad to say goodbye to 2002, even if they are wary of what lies ahead. Yet, there have been positive elements to the year, and we will eventually view this period as the real proving ground for the ideas...

Focus on expertise location and the learning organization. (Expertise Location).(knowledge management)
January 1, 2003... As organizations try to make the most of their intellectual capital, awareness is increasing about the importance of connecting to the people with the right knowledge at the right time. Initially focused on targeted business goals such as...

KM on the go--sales force automation tools drive business. (Sales Force Automation).(knowledge management)
January 1, 2003... The mobile sales force has several unusual challenges in terms of managing knowledge. The first is being able to access from the road the vast amounts of data stored in the enterprise system. While many companies are developing Web-based...

Predictive analytics: forecasting future trends from existing data. (Predictive Analytics).(knowledge management)
January 1, 2003... With the growth in customer relationship management (CRM) and business intelligence (BI) tools, companies have found it relatively easy to determine which customers are purchasing most of their products. Generally, 80% of the product sold is...

In search of experts: pharmaceuticals enters next phase of KM. (Pharmaceuticals).(knowledge management)
January 1, 2003... The actual product of the pharmaceutical industry--the drugs that help us fight disease--can be copied, as is witnessed by the explosion of generic drugs. If knockoff drugs can be produced fairly quickly after a patent has run out and the Food...

Confessions of a barefoot cobbler. (Opinion).(unstructured data management)(companies previously associated with search, taxonomy development and categorization software bring analytic capabilities to their solutions)(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2003... The date: Oct. 29 to 31,2002. The place: Santa Clara Convention Center. The event: KMWorld and Intranets 2002. This is hard for me to admit, so please try to be understanding. OK, here goes (deep breath): I didn't come anywhere close to...

Distributed fairness. (Opinion).(knowledge management)(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... I hadn't been to an academic event for a while. And, even though it was at MIT and sponsored by MIT with MIT panelists and MIT students in the audience, the panel discussion was not like the academic sessions I remember from my late youth...

Developing a knowledge management blueprint. (Opinion).
January 1, 2003... A vast amount of literature is currently available on knowledge management. Those books, magazines, presentations and conference notes describe in some detail what knowledge management is and what it is not. They provide theory, philosophy,...

Portal progress and KM: The Plumtree portal system. (Portals).(knowledge management)(Plumtree Software)
January 1, 2003... If it may be said that a single company originated the enterprise portal space, Plumtree Software (plumtree.com) is that company. Its first portal release in 1998 preceded the Merrill Lynch (merrillynch.com) report defining the enterprise...

Personal toolkit: A framework for personal knowledge management tools. (Personal KM).
January 1, 2003... The point of this column is to explore personal tools that can automate, accelerate or augment human processes of individual knowledge work without being dependent on the technical or financial resources of a corporate IT department. But it's...

Power portal: Cal Poly sets pace with Web services. (Best Practice Award 2002).(California Polytechnic State University)
January 1, 2003... Like many universities, California Polytechnic State University (calpoly.edu) has been exploring ways of improving support to its students, faculty and administration. Turning to the Internet was a logical option for a school heavily oriented...

E-mail retention trends and challenges. (E-Content).
January 1, 2003... Information overload fueled by rising volumes of e-mail and other electronic content is an unintended consequence of the Internet age. The real and perceived risks of uncontrolled information flows are driving. otherwise rational organizations...

Investing in market intelligence. (KM in Practice).(knowledge management)(London Stock Exchange is deploying a Teradata real-time data warehouse)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... To raise the most capital from its historical data, the London Stock Exchange (londonstockexchange.com) is investing in new data warehouse technology. It's deploying a Teradata (teradata.com) real-time data warehouse as part of its plan to...

Mesa site abuzz with information. (KM in Practice).(knowledge management)(Mesa, Arizon's city government Web site)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... If you spot a swarm of bees outside your door, don't despair. A nine-step action plan is just a click away. Mesa, Ariz., recently launched a city government Web site (cityofmesa.org) replete with all types of information for residents and...

Audi shortens the innovation cycle. (KM in Practice).(knowledge management)(Audi (audi.com) will deploy Open Text's Livelink software)
January 1, 2003... The auto company with the distinctive, interlocking-circle insignia is using software from Open Text (opentext.com) as a platform to intertwine its knowledge. Audi (audi.com) will deploy Livelink to manage, share and collaborate around the...

Discovering expertise--digitally. (KM in Practice).(knowledge management)(Eastman Kodak is counting on software from Tacit Knowledge Systems)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Capturing memories through images is something that Eastman Kodak (kodak.com) has specialized in. Now the company is counting on software from Tacit (tacit.com) to help it capture expertise. Kodak will use Tacit's KnowledgeMail expertise...

Call Center for knowledge. (KM in Practice).(knowledge management)(Center Partners will use BrainEKP from TheBrain Technologies)
January 1, 2003... A large outsourced call center has improved the quality of its responses and call handling times through implementation of a new enterprise knowledge platform. Center Partners (centerpartners.com) will use BrainEKP from TheBrain...

Pall casts Accolade globally. (KM in Practice).(knowledge management)(Pall Corporation will use Accolade software from Sopheon)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Pall Corporation (pall.com) will use software from Sopheon (sopheon.com) to capture and use the learning that emerges during the product development cycle. The company plans to deploy Sopheon's Accolade product development software globally,...

Law support group automates mailings. (KM in Practice).(knowledge management)(Practising Law Institute will implement marketing modules from Aprimo)
January 1, 2003... Enterprise marketing management software will help a non-profit organization expedite communication with its members and improve the efficiency of its mailings. Practising Law Institute (pli.edu)--which provides programs, publications and...

Boosting productivity ... and morale. (KM in Practice).(knowledge management)(Lloyd's of London will deploy software from iManage)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... To reallocate staff to more productive pursuits and to reduce storage costs, the Member Services Unit (MSU) of Lloyd's of London (lloydsoflondon.com) will deploy software from iManage (imanage.com). The MSU conducts back-office administration...

Setting the stage to contain costs. (KM in Practice).(knowledge management)(Concentra will use Ascential Software's DataStage software)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... An occupational healthcare cost management company has deployed enterprise data integration software to manage complex information among various divisions and product lines. Concentra (concentra.com) will use Ascential Software's...

Rediscovering friends online. (KM in Practice).(knowledge management software from Verity)(Classmates Online)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Reconnecting with old friends should be a little easier, thanks to knowledge management software from Verity (verity.com). Classmates Online (classmates. corn), a personal networking service that is said to have more than 31 million members,...

Calendar.(knowledge management conferences)
January 1, 2003... February * A closer look at KM's role in security * Solutions in practice: legal * Tech focus: enterprise application integration * Special section: E-Learning World March * A closer look at KM's role in mobile...

Making ads make sense. (News).(Applied Semantics)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Applied Semantics (appliedsemantics.com) has released AdSense, a contextually targeted, pay-for-performance advertising solution. The company reports AdSense dynamically generates advertisements comprised of conceptually relevant search terms...

The punctuated acceleration of value: today's information is tomorrow's wealth. (Best Practices in Business & Competitive Intelligence).
January 1, 2003... Oscar Wilde once remarked that he could never become a communist because "it takes up too many evenings." I know what he means. I'll never be an economist for the same reason. Take tonight for example. I COULD have been watching the game,...

The new business intelligence. (Best Practices in Business & Competitive Intelligence).(Peter Auditore, vice-president of marketing for Hummingbird)(Brief Article)(Interview)
January 1, 2003... The worlds of structured and unstructured data are becoming increasingly difficult to parse. Business Intelligence, once the domain of the data warehouse/data mart keepers, has evolved to embrace all forms of information regardless of its...

Leveraging unstructured information to enhance business intelligence. (Best Practices in Business & Competitive Intelligence).
January 1, 2003... A product manager is responsible for deciding new product strategy As input to his decision-making he requires in-depth, up-to-the-minute competitive and market analysis, including information on competitors' products, partner activities,...

The next evolutionary step for corporate intranets and internets: tools that integrate relevant, continually updated external content. (Best Practices in Business & Competitive Intelligence).(LexisNexis Group)
January 1, 2003... As the amount of news and information available electronically continues to mushroom, many organizations face the challenge of streamlining relevant content for employees and customers -- both current and potential. Ideally, key internal...

When internal content meets external business information. (Best Practices in Business & Competitive Intelligence).
January 1, 2003... Any decision is only as good as the information behind it. Companies know that accurate information is their most important asset--capable of shedding vital insight on current customers, prospects, competitors, partners and suppliers. However,...

KMWorld Best Practices White Papers: The whys and wherefores of a business solutions series.
January 1, 2003... The KM World Best Practice White Paper Series serves sometimes as a filter, sometimes as an amplifier and sometimes as a simple communications link between those who have business goals to reach, and those who have the solutions to help achieve...

Information retrieval market.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
January 1, 2003... Information retrieval market 2001 $400 million 2002 $360 million Despite a 10% decline in 2002, the market is expected to grow 10% both in 2003 and 2004. Source: Delphi Group