KMWorld articles from January 2006

KMWorld archives from January 2006

Consulting firms play a key role in context of KM.
January 1, 2006... Recent figures from INPUT (input.com), a market research firm specializing in analysis of government business, indicate that federal spending on knowledge management (KM) will reach $1.3 billion per year within the next five years. The INPUT...

KMWorld Award winners.
January 1, 2006... In 2001, we launched the KMWorld Awards as a way to bring greater visibility to the broad arena of knowledge management, and in the ensuing five years we've seen ever-increasing accomplishments both in technology and implementations. As...

Surveying the state of ERM.
January 1, 2006... A focus on content. Dependence on technology. Changes in media types. Cross-functional records management teams. Those are some of the key trends that have emerged as a result of a sea change in records management (RM) as reported in a new...

Delivering Medicare more nimbly.(News)
January 1, 2006... Agility, quality and cost containment are among the goals set by Noridian Administrative Services (NAS, nasadvantage.com) to reach its vision of becoming the benchmark by which all Medicare/Medicaid contractors are measured. NAS is a...

A fine fit for content management.(News)
January 1, 2006... A more interactive content management system is allowing the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (smfa.edu), Boston, to enrich its Web site content without adding staff. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The non-profit art school deployed...

Serving content to scholars.(News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... The U.S. division of Oxford University Press (oup.com) will use the XML content server from Mark Logic (marklogic.com) as the foundation for a new content delivery platform, providing online content products to libraries and academic...

County redacts to a new law.(News)(Marion County, Kofax Image Products Inc. and Computing Systems Innovations 's contract for imformation management)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... The Marion County Clerk of the Circuit Court (marioncounty clerk.org) has implemented an automatic indexing and redaction solution to become the first county in Florida to complete a state-mandated redaction project. Under Florida's...

Suits and suites at Brooks Brothers.(News)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Renowned clothing retailer Brooks Brothers (brooksbrothers.com), which opened its first store in New York City in 1818, isn't shy about using new technology to advance its longtime tradition of selling quality clothing. To improve its...

Easier e-procurement.(Endeca)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Endeca's (endeca.com) search, navigation and merchandising solution played a major role in the 32 percent increase in online sales realized by Premier Farnell (premierfarnell.com) in the first six months of 2005, according to a press release...

2006 new-model-year BPM software: workflow, STP and more under the same hood.(Business process management software)(Column)
January 1, 2006... Fall is one of the most popular times to announce new automobiles. It's also vendor announcement season in the information technology (IT) business. The August to November timing is not just to give you an alternative to kicking the tires or...

BPM solutions.(Stellent Inc., webMethods Inc., Appian Corp., ACI Worldwide Inc., EXSYS Inc. and Tower Software's business performance management)
January 1, 2006... ACI Worldwide WorkPoint[R], from ACI Worldwide, offers a comprehensive BPM suite that coordinates all aspects of a process--people, rules, tasks and systems--into a cohesive whole. Representing over a decade of development and customer...

BPM: from the user's perspective; Business process management solutions can fill important gaps for organizations, helping other enterprise applications work together better.
January 1, 2006... Business process management (BPM) is proving to be a versatile and valuable solution for companies across many sectors. Its use can grow incrementally, and eventually interconnect multiple functional areas. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] O.C....

Applying KM lessons learned to business analytics.
January 1, 2006... Traditional BI solutions have focused primarily on delivering information to decision makers whether at the executive or staff levels. Although there has been much progress in the speed, accuracy and presentation methods of delivering...

Who's on first? BPM may have become a Team Sport, but who's the coach?(Company Profile)
January 1, 2006... Business process management (BPM) has long been the domain of the line-of-business managers who directly benefit from process automation initiatives. Stands to reason; efforts to create efficient business processes logically emerge from the...

Breakaway BPM--a new era of business process management.
January 1, 2006... Business process management--do you even know what the phrase means? If not, you are not alone. Business process management--or BPM--refers to the ability to define, model, streamline, analyze and improve business processes. Successful BPM...

Optimizing BPM to ensure competitive edge.
January 1, 2006... Business cycles are more compressed. Markets are changing more rapidly and in less predictable ways. Factors such as economic swings, value chain dynamics, regulations, and compliance issues mean that processes that worked for your company...

Driving business process improvements with real-time analytics.
January 1, 2006... Imagine that your company is growing fast, putting you in constant hiring mode. You need to find an outstanding candidate to fill a very important managerial role within your organization. Would you hire a candidate who had no experience?...

Top 6 benefits of adding active visibility to business processes.
January 1, 2006... Excelling in the business processes that drive operational performance is becoming the key to success for today's business managers. Business process management (BPM) software enables organizations to improve and automate their business...

Moving from process to performance management.
January 1, 2006... Over the past few years, business process management (BPM) has radically transformed the business world. Because of the tremendous gains companies have attained, BPM has become a corporate rallying point and key driver for business performance....

Dashboard development and deployment: a methodology for success.
January 1, 2006... A dashboard is a vital tool for monitoring the daily health of your organization. From a single interface, decision makers have access to key performance indicators (KPIs)--actionable information that can be used to effectively guide and track...

Agility: wreaking havoc on corporate IT.
January 1, 2006... The promise of agility isn't being delivered in too many cases. There is hope in BPM, if it is used as a new way for IT to partner with business teams to deliver agile process applications. The pressure is on for IT to deliver applications...

High times for document management.(From The Editor)
January 1, 2006... You'll note in the chart on page 1 that the future looks rosy for document management service providers, according to a study from Ralph Gammons of Document Imaging Report and AIIM President John Mancini. The survey is the industry's most...

Four former truths about knowledge.(Column)
January 1, 2006... Traditional knowledge has four properties that are relevant to the change we're going through. Two of those characteristics repeat properties of reality and two repeat properties of political regimes. Put them together, and knowledge not only...

Knowledge management past and future.
January 1, 2006... Collaboration tools are central to effective IT support for knowledge and information management, and many developments occurred in that sector in 2005. Some interesting changes have also taken place in such closely related areas as content...

Federated repository management--making CM play well with others: transparent access and manipulation of content in heterogeneous CM systems--it's a bit of a pipe dream now, but hold on to your hats ...
January 1, 2006... There's a lot of buzz about evolving the ability to access and manipulate, through a single interface, content in repositories of disparate content management (CM) systems made by different vendors residing anywhere in an extended enterprise....

Complementary capabilities.(Industry Watch)
January 1, 2006... Autonomy (autonomy.com) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Verity (verity.com) in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $500 million. The companies say their combined products will provide customers with a wider and...

The French connection.(Exalead)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Exalead (exalead.com), which has a five-year track record in Europe, has introduced its unified search technology platform--exalead one:search--for American businesses. The platform serves as the foundation for Exalead's suite of search...

Integrated collaboration.(SiteScape Inc. introduced Forum ZX)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... SiteScape (sitescape.com) has unveiled Forum ZX, a complete collaboration platform that allows team members to share information both in real time and asynchronously. The company explains that the Web-based product combines presence...

Easing invoices.(Industry Watch)
January 1, 2006... Captiva Software (captivasoftware.com) has released a more robust version of its automated invoice capture offering. InputAccel for Invoices 2.0 has been enhanced to include Captiva's Dispatcher 4.0 software, which, the company reports,...

Going global with ECM.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Translations.com (translations.com) and Percussion (percussion.com) have formed a partnership that integrates their product offerings to enhance the creation and management of global Web content. The deal calls for Translations.com's GlobalLink...

Tackling taxonomies.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... PaperThin (paperthin.com) has announced CommonSpot Content Server Version 4.6, which provides advanced content classification and discovery capabilities. The product's taxonomy module now offers complete out-of-the-box taxonomy management for...

Open Text and Microsoft form partnership.(Industry Watch)
January 1, 2006... In a move simultaneously cursed and praised by industry watchers, Open Text (opentext.com) and Microsoft (microsoft.com) have announced an alliance addressing enterprise content management (ECM) worldwide. Open Text recently reported its...

Calendar.(Calendar)
January 1, 2006... February 06 Service-oriented architecture Solutions in healthcare March 06 Enterprise content and document management KMWorld's "100 Companies That Matter" April 06 Search E-mail management Solutions...

Manna for the midmarket.(Industry Watch)
January 1, 2006... Targeting midmarket organizations, RedDot Solutions (reddot.com) has introduced new versions of its Web content management software, RedDot CMS 6.5, and its content delivery and application integration software, LiveServer 2.3. RedDot...

The compliance imperative.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... 80-20 Software (80-20.com) has introduced a new version of Leaders4, its application for integrating enterprise governance, risk and compliance management with operational business processes. New features include: Board information...

Multilingual text mining.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... TEMIS (temis.com) and Basis Technology (basistech.com) have formed a new business alliance to develop mutual technology integration and new multilingual text mining applications for government and commercial markets. They explain that...