KMWorld articles from January 2007

KMWorld archives from January 2007

Appian in sync with Vista and Office 2007.
January 1, 2007... Appian (appian.com) has been working closely with Microsoft (microsoft.com) and is poised to take full advantage of the new technology embodied in Vista and Microsoft Office 2007, according to Michael Beckley, Appian VP of product strategy and...

Electronic content--a federal case.
January 1, 2007... Newly amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) concerning electronically stored information took effect in all federal courts on Dec. 1, 2006. This affects a large number of constituencies, ranging from CIOs to records managers to...

ECM consolidation continues.(enterprise content management)
January 1, 2007... In early November 2006, Oracle (oracle.com) announced its intent to acquire Minnesota-based enterprise content management (ECM) vendor Stellent (stellent.com) in an all-cash deal worth $440 million. And in the apparent absence of any...

Security and vulnerability management software.
January 1, 2007... Security and Vulnerability Management Software 2005 $1.62 billion 2009 $3+ billion (Compound annual growth rate: 17.8%) Source: IDC Note: Table made from bar graph.

Online retailer reaps results.(Delightful Deliveries uses Mercado Software solution)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... An online gift retailer says it has boosted business through deployment of e-commerce search and merchandising software. Delightful Deliveries (delight fuldeliveries.com) reports that since it implemented the Mercado Software (mercado.com)...

Healthier content delivery.(Shands Health-Care installed a new content management software)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Employees at Shands Health-Care (shands.org) will have better access to medical and financial information following installation of a new enterprise content management system. The not-for-profit health system, affiliated with the University of...

Real BPM.(News)
January 1, 2007... Real Capital, a financial services company and an affiliate of Barclays North (barclaysnorth.com), has chosen a business process management (BPM) solution to help transform its loan request system from paper-based to fully automated. With...

Enforcing security for EOUSA.(Executive Office for United States Attorneys)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... The Department of Justice Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA, usdoj.gov/usao/episa) has chosen software from Intellitactics (intellitactics.com) as the focal point of its enterprise security management system. The goals of the...

Rounding up taxes in Texas.(News)
January 1, 2007... Administering taxes can be a big challenge, as big, let's say, as the state of Texas. The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts (window.state.tx.us) is responsible for providing a balanced budget, for monitoring state spending and for collecting...

Business analytics--a market in transition.
January 1, 2007... The business analytics (BA) software market--comprised of data warehousing tools, business intelligence tools and analytic applications--has been growing steadily even as spending on business software has slowed in the past five years....

BPM evolution brings automation, integration and analysis: Maritz Travel recognized the value business process management software could play in enhancing its service delivery capabilities. CSAA Irvine, faced with an increasing volume of business, knew that it was time to upgrade its BPM system for expanded automation.
January 1, 2007... Evolving business process management (BPM) capabilities are improving process automation, allowing deeper integration with Microsoft Office, and offering a better understanding of process efficiency through use of business intelligence (BI)....

Combining business and practice: KM and the law.
January 1, 2007... As one of the most knowledge-intensive "industries" around, the legal profession is perfectly suited for knowledge management. A global study by Curve Consulting (curveconsulting.com), which was referred to in our October 2006 issue (page 1),...

Blogs and wikis: ready for prime time?
January 1, 2007... Blogs began springing up more than a decade ago as a way for individuals to maintain online diaries, voice their opinions on politics and vent about consumer products. They proliferated rapidly, and thousands became millions. Tainted perhaps by...

Open science--good fit for the digital age.(Opinion)(free online access of research papers)
January 1, 2007... Anthropologists are in an uproar. A few weeks before the annual American Anthropological Association meeting in San Jose, an ad hoc group put up a site that protested the AAA's insistence on keeping the publishing of scientific papers as a...

Location takes on innovation dimensions.(Opinion)
January 1, 2007... We are rapidly moving into a world where location context is becoming the foundation for the next generation of killer applications. By definition, location is the extent of space occupied by a person, place or thing (Oxford Dictionary). When...

The abstraction of BPM: maybe it's not that difficult after all.(Business Process Management)
January 1, 2007... A lot of people I meet from "the real world"--at cocktail parties, kids' sports events, community activities--have a really hard time grasping the abstraction of information management from that of what they do on a day-to-day basis....

BPM--a whole new world of opportunity.(business process management)
January 1, 2007... In the fast moving world in which we operate, there are many sources of frustration. How many times have you had a great idea, only to be beat out by your competition before you could bring it to fruition? Or worse, watched your competitors...

BPM proliferation drives the need for process intelligence.
January 1, 2007... Many BPMS solutions are falling short of their promise to give organizations an end-to-end view of business processes. In most organizations, processes live in a variety of business systems within the enterprise. Thus, organizations will...

True dynamic process management: visibility and control in the day-to-day work environment.
January 1, 2007... The traditional world of business process management (BPM) is changing dramatically. BPM has already progressed from a niche solution automating administrative processes to a strategic business tool being used to standardize mission-critical...

Expanding your view of business process management.
January 1, 2007... Automation, automation, automation. Like the old maxim concerning real estate ("Location, location, location...") it sometimes seems that business process management (BPM) software vendors tout the virtues of process automation to the...

Speak softly and carry a big BPM suite.
January 1, 2007... Businesses run on large, complex networks of underlying processes. Settling billing disputes, introducing new products, procuring goods and services, issuing loans, managing inventory--the quality and efficiency of these processes drive...

Bridging the gap: people and process with content in context.
January 1, 2007... How can I approve this customer's commercial loan application? I can't even find all the documents and email communications related to the initial request..." This scenario is increasingly common and stems from the fact that organizations...

Dashboard design and implementation: a step-by-step guide.
January 1, 2007... 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...

Empowering business teams with interactive BPM.
January 1, 2007... Interactive BPM is a powerful and flexible capability that enables business professionals to view real-time performance metrics and to make changes to business processes dynamically. The first component of interactive BPM is business activity...

The readers speak--10th anniversary; KMWorld readers' choice awards.
January 1, 2007... About 11 years ago, a group of us were starting to ask ourselves whether all this "information management stuff" might have a greater purpose than merely to store information in a file server somewhere. That maybe--just maybe--information could...

The role of ITIL in building the enterprise of the future.(The Future of the Future)(IT Infrastructure Library by United Kingdom Office of Government Commerce)
January 1, 2007... In an ever-flattening world, organizations must quickly learn and adapt to changes in the marketplace. While we have become better at implementing new business processes, changing IT remains slow and difficult. To make matters worse,...

Capture: front and center.(Industry Watch)(kofax)
January 1, 2007... Kofax (kofax.com) has launched a strategy aimed at transforming information capture from a centralized back-office process to an everyday front-office activity that encompasses the intelligent capture and exchange of information from within...

Toward the transparent enterprise.(Industry Watch)(OpenText introduces Livelink ECM 10)
January 1, 2007... Open Text (opentext.com) has introduced Livelink ECM 10, which, it says, lets customers implement a legitimate enterprisewide content management strategy, allowing them to preserve and protect intellectual capital, leverage business content...

Fiorano unveils Component Gallery.(Industry Watch)(Fiorano Software Inc.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Fiorano Software (fiorano.com) has introduced what it calls an "iTunes-like" Component Gallery to speed the delivery of modular business by allowing business analysts to assemble ready-to-deploy business solutions using standards-based,...

Web 2.0 for enterprise.(Industry Watch)(MindTouch, Inc. releases Dekibox)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... MindTouch (mindtouch.com) has introduced DekiBox, an on-site smart appliance designed for companies of all sizes to efficiently create, share and discover corporate content. DekiBox is self-managed and powered by the company's open source...

Siderean upgrades Navigator.(Industry Watch)(Siderean Software, Inc.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Siderean (siderean.com) has released Seamark Navigator 4.1, which features a number of visualization enhancements designed to interactively present relationships, analyses and trends. The company says Version 4.1 is able to derive more...

Instranet releases CCIL 5.5.(Industry Watch)(Contact Centers In-Line)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Instranet (instranet.com) has released Version 5.5 of Contact Centers In-Line (CCIL), its service resolution and knowledge management application. The company emphasizes the following new and enhanced capabilities in CCIL 5.5: ...

Calendar.(Calendar)
January 1, 2007... February 07 Service-oriented architecture Solutions for healthcare March 07 Enterprise content and document management "100 Companies That Matter" special report April 07 Search E-mail management ...