KMWorld articles from January 2008

KMWorld archives from January 2008

Digital natives, immigrants and others.
January 1, 2008... My friends and colleagues John Palfrey and Urs Gasser are writing a book about the difference between "digital natives" and "digital immigrants." John and Urs are both at Harvard Law's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and both are...

Business analytics SaaS expands.
January 1, 2008... Business analytics software as a service (SaaS) is gaining attention and traction in the market. Successful on-demand software vendors have been instrumental in educating the marketplace on the benefits of accessing software functionality...

Urban myths, legends and the FRCP.
January 1, 2008... If you work with attorneys, records managers, IT professionals and the like, you probably know that there's still confusion about the newly amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)). Many commentators have overstated the impact of the...

Brain power for competitive edge.(News)(VentureForward uses visualization and mind mapping technology for training)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... VentureForward (wow2now.com) is employing visualization and mind mapping technology to reveal connections between products, market research and ideas. It's using BrainEKP, TheBrain Technologies' (thebrain.com) Enterprise Knowledge Platform, to...

Knowledge plus search equals power.(News)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sterling Commerce (sterlingcommerce.com), a subsidiary of AT&T, has chosen an integrated platform from InQuira (inquira.com) to improve customer service. The company will use InQuira 8 to integrate its knowledgebase...

The AP employs intelligent agents.(News)
January 1, 2008... The Associated Press (AP, ap.org) has chosen a solution from Connotate Technologies (connotate.com) to help manage knowledge. The AP will use Connotate's Agent Community GEN2 to automate the collection of content from thousands of member...

ECM supports regulators.(News)(Australia National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority uses enterprise content management system)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... The National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority (nop sa.gov.au) in Australia has chosen an enterprise content management (ECM) system to help with its work promoting, regulating and advising on occupational health and safety in the offshore...

Access to 18th century knowledge.(News)(Eighteenth Century Parliamentary Papers available online )
January 1, 2008... Readers will have online access to a wealth of British history through a public/private cooperative venture leading to distribution of the Eighteenth Century Parliamentary Papers--content that covers a period from 1688 to 1834. Partnering...

Money-saving, integrated DM plan.(News)
January 1, 2008... The Santa Margarita Water District (smwd.com) in California expects to save up to $250,000 over five years through use of the EZContentManager integrated document management system from ACOM Solutions (acom.com), Acom recently reported. ...

Beyond enterprise portals.
January 1, 2008... Enterprise portals are a dead end. But before you start throwing daggers, stop and think about the reason we have enterprise portals in the first place. Web browsers (aka thin clients) don't have the programmatic sophistication to support the...

KM past and future: Web 2.0 kicks it up a notch.
January 1, 2008... The primary technologies that support knowledge management (KM) are well understood and widely used, but have been limited in the past by lack of flexibility. Incorporation of social networking capabilities derived from Web 2.0, however, is now...

NetDocuments.(Sponsored Content)
January 1, 2008... Increased efficiency and effectiveness in every day business processes are realized from proven SaaS technology, not to mention technology simply and easily solving typical day-to-day IT demands facing businesses of all kinds. NetDocuments...

Boundary-less living, working and learning.(The Future of the Future)
January 1, 2008... Competing in a billion-mind economy means totally rethinking how you live, work and learn. That applies to you as an individual as well as to the organizations to which you belong. In the enterprise of the future, living, working and learning...

2007 KMWorld: promise and Reality award winners.(CONTENT, DOCUMENT and KNOWLEDGE Management)
January 1, 2008... Each year, the technology and solutions nominated for these awards become increasingly sophisticated, on one hand, and increasingly intuitive on the other. Nearly gone are the days of complex and cumbersome deployments--those very factors that...

Leveraging SOA for business value.
January 1, 2008... The concept is straightforward--instead of rewriting code for processes that need to be performed by different applications throughout the enterprise, write the code once, make it easily accessible and let everyone use it. That is the...

Virgin Mobile revamps its Web site.(News)(Website overview)
January 1, 2008... Virgin Mobile (virginmobile.co.uk), a mobile virtual network operator in the United Kingdom, has deployed several content management solutions from Interwoven (interwoven.com) to redefine its Web strategy and better serve its 4 million...

Autonomy Zantaz's new Legal Hold.(Industry Watch)(Desktop Legal Hold)
January 1, 2008... Autonomy Zantaz (zantaz.com) has released Desktop Legal Hold, said to be the industry's first comprehensive solution that enables corporate legal and IT departments to remotely enforce legal hold across desktops and laptops. Zantaz...

Search Server 2008 Express.(Industry Watch)
January 1, 2008... Microsoft (microsoft.com) has announced Search Server 2008 Express, which will be available as a free download, and is said to combine simplicity of installation and ease of use with a powerful set of search features, including new...

Emptoris releases Version 7.(Industry Watch)(contract management suite by Emptoris Inc.)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Emptoris (emptoris.com) has released Version 7 of its supply and contract management suite, which enables companies to scale from basic to enterprise usage without switching solution platforms or underlining technology. Emptoris 7 includes...

Vital Path offers beta program.(Industry Watch)(PathBuilder)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Vital Path (vital-path.com), a provider of content integration and migration solutions, has announced a beta program for testing its new federated search model for PathBuilder. An off-the-shelf solution, PathBuilder has adapters for...

MetaLincs' Version 4.0.(Industry Watch)(MetaLincs launched Enterprise E-Discovery Suite)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... MetaLincs (metalincs.com) has launched Version 4.0 of its Enterprise E-Discovery Suite. The company reports that the new offering is the first integrated application that delivers all the core e-discovery functions and processes needed to meet...

Simply sophisticated search.(Industry Watch)(Coveo Solution's Coveo Enterprise Search (CES) 5.0)
January 1, 2008... Coveo Solutions (coveo.com) has introduced a full-featured, sophisticated and configurable enterprise search solution. Coveo Enterprise Search (CES) 5.0 further distinguishes itself through a highly intuitive interface--for both users and...

Vivisimo announces Velocity 6.0.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Vivisimo (vivisimo.com) has introduced social search to the enterprise in the latest version of its enterprise search platform. Vivisimo reports that Velocity 6.0 will enable enterprises to increase collaboration among workers, accelerate...

Calendar.(Industry Watch)(Calendar)
January 1, 2008... February 08 Business process management Solutions for the legal industry March 08 Enterprise content and document management "100 Companies That Matter" special report April 08 Enterprise search E-mail management...

Open Text partners with FaceTime.
January 1, 2008... In conjunction with FaceTime (facetime.com), Open Text (open text.com) reports it has developed better ways to manage content created in real-time communications applications such as instant messaging (IM), as well as incorporate the content...

New capabilities from Percussion.(Percussion Software Inc. launched Percussion 2.0 Solution Series)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Percussion (percussion.com) has introduced Percussion 2.0 Solution Series, which is said to allow marketing and business professionals to buy packaged capabilities targeting specific line-of-business objectives of Percussion's Rhythmyx...

Exalead introduces new software.
January 1, 2008... Exalead (exalead.com) has announced an OEM-specific version of its search software, Exalead: One 4.5 Enterprise. Designed for independent software providers, the software is said to be easily embedded in their software applications to provide...

Term Manager 2.0 from Teragram.(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Teragram (teragram.com) has unveiled Semantic Term Manager (STM) 2.0, software that enables management of content and maintenance of ontologies in enterprise content repositories and databases. STM 2.0 is designed to help corporate...