KMWorld articles from January 2009

KMWorld archives from January 2009

Speaking in tongues, part 2: foreign language KM technologies.
January 1, 2009... I am a news junkie, and I don't limit myself to just U.S. news. I like finding out what is going on across the world. One thing I find very interesting is looking at video information about foreign countries presented on sites like CNN...

Everything is fragmented--the core principles.
January 1, 2009... In an earlier column, I wrote about the science of complex adaptive systems (see Nov./Dec. 2008 KMWorld), which is a key piece of underlying theory to help us comprehend the increasingly interdependent and co-evolving worlds of knowledge...

Google's chrome-plated bulldozer.
January 1, 2009... Hang out with Web software developers and you hear talk about chrome. You may think about automobile bumpers and hood ornaments. Not that chrome. The programmers are talking about user interface elements, the bits of code that present buttons,...

International law firm sees a paperless future.(News)
January 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To find and manage content more efficiently, the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld (akingump.com) has selected a legal industry software suite from Interwoven (interwoven.com). The software will help the...

Safeguarding children from medication errors.(News)
January 1, 2009... A new bedside medication verification (BMV) system has been implemented at Children's Hospital Central California (childrenscentralcal.org). Deployed in August 2008, the system uses a special wireless tablet computer to streamline the...

End-to-end content management.(News)
January 1, 2009... Biopharmaceutical company UCB (ucb.com) is using a content supply chain management platform to gain a more detailed view of content--for instance, what is being accessed, by whom and for what reason. The Brussels-based company has launched...

KM past and future: solutions for a changing world.
January 1, 2009... Despite today's economic difficulties, there is reason to be cautiously optimistic about the KM industry. Many functions it supports will continue to be needed, perhaps more than ever. Compliance requirements are not going to disappear, and KM...

SaaS: flexible, efficient & affordable.(Software as a service )
January 1, 2009... Software as a service (SaaS) continues to make inroads into enterprise knowledge management, its progress fueled by the low cost of entry and minimal impact on internal IT resources. In addition, applications can be up and running in a very...

A component approach to content.
January 1, 2009... In the multichannel, customer-driven world in which we live, the pressure to meet ever-increasing information demands has never been more acute or complex. Yet, the birth of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) file format and the component...

Retailers look to KM to drive business.
January 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In this difficult economic climate, retailers face more daunting challenges than ever. Many are using knowledge management solutions to help improve sales and their bottom line. The tools help retailers in such areas...

IT forecast: the clouds are gathering.(From The Editor)
January 1, 2009... In the past month, we've received results from a number of "studies" about how the current economic situation will affect the broad information technology industry. Most seemed quickly cobbled together, sponsored by individual vendors that said...

What crowds are wise at.(Opinion)
January 1, 2009... Meme used to mean something very specific. It came from chapter 11 of Richard Dawkins' book on genetics, The Selfish Gene: "Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate...

From nomads to knowmads: knowledge cities rise from the desert sands.(The Future of the Future)
January 1, 2009... It's like something out of a Star Wars movie. Flying across the Arabian Desert at night, a glowing city rises along the coast. Its skyline looks like that of any modern city, except for a huge, brightly lit skyscraper that dwarfs everything in...

Tracking the human side.(News)
January 1, 2009... E.ON (eonenergy.com), a large power and gas company in the United Kingdom, is using a human process management (HPM) solution to track business-critical actions and to control audit and compliance management. HPM solutions focus on the human...

Classifying lifestyle content.(Scripps Networks Inc. to use solution from Nstein Technologies )
January 1, 2009... Scripps Networks (scrippsnetworks.com) has chosen a text-mining solution from Nstein Technologies (nstein.com) to semantically analyze its immense library of lifestyle content. Scripps Networks owns and creates content for five home, food and...

Next-generation claims processing.(News)
January 1, 2009... A large insurance group in Russia has chosen a business process management (BPM) solution to handle claims more efficiently. ROSNO Group (rosno.com) will use Teamworks BPM from Lombardi (lombardi.com) to support its claims management. ...

Lending agility to the Web experience.(News)
January 1, 2009... Healthcare organizations are turning to PaperThin's (paperthin.com) CommonSpot for their Web content management needs. The solution is well suited for corporate intranets, physician portals and extranets, PaperThin reports, and streamlines...

Expediting copyright permissions.(News)
January 1, 2009... To provide copyright permission online, Cambridge Journals (journals.cambridge.org), a division of Cambridge University Press, has chosen an online content licensing service, Rightslink, from Copyright Clearance Center (copyright.com). ...

Kenya Airways streamlines business processes.(News)
January 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kenya Airways (kenya-airways.com) has deployed Oracle's (oracle.com) E-Business Suite to manage its business processes more efficiently and to gain competitive edge. The airline is using the solution to...

Preserving good relations with members.(News)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... The National Trust (nationaltrust.org.uk), a charity dedicated to conserving places of historic interest and natural beauty in the United Kingdom, has selected a solution from Xenos (xenos.com) to help with its correspondence to members. ...

Registration made simpler at Ball State.(News)
January 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To help clients improve their business performance, IBM (ibm.com) has introduced "business space," which gives them a continuously updated desktop view of their business processes. According to IBM, the new...

Inmagic announces Presto 3.0.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Inmagic (inmagic.com) has released Presto 3.0, a new, socialized version of its popular knowledge repository, says the company. Inmagic reports V. 3.0 integrates social media with enterprise knowledge, search, and access and discovery...

ISYS releases ISYS:web 9.(Industry Watch)
January 1, 2009... ISYS Search Software (isys-search.com) has launched ISYS:web 9, the company's enterprise search solution for intranets, Web sites, Microsoft SharePoint and custom Web applications. ISYS:web 9 includes enhancements designed to deliver the...

Hot Neuron introduces Clustify 2.0.(Industry Watch)
January 1, 2009... Hot Neuron (hotneuron.com) has released Version 2.0 of its Clustify document clustering software, which features automatic document categorization and other tools to help corporations and law firms explore and organize large document sets. ...

Multipage document conversion.(ABBYY Software House to introduce the FineReader Engine 9.0)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... ABBYY (abbyy.com) has introduced the FineReader Engine 9.0 for Windows. The company reports that an enhanced core technology platform and additional improvements--such as significantly increased scalability, new technology for Asian language...

DocCenter introduces DocLanding.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... DocCenter (doccenterinc.com) has launched DocLanding, a soft-ware-as-a-service solution designed to allow individuals and small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to centralize, manage, search, share and "unshare" their documents. The company...

Vital Path releases PathBuilder.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Vital Path (vital-path.com) has unveiled PathBuilder Studio, which is designed to put control of unregulated content in the hands of the business user, thereby moving migration projects from the back office to the desktop. The company claims...

Free SamePage for university students.(Industry Watch)
January 1, 2009... eTouch (etouch.com) reports that Version 4.0 of SamePage, its enterprise wiki platform, is now available for university students to use at no charge. Students with a valid .edu e-mail address can sign up and include up to five users in...