KMWorld articles from July 2006

KMWorld archives from July 2006

KM-critical capture.
July 1, 2006... I have a confession to make (and one I believe many of you, too, will have to admit): I sometimes fall into the trap of taking capture for granted and simply focus my attention on post-scan issues. Maybe it's because the maturity of the market...

AIIM '06: good news for KM users.
July 1, 2006... Microsoft (microsoft.com) made a big and important splash at the AIIM 2006 Conference and Exposition in Philadelphia in May with announcements about its SharePoint content management solution and Office 2007, but the ripples that came from the...

Getting answers to questions.
July 1, 2006... Most knowledge sharing and search tools provide results, not answers, when queried. There is one exception: Expert systems, based on artificial intelligence technology, can intelligently provide answers that can then be used to solve problems....

Application integration & middleware technologies/portal software.
July 1, 2006... Application Integration & Middleware Technologies/Portal Software License Revenue 2005 $6.4 billion 2010 $7.3 billion Source: Gartner (courtesy of BEA) Note: Table made from bar graph.

Some like it hot and peppery.(News)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... The McIlhenny Company (tab asco.com)--best known for its pepper sauce--has implemented advanced search and retrieval software to navigate its archives. The archives were set up in 1993 to preserve documents and artifacts relating to Avery...

Clipping without scissors.(Press Index )(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Press Index (pressindex.com), a developer of press clipping technology headquartered in Paris, is further enhancing its media watch and content aggregation system with new text-mining and content organization software. The solution entails...

Plan expands services to global clients.(News)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... A large, international law firm has expanded its use of customer relationship management (CRM) software to include a global license of 4,000 users. The law firm, Clifford Chance (cliffordchance.com), initially implemented InterAction from...

Smoother auto insurance interactions.(News)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... An online auto insurance company is using a data integration platform to help power its real-time quoting and purchasing service. Processing as many as two million records each day, Insurance.com has selected Informatica (informatica.com)...

The key to the future: intelligent document recognition.
July 1, 2006... Printing paper and moving paper are both expensive and time-consuming. Companies that need to cut those costs and manage processes more effectively are simply converting documents that were being sent by mail into faxes or e-mailing PDFs. From...

Part 1, intelligent data capture: a trend only beginning.
July 1, 2006... Intelligent data capture (IDC), also referred to as intelligent document recognition or IDR (see related article page 8), is the ability to scan documents or electronic pages that have no fixed layout and extract data from specific fields to...

Transportation: communities of practice leverage knowledge.
July 1, 2006... The U.S. highway system is a part of the nation's critical infrastructure, one on which our economy and security are highly dependent. A complex mix of legislative, technical and environmental information goes into sustaining that...

IBM's KM strategy.(Company overview)
July 1, 2006... With a knowledge management history that dates to 1994, IBM (ibm.com) certainly qualifies as an early adopter. Although its focus has shifted through the years, IBM's success with knowledge management continues to thrive through its...

Invisible in the everyday.(Industry overview)
July 1, 2006... I'm sitting in the press "lounge" at the AIIM show in Philadelphia, thinking about imaging. I'm somewhat sheepish to confess that I haven't thought this much about imaging since this time last year. Sitting in the press lounge. At AIIM. ...

The importance of document and image processing to ILM.(information lifecycle management)(Company overview)
July 1, 2006... Paper is not going away. The goal of the paperless office is still a dream to most businesses. The reality is that most organizations are still dependent on paper-based transactions. Bid proposals, purchase orders, invoices, printed and...

Capture software nets discounts & savings for freight payment services provider: FlexiCapture Software helps Trendset continue setting trends.
July 1, 2006... Trendset, a provider of advanced freight accounting and payment solutions, found itself stymied by a daily mountain of paperwork that severely limited the number of documents it could process for its customers. However, the deployment of...

The missing element in imaging today-ubiquity.
July 1, 2006... Document imaging technology, for all of its benefits to organizations previously burdened with paper processing and storage costs, is an incomplete solution. The next challenge lies in making the digitized content available to all...

What's up with portals?(From The Editor)
July 1, 2006... It was just a little more than five years ago when portals were the hottest thing going. New companies were popping up all over the place, and although many of their offerings were merely thin veneers to the Web, some of the products were--and...

The philosophy of business knowledge.(Opinion)
July 1, 2006... I've been crawling through a book my favorite college professor gave me a couple of years ago. It's very hard because no topic causes philosophers to tangle themselves up quite so much as does knowledge. You get a philosopher trying to know...

The power of online learning systems.(The Future of the Future)
July 1, 2006... With the onset of a knowledge economy, accelerating advances in information systems are driving a technological revolution that is transforming life. The decoding of the human genome, for instance, was only possible by using a dozen...

KM for law firms--legal or not?
July 1, 2006... Law firms have lots of choices when it comes to software; dozens of programs are available for such functions as case management, practice management, document assembly and trial presentation. Those popular products often are a great match for...

Brainware.(The Legal Market Sourcebook)(Intelligent Search and Retrieval)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Brainware, Inc. offers intelligent search solutions for e-mail, desktops, and across the enterprise. These solutions enable attorneys to perform natural language, full text, and content-based searches of all the documents in the firm, including...

Tower Software.(The Legal Market Sourcebook)
July 1, 2006... TOWER Software, the world's leading enterprise content management (ECM) provider to government and regulated industries, delivers award-winning information management solutions. Our product, TRIM Context 6, enables organizations to have...

ZyLAB[R].(The Legal Market Sourcebook)(ZyIMAGE)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... ZyLAB is a leading provider of legal Information Access Solutions, with over 20 years experience and hundreds of thousands of worldwide users. Our ZyIMAGE product suite offers legal professionals a full array of advanced and secure...

Clarabridge offers BI solution.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Clarabridge (clarabridge.com) has developed the first active search capability to enable users to quickly find reports and other key information--from both structured and unstructured sources--generated by all major business intelligence...

Projects & Expertise application.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Recommind (recommind.com) has introduced Projects & Expertise, an application for its MindServer 4.2 platform. Using inference capabilities built into the company's search-based application integration framework, Projects & Expertise delivers...

All-cash deal worth $465 million.(Industry Watch)(Symphony Technology Group)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Symphony Technology Group (symphonytg.com) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Hummingbird (hummingbird.com) in an all-cash transaction valued at $26.75 per share, or approximately $465 million. In other Hummingbird news, its...

Quick CAP.(Industry Watch)(Interwoven Composite Application Provisioning Solution)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Interwoven (interwoven.com) has launched its Interwoven Composite Application Provisioning (CAP) Solution. The offering automates and streamlines the way composite applications (also known as custom applications, portals, Web applications, Web...

Inxight introduces Search Extender.(Industry Watch)(Inxight Software Inc.)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Inxight Software (inxight.com) has released Search Extender for Google (google.com/enterprise), an application that allows Google Search Appliance and Google Desktop users to find relevant documents faster and locate information in document...

Easier expertise.(Industry Watch)(Exsys enhances it's systems software development tool)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Exsys (exsys.com) reports that it has significantly enhanced Corvid, its expert systems software development tool. The company explains that Corvid provides an intuitive development environment allowing domain experts to easily "describe" their...

NewsGator offers new platform.(Industry Watch)
July 1, 2006... NewsGator Technologies (news gator.com) has released Version 1.3 of its NewsGator Enterprise Server (NGES), its enterprise RSS aggregation and distribution platform. NGES sits behind the firewall and provides organizations with a complete...

Integrify launches Version 4.0.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Integrify (integrify.com) has announced the availability of Version 4.0 of its request and approval management software. Available in server and hosted versions, Integrify 4.0 offers a 100 percent Web-based platform to centrally manage user...

Calendar.(Calendar)
July 1, 2006... September 06 Trend-Setting Products of the Year Enterprise content management Solutions for e-commerce October 06 Regulatory compliance and corporate governance Solutions for insurance November/December 06 ...

MindJet extends visual mapping.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... MindJet (mindjet.com) has released MindManager 6 Mac for Apple's Mac OS X, which has been designed to enable individuals and teams in creative, publishing and education communities to visually connect and synthesize ideas. Built using Apple's...

Code Green's new connector.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Code Green Networks (codegreennetworks.com) has announced the availability of connectors that tightly integrate enterprise content management solutions with the Code Green Networks Content Inspection (CI) Appliance. Initially supporting...