KMWorld articles from July 2008

KMWorld archives from July 2008

Green IT: soon, not optional.
July 1, 2008... Compliance requirements for corporations have drastically increased with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and new Federal Rules for Civil Procedure (FRCP). And they're about to get even tougher as Congress debates new rules for capping or exchanging...

The innovation imperative.(Interview)(Conference notes)
July 1, 2008... KMWorld interviews John Kao, author of Innovation Nation and opening keynote speaker at our annual KMWorld & Intranets Conference (kmworld-intranets.com) Sept. 23 to 25 in San Jose. Q KMWorld: Your book, Innovation Nation, has been widely...

Everything is fragmented--building CoPs for knowledge flow.
July 1, 2008... As promised, I am presenting a step-by-step approach to a low-cost knowledge management (KM) program using social computing, and will focus on the functionality that has been touted but rarely delivered by communities of practice (CoPs). ...

Exploring endless interconnections.(News)(James Burke Institute)(TheBrain Technologies Corp.)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... The James Burke Institute (kweb. org) has chosen TheBrain Technologies' (thebrain.com) Enterprise Knowledge Platform, BrainEKP, for its Knowledge Web Project. The Institute will use the solution to organize, visualize and share a web of people,...

Italian bank captures unstructured documents.(News)
July 1, 2008... A large bank in Italy is automating document processing with distributed capture software. Intesa Sanpaolo (intesasanpaolo.com) has chosen an intelligent capture and exchange solution from Kofax (kofax.com) to process the more than 30 million...

Leveraging search to boost efficiency.(News)
July 1, 2008... An Austrian manufacturer has deployed search technology to help its employees quickly access important information. Pottinger (poet tinger.at/en/landtechnik), a maker of agricultural machinery, has implemented Coveo (coveo.com) G2B for...

BPM supports sales for Finnish department.(News)
July 1, 2008... Business process management (BPM) software is helping telecommunications service provider TeliaSonera (teliason era.com) support its sales of business services in Finland. Lombardi's (lombardi.com) Teamworks BPM suite will help the Business...

Hospitals play tag--RFID finds a niche in healthcare.
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Like most healthcare facilities, Washington Hospital Center (WHC, whcenter.org) in the nation's capital used to struggle with asset management: finding the right pieces of equipment when employees needed them. But...

Perspectives on information life cycle management.
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Information life cycle management (ILM) is a critical component of nearly every business. The efficiency with which information assets are managed--from creation to review, distribution and storage--significantly...

Banks invest in KM.
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Banks and other financial services firms (mortgage lenders, brokerages, etc.) are using knowledge management to monitor the competition and are starting to share knowledge throughout the enterprise, although they...

Cloud computing and the issue of privacy.
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cloud computing remains a promising solution to the challenges of on-premises installation of enterprise applications. The increasing interest in software as a service (SaaS) as a way to control some information...

What is e-mail archiving and management?
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You know you have an e-mail management problem, but what kind of problem? Defining the exact nature of your problem can be half the battle to finding a solution. Technology solutions to e-mail problems related to the...

Is enterprise search still surging?(From The Editor)(Editorial)(Survey)
July 1, 2008... Based on what I heard in May at the Enterprise Search Summit (ESS) in New York, the answer is a qualified "yes." In fact, a strong argument can be made that enterprise search is more important than ever because more is at stake to maintain a...

The great debates.(opinion)(Viewpoint essay)
July 1, 2008... Debategraph.org has ambitious goals. It would like to be the place you go to when you want to understand one of the difficult, contentious issues that we've been arguing about for years. Its topics include climate change, the Iranian nuclear...

EOF update: report from the trenches.(The Future of the Future)(enterprise of the future)
July 1, 2008... I've always liked to keep one foot in the academic world and one in the "real" world. Universities are good at developing theory, which provides foundational principles on which we can base our business decisions, actions and observations. In...

Contacts and connections: an array of options.(Directory)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Business is built on relationships as much as it is on information, and an increasing number of software options are available to help establish and develop relationships. They range from contact management products...

A KM resource for wireless customers.(News)
July 1, 2008... Verizon Wireless (verizonwire less.com) has chosen to broaden its use of knowledge management software as part of several initiatives to enhance customer service and support. It will expand its deployment of KNOVA, a Consona (consona.com) CRM...

Defensible e-discovery.(News)
July 1, 2008... The global law firm Howrey (howrey.com) is enhancing its e-discovery capabilities through an alliance with Guidance Software (guidance software.com). Howrey's e-discovery and complex litigation expertise is being coupled with Guidance...

DITA's what I'm talking about.(Industry Watch)(XyEnterprise)
July 1, 2008... XyEnterprise (xyenterprise.com) has announced Version 1.5 of its Contenta DITA content management software solution. The new version includes BranchMerge, with which content developers can create branched versions of content for editing and...

Alfresco tackles Web 2.0.(Industry Watch)
July 1, 2008... Alfresco (alfresco.com) has released Enterprise 2.2, which has been specifically engineered to power Web 2.0 properties and online communities. New enhancements in the open source-based content management software support the creation,...

SPSS enhances platform.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... SPSS (spss.com) has announced a new version of its predictive analytics platform, Predictive Enterprise Services 3.5. It highlights the following enhancements: * event-based automation--new automation capabilities allow analytic processes...

Version 6.3 launched.(Industry Watch)(Thunderstone)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Thunderstone (thunderstone.com) has released Version 6.3 of the Thunderstone Search Appliance for businesses, NGOs, governments and educational institutions. The newest Appliance software enhancements, which apply to both the Thunderstone...

Clear and "cloudy".(Industry Watch)(Google Inc.)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Google has announced Site Search (google.com/sitesearch), which has been designed to deliver high-quality search results to any Web site through the cloud computing model. The Google-hosted, customizable service allows site owners to quickly...

BI/enterprise search.(Industry Watch)(Composite Software Inc.)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Composite Software (composite sw.com) has introduced the Discovery Appliance, which allows non-technical users to leverage key elements of BI and enterprise search to locate and work with source data and intermediate stores, such as warehouses...