KMWorld articles from June 2005

KMWorld archives from June 2005

Collaborative taxonomies.(product introductions)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Teragram (teragram.com) has released TK240 for Collaborative Development Version 2.0. Based on Teragram's taxonomy management software and categorization engine, TK240 2.0 is designed to allow teams of specialists in an organization to...

Time to (re)innovate the office?
June 1, 2005... It isn't news to anyone reading this that Microsoft (microsoft.com) and IBM (ibm.com) have been fighting over the knowledge sharing and collaboration (collectively: collaborative business knowledge) space for many years. Despite the time that...

Adobe acquires Macromedia.(News Analysis)
June 1, 2005... Adobe (adobe.com) recently announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (macromedia.com) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. Bruce Chizen, Adobe CEO, says "Customers are calling for integrated...

Software as a service.
June 1, 2005... Worldwide Spending 2009 $10.7 billion 2004 $4.2 billion Source: IDC

Children's integrates information.(News)
June 1, 2005... Children's Hospital Boston (chil drenshospital.org) is using an enterprise data integration system to enhance quality of care, conduct more effective research and operate more efficiently. The hospital, which serves as both a comprehensive care...

Searching for attorneys.(News)(Astor & Phillips)(ISYS Search Software)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Attorneys and staff at Astor & Phillips (astor-phillips.com) will be able to search across a large content repository with the deployment of new search software. The Los Angeles law firm has chosen ISYS: desktop search from ISYS Search Software...

Easing the paper chase.(News)(McDaniel College )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Two institutions of higher learning have deployed an enterprise content management system from RedDot Solutions (reddot.com). McDaniel College (mcdaniel.edu) in Maryland and Rider University (rider.edu) in New Jersey have chosen the...

Desperately seeking search.(search engines)
June 1, 2005... Whether on the desktop, the intranet or the Web site, tools that facilitate information finding have become indispensable. Most of us rely on search engines to tell us where our stuff is. Search engines connect customers, partners and employees...

Endeca.(Enterprise Search Summit 2005: Exhibit Roundup)
June 1, 2005... 7 Results to Demand From Enterprise Search Free Whitepaper! Download now at www.endeca.com/7Results [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Endeca solutions are the easiest way for people to find and discover information. Its innovative Search,...

ISYS Search Software Inc.(Enterprise Search Summit 2005: Exhibit Roundup)
June 1, 2005... Introducing ISYS 7 If you haven't yet discovered what ISYS can do for your organization, we're giving you another reason to find out--ISYS Version 7 has arrived! Now businesses and government organizations worldwide can derive even greater...

SER Solutions, Inc.(Enterprise Search Summit 2005: Exhibit Roundup)
June 1, 2005... E-Mail, Desktop, and Enterprise Search Solutions Tired of the promises made by other solutions that still rely on dated keyword search technologies? Have the new freeware offerings from brand name companies left you feeling a bit less than...

Verity Inc.(Enterprise Search Summit 2005: Exhibit Roundup)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Verity provides software that enables organizations to maximize the return on their knowledge capital. The company's innovative solutions provide integrated search, classification, recommendation, monitoring and analytics across the real-time...

Solutions in pharma: prescription for compliance.
June 1, 2005... Compliance in the life sciences industry is challenging, and the pharmaceutical segment faces even greater demands, for obvious reasons: Lives are at stake. And the penalties for non-compliance can be severe. Not only do pharmaceutical company...

A sampling of hosted collaboration products: this article narrows the field of more than 30 hosted collaboration products to four that represent the different directions that vendors are taking.
June 1, 2005... Collaboration can be found in products as diverse as document management, workflow and portals, but is overshadowed by those products' primary functionality. In this article on hosted collaboration, we will limit the discussion to vendors who...

Kubi Software, Inc.(Collaboration Sourcebook)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Email is the central nervous system of today's enterprise--for all types of communication. As email volumes continue to grow, critical business activities take place in an environment overwhelmed with non-critical communications. Kubi Software...

SiteScape.(Collaboration Sourcebook)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... SiteScape offers award-winning solutions for business process improvement, document control, program management, contact management, integrated web & teleconferencing, knowledge networking, and consolidated instant messaging. SiteScape...

Collaboration: Web conferencing spans the distance.
June 1, 2005... Relatively easy to install and use, Web conferencing is a very horizontal application that can be used to support collaboration for product development, sales briefings, executive meetings and training, among other functions. The key elements...

What makes government different?
June 1, 2005... When you say government, that's pretty vague. There are thousands of agencies, commands, bureaucracies, departments... it's somewhat akin to the myth of the "European market." There is no such thing. There are, however, very active buying...

Challenges facing the public sector: an infrastructure for 21st century government.
June 1, 2005... Governmental organizations worldwide are facing several challenges as administrative, executive and judicial bodies continue to evolve into an electronic work environment. Pushed by paperwork-reduction mandates, requirements to handle increased...

Meeting government's need for enterprise search.
June 1, 2005... The government market for enterprise search products has witnessed substantial growth over the past several years, a trend that is projected to continue well into 2005 and beyond. This increased demand for search solutions can be attributed to...

New approaches to KM in government: user-centric enterprise information retrieval.
June 1, 2005... Today's $12 billion knowledge management market provides comprehensive solutions to large organizations--implementing such solutions requires significant resources and depends on behavioral changes by employees. As a result, KM efforts often...

Managing mission-critical programs with ECM.
June 1, 2005... Government agencies face a variety of challenges in managing content throughout its complete lifecycle. These challenges routinely include dealing with inefficient manual processes and paper-based activities, managing tremendous volumes of...

Managing silos of knowledge within government agencies.
June 1, 2005... Virtually every government agency has invested substantial capital and resources to implement specific systems for different departments to create and manage documents. This has historically been done for numerous reasons: * Different...

Capture: past, present and future.(From The Editor)
June 1, 2005... About two months ago, I had the chance to spend a couple of days in Las Vegas at the Kofax reseller conference. It was the first occasion I've had to meet at length with companies that are completely focusing their attention on the first stage...

The size of topics.(From The Editor)(Editorial)
June 1, 2005... Nicholson Baker has a lovely essay in his book "The Size of Thoughts" about, well, the size of thoughts. He asserts as if it's obvious that most are about three feet tall. Now, that's absurd of course, but Baker's essay works because it lets...

Hummingbird Ltd.(Government Solutions Directory)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Government organizations at all levels, across all jurisdictions, are faced with increasing requirements to enhance the delivery of services to citizens and businesses, to take advantage of new technologies and new communication platforms, all...

SiteScape.(Government Solutions Directory)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... SiteScape offers award-winning solutions for business process improvement, document control, program management, contact management, integrated web & teleconferencing, knowledge networking, and consolidated instant messaging. SiteScape...

TOWER Software.(Government Solutions Directory)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... TOWER Software, a leading enterprise content management (ECM) provider, delivers electronic document and records management (EDRM) solutions. By relying on its proven domain expertise, strong strategic partnerships, and powerful solutions,...

Government tunes in to RFID.
June 1, 2005... Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology dates back to World War II, but interest surged recently as large organizations in both the public and private sectors mandated that their suppliers begin using it to track products in the supply...

Kofax releases VirtualReScan 4.0.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Kofax (kofax.com) has announced a major upgrade to VirtualReScan (VRS). The company reports VRS 4.0 makes scanning more efficient and enhances the quality of scanned images by expanding the existing capabilities of VRS to include color...

Temis and Mondeca partner.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Temis (temis.com) and Mondeca (mondeca.com) have finalized a technology and sales alliance to develop and market Semantic Web-based solutions. The new offering will be based on Temis Insight Discoverer suite of text mining software,...

Flexibly serving the media.(Industry Watch)(ClearStory Systems)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... ClearStory Systems (clearsto rysystems.com) has introduced Radiant Enterprise Media Server (EMS) 2.0, and enhanced version of its next-generation media services software platform. Radiant EMS enables flexibility for managing complex video,...

FAST and Siebel form alliance.(Industry Watch)(Fast Search and Transfer ASA)(Siebel Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Siebel Systems (siebel.com) and Fast Search & Transfer (fast search.com) have formed a multi-year partnership, whereby FAST InStream will be integrated within the core Siebel business applications platform. The agreement also provides...

Percussion introduces Rhythmyx 5.6.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Percussion Software (percus sion.com) has introduced Rhythmyx 5.6, which is said to have been designed for organizations requiring seamless support for multiple Web properties. The company says new capabilities in Rhythmyx 5.6 include: ...

Action Technologies expands BPM universe.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Action Technologies (actiontech.com) has expanded its Action Works BPM product software to unify knowledge work in team environments through a suite of Web-based collaboration, project management and administrative tools. The new Action Works...

XyEnterprise unveils new software.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... XyEnterprise (xyenterprise.com) has introduced new versions of its best-known software: Content@ 3.2 XML content management software and XML Professional Publisher (XPP) 7.3 enterprise publishing application. The new releases provide enhanced...

Onyx launches new version of Process Manager.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Onyx (onyx.com) reports that the latest version of Process Manager, which is part of its Process Management portfolio of products, allows business analysts to design and modify end-to-end business processes using graphical workflow and business...

Calendar.(Calendar)
June 1, 2005... July/August 05 Document capture/forms, items processing Collaborative commerce/e-business Solution for legal/law firm/corporate counsel September 05 KMWorld's Trend-Setting Products of the Year Records...

Verity unleashes LiquidOffice 4.0.(Industry Watch)
June 1, 2005... Verity (verity.com) reports it has developed the first business process management solution with enterprise-class, full-text search for immediate access to time-sensitive content across the entire business process life cycle. The offering is...

Index Engines introduces appliance.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Index Engines (indexengines.com) has introduced what it claims is the first enterprise search appliance that indexes data in line with the existing backup process. The Index Engines Appliance sits in the path of the data backup and...

Modus Operandi releases Wave 2.1.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Modus Operandi (modusoperandi.com) has released Wave 2.1, its enterprise integration information (EII) system. New features include: third-party infrastructure components such as BEA Systems' (bea.com) WebLogic and Liquid Data, used for the...