KMWorld articles from June 2006

KMWorld archives from June 2006

ITI to launch new enterprise search portal.(Industry Watch)
June 1, 2006... Information Today, Inc. (ITI, iti.com) has announced the launch of a new portal covering enterprise search and related technologies. The site, enterprisesearchcenter.com, is to be launched in beta version May 22, coinciding with the first day...

Are your digital assets protected?(Trend Watch)
June 1, 2006... It should come as no surprise that digital asset management (DAM) and digital rights management (DRM) are quickly emerging as the "have-to-have" content management tools of the year. Considering the implications of everything from RSS feeds...

Wikis--a disruptive innovation.
June 1, 2006... Innovation is ranked a top priority by global CEOs. Yet, few CEOs manage innovation by linking strategy to structure. Currently, most CEOs focus on sustaining innovation practices vs. disruptive practices. Disruptive innovation, framed by...

Worldwide secure content management product revenue.
June 1, 2006... Worldwide Secure Content Management Product Revenue By Segment 2006-2009 ($M) 2006 2007 2008 2009 Antivirus 4,455.7 5,079.5 5,714.4 6,366.2 Antispyware 353.1 481.6 ...

DAM good television viewing.(News)
June 1, 2006... A large global creator and producer of television programs is using Open Text (opentext.com) technology for a new Web-based system to give broadcast customers quicker access to programs. FremantleMedia (fremantleme dia.com) has implemented...

The key to e-mail headache relief.(analysis process for its legal departments)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Transatlantic Reinsurance Company (TRC, transre.com) is streamlining and automating the e-mail discovery and analysis process for its IT and legal departments. The firm has chosen Clearwell Email Intelligence Platform from Clearwell Systems...

Reconciling inefficiencies.(SEI contracts Mobius Management Systems Inc.)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... SEI (seic.com), a provider of outsourced investment business solutions, has chosen Mobius Management Systems (mobius.com) to automate its account reconciliation process. SEI is deploying Mobius' ViewDirect-ABS to reconcile institutional...

On track with search.(management of Interfleet Technology )(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Interfleet Technology (inter fleet-technology.com) is implementing a new enterprise search system to give its employees more powerful search capabilities. The international rail consultancy has hundreds of employees working with a million...

Restoring damaged records.(reports of storm damage)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... A New Orleans University, whose archived records were damaged in Hurricane Katrina, embarked on a large digital imaging project to restore them. Grantham University (grantham.edu), which had to grapple with 48 filing cabinets containing...

German wholesaler cuts errors.(management of German wholesale company )(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... The German wholesale company Okle (okle.de) has automated its paper receipt and fax order processes to improve customer service and reduce costs caused by manual errors. Okle receives about 500 paper receipts per day and 50 fax orders per...

Collaboration and portals team up for enterprise workplace.
June 1, 2006... What is a sure way to lose the attention of customers or prospects? Tell them that you want to sell them more IT infrastructure. That can be very challenging because of the amount and complexity of infrastructure that has already been purchased...

Finding experts--explicit and implicit.
June 1, 2006... Several years ago, expertise location was a fast-growing branch of KM, helping to find the human repositories of specialized knowledge. Then it seemed to recede as an application of interest, perhaps because some of the solutions were narrowly...

E-government: enhancing national security.(Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security offers graduate education programs)
June 1, 2006... Since 2002, the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS, chds.us) has developed a wide range of graduate education programs that help current and future homeland security leaders with strategies, policies and...

Mapping the mind's eye.(personal toolkit)(Product/service evaluation)
June 1, 2006... At a meeting one day, I found myself sitting between two eminent KM thinkers. Both men were rapidly taking notes directly into their laptops. One was using PersonalBrain from TheBrain Technologies (the brain.com). The other was using...

Scientists take a closer look at ELNs: in the pharmaceutical industry, an electronic lab notebook can be more than a receptacle for documents; it can be a platform for knowledge management and collaboration.
June 1, 2006... Despite the range of sophisticated software in use in the pharmaceutical industry, it may be surprising to many people that the vast majority of research scientists still record their experiments the same way Leonardo da Vinci did hundreds of...

Dissecting the public and private sectors: "have to" vs. "want to".
June 1, 2006... My question was simple: What are the main differences between the ways the public sector--government agencies, administrations, defense organizations, civilian agencies--deploys technology solutions versus the ways its private, commercial...

Don't curtail the long tail: lessons for search and information access.
June 1, 2006... The "long tail" theory says there's latent demand for each piece of information in your content and inventory collections--not just the most popular ones. And with the reach of intranets, portals and the Internet, it's now possible to satisfy...

Correspondence management: taking the fast lane from the inbox to the outbox.(information technology)
June 1, 2006... The value of correspondence management is more often than not overlooked and underestimated in organizations around the world today. And, in a world that is becoming more and more information-dependent for a variety of reasons--security,...

Improve service through faster access to information.(government information technology services)
June 1, 2006... The amount of information government agencies handle today is greater than ever. Information exists in many forms such as email, faxes, paper files and electronic records. The challenge is handling all these types of documents while trying to...

Minnesota speeds tax processing and reduces costs.
June 1, 2006... The Minnesota Department of Revenue (MDOR) oversees the state's revenue system, which is made up of 28 state taxes and local property taxes collected by county governments. The department serves 2.4 million taxpayers and processes approximately...

Analytics applications provide actionable results.
June 1, 2006... Intelligence communities face mounting data analysis challenges. The volume and diversity of information that is of potential intelligence value is outstripping the capabilities of conventional tools. The need to quickly and continuously glean...

The case for the two semantic webs.
June 1, 2006... The Web is semantic. It has to be because we've written it. It is an endless ocean of words and deliberately created images. Every link in every blog post also has meaning, and almost always that meaning is expressed explicitly or is blindingly...

Collegiality: a 21st century answer.(Guest commentary)
June 1, 2006... In a recent two-part series on "The Knowledge Imperative" (KMWorld, April and May 2006), Jonathan Spira emphasized that vendors of customer knowledge software must help organizations move beyond the outmoded ideas of the industrial age. Since...

The future workplace.(information technology services industry forecast)
June 1, 2006... Everything about work--where we work, how we work, what tools and information we work with--is changing. Change is accelerating due to a continuous refinement of business processes to stay competitive. However, business process and...

BPM ASPs--keeping it simple: business process management (BPM) is the most complex of content management technologies. Hosted BPM services reduce the complexity of integration and management, promote ease of use and cut costs.(Company overview)
June 1, 2006... With the promise of big profits in the business process management (BPM) market, vendors from all over the technology map--pure-play BPM, as well as enterprise application integration (EAI), enterprise resource planning (ERP), content...

WebSideStory introduces Search 4.0.(Analysis of mobile device)
June 1, 2006... WebSideStory (websidestory.com) has unveiled Version 4.0 of its comprehensive search application, which is the first to automatically combine site search and Web site behavioral data. The company explains that its Active Ranking technology...

Blogs meet deep data extraction.(Industry Watch)
June 1, 2006... QL2 Software (ql2.com) and Traction Software (tractionsoftware.com) have formed a joint development partnership that is designed to facilitate decision making by bringing QL2's data extraction platform, WebQL, to users of Traction's TeamPage...

KANA raises its IQ with 9.1.(Kana Software Inc.'s Version 9.1)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... KANA Software (kana.com) has introduced IQ 9.1, which offers new workflow capabilities for managing the process of translating and maintaining knowledgebase content in multiple languages. Version 9.1 also offers new knowledgebase revision...

Siderean makes a mark in navigation.(launch of Seamark Navigator 4.0)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Siderean Software (siderean.com) has introduced Seamark Navigator 4.0, which features new application integration, security and scalability enhancements over previous versions. The company reports the new software gives users the ability to...

Inxight SDX for 30 languages.(launch of SmartDiscovery Extraction Server software)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Inxight (inxight.com) has released SmartDiscovery Extraction Server (SDX), which is claimed to be the first commercially available and massively scalable solution for text analytics in more than 30 languages. The company explains SDX delivers...

Structuring the unstructured.(Attensity Corp. launches beta version of Attensity Server 4.0)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Attensity (attensity.com) has unveiled the beta version of its latest text analytics software, Attensity Server 4.0, which offers a wizard-based interface for quick point-and-click extraction of facts from free-form text in millions of...

TEMIS and Convera partner.(integrating software)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... TEMIS (temis.com), a provider of text mining software, has signed an agreement with Convera (convera.com) that calls for embedding TEMIS' XeLDA linguistic engine in four languages (French, Spanish, Russian and German) into Convera's Excalibur...

Calendar.(Calendar)
June 1, 2006... July/August 06 Document capture/forms processing Solutions for transportation Solutions for legal September 06 Trend-Setting Products of the Year Enterprise content management Solutions for e-commerce ...