KMWorld articles from June 2007

KMWorld archives from June 2007

KM tackles tough e-gov challenges.
June 1, 2007... Knowledge management tools and techniques are helping to support e-government initiatives aimed at some of the world's most challenging issues, including poverty, national security and healthcare. At the E-Gov Institute's (e-gov.com) Fifth...

"What's in an AIIM?".(Association of Imaging and Information Management)
June 1, 2007... That's precisely what I overheard a guy say as he walked into the Boston Convention Center on the first day of the AIIM conference in mid-April. Honest. Cross my heart. I couldn't resist using those words for this quick wrap-up of the AIIM...

Whatever happened to the page? New Adobe applications boost collaboration and workflow.
June 1, 2007... Two issues you don't hear enough about in KM circles are: 1.) the role of real design in knowledge and content management, and 2.) the KM needs of design and creative professionals as knowledge workers. In the first case, the digital age...

Smart image and video search.
June 1, 2007... Recently, I was searching the Web for images of spiders to help my 10-year-old son on a science project about arachnids. I used a number of different image search facilities on the Internet: Google (google.com), MSN (msn.com), PicSearch...

Bridging the collaboration age gap with unified communications and Web 2.0.
June 1, 2007... If you haven't noticed it yet, you will. The younger you are, the more likely you generally favor real-time time collaboration tools over asynchronous (non-real-time) ones. Young adults who are already or will soon be in the workplace prefer...

All roads lead to RM.(records management )
June 1, 2007... The case for records management (RM) gets more compelling every day. Perhaps the most commonly mentioned driver is compliance, although that buzzword has a broad range of meanings. At one end of the spectrum, compliance refers to meeting the...

Tower Software.(RECORDS MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS)
June 1, 2007... The Federal Rules and Civil Procedure have been a wake up call to public and private-sector entities alike who must demonstrate absolute integrity and accountability in their records management. A document is discoverable whether it has been...

Saas in perspective.(Company overview)
June 1, 2007... Few trends in the software world are attracting as much attention as "software as a service" (SaaS). In this delivery model, customers typically access software applications over the Internet and pay a subscription fee that depends on the...

Experts who won't play the Wikipedia game.(Opinion)
June 1, 2007... There are plenty of academics, among others, who won't play the Wikipedia game. They've studied for years, devoting themselves to the full-time pursuit of knowledge about their topic. Then they go to Wikipedia and read an article that...

Pharmaceutical firms discover the therapeutic value of KM.
June 1, 2007... KM technologies are just starting to make their way into widespread use in the pharmaceutical industry, according to experts in the field. "Pharmaceutical companies have not been getting whiplash from technological implementation," says...

Breaking free of the technology trap.(The Future of the Future)
June 1, 2007... In the process of transforming your organization into an Enterprise of the Future, it's easy to get caught up in the glamour of technology. Web 2.0, the availability of virtually unlimited storage and processing capacity, dazzling displays and...

On-demand e-mail archiving.(Industry Watch)
June 1, 2007... Fortiva (fortiva.com) reports its enhanced Archiving Suite is the only software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that meets the full spectrum of archiving, including e-mail storage management with attachment stubbing, advanced search for legal...

Unified contact center pact.(Industry Watch)(Unified Contact Center Enterprise)(Unified Contact Center Express offerings)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... EGain (egain.com) and Cisco (cisco.com) have entered into an agreement under which Cisco will include eGain products in its Unified Contact Center Enterprise and Unified Contact Center Express offerings. Under the terms of the agreement,...

EMC ECM for SharePoint.(Industry Watch)
June 1, 2007... EMC (emc.com) has released two enterprise content management (ECM) solutions engineered to provide seamless integration between EMC Documentum software and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. EMC says the new SharePoint offerings provide a...

MindTouch introduces Nexus.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... MindTouch (mindtouch.com) has launched Nexus, a social media platform that creates wiki communities and harnesses community-generated content for online publishing and commerce. The company reports that the wiki-centric Nexus platform is...

ClearStory unveils OEM solution.(Industry Watch)(ClearStory Systems)(original equipment manufacturer)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... ClearStory Systems (clearsto rysystems.com) has introduced Enterprise Media Server OEM Edition, which is said to be the industry's first embeddable pure Java EE digital media services engine for software developers and software-as-a-service...

Saba extends its offering.(Industry Watch)(Saba Software Inc.)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Saba (saba.com) has launched a new business unit focused exclusively on serving the human capital management needs of its mid-market and on-demand customers. The move follows the company's announcement last September of its expanded line of...

Beyond capture, way beyond.(Industry Watch)
June 1, 2007... Kofax (kofax.com) has announced the Document Exchange Server, which, the company says, is designed to facilitate the exchange of documents and information between standard document input devices within an organization--such as multifunction...

ReadSoft and Delta Consulting partner.(Industry Watch)
June 1, 2007... ReadSoft (readsoft.com) and Delta Consulting (go-delta.com), an organization that extends and enhances SAP solutions, have announced a solutions partnership agreement under which ReadSoft's products, such as Invoice Cockpit and Web Cycle, will...

NewsGator offers plug-ins for Lotus.(Industry Watch)
June 1, 2007... NewsGator (newsgator.com) has developed a new RSS reader for IBM's Lotus (lotus.com) messaging and collaboration environments. The News-Gator Plug-In for Lotus Notes delivers RSS feed-reading capabilities within Lotus Notes Versions 6.5 and...

Calendar.(Calendar)
June 1, 2007... July/August 07 Document capture/forms processing Solutions for transportation Solutions for legal September 07 Trend-Setting Products of the Year Regulatory compliance and corporate governance October 07 ...

Fiorano launches new product.(Industry Watch)(Fiorano Software Inc.)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Fiorano (fiorano.com) has released Fiorano SOA 2007 SMB, a specially configured and priced package meant to meet the needs of small to medium-sized (SMB) businesses. Powered by the same platform that drives Fiorano's other middleware...