KMWorld articles from June 2009

KMWorld archives from June 2009

Ingenuity and co-evolution: everything is fragmented.(Column)
June 1, 2009... When I was at school, I created an all-time record, namely by avoiding participation in the annual cross-country run for all seven years from the age of 11 to 18. That took a fair degree of ingenuity, and gather toward the end, bets were being...

It's all in the (sourceone) family.
June 1, 2009... EMC (emc.com) has introduced SourceOne, a new family of products and solutions for archiving, e-discovery and compliance aimed at helping companies centrally manage multiple content types in order to apply consistent retention, disposition and...

Cartella app bridges a gap: unified social content management.
June 1, 2009... Ingeniux (ingeniux.com) has rolled out Cartella, which is said to be the first unified social content management platform, integrating social networking, Web 2.0 tools, analytics and content management into one solution. Cartella includes...

Arkansas tracks stimulus funds.(News)
June 1, 2009... The Arkansas Department of Education (arkansased.org) will use technology from IBM (ibm.com) to track its spending of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding grants, also known as stimulus funds. The software is expected to...

Carlsbad creates electronic records repository.(News)
June 1, 2009... Carlsbad creates electronic records repository City officials find themselves confronting ever-mounting piles of paperwork. Carlsbad, Calif. (carlsbadca.gov), with a population of 90,000, is no exception to that predicament. The City Clerk's...

The tangible benefits of ECM.(News)(White Electrical Construction Company)(enterprise content management)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... White Electrical Construction Company (white-electrical.com) wanted to replace a paper-based accounting system that was impairing productivity and reliable services. For decades, the firm, which has 500 employees and $65 million in annual...

Sharepoint: the backbone of your information architecture.
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SharePoint (microsoft.com/share point) buyers expect intuitive navigation, contextual search and easy administration out of the box--but such benefits depend on how content is structured, labeled and categorized, and...

Gets down to business: social networking.
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Social networking software gives users the ability to create individual profiles that foster interaction among people based on their interests, expertise or work activities. First made available on consumer-oriented...

Connecting the dot.govs.(Department of Homeland Security)
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On the most basic level, we need to take a step back and focus on the fundamental question: Why was the Department of Homeland Security created? It was not created merely to bring together different agencies under a...

Dollars and data.(Editorial)
June 1, 2009... I'm going to confess to a certain ignorance. I've taken data centers for granted. Oh, sure, I realize that mammoth server farms are daily making trillions of connections to provide the processing backbone for the vast amount of computing...

The beauty of mesh networking.(Opinion)
June 1, 2009... The first time I heard about mesh networking, I was at a 50-person conference about how to keep the Internet from being turned into a clone of the phone system. One of the attendees--all of whom knew more about the topic than I did--talked...

KM challenges fraud.
June 1, 2009... The term "risk management" can mean many things, depending on the type of organization and the activities being conducted. It can relate to anything from governance and financial management to physical safety of workers. One component of risk...

Pharmaceutical firms treat inefficiencies with KM.
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Wyeth Pharmaceuticals (wyeth.com) is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, with a host of products in such areas as women's healthcare, infectious diseases, gastrointestinal health, hemophilia,...

Google's App Engine: getting serious about the enterprise market.
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Science fiction buffs know about the "tractor beam." A starship floats without power. A space tug locks onto the crippled star cruiser with a magnetic beam. The space tug reels in the crippled starship the way a...

Autonomy's IDOL gets legal.(Product Roundup)(intelligent data operating layer)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... Law firms now have a common search platform across WorkSite and Autonomy's enterprise archiving, legal hold, EDD processing, review and production solutions. Autonomy (autonomy.com) reports iManage WorkSite (previously known as Interwoven...

MetaVis launches new visual tool.(Product Roundup)(MetaVis Technologies)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... MetaVis Technologies (metavistech.com) has released MetaVis ARCHITECT for SharePoint, which gives information architects, developers, consultants and administrators the capability to design, document and deploy SharePoint objects using a...

Endeca and Open Text partner.(Product Roundup)(Endeca Technologies Inc.)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... Endeca (endeca.com) and Open Text (opentext.com) have formalized their partnership to deliver Endeca's Digital Asset Navigator solution on Open Text Digital Media Group's Enterprise Media Management Solution. The two companies report the...

Semantic business applications.(Product Roundup)
June 1, 2009... Three business intelligence and information management companies, Attensity (attensity.com), empolis GmbH (empolis.com) and Living-e AG (livinge. com), have formed the Attensity Group (attensity.com/group) to deliver business user applications...

SpringCM Sharepoint Cloud Connectors.(Product Roundup)
June 1, 2009... SpringCM (springcm.com) announced that it has launched the first connectivity solution between its software-as-a-service (SaaS) ECM platform and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007). The SpringCM Cloud Connector for SharePoint is...

Dieselpoint premieres OpenPipeline.(Product Roundup)
June 1, 2009... Dieselpoint (dieselpoint.com) has introduced a new open source product, OpenPipeline, which is designed for crawling, parsing, analyzing and routing documents. OpenPipeline has been built to tie together otherwise incomplete solutions for...

CMS with e-mail archiving.(Product Roundup)
June 1, 2009... DocuLex (doculex.com) and dtSearch (dtsearch.com) have joined forces to provide an e-mail archiving extension to DocuLex's Archive Studio product line. DocuLex's WebSearch component with embedded dtSearch Engine can now pull inbound and...

Calendar.(Calendar)
June 1, 2009... July/August 09 Document life cycle management Solutions for financial services September 09 Trend-Setting Products of the Year Business intelligence/competitive intelligence Solutions in government October 09 ...

Transformation Modules 4.0.(Product Roundup)(Kofax Image Products Inc.)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... Kofax (kofax.com) has announced Version 4.0 of its Transformation Modules, which intelligently automate the classification, sorting and separation of paper and electronic documents, and then extract and validate the accuracy of the information...