KMWorld articles from March 2002

KMWorld archives from March 2002

A merger with a mission: Sopheon completes purchase of Orbital software.
March 1, 2002... Sopheon has announced that it has begun to integrate Orbital's (orbital.com) Organik expertise-sharing software, which powers KM World's Knowledge Community, into its business process and information management solutions. The union of the two...

Enterprise ESP: tacit's new platform for expertise automation.
March 1, 2002... Tacit Knowledge Systems (tacit. com) has released its new Expertise Services Platform (ESP), what is described as a complete foundation for enterprise software vendors to incorporate automatic expertise discovery, capture and search into their...

Divine acquisition.
March 1, 2002... Although details of the deal were unavailable, Divine (divine.com) reports it has acquired certain assets of Northern Light (northernlight.com) in a move designed to enhance its content-rich solutions for portals, intranets, Web sites and...

Connecting silos of information. (News).
March 1, 2002... Day (day.com) has released Communique Unify, which has been designed to provide a robust infrastructure to efficiently manage and unify all digital content, information and processes throughout the enterprise. The company reports the 100% Java...

80-20 presents search portlet. (News).
March 1, 2002... 80-20 Software (80-20.com) has released its portal application for the IBM (ibm.com) WebSphere Portal. 8020 says its Retriever categorization technology is designed to help workers immediately find any file on their system, significantly...

Albert offers search for Domino. (News).
March 1, 2002... Albert (albert.com) has launched AMI Discovery for Lotus (lotus.com) Domino, which allows users to search and retrieve relevant information from unstructured content stored in Domino databases. The company explains that AMI Discovery for...

Eras of KM addressed at conference. (News).
March 1, 2002... The three generations of KM were discussed by David Snowden, director of IBM's (ibm.com) Institute of Knowledge Management, at during a speech at the 5th McMaster World Congress on Intellectual Capital in Hamilton, Ontario, Jan. 16 to 18. ...

KM 'aids and abets' law enforcement. (Law Enforcement).
March 1, 2002... Law enforcement is an information-intensive process, beginning with data collection at crime scenes and extending through records management and analysis of data to support crime-solving. Like other organizations, law enforcement agencies have...

Administaff enhances client service through extranets: breaking new ground in KM. (Best Practice Award 2002).
March 1, 2002... Extranets are being used extensively to link companies in the supply chain for manufacturing and retailing, but their application to professional services companies is still on the leading edge. Founded 15 years ago, Administaff...

.Com KM's inroads on e-commerce. (E-Commerce).
March 1, 2002... While knowledge management-related systems software typically provides Web site users with access to information stored in a variety of databases, KM's role in e-commerce extends far beyond that. Many companies are using workflow and other...

Promises to improve database interoperability. (Info Architecture).
March 1, 2002... Digital information is unwieldy. Despite the marketing rhetoric of search engines, online navigation guides and assorted enterprise software companies, the Web does not usually function as a content or knowledge management platform. It is...

Clinical trial collaboration. (KM in Practice).
March 1, 2002... To foster greater collaboration and more effective communication in conducting its mission, the National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA, nida.nih.gov) Clinical Trials Network has turned to a Web-based technology solution from Information...

Classroom klatch with Danish. (KM in Practice).
March 1, 2002... The Danish Armed Forces Distance Education Centre (DEC, fcfu.dk) recently launched the "Forsvarets Elektroniske Skole" (FELS, the Armed Forces electronic school). The distance education course for senior noncommissioned officers provides...

FAA accelerates application process. (KM in Practice).
March 1, 2002... Recent events have forced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA, faa.gov) to search for qualified candidates to work as air marshals. And because the FAA wants to find, screen and hire marshals as quickly as possible, it has launched an...

MG Rover, MG Rover, let Enigma come over. (KM in Practice).
March 1, 2002... To increase its aftersales business and improve customer satisfaction, MG Rover Group (mg-rover.com) is implementing XML-based software from Enigma (enigma.com). 3C Platform has been chosen by the car maker as part of a major integrated...

What's up with AIIM these days? (Opinion).
March 1, 2002... The Association for Imaging and Information Management and its conference have been very important for KMWorld--especially in our earlier incarnation as ImagingWorld, which began about a decade ago and continued until our decision in 1997 to...

Business science and business religion. (Opinion).
March 1, 2002... "Religious beliefs are absolute," said the posting to the archly realistic mailing list, "and as such, they are unfalsifiable." They are, according to the writer, therefore in the same category as beliefs about Santa Claus and preferences for...

Codification, personalization, integration: a strategy for selecting and applying KM tools. (Opinion).
March 1, 2002... A key perspective to applying knowledge management and developing an enterprise KM strategy is determining the right tools to support a knowledge management system (KMS). Academics and practitioners advocate the theory and realities of...

Personal toolkit. (Personal KM).
March 1, 2002... The Meishi-Kokan Kai is a New Year's rite at the City Club, 54 floors above the starry downtown skyline. Over cocktails and sushi, hundreds of LA businesspeople make new acquaintances and catch up with old friends. Central to this networking...

The third stage of KM emerges. (Knowledge Management).
March 1, 2002... A third stage of knowledge management has surfaced. If you peruse the content of the KMWorld conferences in 2000 and 2001, you can see it clearly. At KMWorld 2000, a track on content management appeared for the first time, and at KMWorld 2001,...

AIIM 2002. (AIIm News).
March 1, 2002... AIIM 2002 San Francisco March 5 to 8 Moscone Convention Center San Francisco, CA A preview of what to expect from exhibitors. ActionPoint actionpoint.com ActionPoint, an information capture software provider,...

AIIM 2002 San Francisco: must see booths. (Special Advertising Section).
March 1, 2002... Booth #2523 AccuSoft Corporation 71 Lyman Street Northborough, MA 01532 PH: 508-351-9092 Fax: 508-351-9086 www.accusoft.com Since 1985, AccuSoft has delivered high-performance imaging solutions that solve...

Stratify helps CIA to wise up. (News).
March 1, 2002... Stratify reports that it has been selected by In-Q-Tel (in-q-tel.org) to implement an information management platform to accelerate data acquisition and effectiveness for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In-Q-Tel, which became an...

B2B, comprehensively. (News).
March 1, 2002... In its new Business Process Integrator (BPI) Suite, Sybase (sybase.com) says it offers a comprehensive set of integration and business process management tools that automate business processes, raise efficiency and lower costs. Sybase BPI...

New knowledge platform. (News).
March 1, 2002... The Universal Knowledge Processor (UKP) from Knowledge Processors (knowledgeprocessors.com) is a new KM system said to facilitate easy review and retrieval of any type of data (text, images, video, etc.) on the basis of a hierarchical...

KMWorld buyers' guide.
March 1, 2002... Spring 2002 Edition. ActionPoint, Inc. 1299 Parkmoor Avenue San Jose, CA 95126 PH: 800.371.3783 FAX:408.232.9292 actionsales@actionpoint.com www.actionpoint.com ActionPoint provides a continuum of...

Mainstream knowledge management.
March 1, 2002... When we published the first KMWorld Buyers' Guide nearly six years ago, knowledge management was poised to revolutionize business. Those were the heady days filled with bright promise of blending emerging technology--in both hardware and...

Index to markets served.
March 1, 2002... Index to Markets Served Computing, Banking, Financial Communications Services, Insurance Technology ...

Index to solutions.
March 1, 2002... Index to Solutions Data, Capture, Mining, Content Reporting, Analysis, Management Business Intelligence ...

Index to type of operation.
March 1, 2002... Index to Type of Operation Applications Service Provider Consultant ActionPoint, Inc. Advanced Visual Systems * ATS...

Index to affinity business functions.
March 1, 2002... Index to Affinity Business Functions Business or Applications Competitive Service Provider...

Reality bites: how the enterprise content management market is coping with its growing pains.
March 1, 2002... Martyn Christian is talking about contradictions: "The biggest trend in Enterprise Content Management is its expansion from production-oriented solutions, toward a more personalized, customized, personal approach. This has allowed ECM to be...

The importance of hierarchy building in managing unstructured data.
March 1, 2002... Since the advent of the relational database, enterprises have been able to manage structured data effectively through the thousands of applications that enhance company operations. Unstructured data--the 85% of corporate content that doesn't...

Conquering business challenges with ECM: The Agile and Dfficient Corporation.
March 1, 2002... In today's information economy, content is more dynamic, more complex, and shared by more people throughout the enterprise than ever before. A desire to leverage this content across the enterprise and with customers is no longer a nicety for...

The powerful combination of enterprise portal and content management infrastructure: creating a dynamic portal experience.
March 1, 2002... The IBM Software Group As organizations move their critical business functions online, a key to pulling together information in many different formats from many different databases and applications is the effective use of a portal. The...

Powering the digital content supply chain.
March 1, 2002... The entertainment industry is known for its to organize and manage the content it creates. It is now awakening to the advantages of using sophisticated management tools to categorize, track, and syndicate content and is moving toward a true...

Keeping processing in the game: process-centric enterprise content management for insurance.
March 1, 2002... As fast as the competitive, regulatory and technological underpinnings of information management are moving these days, one thing is moving even faster the proliferation of new ways to conceptualize, model and describe these changes with new...

Knowledge management: intelligence for today's business world.
March 1, 2002... Some may say we currently live in the Information Age, but to be accurate what we are experiencing is the Information Overload Age. Technology and businesses continue to grow and information continues to be produced at exponential levels. ...

Maximizing the productivity of content assets.
March 1, 2002... BroadVision, Inc. While organizations once aimed simply to put content on a website, they now recognize that content is an asset. Organizations need to ensure that content is current, consistent, and personalized for different audiences...

Avoiding the pitfalls of content management implementations: content management--a critical success factor for your enterprise.
March 1, 2002... Content management has grown from an enabling technology supporting public Web site development to a mission-critical foundation for a wide range of strategic business initiatives. During the advent of the Web, companies simply sought a Web...

Securing and streamlining your organization's biggest asset.
March 1, 2002... Information is the biggest asset in any organization. The efficiency with which businesses manage this information in terms of storing, searching, retrieving, and protecting it is critical to the success of the business. September 11...

Integrated content management: order from chaos.
March 1, 2002... Vignette Corporation An effective Internet infrastructure can bring order to chaos. It is capable of supporting a diverse range of business requirements and therefore requires solutions that allow systems, applications and people to share...

Three approaches to mutilingual content management: using a content management system (CMS).
March 1, 2002... If your organization has recently implemented an enterprise content management system, chances are you now face the challenge of how to best manage your company s multilingual content. While a number of product and service offerings are...

KMWorld best practices white papers: the whys and wherefores of a business solutions series.
March 1, 2002... the KMWorld Specialty Publishing Group The KMWorld Best Practice White Paper series serves sometimes as a filter, sometimes as an amplifier and sometimes as a simple communications link between those who have business goals to reach, and...