KMWorld articles from March 2005

KMWorld archives from March 2005

Adobe enhances collaboration.(Adobe Systems Inc.)
March 1, 2005... All types of documents can become important artifacts of knowledge work--word processing, e-mail, Web pages, paper forms, spreadsheets, engineering drawings, images, etc. Collaborating around those artifacts in increasingly interconnected,...

SAP takes on Oracle.
March 1, 2005... SAP reports on its Web site that its customers running solutions from PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards "now have a safe passage away from the uncertainties arising out of the acquisition of those software brands by Oracle. To provide companies with...

Blogs and the values of journalism.(Blogging, Journalism and Credibility conference)
March 1, 2005... For me, the defining moment at the "Blogging, Journalism and Credibility" conference held recently at Harvard (harvard.edu) came in an exchange between Jimmy Wales, creator of Wikipedia (wikipedia.org), and Jill Abramson, managing editor of The...

Worldwide e-mail message archiving market.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Worldwide e-mail message archiving market 2003 $197 million 2004 $432 million 2006 $994 million Source: Forrester Research Note: Table made from bar graph.

More content, more context.(Industry Watch)(Stellent GmbH releases Universal Content Management 7.5)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Stellent (stellent.com) has released Universal Content Management 7.5, which it describes as the content management industry's first in-context metadata engine. New features include enhanced e-mail management and new digital asset management...

New suite from FileNet: helps organizations with large numbers of e-mail users.(Industry Watch)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... FileNet (filenet.com) has introduced Email Manager, a new P8-based suite designed to help organizations capture, organize, monitor, retrieve, retain and share e-mail content for improved decision-making processes and adherence to regulatory...

Search for legal expertise.(Industry Watch)(RecomMind Inc. to intorduce MindServer Legal Matters & Expertise)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Recommind (recommind.com) has announced the newest addition to the MindServer Legal product suite--MindServer Legal Matters & Expertise, which extends document search to include a firm's attorneys, matters, deals, cases and documents associated...

News from Lotusphere 2005.(Industry Watch)(IBM Software Group. Lotus Software)
March 1, 2005... At its annual event in Orlando, Fla., IBM Lotus (lotus.com) announced enhancements to Notes and Domino, as well as new WebSphere Portal and Workplace offerings, Workplace development tools and a new hosted solution. The announcements...

Weaving the Web.(Industry Watch)(Interwoven Inc. introduces LiveSite Content Publishing Server)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Interwoven (interwoven.com) introduces LiveSite Content Publishing Server, which is said to allow users to create and publish dynamic Web sites--including public sites, intranets and extranets--while still providing IT with the tools to...

An NLP polyglot.(Industry Watch)(Inxight Software Inc. releases latest version of LinguistX Platform)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Inxight (inxight.com) has released the latest version of its LinguistX Platform, which adds support for four new languages-Catalan, Croatian, Slovak and Slovenian--bringing the total number of supported languages to 31. The release also...

E-mail management hits center stage--Part 1.(e-mail software)
March 1, 2005... As the writer William Faulkner put it, "No man is a failure who is enjoying life." And e-mail management vendors have been enjoying life quite a bit lately. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Regulatory pressures, loosened IT purse strings and the...

Managing content for compliance.(Sarbanes-Oxley Act)
March 1, 2005... The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, signed into law in July 2002, was enacted in response to a series of corporate failings centered around deceptive financial reporting in publicly owned companies. Geared toward protecting investors and employees, the law...

Enterprise search, Part 2.(Roundtable Discussion)(Panel Discussion)
March 1, 2005... Part 2 of the roundtable continues a discussion of the Minnesota North Star Portal (see KMWorld February 2005 for Part 1) and looks ahead to the future of enterprise search. Led by KMWorld senior writer Judith Lamont, the roundtable included...

E-mail: cursed blessing, or blessed curse?
March 1, 2005... I e-mailed you yesterday. Didn't you get my e-mail? What e-mail? When did you e-mail me? OK... I'll e-mail you again. What's your e-mail? I already e-mailed you that! WHAT E-MAIL??? I have entire conversations like that. And unless you're a...

Thinking of e-mail as an opportunity, not a threat: a new strategic imperative?
March 1, 2005... E-mail: love it or loathe it, it's here to stay. Although e-mail is widely considered to be the definitive communication tool of our time, many organizations see e-mail as nothing but a burden, a challenge and a downright nuisance. ...

The layers of e-mail management.
March 1, 2005... In recent years, we have seen e-mail's progression to the primary mode of communication in today's interactive business world. The average employee processes over 75 e-mails per day, totaling over 2.8 billion messages sent and received daily in...

Simply speaking: managing messaging as a corporate record.(email usage management)
March 1, 2005... Every major corporation should be aware of the lingering smoking gun effect. Miriam Webster provides the following definition for "smoking gun": noun--" something that serves as conclusive evidence or proof, especially of a crime." In...

Solving the metadata mystery.(data management)
March 1, 2005... What is metadata? The simplest way to explain metadata is to envision a scenario without it. Imagine the chaos at your local supermarket if all of the product labels were removed. A trip that should take a couple of minutes would now take...

Managing organizational e-mail.
March 1, 2005... One of the major issues facing every organization today is the constantly increasing volume of e-mail. Until recently, ad hoc approaches have been taken, but with growing compliance requirements (e.g., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA, SEC, U.S....

E-mail management: key to business processes.
March 1, 2005... E-mail is the most widely used software application in virtually every corporate enterprise. According to IDC, 35 billion e-mails are generated every business day, up from 10 billion just five years ago. And with new compliance-driven...

The case for active archiving: flexible. complete. affordable.
March 1, 2005... With the typical employee sending and receiving nearly 25,000 e-mail messages per year, e-mail has evolved into a primary "knowledge asset." This has created the need for an infrastructure strategy that supports retention policies and makes...

KMWorld 100 companies that matter in knowledge management.
March 1, 2005... Each year we get a chance to recognize the companies we believe best exemplify the ideals of true knowledge management--the ones whose products and services continue to fundamentally transform the way organizations operate. As I outlined on...

Access Innovations, Inc.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... With over 27 years successful experience in document classification and transformation, taxonomy creation, indexing, and platform-independent content management, Access Innovations assists corporate, governmental, and academic clients leverage...

Altova, Inc.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)
March 1, 2005... Alexander Falk President and CEO Altova accelerates development and integration projects with software, services, and solutions that enhance productivity and maximize results. As an innovative, customer-focused company and the creator...

Appian.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)
March 1, 2005... Appian Enterprise BPM Suite: Aligning business strategy and execution to deliver greater operational control over strategic business processes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Appian is the industry's first business process management (BPM)...

Astoria Software, Inc.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Reinventing Enterprise Document Publishing [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enterprises are now acutely aware that accurate, relevant product documentation delivered on time is a critical part of their overall product offering. But for some...

Attensity Corporation.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... In today's competitive business environment, no organization should be making business decisions using only 20% of its data. The reality is, however, that because unstructured text comprises the other 80% of available information, organizations...

Autonomy, Inc.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Advertisement)
March 1, 2005... Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU.) is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise. Autonomy's technology powers applications dependent upon unstructured information including call center, customer relationship management,...

Butterworth-Heinemann.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Resources for the Knowledge Economy [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since the 1990s, Butterworth-Heinemann, an imprint of Elsevier, has been pleased to be one of the pioneering publishers in the area of knowledge management. Today, as KM...

Connotate Technologies, Inc.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... A primary challenge in deploying any KM solution is the acquisition of essential information. Connotate reduces this knowledge acquisition bottleneck through the use of machine-intelligent Information Agents that are trained to navigate the web...

Cymfony.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... As part of several new initiatives in 2005, Cymfony, a leader in automated media measurement, market research and business intelligence, has extended its award-winning Dashboard to meet the increasing demand for Internet media analysis....

Ektron.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
March 1, 2005... The mandate to create and manage information on intranets, Web sites and extranets is a universal requirement among today's organizations. They share the need to harness the power of the Web in new, effective ways in order to generate maximum...

Exact Software North America.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
March 1, 2005... Delivering Knowledge to the Entire Organization [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When looking to implement technologies that optimize efficiency, organizations are faced with the realization that the majority of solutions out there will only...

Factiva.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, provides essential business news and information together with the content delivery tools and services that enable professionals to make better decisions faster. Factiva's unrivalled collection of over...

Fast Search & Transfer.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Fast Search & Transfer[TM] (FAST[TM]) creates the real-time search and filter technology solutions that are behind the scenes at the world's best known companies with the most demanding search problems. FAST's flexible and scalable integrated...

Global 360.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Advertisement)
March 1, 2005... Global 360's G360 Enterprise is the only BPM solution that combines industry-leading analytics capabilities with a powerful business process management platform providing a truly round-trip solution. Global 360 gives organizations a 360-degree...

Hummingbird Ltd.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... In today's competitive global economy, corporations and governments worldwide are faced with the challenge of controlling the flux of electronic business content to provide 24X7 service delivery, drive revenue, assure compliance, and streamline...

Infodata Systems Inc.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Experience and Innovation for Compliance-Driven Content Management Solutions [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As businesses continue to cope with increasingly restrictive regulations, Infodata provides content management solutions necessary for...

Innodata Isogen.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
March 1, 2005... Innodata Isogen improves the way companies create, manage and distribute information. We help organizations in four content-rich segments--publishing, media and information services; global enterprise; culture and education; and...

Intellisophic.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
March 1, 2005... Intellisophic is the leading publisher of taxonomic content for use in advanced information intelligence applications. Intellisophic's innovative technology is reshaping one of the hottest topics in information retrieval and knowledge...

Inxight Software.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Business success depends on the speed of access and effective use of information. Yet, most companies rely on a scant fraction of the information available to run their businesses. The reason is that more than 85 percent of corporate data is in...

ISYS Search Software.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
March 1, 2005... Simplifying Enterprise Search [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BUYER BEWARE: the second an army of consultants marches into your office is the precise moment a technology's value begins to fly out the window. In the world of enterprise search,...

KANA.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... What's next in CRM? As an industry leader, KANA Software Inc. sees Service Resolution Management (SRM) as the next phase in CRM. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Why? Most companies today take a more traditional approach to CRM to manage the...

Kanisa/ServiceWare.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Kanisa Inc.)(ServiceWare Corp.)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
March 1, 2005... ServiceWare + Kanisa = The New KM Leader [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Research from the Service and Support Professionals Association shows that 82% or more of the cost of delivering service comes from actually resolving issues--not incident...

Kofax.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Advertisement)
March 1, 2005... Kofax, the world's leading provider of information capture solutions, saw great success throughout 2004 with several enterprise-scale customer wins at large organizations, including Countrywide Financial Corporation, Rent-A-Center and the...

LexisNexis.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(LexisNexis Group)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
March 1, 2005... LexisNexis[R] Total Search expands the boundaries of the LexisNexis[R] Total Research System, making legal professionals more productive and efficient in finding and using relevant internal work product, in their current workflow, for their...

Liberty IMS.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Liberty Information Management Solutions)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Liberty Information Management Solutions (Liberty IMS) is a pioneer in the growing enterprise content management industry. Liberty IMS provides software solutions for the capture, management and availability of information. The company's...

Nexidia.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Nexidia is the leading provider of scalable audio mining and speech analytics software. By transforming audio data into actionable intelligence, Nexidia's technology offers a consistent and efficient means for extracting information previously...

Noetix Corporation.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)
March 1, 2005... Immediate Access to Business Intelligence [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Noetix provides software that automatically generates metadata from enterprise applications, enabling immediate access to business intelligence data. More than 1,200...

Northern Light.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Research shows that companies that pay more attention to the external environment are more successful. Northern Light provides custom enterprise, industry, and Web search engines. We have built and installed over 200 search and content...

RedDot Solutions.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... RedDot Solutions provides enterprise content management software to create and manage the content that drives business. Recognized throughout the industry as the fastest to implement and easiest to use, RedDot's Enterprise Content Management...

SER solutions, Inc.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... SER's mission is to provide innovative software solutions to help companies achieve unprecedented efficiencies, maximize workplace productivity, and enhance customer service. Repeatedly recognized as KMWorld Magazine's "100 Companies that...

Stellent.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Stellent[R] Universal Content Management: Driving Rapid Success for Customers [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At Stellent, we promise our customers rapid success. We deliver on this promise through fast software implementations and quick, broad...

Teragram.(linguistic technology services)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
March 1, 2005... Teragram Corporation is the leading provider of linguistic technologies and categorization solutions. Teragram provides fast and scalable linguistic and information retrieval technologies for all European, Middle-Eastern and Asian languages...

TOWER Software.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... TOWER Software, a leading enterprise content management (ECM) provider, delivers electronic document and records management (EDRM) solutions. TOWER Software's award-winning solutions empower organizations to manage and secure their vital...

Valeo Intellectual Property.(digital content rights services)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
March 1, 2005... By developing new, innovative ways to share content while protecting copyrights, Valeo Intellectual Property, Inc. is setting new standards for traditional and digital content rights management. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Corporate...

Verity, Inc.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Verity enables global organizations to maximize the value of their intellectual capital through the process of capturing, searching, classifying, recommending, monitoring and analyzing information across the enterprise, in real-time. This is...

ZyLAB.(VIEW FROM THE TOP: Special Advertisement Section)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... ZyLAB is an innovative developer of affordable content management and compliance solutions for paper-intensive organizations. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ZyIMAGE, ZyLAB's flagship solution, helps small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and...

Calendar.
March 1, 2005... April 05 Enterprise search Smart enterprise suites E-mail management May 05 Records and document management Solutions for digital asset management/information delivery June 05 Collaboration/activity...