KMWorld articles from March 2006

KMWorld archives from March 2006

Truth versus authority.(corrections of newspaper and e-books)
March 1, 2006... If you visit the article on "conservativism" at Wikipedia (http://en.wiki pedia.org/wiki/conservatism), you'll see--at least as of this writing--a strong warning at the top, complete with a graphic of a hand warning you to stop: "The...

The enterprise of the future.(research on organizational innovations)
March 1, 2006... For any business seeking to remain competitive in a flat world, the speed of innovation must match or exceed the rate of change in the marketplace. That presents both a formidable challenge and a unique opportunity. That is why we formed...

Exploring disruptive innovation.(research on disruptive innovations)
March 1, 2006... Clayton Christensen, Harvard (harvard.edu) professor, gained a reputation for his disruptive innovation research--products or systems that create entirely new markets. His research explains why established companies--even those managed by smart...

Business process management suite market.
March 1, 2006... Business Process Management Suite Market 2005 $1.2 billion 2009 $2.7 billion Source: Forrester Research Note: Table made from bar graph.

A site to delight the bibliophile.(News)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... An online rare and used book dealer is using a Web analytics tool to reach new customers and to improve visitor conversion and site usage. Alibris (alibris.com) has chosen Coremetrics' (coremetrics.com) A/B testing platform, which is geared...

Adding protein to product development.(News)
March 1, 2006... To help develop and manage its product portfolio, The Solae Company (solae.com), a soy food products business, has implemented Accolade from Sopheon (sopheon.com). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Solae chose the solution to help automate...

Good chemistry.(implementation of Service Announcement Protocol)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... LANXESS (us.lanxess.com), a manufacturer of chemicals, synthetic rubber and plastics, has enlisted technology from Open Text (opentext.com) to help meet its cost management and efficiency goals. The company has chosen Vendor Invoice...

Bloggers postulate on politics.(News)
March 1, 2006... Canadian television network CTV (ctv.ca) chose content management and blogging technology from iUpload (iupload.com) as the foundation for its online political forum, CTV Election 2006's Campaign Connection. Campaign Connection (election...

Sustaining communities of practice.(value of communities of practice)
March 1, 2006... Many organizations have spent much time and many resources designing and implementing communities of practice (CoPs) in an attempt to connect people to others with similar issues and to collect valuable content to improve business processes....

Getting personal with content management.
March 1, 2006... One of the early goals of enterprise content management was to get all an organization's intellectual capital into one place so that everyone would have access to it. That exercise was useful in revealing what information was already present...

Content management: integrating the paper flow.
March 1, 2006... It may seem surprising in this digital age that so many invoices arrive via the U.S. mail, and that so many insurance applications are filled out on a form attached to a clipboard. For many organizations and individual consumers, paper still...

SOA tools--virtually bridging the legacy divide, Part 2: Part I of this series defined service-oriented architecture (SOA), laid out its benefits and challenges for early adopters and discussed general types of tools required to map an SOA plan and create, deploy and manage an SOA. Part 2 offers descriptions of more granular subcategories of tool types and describes how some major platform players approach SOA.(service-oriented architecture)
March 1, 2006... While the first part of this series categorized service-oriented architecture (SOA) tools into those for creation, deployment and management of SOA services, more granular distinctions are needed to indicate the functionality in which specific...

Dr. Strangelove, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love BI.(business intelligence)
March 1, 2006... I've always had a nagging underappreciation for the whole business intelligence thing. I'm just not that into BI. In the first place, BI is always trailing the trend, not spotting it. BI reports are really, really good at telling you what...

The faces of intelligence.
March 1, 2006... Long after most professionals leave the events and activities of the day behind, a new breed of knowledge workers begins the workday. These silent, unknown professionals interpret and collapse the entirety of the day's events into a clear,...

Automating data collection: reaching beyond the firewall.(usage of softwares in data management)
March 1, 2006... A recent study by IDC revealed information workers typically spend 17.8 hours per week--estimated at $26,700 per worker annually--simply searching and gathering information. A typical large company may spend $5.7 million annually cutting and...

Critical CI success factors: trusted partnerships and on-demand insight.
March 1, 2006... Traditional competitive intelligence (CI) solutions are typically one-sided. CI firms deliver either technology tools to facilitate the intelligence process, independent research deliverables that supplement internal analysis or general...

KMWorld 100 companies that matter in knowledge management.
March 1, 2006... One hundred. Not 101. Not 99. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Does our list mean that there are only 100 companies that matter in KM? Of course not. We figure there are more than 1,500 companies in our loosely defined space, and each one brings...

Setting sights on global sites.(Industry Watch)(product introduction of a web content management tool)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... FileNet (filenet.com) has released Web Site Manager, a Web content management solution designed to provide all the tools necessary--from a single platform--to manage the user experience and deliver content for large numbers of global Web sites....

Interwoven and Kofax strengthen partnership.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Interwoven (interwoven.com) and Kofax (kofax.com) have entered into a reseller agreement, providing customers an end-to-end ECM solution from a single vendor. Under the new arrangement, Ko-fax Ascent Capture will be integrated with...

Text analytics for the Macintosh.(product introduction)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Attensity (attensity.com) has released Version 3.0 of its extraction engine, the first major text analytics offering to support Apple's Mac OS X Jaguar, Panther and Tiger operating systems. Attensity Discover 3.0 provides business and...

FAST & LexisNexis: taxonomy team-up.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Fast Search & Transfer (FAST, fastsearch.com) has inked a deal that provides LexisNexis Taxonomy Solutions (lexisnexis.com/tax onomy) through the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (ESP). The companies say the partnership will enhance the FAST...

Inxight and Google partner.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Inxight (inxight.com) has joined the Google Enterprise Professional Program (google.com/enterprise/gep), enabling the two companies to integrate their technologies for both the enterprise and government sectors. Users of Google's Enterprise...

From Russia with results.(product introduction)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... With technology originating in Russia, Quintura (quintura.com) has introduced Version 1.0 of Quintura Search, which, the company claims, finds relevant results from the Web faster than Google, Yahoo and MSN through its "One-Click Search"...

Enterprise search summit.(Calendar)
March 1, 2006... May 23-24, 2006 * Hilton New York [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CONFERENCE-AT-A-GLANCE MONDAY, MAY 22, 2006 Pre-conference Workshops (separately priced or...

Calendar.(Calendar)
March 1, 2006... April 06 Search E-mail management Solutions for local/state government May 06 Records management Solutions for education June 06 Collaboration and contact management Solutions for...