KMWorld articles from March 2008

KMWorld archives from March 2008

One size does not fit all with search engines.
March 1, 2008... At Enterprise Search Summit (enterprisesearchsummit.com) East in May 2007 and again at Enterprise Search Summit West in November 2007, I asserted that enterprise search is dead. I will probably say the same thing in 2008. The remark...

The deep and delicate art of ECM.
March 1, 2008... The enterprise content management (ECM) market is at a critical turning point where it must prove itself or be lost altogether. Over the last 20 years, widely disparate business demands for content management, the stubborn resistance of...

What's wrong with being right?
March 1, 2008... Education. Government. Media. Business. Science. That's the Jeopardy answer to the question, "What are five institutions whose value comes to a large degree from providing authoritative knowledge?" There's nothing wrong with being...

Expected KM spending growth.
March 1, 2008... Expected KM Spending Growth (U.S. Companies; Company Level) [right arrow] 16% Growth 2007 2008 $73B $85B $12.7B $14.7B $11.1B $13.0B $13.5B $15.7B $17.5B $20.3B $18.3B $21.2B * 3rd party services...

What are people searching for and where are they looking?
March 1, 2008... We know that knowledge workers spend a large percentage of their time looking for information. What are they looking for and where are they looking? In fall 2007, we set about trying to find out. In conjunction with KMWorld (kmworld.com) and...

KM on the road: mobile applications: improvements in hardware, software and connectivity are pointing toward a much more dynamic market in coming years for business applications for mobile knowledge workers. Enterprise content management, office suites and business intelligence are among the applications emerging for mobile devices.
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] No matter how light a laptop is, carrying it around, opening it and booting up is never entirely convenient for a mobile knowledge worker. The popularity of much more portable devices such as the BlackBerry from...

ECM: new facets of a changing market.
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Enterprise content management (ECM) is an increasingly complex sector of knowledge management, with new options and issues arising steadily. SharePoint edges into enterprise use SharePoint, Microsoft's...

Search on the move.
March 1, 2008... Search has been a mainstay of KM because of its vital role in information retrieval, and it's now becoming a part of the mobile world. Vivisimo (vivisimo.com) is offering Velocity for Mobile to search e-mail, intranet content, CRM and other...

100 companies that matter in knowledge management.(Cover story)
March 1, 2008... So why do these companies matter? Not necessarily because they are the most innovative, but that's a factor. Not because they are ahead of the curve on Enterprise 2.0 initiatives, but that's also a factor. Not because they are the most...

Calendar.(Calendar)
March 1, 2008... April 08 Enterprise search E-mail management Solutions for local/state government May 08 Records management Solutions in education June 08 Social networking in the enterprise Solutions for...