KMWorld articles from March 2009

KMWorld archives from March 2009

NewsGator's social debut.(NewsGator Technologies)
March 1, 2009... NewsGator (newsgator.com) has debuted a new version of Social Sites, its comprehensive enterprise social computing solution, which relies on the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 foundation. NewsGator claims Social Sites 2.5 gives...

The dream of the Semantic Web.(From the Cover)
March 1, 2009... The Semantic Web is going to succeed, in the face of its grandest ambitions. When Tim Berners-Lee first proposed the idea, it promised something big. Very big. In his article in Scientific American, the vision he sketched for us had the...

Mark Logic and MOSS connect.(Microsoft Office SharePoint Server )(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... Mark Logic (marklogic.com) has released the MarkLogic Connector for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and the MarkLogic Server. It automatically mirrors content from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to the MarkLogic XML server and...

SaaS spending.
March 1, 2009... SaaS Spending Percentage of U.S. firms planning to spend at least 25% of IT budget on SaaS applications 2008 23% 2010 45% Source: IDC

High-powered ECM platforms do the job.(Company overview)
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Three large companies now account for more than half the revenues in the enterprise content management (ECM) market, according to Gartner (gartner.com). IBM (ibm.com), Open Text (opentext.com) and EMC (emc.com) are...

ECM targets verticals: vertical solutions are geared to be functional right out of the box and can often be up and running in a matter of days.
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While a broad enterprise content management (ECM) solution is needed in some business environments, an industry-specific or vertical solution works better in others. Those software products are geared to be...

Information systems improve hospital emergency departments.
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Anyone who has spent time in a hospital emergency department (ED) or even watched television shows about them realizes that they present a daunting knowledge management challenge. In many EDs, a physician might...

Designing for faceted search.
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Faceted search, or guided navigation, has become the de facto standard for e-commerce and product-related Web sites, from big box stores to product review sites. But e-commerce sites aren't the only ones joining the...

Google and the Cuculus strategy: Cuculi wait until another bird is preoccupied, then, with the coast clear, they will lay an egg in the other bird's nest.
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Google's enterprise strategy can be difficult to pin down. A while ago, I attended a lecture at a museum in Denmark, and learned about a remarkable bird and its clever behavior. These birds are in the subfamily...

100 companies that matter in knowledge management.
March 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Publishing this list is the most difficult project KMWorld undertakes every year, and I've been heading the effort since it began in 2000. Our somewhat informal judging process taps the individual and collective...

Enterprise Search Summit.(advance program)
March 1, 2009... Hilton New York MAY 12-13, 2009 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] keynotes Harness Information to Deliver Enhanced Business Performance Ramesh Harji, Head of Information Exploitation, Capgemini UK [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...