KMWorld articles from May 2008

KMWorld archives from May 2008

Google solves problem, sees opportunities.
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In San Francisco in 2007, I saw a Google (google.com) shuttle bus with five or six people on it. I watched as the driver peered at a GPS unit and turned down a side street--a very narrow side street that buses avoid....

Now, everything is fragmented.
May 1, 2008... I used the phrase "everything is fragmented" for the first time last year at KMWorld & Intranets in San Jose. I was picking up on the title of Dave Weinberger's useful book Everything is Miscellaneous. Dave dealt with the shift from...

When double standards work.
May 1, 2008... I'm sorry if you're the guy who says things like "I'm totally in favor of equality for women. That's why I don't see why we have to give them special breaks" when it comes to promotions or hires. Or maybe it's not women. Maybe it's...

Enterprise portal market overview 2008.(Company overview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For the portal marketplace, 2007 was a remarkable year. Much happened with the large infrastructure vendors, including massive, virus-like adoption of Microsoft (microsoft.com) SharePoint and product innovation from...

Aligning KM investments with critical business initiatives.
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In September 2007,AMR Research (amrresearch.com) conducted a detailed survey of 350 IT and business leaders across all industry sectors in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany to better understand spending...

Laying the groundwork for federated records management.
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The case for federated records management (RM) is strong--leave records in their native repositories, but manage them centrally. That way, the records do not need to be physically moved into a single location, yet a...

E-learning: options for delivery.
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Learning doesn't stop when people graduate from college, and, in fact, an individual's most relevant knowledge acquisition often begins when he or she enters the work force. Knowledge developed on the job or in...

Florida community college excels at BPM.(KMWorld Best Practices Award 2008)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCCJ, fccj.edu) manages a heavy administrative load in carrying out its operations. It serves more than 70,000 students in northeast Florida through five campuses, and...

Out of Africa: the next billion minds.(The Future of the Future)
May 1, 2008... Human civilization began in Africa. My tribe got out early, more than 50,000 years ago. I guess that explains why I'm always among the first to leave a party. According to genetic ancestry researcher Spencer Wells, my haplogroup, M168, crossed...

HP to acquire Tower Software.(Industry Watch)
May 1, 2008... HP (hp.com) and Tower Software (towersoft.com) have signed a pre-bid agreement for HP to acquire Tower. HP says the move will enable it to expand its offerings in the electronic discovery and compliance software market. The acquisition of...

Near-Time introduces Connection.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Near-Time (near-time.com) has announced Connection, an extension of Near-Time's collaboration and publishing capabilities for mobile devices and other Web platforms. The company reports Connection packages the functionality of Near-Time into a...

Extending collaboration.(Industry Watch)(OpenText Corp.)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... As part of its new Web 2.0 strategy, Open Text (opentext.com) has introduced Enterprise 2.0: Livelink ECM--Extended Collaboration, which is designed to give customers a set of communities, social computing and real-time collaboration tools in...

Web-based BI.(Industry Watch)(Vertica Systems and LogiXML Inc. teams up)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... LogiXML (logixml.com) and Vertica Systems (vertica.com) have forged a partnership that will focus on two main areas: new product development by LogiXML based on the Vertica Analytic Database, extending fast Web-based analytics to small...

Records--classify and declare.(Industry Watch)
May 1, 2008... Xythos (xythos.com) has introduced a new document classification and records declaration application, Xythos Filer, and an upgrade to its popular online service, Xythos on Demand. The new software and service upgrades are both available for...

InfoStreet's small business CRM offering.(Industry Watch)
May 1, 2008... InfoStreet (infostreet.com) has released Version 2 of its popular customer relationship management application, StreetSmart's CRM, which targets small businesses. The company claims StreetSmart's CRM offers small businesses across all...

Pattern recognition software.(Industry Watch)
May 1, 2008... Mitek Systems (mitek.com) has unveiled ImageNet Photo and Video, pattern recognition technology that instantly reads, extracts and analyzes data from digital photos and video images. ImageNet is able to extract data from a variety of media...

KANA, IBM expand alliance.(Industry Watch)
May 1, 2008... KANA Software (kana.com) and IBM (ibm.com) report they have built upon their global alliance to jointly market, sell and support service-oriented architecture-based (SOA) customer service solutions developed on open technologies from both...

Exalead teams up with Atempo.(Industry Watch)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Exalead (exalead.com) has announced a new original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and reseller agreement with Atempo (atempo.com), a provider of cross-platform data protection and archiving solutions. The deal calls for Atempo to integrate...

Nuospace from BrightSide Software.(Industry Watch)
May 1, 2008... BrightSide Software (brightside software.com) has unveiled Nuospace, a Web-based, software-as-aservice (SaaS) collaboration tool for small to midsize companies, enabling team members to publish and share all forms of business content in a...

Calendar.(Industry Watch)(Calendar)
May 1, 2008... June 08 Social networking in the enterprise Solutions for pharmaceutical/ clinical trials July/August 08 Document life cycle management Solutions in healthcare September 08 Trend-Setting Products of the Year ...

KM's technology imperative.
May 1, 2008... For years now, we have insisted on calling the document you have in your hand (or are viewing online) a "Buyers' Guide." That's because that's what we hoped you would do... buy something. But the fact of the matter is: this document is a...

Profiles 2008.
May 1, 2008... 5280 Solutions LLC 8740 Lucent Blvd., Suite 400 Highlands Ranch, CO 80129 sales@5280solutions.com www.5280solutions.com 5280 Solutions LLC is an award-winning provider of technology products and technical consulting with core...

KMWorld best practices white papers: connecting buyers with sellers.
May 1, 2008... For more than seven years, the KMWorld Specialty Publishing Group has been connecting buyers with sellers in a most unusual and--happily--successful way. There is no magic science involved; what we do is pretty obvious. For one thing, the...