KMWorld articles from September 2005

KMWorld archives from September 2005

InfoX Showcase to debut in New York.
September 1, 2005... Information Today, Inc., KMWorld's parent company, will present InfoX Showcase (infox-ny.com), a vendor exhibition and industry gathering place for corporate information professionals and IT managers, Sept. 27-28 at the Hilton New York. ...

The high cost of interruptions.
September 1, 2005... The phones (both desk and mobile) rang, several instant messages popped up on one of my monitors, a colleague dashed into my office to ask a question, and I probably have e-mail but I turned off the chime years ago (when it became a continuous...

Alfresco tries to repeat history.
September 1, 2005... Fifteen years ago, John Newton co-founded Documentum (docu mentum.com) on the premise that a document management system was best realized on the then novel approach of object-oriented programming with C++. Now with a gaggle of other...

Content security.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Within the past two years, has content been accessed by an unauthorized individual either deliberately or accidentally? Yes, by internal personnel 14% Yes, by external parties ...

More than elementary search.(Intellext)
September 1, 2005... Intellext (intellext.com) has developed Watson 2.0, context-driven search technology that proactively finds content from any online source and delivers it to computer users while they work. In the new version, which is still in beta,...

Contextware announces Version 2.3.(Industry Watch)
September 1, 2005... Contextware (contextware.com) has unveiled the latest version of its flagship software, which is designed to help enterprises capture, organize, distribute and operate more effectively around business processes, content and resources. Key...

CollabNet releases Team Edition.(application development software for Groupware)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... CollabNet (collab.net) has introduced Team Edition for developers, an extension of the company's enterprise offering used by more than 400,000 software developers worldwide. The company says CollabNet Team Edition is well suited for groups of...

Strengthening site support.(Industry Watch)
September 1, 2005... In a move it says is designed to increase flexibility of content management-driven Web sites, Ektron (ektron.com) announces that its flag-ship offering, CMS400.NET, now supports ColdFusion, JSP, PHP and ASP, as well as ASP.NET sites. Ektron...

Multisite management.(Stellent Inc introduced web content management software)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Stellent (stellent.com) has released Site Studio 7.5, the multisite Web content management component of its Universal Content Management system. The application provides a software infrastructure for developing and managing intranet sites and...

Endeca and Oculus partner.(Oculus Info partnered with Endeca for combined technology)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Endeca (endeca.com) and Oculus Info (oculusinfo.com) have formed a partnership whereby Endeca will integrate Oculus' information visualization technology into its search, navigation and analysis products. Initially deployed in Endeca...

The evolution of federated records management.
September 1, 2005... Launches of new electronic records management (ERM) technology over the past year under the banner "federated records management" (FRM) represent an important step forward for the information management market as a whole. The FRM concept will...

Records management & regulatory compliance source directory.(Directory)
September 1, 2005... Open Text Livelink ECM-Records Management[TM] provides comprehensive lifecycle management for all your corporate records and information holdings. It allows everyone in your organization to file corporate holdings according to...

Electronic medical records: a promising prognosis.(usage of electronic medical records)
September 1, 2005... Fewer than one in five U.S. physicians use electronic medical records (EMRs) to track their patients' histories, even though such products offer benefits to stakeholders all along the healthcare delivery chain. According to the U.S. Department...

Enterprise rights management heats up.
September 1, 2005... Enterprise rights management (ERM) software manages and enforces information access policies and use rights of electronic documents within an enterprise. Controlled documents can be e-mails, spreadsheets and financial statements, policy and...

Invisible KM.(From The Editor)
September 1, 2005... Ever since I was handed the reins of this magazine five and a half years ago, I've learned that knowledge management means a whole lot of different things to a whole lot of different people. I get dozens of e-mails a month redefining it. Some...

The BBC's low-tech knowledge management.(From The Editor)
September 1, 2005... Euan Semple heads up knowledge management for a little organization you may not only have heard of but have actually heard: The British Broadcasting Corporation. The BBC runs on knowledge, and Semple has a piece of advice for other large...

The chilling effect: how records management is changing the way we work.
September 1, 2005... Not that long ago, the only "records management" I knew anything about was alphabetizing my Monkees LPs. And I am not alone. Records management (RM), once the domain of a specialized, trained population of information experts, has intruded into...

Content volume and records management: more and less.
September 1, 2005... The volume of information entering, traveling within and leaving organizations has many IT, RM, legal counsel and compliance professionals seeking and debating best practices. Keep everything forever or purge everything as soon as possible?...

Managing documents of record in information-driven businesses.
September 1, 2005... The recent and increasing drive of regulatory agencies and government legislation to mandate corporate compliance has generated substantial requirements for organizations to manage their records. Some of the records management mandates are...

Leveraging compliance to drive company-wide business efficiencies.(United States. Environmental Protection Agency)(United States. Food and Drug Administration)
September 1, 2005... From the Sarbanes-Oxley and USA PATRIOT Acts to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals and US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, government is increasingly legislating how companies run their businesses. Complying with...

From records management to knowledge management ... Coupling modularity and compliance as drivers for improved efficiency and cost savings.
September 1, 2005... New compliance drivers have prodded many firms into committing extensive resources to align their business processes with recommended transparency measures pertaining to financial, structural and procedural activities. Now that these activities...

Retention, records management and legal compliance.
September 1, 2005... Quality records management that includes document retention policies is essential in ensuring legal compliance and business efficiency. Having a system in place to execute and monitor compliance to those policies is vital to the long-term...

The ABCs of records management.
September 1, 2005... Maintaining impeccable records throughout their lifecycles can be a difficult task, especially in globally dispersed organizations that require files to be stored for decades. Organizations are increasingly challenged with finding new ways to...

The next wave: content management for the rest of us.
September 1, 2005... In the past few years, major changes have been taking place in the content management marketplace. Organizations that previously considered content management a niche application focused on workgroup or departmental deployments for meeting...

From compliance chaos to universal governance management.
September 1, 2005... In the 1990s, the standards set out by the federal Clean Air Act were widely bemoaned by the auto industry; compliancy was sure to raise the retail cost of vehicles to unacceptable levels and make cars less safe on the road. Customers would be...

Records management & regulatory compliance: finally on the front burner.
September 1, 2005... At first glance, it's difficult to see how much has changed in records management and regulatory compliance in the past couple of years. Naturally, some new laws and regulations have been introduced and older ones have continued to evolve,...

Get going with electronic records management: six steps to success.
September 1, 2005... Many regulations and guidelines are driving compliance initiatives in the enterprise, from Sarbanes-Oxley, to the FDA's 21 CFR Part 11, to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...

Automation + best business practices = minimized risk.
September 1, 2005... How many times have you heard "let the computer do the work?" When it comes to records management practices, this statement can be the exact mentality that could increase risk for your company. In reality, we currently do not have the...

Bringing records management to the enterprise.
September 1, 2005... A recent cartoon features an executive's office, in which the subordinate is saying, "Good news, chief, a computer virus has destroyed all our documents." What's not so funny is the realization that many executives would indeed consider it a...

Remodeling for compliance: how to address content compliance.
September 1, 2005... In today's hot real estate markets, many homeowners are remodeling their existing properties instead of moving. As a result, architects and builders are swamped in their efforts to meet the needs of many homeowners for "new" redesigned homes....

Trend-setting products of 2005.(Directory)
September 1, 2005... When we first put together our list of trend-setting products three years ago, the IT landscape was pretty rocky. Seemingly well-conceived software solutions couldn't find markets. Often desperate consolidation prevailed. Budgets were tight for...

Calendar.(Calendar)
September 1, 2005... October 05 XML/content management Solutions for insurance Nov/Dec 05 Business intelligence/competitive intelligence KM Promise/KM Reality special report Solutions in retail banking January 06 Business...