KMWorld articles from September 2008

KMWorld archives from September 2008

The summer of transparency.(google.com, AltaVista.com )
September 1, 2008... Google (google.com) has been and remains a secretive company. Part of the firm's reluctance to engage in orgies of public relations is common sense. Mountain View, Calif., is open but also closed. The culture spawned Andy Grove's best-selling...

Waiting for the e-book.
September 1, 2008... My Kindle from Amazon is fun. It's usable. And when I use it in a public place, it makes me a geek magnet, the way a puppy attracts smiles and small talk. But the Kindle is a big, big step away from showing us what real e-books will do for us....

Everything is fragmented--blog storming in six stages.(From the Cover)
September 1, 2008... The adoption of wikis has been disappointing, in part because of the need to pre-populate the wiki and to achieve a minimal level of HTML literacy. That's a shame because a wiki is infinitely preferable to the confusing colors of a word...

Enterprise social software technology.
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While agreement around the core concepts of "social software" has remained elusive, the underlying phenomenon is quite real. To date, industry analysts have quite properly focused on the cultural and organizational...

Government agencies build stronger foundations for sharing information.
September 1, 2008... The benefits of better information sharing among departments within government agencies have long been self-evident, but difficult to achieve. Yet, significant steps are being taken to improve such sharing. Also, collaboration with entities...

BI, in good times and bad.(Company overview)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Business intelligence (BI) seems to thrive in tough economic times almost as well it does in good times. Based on a survey of IT and business leaders in Europe, China and the United States, AMR Research...

Hardware manufacturers find green in "going green".(Company overview)
September 1, 2008... U.S. hardware manufacturers have taken significant steps to improve their environmental standing. Those steps are not only playing well with consumers, but also are providing moneymaking opportunities for the vendors through cost reduction and...

What makes a trend-setting product?(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... When we first started identifying products six years ago, we were still seeing some radical new technology and tried to select solutions that would be embraced by the marketplace and gain wide adoption. A few of the companies that developed...

A2iA: DocumentReader.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... A2iA DocumentReader[TM] is the first-ever automated data capture and keyword-spotting software for structured and unstructured documents, allowing for the classification and extraction of large volumes of handwritten letters and loosely...

ABBYY: FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software. Product offerings include the multi-award winning FineReader line of OCR and PDF conversion applications. ABBYY FineReader[R]...

Access Innovations, Inc: ThesaurusMaster.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... Access Innovations, Inc. has a suite of content creation entity extraction and taxonomy/ thesaurus management software which puts you in control of your data. Use ThesaurusMaster[TM] to manage your structured taxonomies. Add M.A.I.[TM] (Machine...

ArborSys Group: EDM RapidDeploy.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... In today's business climate, IT budgets are tight and end-user expectations are high. Companies need basic document management systems that support core capabilities to create, capture and manage mission critical assets, while offering...

Astute Solutions: RealDialog.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... RealDialog[TM] is a patented conversational knowledge management and Web self-service solution that answers users' questions with unprecedented precision and accuracy. It eliminates the hassle and frustration of searching through long lists of...

Attivio, Inc: Active Intelligence Engine (AIE).(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine[TM] (AIE) is powering the next generation of information access, integrating enterprise search and business intelligence capabilities through its unique ability to combine structured data and unstructured...

Brainware, Inc: Globalbrain Enterprise Edition.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Globalbrain Enterprise Edition Brainware's Intelligent Search and Retrieval solution allows you to find what you need, when and how you need it. Today, you may be using keyword and full-text search engines--negatively impacting your...

CaseCentral: eDiscovery on demand.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CaseCentral is the leading secure SaaS platform for corporations trying to take control of eDiscovery. CaseCentral enables companies to control the eDiscovery process, while allowing their law firms to contribute...

Clearview Software: Clearview ECM suite.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Clearview delivers a new era of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) with the industry's first and only SharePoint-based ECM suite. Offering enterprise-class functionality combined with rich user experiences,...

Collexis: Collexis search.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... Collexis Holdings, Inc. (CLXS) is a world leader in the development of semantic search and knowledge discovery software. Collexis search technology builds conceptual profiles of text, called Fingerprints, from documents, websites, e-mails and...

Connectbeam, Inc: Enterprise 2.0.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Connectbeam Spotlight Central Tag Repository[TM] Enterprise 2.0 applications represent a new way of working and are becoming second-nature to all types of professionals. When people work "the Enterprise 2.0 way"...

Content Analyst: Content Analyst Analytical Technology.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... Content Analyst Company is a provider of leading edge search and text analytics technology. Content Analyst's unique engine uses patented mathematics to provide search and categorization for unstructured documents based on concepts--rather than...

Copyright Clearance Center: Rightsphere.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... Rightsphere[R] is a powerful rights management system that enables corporations, media companies and other content providers to organize, consolidate and fully leverage the rights to all their content--purchased and created. With a single...

Exsys Inc: Corvid.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Capture the Expertise Exodus Within 5 years at least 20% of our nation's aging workforce will be retiring and the loss of expert knowledge due to loss of senior staff is a major problem. To proactively capture...

Hewlett-Packard: HP TRIM.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... HP is a technology solutions provider. HP information management solutions can help you make better, faster decisions with improved business insight; meet compliance requirements; and reduce the cost of information management. In 2008, HP...

IBM: OmniFind Enterprise Edition.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition Organizations have haystacks of unstructured content scattered across managed repositories and unmanaged file and collaboration systems. Finding the "needles in the haystack"--the right information at the...

ISYS: ISYS 9 suite.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... Powerful Yet Affordable Enterprise Search With the introduction of the ISYS 9 suite information access and discovery solutions, ISYS has significantly broadened its capabilities, enabling you to better navigate, discover and act upon...

KANA: Web self-service.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)(Kana Software Inc.)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... KANA-- Service Done Right, Customers for Life KANA's customer service solutions are designed to help you master the multi-channel service experience, creating memorable, positive and profitable service experiences over any channel,...

Mindbreeze: Mindbreeze Enterprise Search.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... Mindbreeze Enterprise Search is designed to search rapidly and reliably for relevant information throughout the entire company or organization. In this process Mindbreeze Enterprise Search searches in file systems, your e-mail stores (Microsoft...

Noetix.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Noetix provides software that automatically generates BI content (including business views and pre-built reports) from Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel CRM, and PeopleSoft Enterprise, enabling instant access to business intelligence data. More...

Northern Light: SinglePoint.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)(Northern Light Technology L.L.C.)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Northern Light SinglePoint is the only turnkey enterprise search application providing centralized search, analysis, and access for diverse sources of internal, external, and licensed market intelligence. Offered in...

Paperthin: CommonSpot.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... PaperThin's CommonSpot[TM] Named a KMWorld Trend-Setting Product for Fourth Consecutive Year! PaperThin's flagship Web content management system CommonSpot delivers flexible, scalable, and easy-to-use Web content management. CommonSpot is...

Open Text: Open Text ECM Suite.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... In the past, companies bought multiple, and often incompatible, applications from multiple vendors. With the new Open Text ECM Suite, the Content Experts[TM] at Open Text have changed all that. Enterprise Content Management (ECM) brings all...

QL2: Market Intelligence.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Market Intelligence is information gathered outside a company's four walls, and is vital to enterprise strategy. Market Intelligence encompasses business-critical information about the market including customers,...

SAVO: SAVO Sales Enablement Solution.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... SAVO is the leading provider of collaborative Sales Enablement solutions. Whether you have 10 sales reps or 10,000, SAVO plugs your sales reps into the collective genius of your entire organization by connecting them to the best resources,...

SpringCM: On-Demand Document Management and Workflow.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... SpringCM offers enterprise-class document management, capture, collaboration and workflow delivered as an on-demand Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Designed and built by ECM industry veterans, SpringCM is easy to configure and deploy rapidly...

Sinequa: Sinequa CS.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... Sinequa CS is the award winning Next Generation of Enterprise Search. Sinequa CS extends access from information to knowledge by extracting and linking decision making elements including people, customers, products, etc. Many large enterprises...

Teragram: Teragram Categorizer.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Teragram Categorizer, with Teragram Taxonomy Manager, classifies documents and organizes information into categories that fit the structure of your organization. Classifying documents into categories allows for efficient information access....

Wordmap: Wordmap Search Integration Framework.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... Taxonomy Management Software Wordmap, the industry leading taxonomy software management solution, was designed to organize and manage the terminology your company uses to describe and categorize its information. Wordmap enables users to:...

ZyLAB: ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform (IAP).(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform (IAP) The ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform (ZyIMAGE IAP) is a complete XML-based system that provides a robust foundation for the archiving and long-term management of an organization's vital...

Xerox: Xerox DocuShare.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Xerox DocuShare is a proven, award-winning, Web-based content management software solution that lets teams immediately and securely access information 24/7 from anywhere in the world. Thousands of organizations...

Knowledge Management in Practice.(Trend-Setting PRODUCTS OF 2008)
September 1, 2008... Edited by T. Kanti Srikantaiah and Michael E. D. Koenig 2008/544 pp/hardbound ISBN 978-1-57387-312-3 $59.50 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This is the third entry in an ambitious, highly regarded KM book series edited...

Turning problems into opportunities.(The Future of the Future)
September 1, 2008... Every day, the world seems to kick it up a notch, both in the problems we face, as well as in the steady stream of scientific and technological breakthroughs. One of the goals of the Enterprise of the Future is to respond to the challenges by...

KMWorld & Intranets 2008: the conference and expo knowledge management, content management, intranets, portals, taxonomies, and enterprise search.(EXHIBITOR/SPONSOR PREVIEW)(Directory)
September 1, 2008... A2Z Keywording P.O. Box 96 Tivoli, NY 12583 PH: 845-518-1152 www.a2zkeywording.com Gold Sponsor Booth No. 317 A2Z Keywording has created keywording databases for stock photography and publishing companies for...

Calendar.(Calendar)
September 1, 2008... October 08 Enterprise content management Solutions for insurance November/December 08 KM Promise and Reality Awards Records management and regulatory compliance Solutions in digital asset management January 09...