KM World

Everything Is Fragmented-the Core Principles

Nearly all human systems are complex in nature, and thus need a radical new approach to design. To do that, they need to establish some basic principles of system design, informed by complexity theory. Over the last four years, through a mixture of theoretical research and real-world practice, three core principles were identified. Distributed cognition means using network intelligence. Finely granulated objects have more utility than chunked up documents (information) or massive organization...

Speaking in Tongues, Part 2: Foreign Language Km Technologies

The second part of a two-part series on foreign language knowledge management technologies is presented. This article will focus on BBN Technologies' Broadcast Monitoring System (BMS) and some of the underlying components that make it work. BBN was originally formed in 1948 and is well known for its speech-to-text conversion technologies. BBN's technologies are very mature and widely used in everything from telephone-based call management systems to automated audio and video speech-to-text tr...

Google's Chrome-Plated Bulldozer

Google's Chrome is an application that provides a Google interface to the expanding, fast-changing world of Google applications. If you think of Chrome as a browser, it would be convenient, but incorrect. Consider that Chrome makes it possible to put the icon on users' desktops. A click launches what looks and feels like a local application. The difference is that the icon connects to the network. The networks do whatever security hand-shakes are required. The application is available to the ...

Km Past and Future: Solutions for a Changing World

Despite today's economic difficulties, there is reason to be cautiously optimistic about the KM industry. Many functions it supports will continue to be needed, perhaps more than ever. Compliance requirements are not going to disappear, and KM provides solutions for managing, in a consistent and cost-effective way, information that is subject to compliance. Likewise, the need to create, acquire, store, organize, search, filter and visualize information for business purposes will only increase...

Saas: Flexible, Efficient &Amp; Affordable

Software as a service (SaaS) continues to make inroads into enterprise knowledge management, its progress fueled by the low cost of entry and minimal impact on internal IT resources. The rate of adoption for SaaS is moving steadily ahead, but the delivery mode has not been universally accepted. A recent survey by the Aberdeen Group of more than 100 companies indicated that slightly more than a third were planning to implement a SaaS application within two years, but 42% had no plans to do so ...

Retailers Look to Km to Drive Business

In this difficult economic climate, retailers face more daunting challenges than ever. Many are using knowledge management solutions to help improve sales and their bottom line. The tools help retailers in such areas as managing inventories, driving marketing programs, targeting and retaining customers, and providing superior customer service. Managing inventory is a key to profitability for Longo Brothers Fruit Markets', as it is with other grocery store chains. Longo's tried to control inve...

Expediting Copyright Permissions

Kenya Airways Streamlines Business Processes

Preserving Good Relations with Members

A Component Approach to Content

In the multichannel, customer-driven world, the pressure to meet ever-increasing information demands has never been more acute or complex. Yet, the birth of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) file format and the component content management systems that leverage XML provide the tools to meet those demands. But tools are just that, tools to be used, and without a broader understanding and strategy for their use, they are of little value. This article hopes to provide some insight into the va...

Registration Made Simpler at Ball State

To help clients improve their business performance, IBM has introduced "business space," which gives them a continuously updated desktop view of their business processes. According to IBM, the new role-based collaborative BPM capability is powered by WebSphere software and built using service-oriented architecture. IBM points to Ball State University as an example of the success of its business process management. Ball State wanted to simplify its Distance Education Program, which allows stud...

Multipage Document Conversion

Free Samepage for University Students

Doccenter Introduces Doclanding

Vital Path Releases Pathbuilder

News

International Law Firm Sees a Paperless Future

Safeguarding Children From Medication Errors

A new bedside medication verification (BMV) system has been implemented at Children's Hospital Central California. Deployed in August 2008, the system uses a special wireless tablet computer to streamline the medication administration and documentation process. According to a press release from the hospital, a key component to the BMV system is the wireless device called the Motion C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant from Motion Computing. It uses the Windows platform, has a virtual keyboard and dig...

End-to-End Content Management

Tracking the Human Side

E.ON, a large power and gas company in the UK, is using a human process management (HPM) solution to track business-critical actions and to control audit and compliance management. E.ON has deployed ActionBase HPM as part of its Action Tracking initiative. HPM provides managers with real-time status and visibility over the whole process, optimizing resources and enhancing communication and collaboration with reporting, alerting and syndication, the company explains. Furthermore, the system en...

Classifying Lifestyle Content

Scripps Networks (SN) has chosen a text-mining solution from Nstein Technologies to semantically analyze its immense library of lifestyle content. With its sites recording an average of more than 18.5 visitors per month, the SN Digital team wanted to enhance the functionally of its search technology, and to create a taxonomy and thesauri based on the top terms searched. According to a recent press release from Nstein, its Text Mining Engine allows a combination of machine learning and busines...

Next-Generation Claims Processing

Lending Agility to the Web Experience

Industry Watch

Inmagic Announces Presto 3.0

Isys Releases Isys:Web 9

ISYS Search Software has launched ISYS:web 9, the company's enterprise search solution for intranets, Web sites, Microsoft SharePoint and custom Web applications. ISYS:web 9 includes enhancements designed to deliver the speed, efficiency and accuracy required to find information fast. Intelligent Content Analysis manifests itself in the form of several parametric search and refinement options, says the company. At index time, ISYS notes aspects like entities in the full text, commonly recurri...

Hot Neuron Introduces Clustify 2.0

Opinion

It Forecast: The Clouds Are Gathering

IDC has issued its annual predictions for the years ahead in the IT industry. IDC interviewed more than 1,000 analysts across the world, and its own top analysts provide input about the year ahead. They expect global IT growth to be 2.6%, about half of the 5% seen in 2008. But certain markets can expect higher growth, such as BRIC. Also, there will be much greater pressure to resolve the issues surrounding the exceptional volume of digital information and its analysis.

What Crowds Are Wise At

Meme used to mean something very specific. But over time, it's lost its original significance. Now the term means something like an Internet fad. The same has happened to James Surowiecki's phrase "the wisdom of crowds," which was the title of his 2004 book. He breaks the wisdom of crowds into three types: cognitive, coordination, and cooperate. The phrase "wisdom of the crowd" now seems to refer to anything a bunch of people can do better than people alone. The term is being stretched and pu...

The Future Of The Future

From Nomads to Knowmads: Knowledge Cities Rise From the Desert Sands

Not 50 years ago, the emirate of Dubai was little more than a fishing and pearl diving community along its 72-kilometer coastline, with wandering nomadic tribes in the interior. Clearly, something extraordinary is going on. The ruling emir Sheik Mo understands that knowledge is the key to success in the 21st century. So much so that he's established a $10 billion foundation focusing on culture, education and entrepreneurship. Knowledge is clearly recognized as critical to a sustainable and pe...