Recently added articles from KMWorld:

Green IT: soon, not optional.

Jul 01, 2008; Smallwood, Robert F. ... Compliance requirements for corporations have drastically increased with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and new Federal Rules for Civil Procedure (FRCP). And they're about to get even tougher as Congress debates new rules for capping or exchanging "carbon credits" for controlling emissions and ...

The innovation imperative.(Interview)(Conference notes)

Jul 01, 2008 ... KMWorld interviews John Kao, author of Innovation Nation and opening keynote speaker at our annual KMWorld & Intranets Conference (kmworld-intranets.com) Sept. 23 to 25 in San Jose. Q KMWorld: Your book, Innovation Nation, has been widely acknowledged as bringing innovation to ...

Everything is fragmented--building CoPs for knowledge flow.

Jul 01, 2008; Snowden, Dave ... As promised, I am presenting a step-by-step approach to a low-cost knowledge management (KM) program using social computing, and will focus on the functionality that has been touted but rarely delivered by communities of practice (CoPs). The name brings to mind Etienne Wenger's ...

Italian bank captures unstructured documents.(News)

Jul 01, 2008 ... A large bank in Italy is automating document processing with distributed capture software. Intesa Sanpaolo (intesasanpaolo.com) has chosen an intelligent capture and exchange solution from Kofax (kofax.com) to process the more than 30 million documents that originate annually at 14 of the ...

Leveraging search to boost efficiency.(News)

Jul 01, 2008 ... An Austrian manufacturer has deployed search technology to help its employees quickly access important information. Pottinger (poet tinger.at/en/landtechnik), a maker of agricultural machinery, has implemented Coveo (coveo.com) G2B for Intranets, an enterprise search-powered information ...

BPM supports sales for Finnish department.(News)

Jul 01, 2008 ... Business process management (BPM) software is helping telecommunications service provider TeliaSonera (teliason era.com) support its sales of business services in Finland. Lombardi's (lombardi.com) Teamworks BPM suite will help the Business Services Finland division with sales volume, ...

Hospitals play tag--RFID finds a niche in healthcare.

Jul 01, 2008; Raths, David ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Like most healthcare facilities, Washington Hospital Center (WHC, whcenter.org) in the nation's capital used to struggle with asset management: finding the right pieces of equipment when employees needed them. But two and a half years ago, WHC, one of the ...

Perspectives on information life cycle management.

Jul 01, 2008; Lamont, Judith ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Information life cycle management (ILM) is a critical component of nearly every business. The efficiency with which information assets are managed--from creation to review, distribution and storage--significantly determines success. Many organizations are ...

Banks invest in KM.

Jul 01, 2008; Britt, Phil ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Banks and other financial services firms (mortgage lenders, brokerages, etc.) are using knowledge management to monitor the competition and are starting to share knowledge throughout the enterprise, although they still have a way to go, according to ...

Cloud computing and the issue of privacy.

Jul 01, 2008; Arnold, Stephen ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cloud computing remains a promising solution to the challenges of on-premises installation of enterprise applications. The increasing interest in software as a service (SaaS) as a way to control some information technology costs is evident in the Google ...

Contacts and connections: an array of options.(Directory)

Jul 01, 2008; Lamont, Judith ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Business is built on relationships as much as it is on information, and an increasing number of software options are available to help establish and develop relationships. They range from contact management products that collect information while running ...

A KM resource for wireless customers.(News)

Jul 01, 2008 ... Verizon Wireless (verizonwire less.com) has chosen to broaden its use of knowledge management software as part of several initiatives to enhance customer service and support. It will expand its deployment of KNOVA, a Consona (consona.com) CRM solution. Verizon Wireless first ...

Defensible e-discovery.(News)

Jul 01, 2008 ... The global law firm Howrey (howrey.com) is enhancing its e-discovery capabilities through an alliance with Guidance Software (guidance software.com). Howrey's e-discovery and complex litigation expertise is being coupled with Guidance Software's EnCase eDiscovery solution, which enables ...

Alfresco tackles Web 2.0.(Industry Watch)

Jul 01, 2008 ... Alfresco (alfresco.com) has released Enterprise 2.2, which has been specifically engineered to power Web 2.0 properties and online communities. New enhancements in the open source-based content management software support the creation, deployment and update of scalable Web 2.0 ...