Latest Knowledge Management News & Articles

Following their acquisition of Hummingbird this past summer, Open Text has recently announced their latest public intentions for the Hummingbird brand of Enterprise Content Management software and for 2007 as a whole.

WordPressors, time to get downloading. Your favorite open source Blogging platform has been updated for the last time before the 2.1 release, according to Matthew Mullenweg.

Adding to their portfolio of hosted Microsoft software as a service offerings, Massachusetts-based groupSPARK has announced the availability of on-demand SharePoint Services (WSS) v3.0. WSS is the free version of Microsoft's SharePoint 2007 document management, web content management, and collaboration platform.

Remember the game of Operator when you were little? You tell your friend something, they tell their friend something, and so on? And by the time the statement got to the last friend in the line, it no way resembled what you said to begin with?

Well, such is the case with content sometimes too. How do you make sure the content that you start with stays the same, and just as important, as effective for every person who uses it?

As every other application under the sun goes AJAX, its about time Document and Knowledge Management had its share of Web 2.0 spin. There's some meat to this message however. The Spain-based OpenKM project is delivering real and open source Document Management and Knowledge Management functionality for the small, medium enterprise.

Tucking content services neatly away in into lower logical layers has been a theme over the last six months. This time its open source Enterprise CMS vendor Alfresco chiming in. Following a similar announcement from EMC in November, Alfresco has today released Enterprise Edition v1.4 of the Alfresco embedded Enterprise Content Management system.

Thinking about starting a Friendster or MySpace for your customers, employees and/or vendors? Don't have the time or resources to build from scratch? Don't worry, Los Angeles-based Social Platform is here to help.

The Rockley Group takes a look back at the year 2006 in review. What happened in market? How is globalization changing the content management landscape? And, what about new communication vehicles like blogs, wikis, podcasts, and RSS feeds? Ann Rockley takes a look back and provides some key insights and observations.

More news from Le Web 3 today in Paris. This time is was Gil Penchina, CEO of Wikia, announcing that they'd (1) purchased super active social media site ArmChairGM.com, and (2) have released the foundational software that ArmChairGM runs on as a free Wiki and Social Media platform. The free service is being offered through a dedicated Wikia site called www.openserving.com. In his talk today Gil didn't claim to have a business plan, but rather to be operating under the assumption that if they (the jabbering and photo snapping masses) share, one will come.

Today at the Le Web 3 conference here in Paris, SocialText CEO, Ross Mayfield unveiled their latest big thing, SocialText Unplugged. The new feature allows users to click an icon to take portions of their wiki content offline, then re-sync once they are connected again.

Technology does not replace the need for good management. Without such management, technology can create more problems than it solves.

After five years in review, the Supreme Court amended a series of federal rules surrounding civil litigation. Included among these are an elaboration of existing rules regarding electronic discovery. Discovery is the process by which both sides of a litigation provide supporting evidence in a trial.

The changes have gone into effect as of December 1st and they require companies to keep track of employee e-mail, instant messages and other documents or communication delivered through or stored via the Internet. The industry impact is not subtle and Enterprise CMS vendors are responding quickly.

Hoping to level the playing field with Microsoft SharePoint and perhaps make a little open source cheddar, Dutch software outfit O3 is releasing its O3Spaces back office suite for OpenOffice and StarOffice. While it is far from offering all of the features of SharePoint (MOSS) 2007, it is definitely something that that open source and hybrid Microsoft/open source shops should consider for document management.

Some people call it Enterprise 2.0, eTouch call it the next generation of collaboration and today have announced the latest release of their SamePage collaboration platform. The revamped version 3.0 touts Enterprise Wikis and Blogs, functional templates for project management, and enhanced scalability.

Open source specialist SpikeSource, recently invigorated by their collaboration on Intel's SuiteTwo Enterprise 2.0 project, has aligned with CorraTech to provide a suite of open source applications. The software offering, aptly dubbed OpenSuite, is delivered either on-premise or as an on-demand service.

Google has taken a few more steps forwards with its burgeoning enterprise offering with two notable additions to its “Apps” suite. In typical Google fashion, the latest enhancements to Google Apps for Your Domain arrived with little fanfare — users simply noticed that they had an “Enterprise Start Page” in their options window and some new Google Page Creator tools at their finger tips.

According to a recent survey, only about 60% of companies using an e-mail surveillance tool are actually better able to assess deviant employee behavior or potential network risks resulting from bad emails. Email governance software vendor MessageGate aims to better these numbers by profiling employee communications and pin-pointing communications and compliance risks.

The talk of Web 2.0 Content Management shows every sign of ramping quickly. Continuing the push and furthering its ongoing quest to help organize information across the enterprise and make content dually accessible to humans and machines, UK-based Jadu adds more “semantic-web” and “Web 2.0” features to its array of CMS offerings.

Document management specialist, NextPage, recently commissioned an IDG Research study to assess document retention effectiveness and risks. Finding? As most Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) people know, document retention policies are failing broadly. NextPage and IDG analyzed why, and have released NextPage 2 to address document storage risks.

Basecamp has just added their one-millionth user this week. I thought this would be a good time to introduce you to my (and perhaps a million others') favorite Web Services Application and what many believe to be the first real Web 2.0 business program.