Information Management News & Articles

As we wrapped up January’s focus on Customer Experience Management and turned to Social Business for February, our experts offered some great advice on how to keep your pesky taxonomies neat and tidy, shared insights from thought leaders in the Social Business and Risk Management fields and had a moment of silence for Knowledge Management.

Read on for more great counsel from the experts: resistance is futile!

IBM is spending like there’s no tomorrow. Two more companies have just landed in its net, both of which will grow its analytics business on one hand – particularly its Smart Commerce drive – and on the other hand its mobile communications strategy.

I saw it coming in 2011. But no one believed me. I guess it's difficult to turn your back on something that you fervently believe in. At this point, I feel like Harry Markopolos who had been telling people that there was something wrong with Bernie Madoff -- before the truth came to light.

We said earlier in the week that we couldn’t talk about Alfresco 4 until today. Well, it’s today now and we can talk a little bit about this latest release, although only a little bit because it really is enormous. With it, Alfresco pushes its open content management platform firmly into the mobile and social space.

Lucid Imagination released its new search-as-a-service platform, LucidWorks Cloud. The cloud-based product reduces the effort and time required for companies to adopt enterprise search.

Spurred on by an online debate about the distinction between text analytics and semantic content enrichment, I turn in this article to the pressing question: "What does semantic content enrichment mean?" 

A recent thought paper on risk appetite by COSO prompts guest writer Norman Marks to explore the place risk appetite and its management have in the day-to-day strategic plans of organizations.

The last we spoke with CommVault they were weighing in on the burden of e-Discovery. Today, it is unveiling “new, next-generation Singular Information Management innovations” designed to advance its data management solution, Simpana. In 2010, Simpana underwent a redesign and while these new offerings don’t necessarily qualify as a version update, they definitely provide customers will plenty of new features.

This week in GRC was always going to be about LegalTech and everything that came out of it. Well, it's finishing up today, and it didn’t disappoint. There were releases from Autonomy, Recommind, Digital Reef and a whole lot more.

After announcing the integration of Atex Content with Atex Web CMS in early January, Atex is just plowing ahead with new releases. Later this quarter -- at a date yet to be made public -- the content publishing giant is to introduce Atex Content Hub.

It doesn't have to be so painful

“Wait… what? .NET I get… Web Parts make sense… Server Object Model I can get behind, but what’s up with v4.Master, CAML, XSLT, XML, core.css, JavaScript, jQuery, SPD, features, solution galleries? Really??? All I want to do is pre-populate a couple of fields and make the screen look less ugly!! I hate SharePoint!!”

Take a deep breath and count to ten. We’ve all been there. Do not despair. You are not unintelligent. You are not a moron. You do not need to quit your job to find work in the fast food industry, and you are not alone in your frustrations with SharePoint.

Interact Intranet wants to make sure enterprise social networks are used to the fullest, with users not missing a beat when it comes to online interactions, conversations and relevant updates. The release of version 5.0 of Interact's popular on-premise and SaaS Intranet solution introduces user-centric features designed to make interaction more convenient for users.

If anyone was wondering what Autonomy was going to do after getting the check for US$ 12 billion, then the upgrade to its e-Discovery software is a good indicator: It appears to be carrying on business as usual, even if it is now branded as a HP company.

With smartphones now outselling PCs and a recent global CIO  study showing 75% of respondents targeting mobile as a top spending priority, IBM took action to secure its place in the mobile enterprise domain, announcing a "definitive agreement" to acquire mobile app and infrastructure software developer Worklight.

“Our clients are under increased pressure to meet the growing demands of a workforce and customer base that now treat mobility as mission critical to their business,” said Marie Wieck, general manager, IBM application and infrastructure middleware.

Well done taxonomy management makes searches simple and finding the right answers near-effortless. But the effort it takes to create these ideal results requires a well thought out plan.