Content Management Matters ™

KMWorld has published it's annual list of 'Companies That Matter' in Knowledge Management. Editor Hugh McKellar and an esteemed board of industry-savvy judges have sifted through the marketing gloop, sorted the wheat from the chaff, held up the KM Champions and banished the chancers and n'er do wells to eternal KM oblivion.

Until next year, at least.

Today’s distributed systems are drenched in complexity. However, more often than not, there is no clear location for the storage of environmental documentation.

Is the documentation stored on the file/print infrastructure? Sharepoint? QuickPlace? Is the essential information in your documentation close to the people that need it?

I am always skeptical of any "Year's Best" award given out well before the year has finished. I liken it to movies that premier in January and call themselves the "must-see movie of the year." It always seems a little too premature.

In this case, I'll make an exception. Nstein's Ntelligent Content Management Suite, which has the unique ability to relate to both publisher and consumer, has deservingly been crowned one of the “Trend-Setting Products of 2007” as named by KMWorld magazine.

The Information Architecture Institute, an organization that works to improve information architecture across networks of organizations through education, research and advocacy, has an amazing idea!

Well, they have lots of great ideas, but in a transparent attempt to be clever, I'm referring to their upcoming IDEA Conference 2007.

Tribal Group, a prominent provider of consulting and professional support services in the UK, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Open Text, a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technology.

Hey, champ. Ever wonder how your intranet stands up against another company's? It's probably tough to gauge, considering asking about another enterprise's back-end is a little awkward.

With that devastating curiosity in mind, Intranet Dashboard just compiled a survey on global intranet use and trends that aims to answer all your burning questions.

As the desire to use Web 2.0 technologies moves inside the enterprise, content management system providers are scrambling to build solutions to meet the new demand.

Vignette is the latest to fall in line, with the release of a new version of their collaboration platform. Creatively dubbed Vignette Collaboration, the latest release promises everything that people think of when they think of Web 2.0 -- online communities, simple knowledge management, user generated content and social networking.

Hoping to capitalize on the trend of moving enterprise applications to web-based, hosted solutions, Instancy has expanded their Enterprise 2.0 presence with the release of the Knowledge and Learning 2.0 Community Platform and the On-Demand Global Portal.

Having already established somewhat pale, web-based clones of Microsoft's ubiquitous Office products, including a word processor and spreadsheet application, Google is now set to complete the triumvirate with the addition of a PowerPoint-like offering.

Despite the dubious claims of Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the company is certainly targeting Microsoft Office, if in a sparkly new Enterprise 2.0 manner.

After its acquisition of Stellent half a year ago, Oracle has been disturbingly mum about how it plans to use its new resources to beef up their existing Content Management offerings.

That silence has just been broken. Today Oracle released its broad intentions for assimilating Stellent offerings.

We can't think of webs more tangly than the ones showcased in the sober environment of a court room. Enterprise CMS giant Open Text leaps into messy matters of law with LegalKEY Risk Indicator, a new solution that helps analysts better identify high-risk conflicts of interest.

SharePoint Solutions, a company with a history of developing training, consulting and add-on software for Microsoft Sharepoint Server has announced the release of their Extranet Collaboration Manager for SharePoint 2007.

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.