Our imaging columnist takes a look at how meaningful OCR and ICR recognition rates really are.

Microsoft is laying down the ground rules for intranet collaboration in the new millenium.

The release of Office 2000 signals Microsoft's gradual push for a beach head in the knowledge management arena, but the main guns are still to be fired.

Short new product announcements

Hummingbird Communications has announced the release of version 2.0 of HostExplorer Web and Exceed Web, its Web-to-host and thin X-client solutions.

Captiva Software has released FormWare V2.5, which offers both forms-processing and document-capture capabilities.

Interactive report building software VisualSQRIBE 5.0, from Sqribe Technologies, creates reports for Sqribe's SQR Enterprise Reporting Server.

A new report from AIIM reveals that the document technologies market will grow to $US41.6 billion by 2003.

Recent stock market reports on three portal vendors.

The previously separate software disciplines of business intelligence (BI) and knowledge management (KM) are coming together in several guises - most notably, through the enterprise information portal.