Allowing people to talk to machines was the first step. The next was enabling machines to talk to machines. Peter Webb canvasses the evolution of XML and its importance to real time e-commerce and SOA.
As part of a compliance and knowledge management initiative, Victoria’s Western Water has recently overhauled its document management system and converted over one million documents to digital format. It faced an interesting challenge in r...
In his research paper released in April 2007, “Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing”, Harvard University academic, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger compares Google’s ethos with the KGB’s motto applied to informatio...
Budgets have been slashed and you’ve been told to downsize. An eerie silence falls over the organisation as corridor chatter becomes whispers. Distrust sets in and you suspect anger and retribution will soon follow. The question is: where ...
Information dissemination is exposing political processes and people, leaving them open to public scrutiny and comment through the power of user-generated content. Angela Priestley explores the latest move towards e-democracy, a process n...
On fight night, IDM put a number of vendors in the online ring to determine the world champion of content and document management solutions. Would it be open source or closed source? Of course there was no world champion, but it did provoke...
First it was spam, now it’s bacn blasting inboxes. This time, however, there’s no one to blame for the email deluge except those with the clogged inboxes.
Not long after it’s acquisition, Google’s new stable of online applications are already benefiting from Postini’s email security and compliance services, with its technology being added to Google Apps Premier Edition.
Electronic evidence and data migration service provider RenewData has announced it’s latest data management offering, claiming it can help law firms and other organisations identify, de-duplicate and reduce data stored on backup tapes.
Technology and knowledge management (KM) have enjoyed a less than harmonious relationship since KM’s inception. The jury is still out as to whether vendors, knowledge managers or the nebulous nature of KM itself has been to blame for its s...
