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.
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Just in case there wasn’t already enough companies trying to nail down online office productivity turf, Adobe has decided to muscle in via the acquisition of the online word processed Buzzword.
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...
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