[there are eight news stories in this post.]
CIO :: BI, CI, Oh!
by Beverley Head
...It was a US job advertisement that piqued the interest: A financial services company in Virginia wanted a business information officer - a supercharged go-between to shuttle between the business unit and the technology group. Does Australia need someone similar? Beverley Head shuttles between the experts to find an answer.
"It's typical of the US - creating a flashy title," says Malcolm Freame, director of infrastructure for Ernst & Young, based in Sydney. ... Ernst & Young has tackled the issue by appointing a director of business systems, who is separate from, but on a level with, the firm's CIO. Philip Langley is the director of business systems, reports to Freame and is both IT savvy and business aware. "The scope of his role is to look at the main business processes and the way that IT supports them," says Freame. "Stephen Arnold [the CIO] is involved in the development of infrastructure and support, They are peers and both report through me."
Interestingly, Freame does wear two hats. He is also the company's chief knowledge officer. and by acting as a funnel for both IT and business intelligence, he probably has a clearer perspective on the firm's knowledge management requirements and delivery capabilities...
dBusinessNews.com :: InfoStrength Applications Help Life Sciences in Challenging Economy
...Raleigh - InfoStrength, Inc. unveiled today version 3.0 of the InfoStrength Smart Enterprise Suite (SES). "The InfoStrength SES was in large part designed to help the life sciences industry as they face economic pressures to more efficiently leverage existing expertise and knowledge across the entire enterprise," said Rita Geiger, President and CEO.
As a leading regulatory compliance advisor and developer of knowledge management applications for the life sciences industry, InfoStrength actively sought the input of dozens of life sciences companies during the process of enhancing the functionality of the InfoStrength SES. "The organizations we spoke with told us about their knowledge management practice needs in the R&D, legal and patents, sales and marketing, and external collaboration areas." said Rita Geiger, President and CEO. "They wanted a tool that satisfied their document management and information sharing demands, as well as meeting their project and partner management challenges."...
The Financial Express :: Create Knowledge, Patent It: Mashelkar
...NEW DELHI: Create knowledge and protect it through patenting. This is the only mantra to march ahead into the new millennium, according to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) director general, and secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Dr R A Mashelkar.
Dr Mashelkar was speaking on "The New Knowledge Millennium: Perception, Reality and the Dream" in his award acceptance speech, after receiving the fourth Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration and Management Sciences for the year 2002.
He dwelt upon the four types of revolution: Green revolution (that relates to agriculture), White revolution (that relates to milk), Blue revolution (that relates to space mission) and most importantly Grey Revolution that relates to the emerging significance of knowledge management.
Dr Mashelkar said the problem in India is not the lack of a sophisticated and knowledgable workforce, but the lack of an application-oriented approach.
Talking about the role of CSIR in promoting research and development, he claimed that research output has increased sharply in recent years and he is setting a target of doubling the output in the near future.
Dr Mashelkar also called upon the research community not to restrict themselves to research journals only. They should make them feasible for practical use...
...Ft. Collins, CO (PRWEB) October 7, 2003 - SoftOlogy IdeaWorksTM, Inc. today introduced two new versions of its computer-accelerated reading software, RapidReader® 4.0 for Windows and RapidReader 4.0 for Palm. These products utilize patented technology that significantly accelerates the rate at which text can be can be read and absorbed while reading from electronic screens such as desktop computers, laptops and handheld PDAs (personal digital assistants). In other words RapidReader is designed to let the computer do the reading work...
MarketWire :: XIOtech Licenses iXmatch Software
...MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/07/2003 -- iXmatch Inc., a leading provider of matching, searching, and analytics software, today announced that XIOtech Corporation, a storage networking pioneer, signed an agreement to license its advanced search software. iXmatch will enable XIOtech employees and customers to easily find the information they are seeking.
iXfind, iXmatch's state-of-the-art search engine, incorporates innovative search methods to find, evaluate, and rank the most relevant results. iXfind then puts the content into context by dynamically clustering the search results into groups of similar documents. For example, a search for "magnitude", XIOtech's family of storage products, returns thousands of results that are clustered on the fly into contextually-relevant sub-groups such as benefits, configuration, capacity, scalability, and others. Employees and customers can better manage information overload and more easily navigate by selecting relevant content groups.
"Traditional searching no longer works for people serious about finding relevant content," said Bryan Scheuler, Director of Services, XIOtech. "We selected iXmatch because of its best-in-class technology, high quality results, outstanding performance and ease of integration. iXmatch's software will enable us to take full advantage of the content we now have available through our new content management system from Einsof. We're excited about this relationship." ...
...Endeca, an emerging leader in enterprise information access software and inventor of a breakthrough process for information retrieval and discovery in large data repositories, today announced the establishment of a strategic relationship with In-Q-Tel, a private, non-profit enterprise funded by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In-Q-Tel's mission is to identify and collaborate with companies developing cutting-edge information technologies that serve US national security interests...
Computerworld :: Alphawest buys PowerPlus business
by Helen Yeatman, ARN
...Perth-based systems integrator and solutions provider, Alphawest, has acquired the information management business of PowerPlus.
PowerPlus' information management business supplies, implements and supports advanced knowledge management and information management solutions.
As part of the acquisition, Alphawest will take on eight former PowerPlus staff and about 20 key customers in the corporate and state government sectors.
Director of sales and marketing at Alphawest, Steve McNally, Steve McNally, referred to the deal as a "skills acquisition"...
...Who: FileNet Corporation announced today that they are hosting a Web seminar on utilizing Forms Management to improve the flow of information that can speed time to market, reduce corporate risks and improve customer service in manufacturing. What: Guest speaker, Jim Murphy, senior research analyst of AMR Research, will share how eForms technology can be used to improve the flow of information for manufacturing organizations by serving as a front end to supplier interactions, quality and production processes. As a senior research analyst of AMR Research, Jim Murphy is responsible for leading the research activities regarding information infrastructure. In this role, he studies the products and industry trends associated with knowledge management, content management, enterprise portal technology, search and retrieval, e-learning and collaboration...
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