[there are eleven news stories in this post.]
Portsmouth Herald Business News :: Swingtide partnering with CSC
...PORTSMOUTH - Portsmouth-based Swingtide Inc. has formed an alliance with Computer Sciences Corporation to help financial services firms realize the full value of distributed technologies such as Web Services and XML in next-generation software applications. ...
CSC and Swingtide will collaborate on four offerings: an industry-specific XML interoperability and education lab; a standards-based knowledge management community for XML and Web Services; a custom XML-readiness process that focuses on best practices for service-oriented architectures and deployments; and analytical software to track XML messages and provide business activity monitoring across a fully distributed enterprise application. The first set of combined offerings - training workshops and online access to a knowledge and collaboration system - will be available in October...
...Experts, Steve Letza, Giovanni Schiuma, Mohammed Zairi and Peter Fairclough, provided details of the one-day conference which is followed by two independent workshops designed specifically for public and private sector companies respectively. The entire program will be held at the Burj Al Arab from 12th to 14th October.
Over the coming days, these experts will offer key members of the Middle East business community advice and insights into the multiple benefits that effective corporate governance can bring to their businesses. The experts carry with them a wealth of academic and practical experience. Each will be offering delegates information on best practice as well as guidance on how to implement a robust systems of corporate governance into their individual company infrastructures.
Outlining the importance of corporate governance to the modern business, Steve Letza, founding Director of the European Centre for Corporate Governance, said: 'Good governance leads to good management and improved long-term performance. Wherever corporate entities exist there is a need to assess corporate governance. I strongly believe in the agents of change facing the new age boardroom structure. Open governance within knowledge-based companies is now the norm. Improved governance leads to improved performance and networks, rather than hierarchies, are the way in which much contemporary business is conducted.'...
FCW :: Maryland tech incubator opens
BY Michael Hardy
...With 80 percent of its space filled, the Chesapeake Innovation Center, a technology incubator for start-up firms developing homeland security technology, formally opened its doors with a ceremony yesterday.
The Annapolis, Md. incubator houses seven new companies, all hoping to develop markets with government agencies and in the private sector. Incubator officials selected companies based on a list of technologies needed by the National Security Agency -- a partner in the venture along with Anne Arundel County's Economic Development Corp.
Companies include wireless communications firms, security technology companies, a firm developing systems for first responders to gather information about chemical or biological exposure and transmit data and one biotech company developing a treatment for anthrax exposure.
Under NSA's guidance, incubator officials are looking for knowledge management, data mining and peer-to-peer communications firms to move in, said Director John Elstner...
India Inc. :: Pantaloon: Implementing A Balanced Approach To Employee Assessment
by Rajiv Banerjee
...Confirming the health of human being involves assessment on various parameters. The same holds true for a company also. Increasingly companies are realising the importance of linking employee performance to the overall objective and vision of the company. And employee performance is not merely achieving the financial objective, but also matching up to the internal processes, knowledge gathering and also customer satisfaction. That is Balanced Score Card for you at Pantaloon Retail India Ltd. After a year long assessment and study, employees are getting measured under the Balanced Score Card...
...The first intelligent planning and scheduling system that enables companies to easily encode and apply sophisticated decision-making rules was introduced today by Stottler Henke Associates, Inc., a software development firm based here. The Aurora(TM) scheduling system generates schedules more effectively than traditional systems by applying domain-specific knowledge and heuristics, constraints, and resource requirements. Using Aurora's graphical user interface, scheduling experts can easily configure Aurora with this planning and scheduling knowledge, as well as visualize and modify the automatically-generated schedules.
Aurora was originally developed to help NASA tackle difficult, mission-critical scheduling problems that previously required the judgment and experience of expert human schedulers. ...
Founded in 1988, Stottler Henke Associates, Inc. applies artificial intelligence and other advanced software technologies to solve problems that defy solution using traditional approaches. The company delivers intelligent software solutions for education and training, planning and scheduling, knowledge management and discovery, decision support, and software development. Stottler Henke's clients include manufacturers, retailers, educational media companies and government agencies...
EContent :: Kofax and Hummingbird Strengthen Partnership
...Hummingbird Ltd., a developer of enterprise information management systems, has selected Kofax, an information capture vendor, as a Strategic Technology Partner. As the highest partnership level in Hummingbird's Technical Alliance Program, Strategic Technology Partners are expected to focus on Fortune 500 customers, are global in reach, and have products that complement Hummingbird's offerings...
BusinessWire :: Company Profile for Locus Technologies
...Locus Technologies specializes in providing comprehensive consulting, design, and construction services for the remediation of sites contaminated by hazardous wastes. Locus also provides environmental data management that supports our more traditional consulting activities, which has formed the cornerstone of our Information Management Group, who are bringing our Internet technologies to a whole new level. ...
The LocusFocus(SM) environmental portal is rapidly evolving to meet the changing requirements of our customers, and collaboration and knowledge management have become essential for sites that have multiple PRPs. By integrating collaborative applications into LocusFocus, we are able to deploy comprehensive solutions that enable and foster collaboration and coordination across customers, employees, and regulators...
...IntraLearn Software Corporation, the leading supplier of configurable e-Learning software applications, and Recombo Inc., an industry leader in content integration for the learning, knowledge management and performance support, announced today a partnership to offer tightly integrated, well-tested content integration solutions to IntraLearn's partners and clients. These solutions will take advantage of IntraLearn's flexible product suite and Recombo's content testing, integration platform and services...
BusinessWire :: Keenan & Associates Teams With Enwisen to Launch Keenan Personal Choice
...Keenan & Associates, the largest privately held brokerage firm in California, has signed an agreement with Enwisen, Inc., to provide a rich suite of online employee benefits information and decision support tools to 350,000 of its employee benefits customers, including school districts, community colleges, and healthcare organizations.
Under the terms of the agreement, Keenan & Associates will offer employers, employees and dependents online access to a host of benefits information through Keenan Personal Choice(SM), a fully customizable portal that Keenan & Associates will establish for each of its customers.
Enwisen, a leader in mid-to-large market Human Resource communication solutions, will rapidly deploy its patented knowledge-management solution to every one of Keenan's employee benefits customers, putting critical information into the hands of employees to help them become more informed consumers. Full implementation will be complete by 1Q 2004...
Business Standard :: The knowledge corporations
by Shyamal Majumdar
...How do corporations maximise enterprise intellectual capital? "Pretty simple. Companies must build competency inventory to recharge their intellectual horsepower," says a leading HR consultant.
Cut out the management jargon and the answer actually is a rather straightforward one. The purpose of an elaborate knowledge management (KM) system is the belief that in today's information-driven economy, companies uncover opportunities and ultimately derive the maximum value from intellectual rather than physical assets.
The best return from intellectual assets can come only if a knowledge data bank is created and shared with others. After all, the sustainable competitive advantage a company has, comes only from what it collectively knows...
Business Standard :: InterPro to invest $10m in subsidiary
S Kalyana Ramanathan, Sanjay Krishnan in Chennai
...InterPro Holding, the Washington-based $670 million business process solutions provider, expects to invest close to $10 million in India through its subsidiary, InterPro India. The company expects about 1,500 recruitments in the next one year. ...
According to Swami, the next year the company will focus on knowledge management and it has already put in place a 30-member team.
"We have grown fast and now it is time to take stock and learn from what we have achieved over the last nine years," Swami said with regards to the knowledge management initiative...
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