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Google dodges knowledge management question
News Google has hinted that it could create an extremely powerful corporate knowledge management or information management platform by integrating products such as its search appliances with its other search and communications applications.
[March 3, 2006, 13:05]
Singapore's future lies in services, says WTO
News With China's rising importance as a production hub, mature countries such as Singapore should turn to exporting its knowledge-management expertise in the form of services to stay relevant in the global economy.
[July 10, 2002, 8:32]
Cashing in on employees' knowledge
News So many organisations have caught on to the knowledge-sharing buzz, in fact, that statistics estimate that up to 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies are looking into a knowledge management initiative.
[June 27, 2001, 13:58]
Time for the Ministry of Information?
News The government needs to overhaul knowledge management practices across the public sector and appoint a minister to be given explicit responsibility for the subject, according to an official advisory body.
[August 9, 2005, 14:30]
Lotus delays Raven until end of April
News Lotus Development's two-year-old knowledge management project, Raven, has hit another snag. If more people indicate that a document is valuable, then the strength to that affinity of the particular topic increases and the system gets more accurate...
[April 6, 2001, 11:08]
MS readies next-generation software
News Six months after Windows 2000 ships, Microsoft is aiming to deploy new knowledge management applications, code-named Tahoe and Polar Server. With the new offerings, Microsoft is aiming squarely at archrival Lotus Development, which unveiled its...
[February 12, 1999, 9:00]
Salesforce expands platform with InStranet buy
News InStranet makes so-called 'knowledge-base management' software, which can improve companies' self-service support functions by making it easier for customers to find answers to common support questions.
[August 20, 2008, 8:51]
IBM accused of lifting privacy language
News Zero-Knowledge Systems (ZKS) filed the civil suit on behalf of its newly formed subsidiary Synomos, a specialist in privacy and data-management solutions for corporations. Software company Zero-Knowledge Systems has filed a copyright infringement...
[June 10, 2004, 10:30]
Financial sector suffering IT skills shortfall
News The most hankered-after non-IT skills are: knowledge of sector and project management, followed by leadership. Non-IT skills that are hardest to find are: project management, leadership and knowledge of sector.
[December 16, 2008, 8:18]
Facebook gets open-source enterprise app
News According to a statement from Alfresco: "Forward-looking enterprises believe that social networking provides a ready-made knowledge-management platform for their workers, which will increase adoption rates to the levels that knowledge management...
[November 16, 2007, 10:33]
Getting value from IT investments
News It is becoming increasingly important for IT management to ensure that measurement mechanisms are put in place to identify intangible assets such as brand, organisation culture, customer loyalty, innovation, knowledge management systems, and the...
[December 22, 2005, 15:10]
Management tool keeps Linux systems in tune
News Aduva, based in Palo Alto, California, has built a knowledge base with information on which Linux components work best together, along with other open source software modules, such as the various versions of the Apache Web server.
[September 28, 2001, 10:43]
Novell makes key changes to NetWare certifications
News It will test your knowledge of advanced NetWare and network management topics. To prepare for this exam, you can attend Novell course 575.Exam 050-662, Desktop Management with ZENworks for Desktops 3, will test your knowledge of ZENworks for...
[April 16, 2002, 15:49]
Open-source code finder aims to prevent lawsuits
News ProtextIP/development highlights potential licence issues through consulting a knowledge base of open-source code and associated licences, while protexIP/registry allows employees to put code it has developed into the knowledge base to assure...
[October 18, 2004, 18:10]
Certifications are essential for all IT security staffers
News Lynn McNulty, a CISSP and government liaison for (ISC)2, explained why the organisation feels a broader range of security knowledge is important. McNulty said it is much more important to have mastered the fundamental principles of information...
[March 21, 2003, 11:24]
Outsourcers play on vertical strengths
News IBM officials recognise that a good deal of the company's vertical markets' knowledge came through its acquisition of the consulting-services arm of Price Waterhouse last year. Tapper said knowledge of industry specifics is especially important...
[July 22, 2003, 10:04]
Gartner: IT staff need more than tech skills
News Scepticism about the effectiveness of IT, increasing automation and offshoring will lead to the emergence of a new breed of IT professionals who combine technical aptitude, local knowledge, knowledge of industry processes and leadership ability...
[November 13, 2005, 10:40]
Take steps to retain your IT superstars
News Does he or she possess irreplaceable institutional knowledge? Many IT superstars publish theoretical research in respected academic journals (the Journal of the IEEE and the Journal of Information Systems) to advance IT knowledge.
[March 7, 2002, 10:01]
Ensuring your business can survive disaster
News The assumption is often made that there will be somebody with knowledge of the situation that can step in and take over. If you can hand it to a perfect stranger with IT knowledge and he/she can get things going again - pat yourself on the back.
[April 5, 2005, 11:20]
Bouncing back from a lay-off in a tough job market
News McLaughlin also cautioned against discounting your "old knowledge" because "COBOL programmers are still in demand. If you're on a limited budget, books and online resources can help you hone your IT skills and expand your knowledge base.
[March 22, 2002, 17:12]
