White Papers

Please Note:  Occasionally white papers will be added that I believe are noteworthy but are prepared by private industry.  The use of these papers is intended for information only and does not constitute endorsement of any company…Director Cameron

  • KM 2012 White Paper Calendar (pdf)

  • Business Intelligence

    Focus on KM in higher education: Learning analytics efforts apply business intelligence to student retention.  The term "learning analytics" seems to have a number of definitions, but it basically involves using predictive analytic tools to improve learning and education... 
  • Business Process Management

    BPM Works for business – Efficiency and insight are some of the benefits.  According to the consulting firm IDC, the market for BPM software and middleware grew over 9 percent in 2010, to $16 billion...
  • Collaboration

    Enter the agile, social intranet.  Jive builds upon Social Business Platform…
  • Competitive Intelligence

    Unifying structured and unstructured information.  Attivio AIE for IT support…
  • Digital Asset Management

    Digital asset management supports a world of rich media. The DAM market has been thriving despite the economy…
  • Document Management/Conversion

    KnowledgeTree upgrades its DM offering.  User enhancements for finding and sharing documents
  • Email Management

    Archive management for Microsoft e-mail.  Strengthening e-discovery, information management…
  • Enterprise Application Integration

    Toward a smarter workplace.  Metastorm enhance EA, BPA and BPM…
  • Enterprise Search

    Analytics Adds Intelligence to Search.  We are well aware of the productive gains with faster search. The new frontier is to improve the quality and insights from search, achieved from integration of search with analytics. Enterprise solutions are well practiced at extracting information from structured data. Search is designed to aggregate unstructured information from keywords and a wide variety of sources like emails, social blogs, etc. Merging structured stores with unstructured text derives meaningful, relevant summarizations as well as new insights. Analytics dissolves the barrier, providing integration founded on the data content itself—driving more complete and accurate intelligence for business users. . . .
  • Image, Forms, Document Capture

    New versions of A2iA DocumentReader and A2iA CheckReader.  Recognition engines for document classification…
  • Intellectual Property Management

    Cloud-based, rich media content control.  Content Raven introduces enterprise-grade solution…
  • Knowledge Management

    What is KM? Knowledge Management Explained.  …the making of the organization's data and information available to the members of the organization through portals and with the use of content management systems
  • Opinion

    Who cares about knowledge?.  I don't make predictions except when they're already true. So, here's one: The concept of knowledge is on its way out…
  • Records Management, E-Discovery, Compliance

    Three hot issues in records management.  "The user should not be a de facto records manager, now that methods of doing it automatically are available."...
  • Investigative software helps prosecution’s case.  “This was a very difficult case for the prosecution to prove.  The team had millions of relevant documents of varying quality and formats, and only a portion was readily searchable…” 
  • Workflow

    Productivity soars at Konica-Minolta France.  …the workflows created or taken over by its solution at Konica-Minolta are designed to check the compliance and consistency of contracts, and to accelerate contract creation and approval…