http://www.kmworld.com/rss/rss_feeds/default.aspxRSS feeds from KMWorld.com.All Content Copyright 1998-2013, KMWorld, a Division of Information Today Inc.1440http://www.kmworld.com/Images/KMWorld_Logo.gifhttp://www.kmworld.comExcerpted from ?Measuring Return on Knowledge in a Big Data World,?Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMTBig data. Unstructured data. Semi-structured data. Data is all over the technology news, and for good reason. It is overwhelming organizations, requiring them to find new ways to operate, stay competitive, better serve their customers and bring new products to market faster. <BR><BR> Companies are finding themselves with piles of information within multiple channels, locked away in silos-different systems, different departments, different geographies and different data types, making it impossible to connect the dots and make sense of critical business information. <BR><BR>Hidden inside streams of structured and unstructured data across cloud, social and on-premise systems are information relationships that answer questions employees haven't even thought to ask, but need to be asking. . . . http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/Advanced-Indexing-Technology-88983.aspxMartin GarlandTue, 30 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMTThe inability to identify the value in unstructured content is the primary challenge in any application that requires the use of metadata. If you aren't managing it, you won't find it. At the most basic level, enterprise search has become inadequate. Bells and whistles abound but the unsolved problem still exists. Search cannot find and deliver relevant information in the right context, at the right time. This <B><I>laissez-faire approach</I></B>, starting with executive management on down, illustrates the inability of organizations to elevate search to a key component and critical enabler for improving business outcomes. An information governance approach that creates the infrastructure framework to encompass automated intelligent metadata generation, auto-classification, and the use of goal- and mission-aligned taxonomies is required. . . .http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/Solving-the-Inadequacies-and-Failures-in-Enterprise-Search-88985.aspxAndy MooreTue, 30 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMT"Writing about enterprise search is not the cakewalk it used to be. With customers demanding more business value, and vendors responding by becoming more "purpose-driven" and specialized, the search market has fragmented into a series of business applications that only opaquely rely on "the search engine" to accomplish their tasks. I often call it "the technology arc." At first, all you have to do is say "enterprise search," and you have the attention of the users and the investors. Then after a while, you have to ask, "What can this new technology do for me?" Then after a while and the shine off the lily (or however that expression goes), you need to ask, "Where is the business process improvement..."http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/The-Purpose-Driven-Search-Life-88967.aspxJerome LevadouxTue, 30 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMT"Ninety percent of the world's data has been created in just the last two years. But when it comes to information, there is no immediate benefit to simply amassing exabytes of content. The real gains come when organizations are able to translate, understand and apply the insight that is contained within this flood of information. <BR><BR> One of the main challenges posed by today's information explosion is that content is fragmented into disparate "silos," such as file servers, collaboration suites, email systems and other repository types. Also, more information is quickly migrating to the cloud. In this scenario, traditional KM systems fall short because they are not equipped to derive the intelligence contained in this information. . . ."http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/Revolutionize-Your-Approach-to-Knowledge-Management-88969.aspxThu, 04 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/Twenty-Five-Ways-To-Use-Enterprise-Search-88385.aspxThu, 04 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/Five-Big-Data-Habits-of-Highly-Effective-Organizations-88391.aspxBrett ChalmersThu, 04 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/The-Big-Opportunity-for-Search--Connecting-the-Content-and-Process-Dots-88382.aspxAndy MooreThu, 04 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/A-Conversation-with---Derek-Murphy-CTO-Perceptive-Search--An-Enterprise-Philosophy%3b-A-Logical-Approach-88384.aspxRon CameronTue, 26 Mar 2013 12:00:00 GMTMicrosoft SharePoint has grown so fast and has become so ubiquitous that AIIM recently suggested it had become a common noun for content management, like Kleenex for tissue and Xerox for copying. <BR><BR>According to AIIM surveys, SharePoint adoption rates have exceeded 65% across a variety of regions and industries, yet Forrester Research states over half of enterprises still maintain three or more ECM repositories. If SharePoint is so popular, why haven't more enterprises adopted it as their sole platform for enterprise content? <BR><BR>Good question. Microsoft said SharePoint 2010 was the answer. The company touted SharePoint 2010 as the "information operating system." Is it?,,,http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/SharePoint-ECM-for-Everyone-88355.aspxAndy MooreTue, 26 Mar 2013 12:00:00 GMTSharePoint: You either love to hate it or hate to love it. There are few?to no?software products that have ever inspired the kind of passionate discourse that the ubiquitous Microsoft platform has invoked. It's like religion and politics and sex all rolled up into one. Actually, come to think of it... well, never mind. Despite the fact that something near 80% of all companies have some appearance of SharePoint in their organizations, it is far from a satisfactory relationship. AIIM, in its great "Digital Landfills" survey series ("Big Data-Extracting Value From Your Digital Landfills"), notes that 26% of users said that management of unstructured content in their organizations is "somewhat chaotic." . . .http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/The-Strange-and-Wonderful-Landscape-of-SharePoint-88349.aspx