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Articles by John McCormick

Enabling Organizational Agility
Social Networking and Extended Enterprise Collaboration

Social computing tools including blogs, podcasts, wikis, RSS feeds and tagging, as well as networking capabilities similar to those on Facebook and LinkedIn, are increasingly finding their way into the enterprise. Tools like these can help knowledge workers get work done more efficiently and cost effectively. They also make collaboration across different companies ("the extended enterprise") easier and much more efficient. Social collaboration technologies...

Text Analytics Drives Content Management Value

How many times have you searched the Web and received a laundry list of 34,000 hits? Have you ever looked beyond the first page or two of search results? Probably not. Much like a search on the public Web, sifting through the vast amounts of unstructured data in your enterprise content management (ECM) system can be an overwhelming and fruitless process.
Most company data is unstructured, and much of it often resides in enterprise content management systems. If it is leveraged properly, this valuable information can help your company improve customer satisfaction, gain competitive advantage, make better decisions and improve the overall productivity of knowledge and other workers. But the sheer volume of data housed in these repositories can render the information useless if your company doesn't have the tools to not only access this information, but also to analyze and extract relevant information...

Access With Security Safely
Improve Knowledge Worker Efficiency with Secure Search

To cope with the glut of information bogging down their knowledge workers...