July/August 2012, [Vol 21, Issue 7]

Features

Knowledge management energizes green initiatives

"The system helps a great deal with knowledge retention, because the outcomes are stored in a central location that everyone can access."...

KM in the cloud

"In 2012, every vendor of KM-related technology has a cloud offering and uses the term in as many marketing messages as possible"...

TEXT ANALYTICS: Compelling products that pack a punch!

"The volume, complexity and importance of medical information used in support of diagnosis and treatment of illness, as well as the dramatically rising costs of healthcare, drive initiatives to improve information use" ...

Social networking, analytics are boon to financial industry

"Within the first six months, more than 85,000 users were participating in IBM Connections-driven social networking activity, making more than 1 million connections and forming 3,000 different communities"...

Award WINNERS-Global Excellence in Adaptive Case Management

News Analysis

Big data, cows and cadastres

Digital information is doubling every few months. A gigabyte of data is nothing compared to a petabyte. Analytics is the key to unlocking the value of "huge flows of structured and unstructured information."...

Personal KM: Digital wheat from chaff

"Our social platforms are full of information and links floating through them. Keeping up with them is incredibly difficult..."

David Weinberger

Interoperability as a worldview

Usually when you hear someone use the word "interoperability," you should prepare to be pulled into a discussion about highly technical issues about the protocols by which electronic systems communicate, or, if you're very lucky, about the way in which data can be formatted for use across multiple systems...

The Future of the Future

Smart hospitals: Transformational medicine for the knowledge age Part 1

"The next challenge is bringing expert knowledge along with patient data directly to the point of decision"...