[there are three news stories in this post.]
Computerworld | Sensis CIO searches for relevance
by Julian Bajkowski
...Sensis, Telstra's $1.2 billion telephone book subsidiary, will reveal a new strategic market plan next month and embark on a major consolidation and overhaul of its systems architecture to enable aggregated Web-based search-and-locate offerings across voice, wireless and digital television. ...
We are finding in the Web space and the SMS wireless space there is a language emerging unique to Web and SMS.
"You have to build a lexicon around that so that your searches really start to be effective around those channels.
"Equally you need to build that to different languages anyway. At the end of the day we are really investing in librarian-style ontologies.
"This is at the very heart of knowledge management. If you are trying to get a relevant search result, the heart of it is getting your search strategy right and then navigating to the right result.
"The more powerful you make the taxonomies, the more likely the result." ...
Korea IT News :: Fight Shaping Up For Fourth-Quarter System Project Orders
By Ohn Ki-hong & Kim Won-bae
...In the medical care sector, Shinchon Severance Hospital is poised to launch a large system setup project next month, spending 15 billion won to build electronic medical record (EMR), order communication, data warehouse and knowledge management systems. Kyunghee University Hospital is set to select a system company this month to set up picture archiving and communication system (PACS), OCS and EMR in a newly-built hospital in Godeok-dong, Seoul.
KT, having selected a system vendor to build 20 billion won-worth data warehouse system earlier, is now mulling launching a next-generation operating system in early next month, which will cost some 26 billion won over the next few years...
ebizQ :: U.S. Navy Upgrades KM Portal to Appian Enterprise
...Appian Corporation, a provider of real-time, enterprise Web solutions, announced that the U.S. Navy has awarded the company a multi-million dollar contract relating to its enterprise knowledge management and learning portal, Navy Knowledge Online (NKO). The contract includes additional scaling of NKO; on-going support and maintenance; the purchase of additional hardware; beta-testing of an at-sea version of NKO; and the development of Navy Knowledge Online SIPRNET (NKO-S), a classified version of NKO. Additionally, says Appian, NKO will be upgraded to Appian Enterprise v.3.0, the latest version of Appian's collaborative intranet solution suite...
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