[there are nine news stories in this post, please read 'below the fold' as some are most interesting.]
Computer Business Review :: Intelligence pool
...The saying 'a problem shared is a problem halved' may be a cliche. But there is now a consensus of opinion in business intelligence (BI) that two heads are better than one. Corporations have recognised that there is significant value to be gained from allowing users to effectively collaborate over analytic data.
Collaborative BI is a team-building exercise that capitalises on the collective insight and experience of all employees. It pools expertise and insights to enable, faster, better and more accountable decisions. BI can be used to reduce business activity cycle times by eliminating the lag between evaluation, decision and action - one of the key aims of knowledge management (KM).
Companies are, however, having to strike a balance between the algorithmic number crunching of BI tools and the 'human touch' inherent in collaborative interactions. "BI places a lot of emphasis on how to drive efficiencies through aggregation and data-mining techniques... but it lacks a human element of understanding," says Don Campbell, Cognos VP of innovation and technology. Collaboration also runs against human nature as people are not naturally 'programmed' to share information...
Mentioned in this article [links hand-coded by me... (^:]:
Cognos, Business Objects, Actuate, Gartner, SAS Institute, Microsoft Excel, Open Text, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, IBM Lotus Notes, Intraspect, Microsoft SharePoint, Spotfire, Brio Software, and Sarbanes-Oxley [which seems to be out of business.]
for more information on "Collaborative BI" - google it!
Asia Times :: The rich world's disappearing jobs
By John Berthelsen and Indrajit Basu
If the North American Free Trade Act passes, "you will hear a giant sucking sound of jobs going south of the border". - H Ross Perot, 1992
...In the developed world and particularly in the United States, the scope of jobs disappearing overseas is widening beyond all imagining, to professions that almost nobody expected to be hit, and with far higher incomes than anybody thought possible as globalization bonds with the law of unintended consequences.
The catalyst is the Internet. As instant communication becomes more ubiquitous, the developed world's white-collar professions, from CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing) to accounting to medicine to architecture to aircraft design to research and development to engineering to equity research and financial management to knowledge management to revenue-cycle management - a whole panorama of high-income employment - are inexorably going...
...Sakhr Software Co., the giant Arabic IT company, has revealed that it is about to launch the comprehensive Arabic Information Monitoring and Management System, the first of its kind, in the Middle East, North Africa and the Arabian Gulf.
'When national and international security becomes an obsession, when safety and stability are the main objectives of governments, it is only natural that a need for a solution is born, a solution that has exceptional knowledge management capabilities to process information in both Arabic and English,' Al-Sharekh said addressing these needs. 'This is the solution that fulfils the demands of research centers as well as national security organizations, while complying with the trend of converting to electronic document management. This solution also fills the larger gap in information management that face many government administrations and organizations, regardless of their specialties,' Al-Sharekh added, 'It is now possible to own bi-lingual systems capable, as never before, of fulfilling very specific and very important needs.'
The company expects an escalation in demand for this solution by ministries, government administrations, research centers, decision making and national security authorities, as well as various organizations which require processing the various formats of information...
ZDNet UK :: UK's hottest tech prospect revealed
by Matt Loney
...Mike Lynch, founder and chief executive of knowledge management firm Autonomy, said many of the things predicted during the dot-com boom will come to pass, but perhaps just not as soon as everyone thought. "To say the dot-com boom didn't have an effect is wrong," said Lynch. "We are changing everything."
Lynch, whose company's success made him the UK's first software billionaire when its valuation soared in the late 1990s noted that some types of business never really stood a chance.
"There was one dot-com laundry company in San Francisco, which took your smalls away, laundered them for free and returned them," Lynch told his audience. "Their business model was to analyse your smalls, from which they could get an analysis of your lifestyle, which could then be sold." The main flaw (of many) with this plan, said Lynch, was that "everybody knows that civil servants like to wear women's underwear underneath their suits, so not only would this company have to cleanse underwear, but it would also have to cleanse the database afterwards. The data would simply be wrong."
Conversely, said Lynch, Tesco.com is a formidable dot-com business model. But the rise (or survival) of dot-coms with sustainable business models has not been as easy one: Lynch noted the rise, during the boom, of MBAs, "which popped up with no particular expertise."
A good analogy for MBAs, said Lynch, was eels, "not because they are slippery and slimy, but because no one knew where they came from. Now the MBAs have all disappeared again. I even looked under the investment banking rock and there is nothing there."...
ElectricNews.net :: Irish GPs, hospitals link up via the Web
by Frances Gleeson
..."The Healthlink Project is a clear example of the contribution that electronic knowledge management and communications can make to Irish healthcare," said Peter Lennon, director of GPIT (the national General Practice Information Technology group of the Department of Health and Children), which is collaborating with the Healthlink team on the provision of the service.
The system, which is funded by the Department of Health and Children, was developed over the past six years by the Healthlink Development Team. Until now the service has been e-mail based, but the new system integrates with existing systems used by GPs, such as GP Clinical, Medicom and HealthOne. The Healthlink Development Team provides training and support to GPs using the service.
A number of security features have been built into the system to ensure the security of patient data. Each GP using the service has a username, password and PIN code. Secure sockets layer (SSL) technology is used for data encryption and for server authentication, as well as server and browser certificates.
There are currently over 250 Healthlink Online users including GPs, practice nurses, practice staff and five hospitals: the Mater Hospital and Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, Limerick Regional Hospital, Ennis General Hospital and St. Joseph's Hospital in Nenagh.
Healthlink is currently in negotiations with other hospitals and health boards nationwide to facilitate anticipated demand from GPs, according to Marie Lalor, project manager of the National Healthlink Project...
The Economic Times :: Wipro launches IT consulting services
...BANGALORE: Wipro Infotech has launched IT consulting services for customers in India, the Asia Pacific and West Asia.
The company would offer its proven strategic consulting services in the areas of Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, Data Warehousing, Executive Information System, Knowledge Management and Web Services, the statement said...
The Morning News :: High School Honored For Commitment
...Rogers High School was honored Tuesday by being given the second level of the Arkansas Quality Award, the commitment level.
Gov. Mike Huckabee presented the award - which honors companies and organizations that have implemented a quality management system - to Principal Bill Stringer at an Arkansas Quality Awards banquet in Little Rock. ...
The high school filed an extensive report to apply for the award. The report included seven categories of quality principles, including leadership, strategic planning, customer and market focus, management, analysis and knowledge management, human resource focus, process management and business results...
finextra.com :: CSC and Swingtide in Web Services alliance
...Under the agreement, CSC and Swigtide will collaborate on four services - analytical software to track XML messages and provide business activity monitoring across the enterprise; an industry-specific XML interoperability and education lab; a custom XML-readiness process; and a standards-based knowledge management community...
Business Wire :: The Digital Enterprise Comes to Life At COMDEX Las Vegas 2003
...MediaLive International, Inc. (OTCBB:KMEDQ), the world's leading producer of information technology events, conferences, publications and related media and services, today announced expanded content around the digital enterprise at COMDEX Las Vegas 2003, taking place November 16-20. Through a series of conferences and panel discussions, COMDEX is teaching businesses to capitalize on the extended enterprise by capturing, integrating and analyzing the collective knowledge, whether in tangible form or in the form of employee expertise, in a digitized workplace...
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