Melody Smith

Another Social Network?

By Melody Smith | July 11, 2011

Google+ has not overtaken social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, but it is turning heads. Already hundreds of Facebook users from India are on Google+ via a beta testing phase.

A new partnership of Alfresco and Ephesoft will combine enterprise content management and cloud-ready capture. This will be a significant change as most capture technologies have not been given the benefit of automation. This new automated work flow element will help to capture processes. Documents that have been captured electronically via the use of imaging will be also provided improved intelligence.

SharePoint 2010 Used to Improve Efficiency

By Melody Smith | July 8, 2011

Northridge Systems is partnering with Chatham County, Georgia to analyze, define, build and deploy a private judicial portal on the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 platform. This endeavor is expected to improve communication and data exchange within county court and law enforcement agencies and departments. The SharePoint-based solution will be known as the Eastern Judicial Circuit Data…

Semanticizing Managed Content

By Melody Smith | July 8, 2011

For those who believe in smart content and that it is necessary for semantic content, they might find Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) interesting. It provides a framework for semanticizing managed content.

Semantic Technology For Your Car

By Melody Smith | July 7, 2011

Voice recognition software continues to evolve and with semantic technology available, that progress has increased. Nowhere has this been more evident than in mobile applications. But mastering the subtleties of human language remains beyond the reach of even our most sophisticated technology.

The Future of Cloud Technology

By Melody Smith | July 7, 2011

Along with the amount of data, the monetary investment in digital technology to capture and store that data has grown relentlessly in the past decade. And it doesn’t appear to be slowing down any. Leading the “shopping spree’ in the technology world will be cloud computing. While cloud computing accounts for less than 2% of IT spending today, an EMC-sponsored IDC Digital Universe study estimates that by 2015 nearly 20% of the information will be “touched” by cloud computing service providers — meaning that somewhere in a byte’s journey from originator to disposal it will be stored or processed in a cloud.

ExpertusONE Feature Set Released

By Melody Smith | July 7, 2011

Expertus has released an updated feature set for its ExpertusONE product focused on training channel partners. ExpertusONE is the first learning platform to offer a broad range of learning, collaboration and knowledge access tools for a dispersed sales staff.

Speed and Quality Shouldn’t Be Either Or

By Melody Smith | July 6, 2011

Several months ago, Microsoft promised us Project Crescent, code name for a new business intelligence tool designed for nontechnical users to create dynamic reports. Crescent was the centerpiece for another code-named technology, Denali, the upcoming release of SQL Server.

The Pope Tweets

By Melody Smith | July 6, 2011

Times have definitely changed and it has never been more apparent than the latest news of the Pope tweeting. Yes, you read that correctly. Pope Benedict XVI tweeted for the first time today, the Vatican has confirmed.

Document Management Systems Continue to Evolve

By Melody Smith | July 6, 2011

New capabilities in document capture software are changing what was a simple, flat process – scanning – and making it possible to use the tools to streamline and optimize the overall document management process.