Posts by Melody Smith
Taxonomies At Work in Social Media Marketing
As advertisers are navigating the world of social media, many don’t get the possibilities that abound; but every once in a while a brand gets it right. Pandora managed to create socially relevant content of genuine interest to the consumers and use appropriate advertising on social media and search sites.
Read MoreFASB Launches New System
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has launched a new system that provides greater transparency for users of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). The Taxonomy Online Review and Comment System allows taxonomy users to review and provide direct input on the Development Taxonomy being updated and maintained by the FASB XBRL team.
Read MoreVoice Recognition Technology Continues to Evolve
It seems with mobile phones these days, smaller is better. But with the size decreasing, finding the information you need becomes a challenge. Never fear, there is a new technology emerging that helps users find information without having to fiddle with tiny keyboards or have blisters due to scrolling over and over. This new technology is voice search.
Read MoreEndeca Releases Latitude 2
Endeca Technologies has announced the release of Endeca Latitude 2, the latest in their enterprise agile business intelligence platform. Latitude 2 offers organizations an improvement in the quality of enterprise-wide decision making by increasing the agility of IT and accelerating the delivery of agile business intelligence solutions.
Read MoreOpenText Releases New Version
OpenText has released a new version of OpenText Integration Center featuring an enhanced, native connector to OpenText ECM Suite 2010. The claims are that customers can help better leverage their structured and unstructured content to reduce costs and improve efficiency with OpenText.
Read MoreBig is the Term of the Day
It has been said that business intelligence platforms from SIMO vendors are already antiquated. Strong statement, but look at the trends of “big” information management. Either big in terms of expensive or big in terms of the changes that they require within the organization.
Read MoreInformatica 9.1 Released
Informatica has released its flagship product designed to handle the “big data” generated by today’s transaction processing and social media systems, Informatica 9.1. Big in velocity, complexity and variety; big data is the hot topic.
Read MoreUses for a Thesaurus
A thesaurus can be used for several different purposes. It is mainly used for information retrieval, in one way or another. We use it in information retrieval both on the search end and in the tagging of the records.
Read MoreMetadata’s Role in Integration
Integration has permeated every part of information management systems. This is true both in and outside the brick and mortar walls. A recent report on cloud computing noted that the average is five or more different data sources per organization. All of this makes metadata more important and more difficult.
Read MoreNew Information Technology Department Taxonomy
WAND has released the latest entry in its enterprise taxonomy library, the
new Information Technology Department Taxonomy. This new taxonomy is designed specifically for IT departments and gives a jump-start to any enterprise content project that is organizing IT related documents.