By Melody Smith|June 29th, 20112011-06-28T21:25:56-04:00
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.
By Melody Smith|June 29th, 20112011-06-29T11:31:35-04:00
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.
By Melody Smith|June 29th, 20112011-06-29T11:23:11-04:00
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.
By Melody Smith|June 28th, 20112011-06-28T11:35:23-04:00
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.
By Melody Smith|June 28th, 20112011-06-28T11:33:52-04:00
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.
By Melody Smith|June 28th, 20112011-06-28T11:32:58-04:00
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.
By Melody Smith|June 27th, 20112011-06-27T11:38:25-04:00
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.
By Melody Smith|June 27th, 20112011-06-27T11:37:03-04:00
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.
By Melody Smith|June 27th, 20112011-06-27T11:35:16-04:00
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.
By Melody Smith|June 24th, 20112011-06-24T11:46:26-04:00
“Thumbs up” has taken on a whole new meaning with Facebook’s now famous button “Like”. But how does this ranking in social media affect search ranking? And which is more valuable?
