Standards Are Top of the List
Lack of standards, applications built without considering data sharing, and a lack of a metadata warehouse all make data integration difficult. What can make it easy, or, at the very least, easier?
Sharing Pandora’s Box Just Got Easier
By Melody Smith|October 27th, 2010|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Sharing Pandora’s Box Just Got Easier
Pandora has introduced a new opportunity to share the listening and discovery through gifted subscriptions that can be purchased directly on the site. Listeners have the option to either email a gift card immediately to the recipient or schedule the email for up to a year in advance. A printable version is also available.
Document Management Enhanced by MacroView
By Melody Smith|October 27th, 2010|metadata|Comments Off on Document Management Enhanced by MacroView
MacroView Version 7, Document Management Framework, is now an add-on for SharePoint. In an article titled, “MacroView Enhances Document Management”, the new add-on enhances capabilities for document management or large document stores in Microsoft SharePoint.
Clouds – Defining the Nebulous
By Melody Smith|October 27th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Clouds – Defining the Nebulous
One of the latest buzzwords in our industry is “cloud”. Attached to computing, services, storage, etc., it seems to be the data link to the future. The concept of data cloud is simple. Find a way to link all the data islands under application silos. Therefore you need to have access to metadata and create graphs of relationships. One company, Radiant Logic, offers a set of tools to pull data and virtualize. At a high level, it’s liberating the information and making it available for the business users.
Enterprise Enabler 7.0 Released
By Melody Smith|October 22nd, 2010|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Enterprise Enabler 7.0 Released
Enterprise Enabler 7.0 - Stone Bond Technologies’ metadata-driven agile integration platform - adds features to improve dashboards, BI, analytics and data sharing across various enterprise apps, including SharePoint, SAP, SalesForce.com and those that use DB2 and SQL.
Managing Change
By Melody Smith|October 22nd, 2010|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Managing Change
MetaVis Technologies released a new software tool designed to manage and automate changes between SharePoint development, staging and production environments. MetaVis Change Control and Release Manager (CCRM)gives organizations more control over how they administer changes to their SharePoint environment to improve SharePoint visibility, governance and organization.
Loads of Errors in XBRL Tagging
By Melody Smith|October 21st, 2010|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Loads of Errors in XBRL Tagging
Mistakes in tagging financial reports in the eXtensible Business Reporting Lanaguge has exceeded 18,800 in two years. Is this bad? Better than expected?
Quest Previews Recovery Manager At SharePoint Conference
By Melody Smith|October 21st, 2010|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Quest Previews Recovery Manager At SharePoint Conference
Quest Software, Inc. will preview in live demonstrations, an advanced version of Quest Recovery Manager for SharePoint, complete with disaster recovery at the SharePoint Technology Conference through Oct. 22.
It’s All Semantics
Mondeca, provider of semantic technologies, is launching two software products that improve the way enterprises manage content annotation and rich knowledge structures, such as ontologies, thesauri, taxonomies, terminologies, metadata repositories, knowledge bases, and Linked Open Data. Whew, that was a mouthful.
Best Practice Committee Created to Focus on Quality
By Melody Smith|October 19th, 2010|News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Best Practice Committee Created to Focus on Quality
XBRL US, the national consortium for XML business reporting standards, has created a 16-member Best Practice Committee as part of XBRL US' focus on data quality. The committee is charged with identifying and reaching agreement on best practices in the creation of XBRL-formatted financial statements from public companies reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission.