By Melody Smith|June 28th, 2011|metadata, News, Technology|Comments Off on OpenText 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.
By Melody Smith|June 28th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Big 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.
By Melody Smith|June 27th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metadata’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.
By Melody Smith|June 24th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on New Approaches to Manage Big Data
Splunk has received a patent for its method of organizing and presenting big data to mirror the experience of browsing links on the web. Splunk has a unique approach to the problem of analyzing massive amounts of machine-generated data by space linking one event to another with pseudo-hyperlinks.
By Melody Smith|June 23rd, 2011|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on SharePoint Integration Makes Metadata More Powerful
Idera held a webcast last week on “Understanding SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata.” Andrew Connell, MVP, author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training, demonstrated to attendees how to use the Managed Metadata Service application in SharePoint 2010 to create and utilize taxonomies in various capacities and how metadata can be used within SharePoint sites.
By Melody Smith|June 23rd, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Data Integration Requires Finesse
Known as a provider of open source middleware for data and application integration, Talend has added cloud support to its integration platform. Using a shared metadata repository complete with administration and development tools, they can address problems resulting from the distribution of data across many different systems.
By Melody Smith|June 22nd, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Advancement in Metadata Capturing
New Zealand-based Pingar, has released its latest entity extraction and content analysis technology. Prepared in collaboration with Fuji Xerox NZ, one aspect of the technology has the ability to automatically assign documents to search terms and work folders as you scan them.
By Melody Smith|June 20th, 2011|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Expanded Digital Facilities and Services
Thought Equity Motion has expanded its facilities and services to include scanning, library management, archiving, metadata, and distribution services for media.
By Melody Smith|June 16th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on e-Books Have a Ways to Go
We’ve already discussed and determined that e-readers are not a fad; they are here to stay for awhile. But don’t fear, they cannot totally replace the print book until some flaws are fixed.
By Melody Smith|June 15th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Data – Burden or Asset?
The trend these days is for organizations to treat data like a burden instead of the valuable asset that should be treated as such. Therefore, the focus is on how to reduce the cost of this burden instead of maximizing the opportunity.