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IBM publishes open source reference implementation for making more content searchable

IBM this week made its Unstructured Information Management Architecture UIMA reference implementation available as open source via SourceForge.net. The goal is to allow more UIMA compliant analytical approaches to work with cohesion, and so to help close the gap between tacit human knowledge and what search engines do so well,...

Tags: Unstructured Information Management Architecture

Blog posts 2006-01-24

Open source luring competitive products

One big trend I saw a lot last year was that products deemed to be uncompetitive by their owners went open source. At the same time, of course, products which began life as open source were becoming competitive in the marketplace.The next step, naturally, is for products which remain competitive...

Tags: Unstructured Information Management Architecture, open source

Blog posts 2006-01-23

Dana Gardner parses IBM's corporate search standard

Dana Gardner, formerly a top analyst with the Yankee Group and prior to that the Aberdeen Group, recently started his own consultancy, Interarbor Solutions. He'll be focusing on enterprise applications, software infrastructure, RSS and other topics, and he has agreed to post some of his insights on Between the Lines....

Tags: Unstructured Information Management Architecture

Blog posts 2005-08-08

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Enterprise 2.0 2009 Conference: Aggregate and Organize

I finally made it to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference with my record intact. That record would be that I have NEVER in 15 years of flying to Boston a hundred times, NEVER, repeat again, NEVER been on time both ways.  This one was resolved quickly because my flight...

Tags: Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Enterprise Vault 8.0: Technical Overview

Unstructured content like email and files are a huge management problem for companies of all sizes. The growth of this information in the form of email and files on storage devices and frontline servers are causing headaches as companies attempt to manage IT risk but maximize performance. This whitepaper has...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Archiving, Business Intelligence, E-mail, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Online Communications

White papers 2009-04-07

XML-empowered documents extend SOA’s connection to people and processes

Read a full transcript. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Services Oriented Architecture SOA should dramatically improve the relationship between people, processes, and IT. Yet the potential for SOA remains clouded due to a gulf between worker knowledge and the new services automation benefits, which remain focused on structured...

Tags: Document, XML, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-07

12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008

The worlds of SOA, SaaS, and Web 2.0 have been swirling around each other for a couple of years now and in 2008 we'll finally see these gel into a practical, modern vision of next generation enterprises. And a variety of forces are coming together to make 2008 the...

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Application, Software-as-a-service, AJAX, Information Technology, SOA, Organization, Enterprise, Mashup, Web-orientation, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, Channel Management, Web Services, Software As A Service (SaaS), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-01-03

Federated ESBs come to fore as natural outcome of guerrilla SOA practices

Some IONA Technologies announcements today point up the growing practice of multiple ESBs within enterprises, often associated in a federated manner, and sometimes using ESBs tasked with specific types of integration duties. IONA is taking a "hybrid" approach to ESB offerings, with a coordinated open source and...

Tags: Open Source, Module, Iona Technologies, SOA, Integration, WSO2, WSO2 Identity Solution, Enterprise Service Bus, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Services, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-12-10

A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise

For well over a year now we've seen reports and announcements from a major industry analyst firms and others tracking the movement of Web 2.0 ideas into the enterprise. Gartner, Forrester, McKinsey, and many others have all weighed in on the trends or made recommendations, sometimes cautious and sometimes...

Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Complexity, Product, Tagging, Business, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Syndication, User Experience, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-08-27

Data, Data Everywhere!

The information revolution is producing mountains of digital data that are becoming more and more challenging to process and analyze. Not only are businesses generating more data every day, but our approach to data analysis (structured databases, indexes, and distributed data architectures) generates even more data. Furthermore, the volume of...

Tags: VLDB, Information Revolution, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

Research reports 2007-07-23

Microsoft’s 4th of July Trans-Atlantic assault on document standards

On what is normally a slow period for news, Microsoft launched a concerted campaign to displace ODF and PDF as document access and retention standards on both sides of the Atlantic. Microsoft has proposed and lobbied for OOXML as an alternative to ODF and XPS as an alternative to Adobe’s...

Tags: Standards, OOXML, ODF, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-07-09

How Microsoft battles Google in Search warfare

Is Google Enterprise Search a joke? I noted yesterday, given Google was the butt of jokes at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York City earlier this week. Kevin Gough, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Google Enterprise, made a case at the Summit for why Google to big business: Google...

Tags: Enterprise, Google, Google Apps, Google Software Applications, Microsoft, Search

Blog posts 2007-05-17

EMC Documentum Content Server OEM Edition Architecture: The Platform for Embedded Content Management Services

EMC Documentum Content Server OEM Edition is a content management platform for ordering the flow and delivery of unstructured business information within OEM developed applications Based on a comprehensive, extensible, open, scalable, and secure architecture that meets the needs of application developers. Documentum Content Server OEM Edition provides a set...

Tags: OEM, EMC Corp., Documentum, Content Management, Web Technology, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

White papers 2007-04-10

More results on use of Web 2.0 in business emerge

The last few weeks have seen a series of interesting new reports, studies, and papers on the past, present, and future of Web 2.0 concepts and applications as applied to businesses. Most notable for many industry watchers have been fairly rigorous new works by McKinsey & Company as well...

Tags: Crowdsourcing, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Business Process Management, Architecture of Participation, Blogs, Business Models, Wikis, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Two-Way Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, SOA, RSS, Open APIs, Mashups, Lightweight Service Models, Hype, Governance, Global SOA, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups

Blog posts 2007-04-03

SOA analysts debate best-of-breed vs. suite approaches, merits of master data management, and ponder a dearth of SOA architects

Read a full transcript of the discussion.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition Vol. 10, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts.In this episode, our experts examine best-of-breed versus SOA suites, master data management, and debate the...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Open Source, business intelligence, ITIL, IT Service Management, Oracle, datacenters, database, HP, IBM, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA, Interarbor Solutions, Podcasts

Blog posts 2007-03-05

Enterprise 2.0 = Next Generation IT

After Wikipedia deleted the "Enterprise 2.0" entry, the Enterprise Irregulars swarmed, responding to the critique of the term by a Wikipedian editor as a "neologism of dubious utility" and taking a crack at defining it. Jason Wood questions the logic of excising the term for the peoples' encyclopedia:Truthfully, if Wikipedia...

Tags: Enterprise, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2006-08-21

Adding enterprise context to blogs

As I wrote about early this week, I'm going to start looking at the context that needs to be added to Web 2.0 software for it to be more appropriate for the enterprise. Of course, that means the premise here is that many of the significant trends on...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-05-03

Writely = Microsoft's Pearl Harbor?

In response to my post Blog swarm on Writely, Gary Edwards who is steeped in OpenDoc and OpenOffice penned this TalkBack:To understand why this deal is Peal Harbor for Microsoft, and a declaration of all out war for Google, i think one has to make a leap and consider that...

Tags: Google Inc., Writely

Blog posts 2006-03-10

Blog swarm on Writely

Blog swarm on WritelyIt's warTo understand why this deal is Peal Harbor for Microsoft, and a declaration of all out war for Google, i think one has to make a leap and consider that this isn't about applications. It's about the quality of the information experience one can find...

Tags: Blogging, killer, blog, collaboration, Google Inc., Writely, mankind, Internet

Discussion threads 2006-03-10

SOA 2010: Looking backward

Ever wondered what we might learn about SOA if we looked back from the future? Bruce Richardson, chief research officer at AMR Research, has. He flew his time machine to the year 2010 and offered a report back. His wisdom and warning for us: "SOA is a journey, not a...

Tags: Bruce Richardson, SOA

Blog posts 2005-10-14