1189325286Content WireDeskadoption,advanced technology,beneficial,best practices,Business,business development,business information,business opportunities,business partners,business professionals,China,collaboration,customer service,deploy,finance,global economic,global technology,information technology,initiative,innovations,key business,key industry,leading technology,networking,public sector,sectors,software platform,stable,strategic technology,Technology,technology companies,technology platform,telecommunications,trainCisco in Xiamen, China Cisco China it is working with the Xiamen Municipal Government to promote the development of Xiamen's information and communications technology (ICT) capabilities, with a focus on the software industry.The collaboration is aimed at establishing a long-term, stable and mutually beneficial strategic tie between Cisco and Xiamen. As part of the initiative, Cisco will deploy its advanced TelePresence communications solution in Xiamen, a major seaport on the southeast coast of China, in the Fujian province. Cisco will be assisting the Xiamen Municipal Government in preparing and implementing ICT development strategies. The company plans to provide support for the development of the Xiamen software industry, participate in building the online public service and technology platform of the Xiamen Software Park, jointly set up the Cisco Innovations Experience Center, train networking professionals for the city and develop local Cisco channel partners. The municipal government will also be the first customer in the Asia-Pacific public service sector to deploy the Cisco TelePresence Meeting solution. Deployment of the Cisco TelePresence demonstration platform, scheduled to take place at the Cisco Innovations Experience enter in the Xiamen Software Park, marks the first use of the Cisco TelePresence technology in the Asia Pacific public sector. This will have profound implications for the widespread adoption of the technology among governments. The Xiamen Municipal Government has stated that it places great importance on its ICT development strategy and welcomes multinational companies like Cisco to bring leading networking technologies and global best practices to the area. With a long and cooperative history with the Fujian province in key sectors such as finance, telecommunications and education, Cisco held the third board meeting of the Networking Academy at the end of last year in Xiamen, where it explored the prospect of providing greater education in networking technologies. Cisco China also set up an office in Fuzhou, the capital city of Fujian, in January of this year to explore opportunities to become involved in economic developments across the Taiwan Strait with local governments, businesses and partners. http://www.content-wire.com/cisco-xiamen-china1188823975Content WireDeskacquired,adoption,business content,business information,business opportunities,business solutions,chief executive,content acquisition,content integration,content management,Content Management,content management services,content management software,content management solutions,content management system,content technology,global content,global provider,global technology,gross revenue,information technology,integration software,leading technology,management market,management product,management requirements,management solutions,management technology,new business,new product,new technology,penetration,product integration,prospects,revenue growth,revenue opportunities,SDL,signs,six months,system integration,technology integration,technology provider,technology solutions,translation,translation technology,Tridion,web content,web content management,web content management systemSDL interim results not as bad as expectedTridion contribution of revenue of £3.8m and £1.8m of profit before tax SDL, provider of Global Information Management (GIM) solutions that acquired Content Management company Tridion earlier this year, has announced its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2007 today. Overall, the results seem to show signs of revenues increase, says the company Highlights include: <ul><li>Results ahead of market expectations </li><li>Gross Margin up 2% points to 52% compared to the first half of 2006 </li><li>Tridion contribution of revenue of £3.8m and £1.8m of profit before tax </li><li>Successful integration of Tridion with encouraging early signs of cross-selling opportunities </li><li>Strengthening of product set with acquisition of Passolo for €2m </li><li>Strong market penetration: SDL supplies technology and/or services to the world’s top 10 brands </li><li>Significant new business wins including Intel, Phillips and Greater London Authority </li></ul> Mark Lancaster, Chairman and Chief Executive of SDL, comments“We are pleased to announce a strong performance for the half year, ahead of market expectations. We continue to see solid organic growth driven by the increased adoption of our technology and a growing awareness of our solutions. In addition, the acquisition of Tridion, a leading web content management software company, has integrated well into SDL, contributing to the growth in the period. “Looking ahead, we remain confident in our prospects for the full year. Overall, we are encouraged by the progress achieved to date and anticipate to see continued growing interest in Global Information Management Solutions. Our newly acquired web content management capability combined with SDL’s Translation Management System, make for a compelling proposition to address the complex requirements of an evolving market place. We anticipate that this combined offering will deliver continued growth in the longer term.” www.sdl.com http://www.content-wire.com/sdl-interim-results-not-bad-expected1170115200Content Wireadminaccess control,adoption,best practices,boundaries,collaboration,complexity,Conceptualization,core issue,desktops,Development,development time,development tools,diversity,easy access,entities,environments,extensible,flexibility,GPL,high speed,integration software,Internet,internet,interoperability,Knowledge Representation,methodology,models,new research,novel,one of the few,Ontology,open source,Open Source Semantic Tools,open source world,owl,OWL,OWL,provide tools,public access,queries,recent research,relationships,reliability,research and development,semantic,Semantic Tools,Semantic Tools,Semantic Web Projects,single point,single source,software developers,source of information,system integration,target,Web 2.0,web based,web users,WorldTowards an Open OntologyThis 'Open Ontology' requirement has been sitting on my desktop for a few days now, me thinking, how should I best publish this? Write to the OSI foundation? Wait for the next journal deadline? (could take months) I have a couple of research papers underway, but admittedly I have not been coherently following a Journal Publication strategy in my research, nor in any other area of my life. Also, now I am really urged to make a statement, cause I am already discussing this issue with peers, and there are so many perspectives, and I have not yet heard any doubts as to the validity of the proposed construct, on the contrary. And also, let's admit it, the <a href="http://www.courses.rochester.edu/santora/vietnam/Protest_Songs/The%20Times%20They%20Are%20A-Changi.mp3">Times are achanging</a>. It could take months before the article is published. We should bring this issue out in the open as soon as possible, and get it working. So here it is. What is an Open Ontology With the term 'open ontology' we refer to a given set of agreed terms, both in terms of conceptualization and semantic formalization, that has been developed based on public consultation, that embodies and represents and synthesizes all available, valid knowledge that is deemed to pertain to a given domain, and is necessary to fulfill a given functional requirement. Phew. An Oont must be publicly documented, and accessible and with minimal barriers to adoption. Among the barrier to adoption for Ontology, research identifies not only different linguistic, conceptual and cultural differences, but also knowledge and point of view differences that set apart academics – who generally develop ontologies and related tools and methodologies – from experts – who understand lingo and the dynamics - system developers – programmers, systems designers and end users at large. By 'open' we indicate 'perfectly flexible', extensible, and with adaptive boundaries that dynamically adjust to constantly changing parameters and also 'open as opposed to 'closed', whereby an ontology is developed internally by an organization or consortium, with the purpose of imposing a single view of the world, without a public consultation process and no public deliverable is available that can be used and referenced as guidelines by system developers for the purpose of third party integration. Research confirms that there are tangible barriers to use and adoption of ontology modeling tools and techniques, in particular the absence of a clear set of structured deliverables, the lack of a structured methodology for ontology engineering. Among the barriers to entry is also an extremely high level of technical expertise required to decode and apply guidelines. Open Means Collaborative 'Collaboration' is happening everywhere, thanks mainly to the Internet and 'Web 2.0' type tools that are populating desktops, although few organisational policies and practices are keeping up to speed in leveraging the potential of collaboration. Open source communities have been early adopters of online collaboration environments, although increased abstraction and complexity and increased geographical and cultural distribution challenges effective online cooperation even among open source communities. It is argued by some that t ‘Open source’ is not suitable to Emergency Response projects, yet initiatives spontaneously emerged during recent disasters point towards the emergence of a possible model, that needs to be defined and refined before it can be evaluated and tested. An important emerging research area is 'Collaborative ontology development'. As put by Farrukh Najmi, Engineer at Sun, "Ontologies often need to be developed collaboratively by a group of geographically dispersed Domain Experts within a certain domain. Each Domain Expert builds a different sub-graph (network) of the ontology, may review the ontology sub-graphs produced by others, may edit ontology sub-graphs that they or another Domain Expert created with appropriate access control ". Plural and Collaborative ontology development models are emerging, and among the core attributes identified is the flexibility in incorporating new concepts and/or languages . A wealth of related work is becoming available to witness the shift towards open collaborative environments. Pinto describes collaborative ontology environments as: • Highly distributed: Anyone can contribute more knowledge. • Highly dynamic: Several contributors may be changing knowledge at the same time, with high change rates. • Uncontrolled: There is no control over what information is added, and the quality and reliability of that information. In this case, there will be a lot of noise (positive and negative contributions), and not everybody contributing to the ontology will be focused on the same task or have the same purpose. (Pinto and Martins 2002) GENERIC REQUIREMENTS FOR AN OPEN ONTOLOGY Referring directly to a) the nature of the collaborative environments that is typical of open web based environments and b) the emergence of novel ontology engineering methods, it is becoming mandatory to make a clear case for an ‘Open Ontology’ In summary, we propose that an initial outline of requirement for an Open Ontology that can be referenced universally, including by open source teams, should have the following characteristics. • Should be licensed under GPL, or similar public license • It should declare what high level knowledge (upper level ontology) it references, • It should declare what kind of reasoning/inference supports/it is based on, • It should support queries via natural language as well as machine language, • It should be visible, searchable and support queries via a Web based interface that does not require any plug-in and API for users to download, • It should allow users to provide feedback that should be taken into account in subsequent iterations, • It should be documented and annotated, and available in different file formats including Open Document, • It should be 'easy to understand' by generic users without specialized skills and guidelines should be provided as how it can be used to support development practices, • It should include instructions on how to relate such 'high level knowledge' to standard knowledge representation artifacts used in software and systems engineering, such as entities, attributes, classes, objects, properties, sub-properties, values and relationships, • It should be implementation independent; this means not only usable by OWL/DAML model but also reusable by alternative ontology languages • it should support one view of the world if required, and allow for simultaneous multiple views, meaning that it should aim to be perfectly elastic, flexible and adaptable, • it should take into account language and cultural diversity, and corresponding different value systems and knowledge representation requirements, • it should be supported by tutorials and educational materials at different levels of specialization. The requirements above need further discussion and a public consultation. In addition to the generic requirements above, more conventional system requirements should be specified depending on the target system and goals. To add your requirement, <a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PaolaDiMaio/Towards_OpenOntology">Sign up to this wiki</a> More about <a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?search=PaolaDiMaio" Paola Di Maio</a>http://www.content-wire.com/towards-open-ontology1168992000Content Wireadminadoption,management tools,market research,market research firm,networking,perception,recent research,research analyst,research firm,Technology,technology allows,technology research,wireless industryWi-Fi Meshing AP Shipments To Double By 2010Wi-Fi meshing, which allows wireless access nodes to achieve a longer range by using each other as repeaters, is becoming increasingly common in several markets, reports In-Stat. More than 50,000 Wi-Fi mesh AP unit shipments are expected in 2006, with almost 100,000 unit shipments expected in 2010, the high-tech market research firm says. Incompatibility among systems, however, is a potential hurdle for the growth of the technology. "There is no industry standard for mesh networking, yet, so interoperability between mesh vendors continues to be problematic; customers must purchase their Wi-Fi mesh networking gear from one vendor," says Gemma Tedesco, In-Stat analyst. "However, Wi-Fi clients are standardized and prolific, providing a ready and waiting installed base for Wi-Fi mesh networks." Recent research by In-Stat found the following: - Although Tropos has the largest mindshare in municipal mesh networking, Nortel, Strix, BelAir, and SkyPilot made aggressive pushes into the market in 2006. - Cisco is perceived as a wildcard in this market, as it just launched Wi-Fi mesh APs in late 2005, but it is using its strong IT channels into businesses and government networks. - Throughout 2006, most Wi-Fi mesh vendors tied their growth to municipal network build-outs. www.in-stat.comhttp://www.content-wire.com/wi-fi-meshing-ap-shipments-double-20101160521200Content Wireadminadoption,application tools,benefit,best practices,Business,business applications,business benefit,business content,business functions,business information,business model,business models,business solutions,business user,business users,collaboration,collaborative content,Companies,consulting firm,content infrastructure,content integration,content management,Content Management,content management application,content management applications,content management capabilities,content management infrastructure,content management services,content management software,content management solution,content management solutions,content management systems,content management tools,content technology,corporate knowledge,Day Software,deploy,digital publishing,disaster recovery,discovery,document management,document management systems,email,enterprise applications,enterprise content,enterprise content management,enterprise systems,flexibility,help companies,Information Management,information technology,infrastructure,infrastructure software,integration costs,integration software,knowledge management,Knowledge Management,knowledge workers,management application,management applications,management capabilities,management infrastructure,management product,management requirements,management solutions,management technology,management tools,management vendors,models,new business,new product,new research,new technology,open source world,product integration,provide tools,records management,Records Management,risk management,software applications,software vendors,Technology,technology companies,technology integration,technology research,technology solutions,XythosBasic Content Services Solution For Cost-Conscious OrganizationsXythos Software, developer of Basic Content Services solutions, introduced its Enterprise Document Management Suite (EDMS) 6.0. The upgrade to its flagship product will now feature fully-integrated document and records management capabilities, allowing customers to manage content throughout its life cycle in compliance with a variety of government and industry regulations. Organizations challenged with responding to regulations including FERPA, HIPAA and Sarbanes Oxley have looked to records management software vendors for help, but often discovered that employing separate applications for managing documents and records introduces a new set of complications. While traditional enterprise content management (ECM) vendors have responded by purchasing records management companies and bundling their technology, the cost of these solutions has been out of reach for most organizations – often costing more than $500 per user just to license. Xythos has chosen the more revolutionary approach of integrating DoD 5015.2 certified records management features with its basic content management applications so that customers can quickly and economically provide a solution to this problem for all of their employees. With legal discovery costs averaging $500,000 or more and with virtually any business information considered admissible in court, companies are struggling to apply solutions that can help protect their entire enterprise. “Records management policy has traditionally been administered in a decentralized manner by departments or schools and colleges within our university without the help of automated tools,” said Bruce Maas Interim CIO at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. “Xythos’ new EDMS 6.0 could help us to begin to apply records management policy more comprehensively and consistently across the entire university – and give our faculty and staff the tools necessary to better manage this challenging requirement," he added. Aimed at assisting organizations in managing corporate risk, establishing best practices as well as meeting compliance requirements, EDMS 6.0 introduces new features such as enhanced auditing, role-based security models and improved reporting and archiving. Applied together, these new features will allow customers to distribute records management responsibility while preserving department level collaborative flexibility, even as content is consolidated to reduce costs. Permanent and vital records management functions will also help organizations better respond to disaster recovery requirements. “While we recognize the importance of what DoD 5015.2 certification means to many of our customers, our goal was to integrate records management into a BCS application in a manner that will be more generally useful,” said Ed Miller, Xythos CEO. “That means that records management should be transparent to most users and not get in the way of how they go about managing and sharing information every day,” he added. Xythos expects that the integration of records management features within its applications will further enhance the appeal of BCS and accelerate its adoption as a common desktop technology for knowledge workers. Basic content services are gaining increased attention within enterprise organizations. Industry researchers at Gartner have advised: “Enterprises that have skilled workers should deploy BCS to lighten the load on their e-mail systems and improve collaboration among those who create routine documents.”1 ” Their modest cost means that they are affordable and justifiable for most enterprises as a horizontal infrastructure that can benefit all employees, and not just a select group,” added Mark R. Gilbert, co-author and Gartner research vice president.2 The Enterprise Document Management Suite 6.0 will undergo final certification testing with the DoD Joint Interoperability Test Command this fall and is expected to be available by the end of the year. www.xythos.comhttp://www.content-wire.com/basic-content-services-solution-cost-conscious-organizations1159398000Content Wireadminacquired,adoption,architectures,blog,collaboration,complexity,developer community,email,enterprise applications,enterprise search,enterprise systems,Enterprise Web,extensible,flexibility,functionality,innovation,intranet,love,new research,open source,People,productivity,productivity gains,search software,software applications,software developers,source of information,tagging,usability,user interface,user interfaces,Web 2.0,web applications,web usersWiki Web Services Foster Innovation and SOATraditional enterprise software fails both in the confluence of costs and user demands for unstructured collaboration. Enterprise 2.0 enables users to contribute knowledge in the process of getting things done more efficiently, and revealing emergent structure. Whereas traditional enterprise software only gains 40% adoption according to the Gartner Group (especially compared to the high levels of adoption of email, where 90% of collaboration currently occurs, according to IDC), Enterprise 2.0 builds upon the bottom-up demand for tools that don't get in users' way. SocialText announced the immediate availability of version 2.0 of its solutions -- a simple wiki to adopt, use and extend. Featuring a fundamental redesign of the user interface, Socialtext 2.0 (S2) resolves the complexity that confronts new wiki users while preserving the power of a flexible enterprise tool. S2 also provides Wiki Web Services to support both the Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) of modern enterprises and demand for innovation within Socialtext's open source community. The result is a powerful collaboration and intranet tool, as simple to use as email, but with transparent productivity benefits to the enterprise. "Our usability research revealed that expert users love wikis for their power and flexibility, but new users needed simplicity and orientation," says CEO Ross Mayfield. "At the same time, our developer community demanded more flexible ways to integrate and build upon Socialtext. The solution isn't turning the wiki into yet-another-enterprise-tool, but to raise the bar on what a wiki can be, while making it open and extensible." New wiki users can get overwhelmed with the complexity of understanding interfaces and orienting themselves. S2 simplifies orientation with a personal homepage that serves as a dashboard of activity and interest. The core "Page View" enables full-screen Wikiwyg editing, easy tagging, linking, and file attachments. "What's New" provides sortable lists and search options to find information and people in the wiki. RSS feeds are provided for every page, tag, watchlist, search and wiki. Weblogs enable one-click publishing and communication across projects. Part of Enterprise 2.0 is facilitating SOAs, where web services enable enterprise systems to adapt to an ever-changing environment. S2 includes Wiki Web Services, a collection of SOAP and REST standard APIs. Wiki Web Services enables open source developers to innovate in the language of their choice and mashup wiki functionality with other applications.http://www.content-wire.com/wiki-web-services-foster-innovation-and-soa1159138800Content Wireadminadoption,application developers,collaboration,computer,functionality,IBM,key industry,launch,marketing,Marketing,next generation,Technology,technology alliance,technology companies,unstructured data,Web 2.0Open Ajax Alliance ExpandsOpenAjax Alliance, an open industry collaboration dedicated to developing and expanding Ajax, says it has almost doubled its membership since the launch in February of 2006. "The momentum and benefits of the OpenAjax collaboration are important factors in advancing the adoption of Ajax technology across the industry," said Jon Ferraiolo of IBM on behalf of OpenAjax Alliance. "Ajax is a major phenomenon in the computer industry and will be the foundation of the next generation of the Web. Our mission is to accelerate customer success with Ajax through our technical and marketing activities." The group is developing an OpenAjax Hub which represents a key part of the technical work and goals of the alliance. The Hub is a set of standard JavaScript functionality defined by the OpenAjax Alliance, with strong focus on being small and fast, that addresses key interoperability issues that arise when multiple Ajax libraries are used within the same Web page. Version 1.0 of the OpenAjax Hub is targeted for early 2007. OpenAjax Alliance's goal is to serve as an industry catalyst so that an Ajax-enabled Web 2.0 can happen as quickly as possible. Through its technical committee activities, the alliance will address key Ajax interoperability issues so that developers can successfully use multiple Ajax technologies within the same Web application. Through its marketing activities, OpenAjax Alliance will educate the community on how to achieve success with Ajax using cross-platform open technologies. The set of technologies known as "OpenAjax" being developed and facilitated by the alliance will provide the following benefits to Web developers: www.openajax.org. <script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-7258139694566163";google_ad_width = 300;google_ad_height = 250;google_ad_format = "300x250_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="";google_color_border = "CC99CC";google_color_bg = "E7C6E8";google_color_link = "000000";google_color_url = "00008B";google_color_text = "663366";</script><script type="text/javascript" src=" http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>http://www.content-wire.com/open-ajax-alliance-expands1159138800Content Wireadminadoption,application developers,collaboration,computer,content management,Content Management,content management application,content management solution,Content Technologies,content technology,functionality,IBM,key industry,launch,management application,management functionality,management technology,marketing,Marketing,next generation,puts,Technology,technology alliance,Web 2.0,web content,web content managementOpen Alliance for Content ManagementOpenAjax Alliance, an open industry collaboration dedicated to developing and expanding Ajax, says it has almost doubled its membership since the launch in February of 2006. "The momentum and benefits of the OpenAjax collaboration are important factors in advancing the adoption of Ajax technology across the industry," said Jon Ferraiolo of IBM on behalf of OpenAjax Alliance. "Ajax is a major phenomenon in the computer industry and will be the foundation of the next generation of the Web. Our mission is to accelerate customer success with Ajax through our technical and marketing activities." The group is developing an OpenAjax Hub which represents a key part of the technical work and goals of the alliance. The Hub is a set of standard JavaScript functionality defined by the OpenAjax Alliance, with strong focus on being small and fast, that addresses key interoperability issues that arise when multiple Ajax libraries are used within the same Web page. Version 1.0 of the OpenAjax Hub is targeted for early 2007. OpenAjax Alliance's goal is to serve as an industry catalyst so that an Ajax-enabled Web 2.0 can happen as quickly as possible. Through its technical committee activities, the alliance will address key Ajax interoperability issues so that developers can successfully use multiple Ajax technologies within the same Web application. Through its marketing activities, OpenAjax Alliance will educate the community on how to achieve success with Ajax using cross-platform open technologies. The set of technologies known as "OpenAjax" being developed and facilitated by the alliance will provide the following benefits to Web developers: www.openajax.org.http://www.content-wire.com/open-alliance-content-management1156114800Content Wireadminadoption,Australia,Business,business functions,business need,business process,business users,customers need,delegation,EVER,functionality,new business,new product,new research,open standards,phrases,presence,prospects,research firm,respect to,reveal,senior research,software vendors,Standards,value propositionUsers Want Honesty from software vendorsSoftware Vendors must change their pushy sales techniques as users need a more open attitude, reveals new research from Ovum. The research firm advises vendors to adopt an approach based on helping end-user organisations to buy and to create simple, clear and fair pricing. After interviewing senior 'Technical buyers' within 40 end-user organisations in North America, EMEA and Australia, it became apparent that end-user organisations are becoming immune to the sales tactics of vendors, the adoption of sales methodologies, and the introduction of 'solution sales speak' in their organisations, say analysts. "After a research note at the end of last year, we received a litany of emotional responses about sales tactics and how they had been used for revenue extraction," says David Mitchell, Software Practice Leader at Ovum. "We decided that further research was needed with end-user customers, but focusing on the question: 'what should vendors do to make a better job of selling to you?'," He continues. Vendors and sales gurus develop ever more sophisticated sales approaches, while end users and procurement gurus develop stronger and stronger defence mechanisms. "It has become akin to an arms race, in a process of mutually assured destruction." commented Mitchell. Ovum found that several phrases commonly used by vendor organisations cause immediate and adverse reaction within some end-user organisations - "sales cycle", "owning the customer", "solution selling" and "value proposition" are among the trigger phrases. One surprisingly common complaint was that the sales staff from vendor organisations did not understand the functionality of the products that they were selling. In some cases, the technical staff in customer/prospects were more aware of the latest product features and functions than the sales staff. Vendors also had a tendency to be "economical with the truth" regarding the ability of their products to deliver specific functionality. Finally, respect for ethical standards was an important factor in how vendors were viewed by the majority of the end users that were interviewed. "In conclusion, many organisations held the view that they would prefer not to do business with a vendor that they knew would adopt sharp commercial practice.," said Mitchell www.ovum.comhttp://www.content-wire.com/users-want-honesty-software-vendors-01155078000Content Wireadminadoption,application developers,application development,application tools,architecture,architectures,benefit,browser,Business,business applications,business benefit,business benefits,business content,business development,business functions,business information,business intelligence,business logic,business models,business need,business process,business process management,business processes,business user,business users,CMS,content analysis,content infrastructure,content integration,content management,Content Management,content management application,content management applications,content management capabilities,content management infrastructure,content management services,content management software,content management system,content management tools,Content Technologies,content technology,core business,corporate data,corporate knowledge,customer service,data access,data management,Data Management,data services,data sources,decisions,deploy,Development,development infrastructure,development time,development tools,dynamic content,dynamic content management,enterprise applications,enterprise content,enterprise content management,Enterprise Web,financial management,financial services,functionality,global content,global network,global reach,global technology,Google,hype,implementation costs,improvements,Information Management,information technology,infrastructure,infrastructure software,innovations,integration costs,integration software,intelligence,Internet,internet,key business,key industry,knowledge management,Knowledge Management,logic,mainstream,management application,management applications,management capabilities,management functionality,management infrastructure,management market,management requirements,management technology,management tools,massive amounts,massive volumes,maturity,metadata,metadata,mobile content,mobile data,mobile devices,mobile services,models,network infrastructure,networking,new business,new data,new technology,one of the few,People,perception,piracy,project management,public access,real time,relationships,robust content,semantic,Semantic Technologies,semantic technologies,Semantic Tools,Semantic Tools,Semantic web organizations,Semantic Web Projects,Semantic Web Standards,service revenue,significant impact,significantly,single point,Social Networks,Social Networks Analysis,Social Technology,software applications,software developers,Standards,supply chain,system integration,target,target market,Technology,technology integration,telecommunications,telecommunications services,time to market,usability,user experience,user interfaces,users experience,value chain,vertical markets,virtual,Web 2.0,web applications,web based,Web CMS,web content,web content management,web content management system,web users,wireless data,wireless data services,wireless industry,wireless services,wireless technologies,WorldContent Management is Key, when it integrates new toolsContent Management technologies have been expanding their core functionality over the years Past are the times when CM is just about web publishing. To understand what your content management system should behave in the future, look ahead. Interesting post by Gartner today projects a clear picture - that you may or may not agree with - but that gives a clear sense of direction for those who build, and those who implement and buy, their next CMS Three major themes, says researchers, are experiencing significant activity and which include new or heavily hyped technologies, that is worth keeping in mind when rolling out your next website Web 2.0 Web 2.0 represents a broad collection of recent trends in Internet technologies and business models. Particular focus has been given to user-created content, lightweight technology, service-based access and shared revenue models. Technologies rated by Gartner as having transformational, high or moderate impact include: * Social Network Analysis (SNA) is rated as high impact (definition: enables new ways of performing vertical applications that will result in significantly increased revenue or cost savings for an enterprise) and capable of reaching maturity in less than two years. SNA is the use of information and knowledge from many people and their personal networks. It involves collecting massive amounts of data from multiple sources, analyzing the data to identify relationships and mining it for new information. Gartner said that SNA can successfully impact a business by being used to identify target markets, create successful project teams and serendipitously identify unvoiced conclusions. * Ajax is also rated as high impact and capable of reaching maturity in less than two years. Ajax is a collection of techniques that Web developers use to deliver an enhanced, more-responsive user experience in the confines of a modern browser (for example, recent version of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari or Opera). A narrow-scope use of Ajax can have a limited impact in terms of making a difficult-to-use Web application somewhat less difficult. However, Gartner said, even this limited impact is worth it, and users will appreciate incremental improvements in the usability of applications. High levels of impact and business value can only be achieved when the development process encompasses innovations in usability and reliance on complementary server-side processing (as is done in Google Maps). * Collective intelligence, rated as transformational (definition: enables new ways of doing business across industries that will result in major shifts in industry dynamics) is expected to reach mainstream adoption in five to ten years. Collective intelligence is an approach to producing intellectual content (such as code, documents, indexing and decisions) that results from individuals working together with no centralized authority. This is seen as a more cost-efficient way of producing content, metadata, software and certain services. * Mashup is rated as moderate on the Hype Cycle (definition: provides incremental improvements to established processes that will result in increased revenue or cost savings for an enterprise), but is expected to hit mainstream adoption in less than two years. A "mashup" is a lightweight tactical integration of multi-sourced applications or content into a single offering. Because mashups leverage data and services from public Web sites and Web applications, they’re lightweight in implementation and built with a minimal amount of code. Their primary business benefit is that they can quickly meet tactical needs with reduced development costs and improved user satisfaction. Gartner warns that because they combine data and logic from multiple sources, they’re vulnerable to failures in any one of those sources. Real World Web Increasingly, real-world objects will not only contain local processing capabilities—due to the falling size and cost of microprocessors—but they will also be able to interact with their surroundings through sensing and networking capabilities. The emergence of this Real World Web will bring the power of the Web, which today is perceived as a "separate" virtual place, to the user's point of need of information or transaction. Technologies rated as having particularly high impact include: * Location-aware technologies should hit maturity in less than two years.Location-aware technology is the use of GPS (global positioning system), assisted GPS (A-GPS), Enhanced Observed Time Difference (EOTD), enhanced GPS (E-GPS), and other technologies in the cellular network and handset to locate a mobile user. Users should evaluate the potential benefits to their business processes of location-enabled products such as personal navigation devices (for example, TomTom or Garmin) or Bluetooth-enabled GPS receivers, as well as WLAN location equipment that may help automate complex processes, such as logistics and maintenance. Whereas the market sees consolidation around a reduced number of high-accuracy technologies, the location service ecosystem will benefit from a number of standardized application interfaces to deploy location services and applications for a wide range of wireless devices. * Location-aware applications will hit mainsteam adoption in the next two to five years. An increasing number of organizations have deployed location-aware mobile business applications, mostly based on GPS-enabled devices, to support queue business processes and activities, such as field force management, fleet management, logistics and good transportation. The market is in an early adoption phase, and Europe is slightly ahead of the United States, due to the higher maturity of mobile networks, their availability and standardization. * Sensor Mesh Networks are ad hoc networks formed by dynamic meshes of peer nodes, each of which includes simple networking, computing and sensing capabilities. Some implementations offer low-power operation and multi-year battery life. Technologically aggressive organizations looking for low-cost sensing and robust self-organizing networks with small data transmission volumes should explore sensor networking. The market is still immature and fragmented, and there are few standards, so suppliers will evolve and equipment could become obsolete relatively rapidly. Therefore, this area should be seen as a tactical investment, as mainstream adoption is not expected for more than ten years. Applications Architecture The software infrastructure that provides the foundation for modern business applications continues to mirror business requirements more directly. The modularity and agility offered by service oriented architecture at the technology level and business process management at the business level will continue to evolve through high impact shifts such as model-driven and event-driven architectures, and corporate semantic Web. Technologies rated as having particularly high impact include: * Event-driven Architecture (EDA) is an architectural style for distributed applications, in which certain discrete functions are packaged into modular, encapsulated, shareable components, some of which are triggered by the arrival of one or more event objects. Event objects may be generated directly by an application, or they may be generated by an adapter or agent that operates non-invasively (for example, by examining message headers and message contents). EDA has an impact on every industry. Although mainstream adoption of all forms of EDA is still five to ten years away, complex-event processing EDA is now being used in financial trading, energy trading, supply chain, fraud detection, homeland security, telecommunications, customer contact center manahttp://www.content-wire.com/content-management-key-when-it-integrates-new-tools-01153868400Content Wireadminadoption,collaboration,complexity,content management system,flexibility,functionality,mainstream,Microsoft,new generation,new release,next generationNext Generation Wiki ToolJotSpot, an application wiki company, is releasing JotSpot 2.0, the next-generation of its award-winning wiki application platform. Unlike traditional wikis which allow users to collaborate on only one kind of information: text, JotSpot 2.0 gives users the freedom to collaborate on all types of information. The tool provides new "page types" that help users quickly and easily create collaborative calendars, spreadsheets, file repositories, documents, and photo galleries. "Traditional wikis are too nerdy and only offer one type of collaboration. This has been a barrier to the mainstream adoption of wikis," said Joe Kraus, co-founder and CEO of JotSpot. "JotSpot has redefined what a wiki is by removing the limitations of traditional wikis and marrying the wiki metaphor with some of the capabilities of Microsoft Office. We've combined the familiarity and functionality of desktop applications like Office with the collaborative power and flexibility of wikis so users can quickly and easily collaborate on all types of information." The new release aims to eliminate the complexity and nerdiness of wikis and delivers powerful new functionality that helps users collaborate on all types of information.http://www.content-wire.com/next-generation-wiki-tool1153263600Content Wireadminadoption,architecture,contextual,data management,Data Management,data services,definitions,ecommerce,enterprise systems,Enterprise Web,functionality,infrastructure,infrastructure software,knowledge management,Knowledge Management,leading the way,management environment,management infrastructure,management platform,management tools,management vendors,network infrastructure,new data,Ontology,productivity,promises,proprietary,semantic,Semantic Tools,Semantic Tools,Semantic Web Standards,software developers,software platform,software vendors,StandardsObject Management for Web StandardsAs enterprises rely more on web services for both data processing and fully automated business-to-business e-commerce, the problem of inconsistent semantics becomes increasingly important. Businesses can ensure consistent semantics by sharing an ontology - the definitions of terms and concepts in a domain - but ontologies can only be shared if they are expressed and stored in a standard way. Last month in Boston, Massachusetts, at a meeting of the OMG, Object Management Group, three new standards completed member evaluation and started the series of votes leading to official adoption. OMG's Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) standardizes this necessary foundation for sharing ontologies. In Boston, the draft ODM specification completed member evaluation and started the series of votes leading to final adoption. New Software Infrastructure Interoperability Specifications Two new infrastructure specifications also completed member evaluation and started the series of votes leading to adoption. One adds an interoperability protocol to OMG's popular Data Distribution Service (DDS). DDS supports real-time data distribution with publish/subscribe semantics and is widely used in both military and industrial systems. The new protocol will let compliant DDS implementations from different vendors interoperate on the network. The second infrastructure specification, a mapping from Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) to C++, will enable vendors to replace proprietary mappings with the standard, increasing productivity of developers whose skills and code will port from one environment to another. SysML, KDM Adoptions Become Final Once members complete their evaluation and register approval in a series of votes, a poll by OMG's Board of Directors (BoD) makes the adoption official. Following actions at the Boston meeting, votes by OMG's BoD declared the Systems Engineering Modeling Language (SysML), and the Knowledge Definition Metamodel (KDM) for architecture-based software modernization, to be OMG specifications. Members initiated a new standards effort by issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP). Any company, organization, or government agency is welcome to join OMG and submit a draft proposal in response to an RFP. Two new RFPs from OMG's Analysis and Design (AD) Platform Task Force (PTF) will enrich the Model Driven Architecture(R) (MDA(R)) and the modeling environment that supports it. To maximize the productivity of developers using the MDA, an enterprise may select and combine best-of-breed tools from multiple vendors, binding them with customized code. The customization artifacts are referred to as an MDA Tool Component, and the first RFP seeks to standardize the definition and packaging aspects of these MDA Tool Components. The second RFP will enhance the MDA environment by allowing modeling languages built on OMG's MetaObject Facility (MOF(TM)) to more faithfully represent a wide variety of subjects and domains. Referred to as MOF Support for Semantic Structures, this standardization effort will define a new MOF compliance level designated SMOF - Semantic MOF - that lifts some of the restrictions that the MOF specification currently places on modeling languages built with it and which must represent every object in the final model. www.omg.orghttp://www.content-wire.com/object-management-web-standards-01149202800Content Wireadminadoption,architecture,Business,business content,business process,business process management,business processes,business user,Companies,content management,Content Management,content management application,content management services,content management software,content management solution,data access,data management,Data Management,data services,enterprise content,enterprise content management,functionality,gathers,help companies,lifecycle,management application,management functionality,new business,new data,open architecture,Open Text,regulatory compliance,SAP,single solution,streamline,upsContent Management does Contracts ManagementOpen Text Corporation is delivering a contract management application, its Contract Management solution (version 1.0) which provides role-based views into all contract documents and SAP solution-based data to help companies streamline processes, increase consistency and enhance regulatory compliance. Using the new contract management solution, enterprises can store and access contracts from a central location, with transparent authentication using SAP single sign-on. It also provides multiple views based on the user's role, such as account manager, internal sales support, contract administrator or sales manager. It supports the contract management lifecycle, providing integrated functionality in all areas Open Text is an SAP Software Partner and an active member of the SAP Enterprise Services (ES) Community that facilitates the definition of enterprise services and the adoption of the enterprise services architecture (ESA), SAP's blueprint for a business process-driven approach to service- oriented architecture (SOA).http://www.content-wire.com/content-management-does-contracts-management-01148943600Content Wireadminadoption,consultancy,consumers,content management platform,market research,penetration,recent research,research analyst,take advantage,Technology,technology allows,technology research,wireless data,WorldUltraWideBand: Over 289 Million Chipsets to Ship in 2010Manufacturers will begin shipping Ultrawideband (UWB) chipsets in 2H06 and shipments are expected to ramp up with a total of 289 million chipsets shipping in the year 2010. PCs will be the initial and largest volume market for UWB wireless chipsets, with PC vendors shipping over 125 million desktop and laptop PCs with UWB capability by 2010, reports In-Stat . "The Personal Area Network (PAN) has been waiting for a wireless solution to complement the established wired applications," says Chris Kissel, In-Stat analyst. "This nascent technology is necessary to transmit large data files found in computers or in consumer electronics applications. UWB allows consumers to get rid of their rats' nests of wires in the living room or near their PC." Recent research by In-Stat found the following: - UWB chipsets will first start appearing in wireless USB dongles in late 2006. - From there, the usage will start to show up as PCMCIA cards that go into the PC motherboard. - The last form factor to see widespread adoption of UWB will be cell phones. The research, "Ultrawideband: The Calm Before the Norm" , contains market penetration forecasts in several categories for UWB chipsets through 2010. It also updates the status of regulatory boards in all parts of the world pertaining to UWB, analyzes market inhibitors and enablers, and discusses which vendors will be targeting which applications. www.in-stat.comhttp://www.content-wire.com/ultrawideband-over-289-million-chipsets-ship-2010-01147820400Content Wireadminadoption,application developers,application development,application tools,Business,business development,data services,Development,development tools,existence,global provider,launch,mainstream,new business,new data,open source,open standards,regulatory compliance,software developers,software platform,speech,Standards,submission,target,taxonomy,taxonomy softwareOpen Source Edition for Business Reporting ToolUBmatrix, provider of software and services leveraging the global <a href="http://www.xbrl.org/">XBRL</a> standard, announced the upcoming launch of xBReeze, an online platform dedicated to XBRL-based data exchange. based on a hosted, collaborative application supporting distributed development and tracking of taxonomies, taxonomy extensions,business rules, and other XBRL resources. Pointing to the success of open source software development in other industries, UBmatrix will offer complimentary use of its software products to open source taxonomy project teams via the new hosted software service: xBReeze Open Source Edition, scheduled for availability next June The tool will support standards committees, academic groups, or any team of domain experts that wish to design and publish XBRL taxonomies. "It is clear that the adoption of XBRL will be accelerated by the existence of high-quality, useful business taxonomies," remarked Sunir Kapoor, President and CEO of UBmatrix. "The market has demonstrated that open source is an ideal way to speed software development, enhancement and customization; UBmatrix has the best tools to support XBRL taxonomy developers. By making our tools available at no charge to any open source developer using xBReeze, we believe a large number of new taxonomies will soon be under development. In fact, we've already started conversations with potential project sponsors who are interested in joining our beta program." In addition to the Open Source and Professional Editions for XBRL taxonomy development, xBReeze will offer both an edition supporting compliance reporting for European banking institutions and a hosted regulatory reporting system similar to the one UBmatrix has implemented at the US FFIEC. UBmatrix is a privately held corporation headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, USA and venture-backed by Draper Fischer Jurvetson. www.ubmatrix.com/xbreeze <script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-7258139694566163";google_ad_width = 300;google_ad_height = 250;google_ad_format = "300x250_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="";google_color_border = "CC99CC";google_color_bg = "E7C6E8";google_color_link = "000000";google_color_url = "00008B";google_color_text = "663366";</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>http://www.content-wire.com/open-source-edition-business-reporting-tool