Faceted search (& classification) combined with visualization offers an user-friendly way to quickly find relevant information assets in thousands of objects across multiple systems. Moreover, it’s also possible to identify patterns while combining facets.
The QlikView Wine Guide is a good example of an useful faceted search application. Which cheap and excellent wine would fit to antipasti? What is the wine flavor of a country? Questions that are easily answered with this (demo) application. Another company that excels in faceted search is Endeca – though they don’t offer a real life demo, but the “guided summarization demo” is well made. SAP and Intel invested about 15 millions in Endeca four months ago. Siderean is also a company to watch that promotes “relational navigation” and is part of Oracle’s partner landscape.
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Faceted wine search and other investments
Sunday, April 27th, 2008Billions for Enterprise 2.0 (soon)
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008According to Forrester’s G. Oliver Young the global Enterprise 2.0 market will grow from 455 millions in 2007 to 4.3 billions in 2013. Well, even 0.5 billions in 2007 are quite a lot compared with a global ECM software spending of 1.5 billions.
Major points of this Forrester report have been discussed e.g. by ZDNet blogger Larry Dignan. But I don’t think that
[...]For instance, social networking is a decent substitute for knowledge management applications, a category that companies haven’t quite cracked.[...]
I still see social networking as a supplement that adds value. Therefore, social networking should be part of the KM approach.
Oliver presents an abstract of his findings e.g. also in an article for the Indian Express Computer magazine. The interesting point is at the end of the article where Oliver points to the assumption that
[...]Forrester expects far greater demand for process engineering and change management services than for systems integration because many of the early adopters have reported much more difficultly with cultural change and adoption than with technology integration and optimization.[...]
From Boston to London
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Dan Keldsen (from AIIM) made his presentation on “Enterprise 2.0 = Knowledge Management 2.0” available on SlideShare.
Well, I was a bit surprised that there were so few other interesting presentations on knowledge management on SlideShare. No surprise that the “I’m Knowledge Worker 2.0” is the most downloaded presentation tagged with “knowledge management”. It’s well done, but appeals only to the right-hand brain. On the other hand, sorry, appealing to the left-hand brain, I had already seen the presentation on BP Knowledge Management (uploaded one year ago) at the KM Europe conference some seven years ago… Good to know that Chris now works as a consultant (it’s a pity that his blog is not updated that often). His former colleague Geoff Parcell also earns money as a KM and change consultant.
