Making PLM Prosperous for 2012
January 2, 2012
“As a rule of thumb we have found in numerous projects that the initial cost for a complete PLM solution will generally be in the range of $4,000 to $6,000 per user (for capital investments and one-time expenses). Where in this range the overall cost falls depends largely on the number of users and the implemented functionality.”
Inteltrax: Top Stories, December 26 to December 30
January 2, 2012
Inteltrax, the data fusion and business intelligence information service, captured three key stories germane to search this week, specifically, ways in which some are misusing big data analytics in the market today.
One story, our feature this week, “Real Estate Market Missing Out on Analytic Help” detailed the many ways in which the housing market could be aided by analytics, but is not taking advantage of.
One of the most important stories we’ve written was “Consumer Analytics Not a Strong Investment” which helps analytic software buyers avoid limited programs that will be no help to them.
Finally, we focused on how a lot of cloud analytic offerings don’t make security and customer service a priority in our story: “Accountability Should Be Top Priority for Cloud Analytics.”
Usually, we focus on the uplifting, exciting side of this growing market. However, big data analytics also has its downside, which deserves some light. We try and keep our coverage balanced, in order to give our readers the best overview.
Follow the Inteltrax news stream by visiting www.inteltrax.com
Patrick Roland, Editor, Inteltrax.
January 02, 2012
New Book on using SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight
January 2, 2012
While it is now too late for Christmas, a new book out by Bob German and Paul Stubbs gets a positive review from Andrew Connell, the Microsoft Developer with a focus on SharePoint. SharePoint 2010 Development with Silverlight is discussed in Connell’s “Great Resource for SharePoint 2010 & Silverlight.”
Connell’s review:
Are you interested in looking for a good resource on doing SharePoint 2010 or Silverlight development with both tools? This is the book for you. Bob & Paul, the two best people to write this book with their deep experience in both technologies, have done a fantastic job in starting with primers on both technologies and then diving in deep on doing various things you’d want to accomplish with both SharePoint 2010 & Silverlight.
The book includes a discussion on both SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight development as well as guidance for setting up your environment and building custom applications. Connell does provide the forward to the new publication, but his knowledge on the topic points to this being a good resource for interested parties.
However, if you do not have the time to read right now while you’re focused on adding value and efficiency to your business information, rely on experts at Fabasoft Mindbreeze. Their suite of solutions provides intuitive access for the right people with the right information at the right time.
Here you can read about their capabilities:
Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise offers unified information access to enterprise and cloud resources. It combines and links the information. Information can be grouped and classified. A user can scan the results using search tabs and categories and find a relevant document without having to click through a list of links. The information’s semantic context is recognized and depicted, and navigation elements for drill down are provided; one click and the preview of any result is available. Fabasoft Mindbreeze provides a 360 degree view of your business, customers, competitors, and more.
Find what works for you with Fabasoft Mindbreeze.
Philip West, January 2, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Kapow Releases Katalyst Version 8.2
January 2, 2012
Kapow Software moves in a new direction that is a bit of a surprise to us. EWeek reports, “Kapow Software Punches Out Update of Cloud-Based Analytics Service.” Kapow is positioning its Katalyst version 8.2 as a self-service, subscription model analytics tool with an intuitive user interface. It also boasts 100% data accuracy. According to the write up:
Katalyst 8.2 can organize, integrate and analyze data from streams as diverse as legacy, on-premise, social media, partner, B2B, competitor, e-commerce, blogs and news sites, as well as location-based and mobile data, [founder Stefan] Andreasen said. The Kapow service is one that speaks to both IT and line-of-business people at an enterprise, and thus can bring them together (when they most often work separately) to solve common research needs.
Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Kapow Software has offered innovative technology solutions for a decade. The company prides itself on bridging the divide between IT departments and business users. It now has over 500 customers worldwide but its heart remains in Copenhagen. Take your conceptual umbrella we suggest.
Cynthia Murrell, January 2, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Protected: Make Your SharePoint Experience Easier with Shorter URLs
January 2, 2012
Big Loss Department: HP Open Sources WebOS
January 2, 2012
I wonder if this is a variation of the Research in Motion technology method. Just throw in the towel.
Is this a retelling of the Santa Claus myth? InfoWorld describes “How HP and Open Source Can Save WebOS.” Familiar with WebOS? Me, neither. Apparently, it debuted in 2009 as the operating system for Palm, which HP acquired in 2010. Recently, HP was attempting to sell its Palm division, including WebOS.
Now, the company suddenly declares it intends to support the platform as an open source project. Writer Neil McAllister can be excused for doubting the company’s commitment to the endeavor. The article notes:
“It seems HP may only be truly committed to the platform if it can offload the cost of developing and maintaining it. Yet if that’s what HP hopes to achieve by opening the WebOS source, it’s bound to be disappointed. Most open source projects rely on dedicated developers to set their tone and direction, not casual contributors, and effective management of an active open source community can be difficult, time-consuming, and expensive.
Just in case HP is serious about the project, though, McAllister has some advice. For example, the company should fix the branding; the name “WebOS” is kind of silly when every OS now supports Web standards. Also, he writes, it should release plenty of code under permissive licensing, like that found under Apache or BSD.
So, is HP for real here? The cynic in me says no, but perhaps they will surprise us. Open source is a significant resource. I am not sure a community will coalesce when Android is sort of open and “good enough.”
Cynthia Murrell, Janaury 2, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
ZyLAB on Disorganization
January 2, 2012
We look at the enterprise search forum on LinkedIn.com occasionally. We have noticed that “problems” are a big part of the discussion. If you are struggling with search challenges, you may want to consider that disorganization is an issue.
The ZyLAB blog CodeZED’s new piece about “Legacy Data Clean-up for Email, SharePoint, Audio and More” is making it very clear that most organizations are ignoring records management, policy, and governance until the last minute when it is often too late. But to what end? We learned:
Exchange server mailboxes and PST repositories are not designed for, and should not be used as, document archives—but they often are. . It is very easy for users to retain their emails, resulting in e-mail archives (PSTs) that rapidly swell to GBs of information. Problems fester because the information in these PST folders is often completely unstructured. For example, potentially sensitive human resources-related e-mails (such as performance reviews or confidential financial or medical information) are frequently in the same collection (i.e. Sent Mail) as other, unrelated messages.
It’s important to create folders and subfolders and make sure that your business utilizes software that relegates where an email is to go from the start. Keep everything organized, backup is key. When using SharePoint governance and organization is the key to a healthy happy system.
The same problems email faces are prevalent elsewhere. Always archive projects and individual documents based on your companies set of policies. Don’t deviate too often or it creates a jumbled mess that is more costly to untangle than it would have been to just do it correctly the first time.
Organization is the key.
Leslie Radcliff, January 2, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Quote to Note: Google Health
January 2, 2012
I heard about the termination with extreme prejudice of Google Health a while back. I had pushed it from my mind. I scanned the Slashdot post “Google Health’s Lifeline Runs Out.” Old news, but I skimmed the comments. A quote to note emerged from turing0:
In closing, it’s very funny to note Google suggests Google Health users migrate GH data to the Microsoft Health Vault. Hopefully some Web service other than Health Vault will rise from the ashes of Google Health. The real benefit in terms of Google being a custodian of my health and wellness records via Google Health was that Google as a corporation is considered a trustworthy intermediary by most users and health care professionals. Now I am not so sure; perhaps it’s time to re-claim my email …
Interesting.
Stephen E Arnold, January 2, 1012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Thrashing Thomson Teams for More Investment Data
January 2, 2012
“Heptagon Capital Goes Live with Thomson Reuters Pricing and Reference Data via Advent,” reports InfoTech News. The deal allows investment firm Heptagon Capital to use Advent’s new market data interface to access pricing and reference data from Thomson Reuters. The hope is that the information will help Heptagon better serve its clients. The article asserts:
This critical and timely information will enable Heptagon Capital to enhance its portfolio management, administration and valuation functions, and boost its client reporting capabilities.
Advent Portfolio Exchange® (APX) provides clients in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia direct and seamless access to DataScope Select, Thomson Reuters strategic data delivery platform for non-streaming content. This includes in-depth and cross-asset class pricing and reference data, such as transparent evaluated prices.
Sounds great for Advent and Heptagon, but will this type of deal revivify Thomson Reuters? Our view: nice try, but no. The changing media world has taken too large a toll on the formerly dominant news outfit.
London-based Heptagon Capital focuses on specialized asset management services/ investment solutions. The company strives to provide objective, sophisticated, and creative investment platforms.
Advent Software was founded back in 1983 to automate portfolio accounting in the investment management field. Since then, the company has expanded to serve investment industry clients worldwide.
Will the new top dog, the withdrawing of Thomson Reuters’ medical services unit from the auction block, and tie ups like this one change the company’s fortunes? Long shot. WestlawNext is a bright spot, however. Search unfortunately cannot save the day. More “real” innovation perhaps?
Cynthia Murrell, January 2, 2012
Sponsored by Pandia.com
January 2012 and a 2009 Meet Up: Spoof or Goof?
January 1, 2012
The idea of accuracy is on my mind. I did a quick look at what our Overflight service “saw” in the last eight hours, and I noticed “SEO Meet Up and Its Future Potential.” The source for the document is Ontosearch which has the subtitle “Ontology Search Engine.” Since I don’t know what an ontology is, I was interested in how I might search such a system.
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I noted this passage in a write up that seemed to be reporting on a meet up in Mubai, India, in August 2009. Since it is now 2012, the idea that “news” flowing from an event held two years ago caught my attention. Here’s the passage I noted:
Keeping the potential of a SEO analyst in mind and in general the SEO vertical, a SEO meet up was organized in Mumbai on the 1st Aug 2009. Scores of SEO specialists, content experts, web designers etc. met to discuss the changing landscape of the web, and latest trends in the SEO services. This meet up was undoubtedly an eye opener for everybody and they left with a plethora of understanding. They also discussed the future of SEO. The web world has made a transition from the traditional Web 1. to Web 2.. And there are already talks of Web three. in the pipeline. The future is semantic indexing and collaborative development. A excellent SEO must have the flexibility to recognize and implement the nuances of making use of a semantic technology to link different sites and come across a way to promote his own. So adaptability and openness are going to the keys of Web 3.. Agility and continuous improvement would be the hallmark of Web three..
Hmmm. I think this is too sophisticated for an addled goose. Is this a spoof or goof? My view is that this is an example of content which looks as if it were the product of a person who graduated from a junior college. Then again, when an addled goose cannot figure out”agility”, I think we have another example of fancy words and meaning free content. Are Bing and Google fooled? I think so.
A quick review of other posts on the Web site reveal other write ups which baffle. If you are looking for information about a taxonomy, Pandia and ArnoldIT will publish in 2012 a monograph on the subject. No spoof, and we hope that we don’t goof. That’s a useful New Year’s resolution: Write about sources, ideas, and developments which sort of make sense “ontologically”, of course. I think it is time for content to “relevel up”, a phrase used by a political candidate.
But not for the owner of the domain in Timur, Indonesia.
Stephen E Arnold, January 1, 2012
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