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Better Decision Management

One of the biggest challenges facing businesses is to make sure they can manage decisons with greater precision, agility, speed and consistency, all while driving down costs. To meet the challenge, Decision Management Platforms tightly integrate their capabilities with a company’s existing IT architecture. Moreover, DM builds on your modern IT architecture and allows you to manage decisons as a true corporate asset. Managing decisons as assets empowers business users, accelerates the time to value for business changes and helps build a new partnership between the business and IT. Furthermore, when it comes to making decisons in the face of uncertainty, it is critical to leverage analytics for more effective risk management. We interview Carole Ann Matignon to gain FICO's perspective on decision management. Carole Ann is VP Product Management at FICO. 43 Minutes

Enterprise Social Networking

Wikis have taken the Content Management System and Email revolutions to the next level by helping organizations optimize the sharing of collective knowledge, insights and creativity. Specifically, Wikis improve connectedness by tapping into community involvement. As you know, delegation is key to managerial success, but community delegation drives greater leverage and productivity. Furthermore, Wikis can improve business processes by capturing and disseminating the subtleness of informal knowledge. Finally, when selecting an enterprise-class wiki solution look to scalability, performance, reliability and a secure well-supported environment. We interview Devang Mehta to gain eTouch SamePage's perspective on enterprise social networking.
Devang is the head of marketing and business development for eTouch SamePage. 43 Minutes

Extend the Reach of Traditional BI

Saving labor on tedious tasks and freeing employees for more thought intensive work generates a dynamic competitive advantage for your business. This is being accomplished by creating intelligent tools that supercharge the knowledge management process by enabling a Web2.0 ecosystem for accessing, sharing and delivering business intelligence. Moreover, the solution is powered by machine-intelligent software Agents that act as an extension for business staff to collect, aggregate and mashup near real-time data from reliable Web and enterprise sources. Furthermore, the next generation of BI applications provide on the spot extract transform loading which is created by non-programmers from intranets, email and documents. We interview Bruce Molloy to gain Connotate Technologies' perspective on how to extend the reach of traditional business intelligence with software agents. Bruce is Connotate's CEO. 35 Minutes

E- Discovery Compliance

Certain Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended to provide consistent ground rules for parties dealing with Electronically Stored Information in discovery. The directives establish standards covering what electronic information can be discovered, and guidance for the form and method that information must be presented. Additionally, the judiciary is directed to ascertain whether or not organizations have adequately managed their electronic information or not. Those organizations that can demonstrate good information management practices should be granted leniency, or a “safe harbor;” those that do not could be subject to direct access to their information systems.

We interview Matt Winstanley to gain insight into E-Discovery. Matt is a Senior Sales Engineer With Tower Software. 38 Minutes

Semantics Battles Fraud

The perpetrators of financial crime are constantly modifying their tactics, and centralizing case management is an effective way to deal with them. Furthermore, by automating the case management process, you can monitor cases in near-real time and in-flight. This ensures that fraud cases don’t fall through the cracks, and that you are more efficient. Gaining greater business knowledge from existing fraud databases and legacy systems should be a key component of your strategy. Particularly, semantics can facilitate better trend analysis, and make it available immediately to fraud analysts. By leveraging semantics, fraud risk managers get the upper hand by obtain a contextual view of the fraud and risk exposure across your enterprise. We interview Jeff Dickerson to gain Metatomix's perspective on the role of semantics in financial services. Jeff is the CEO of Metatomix. 30 Minutes

ECM Web Services

With Oracle’s acquisition of Stellent and IBM’s acquisition of FileNET, it’s clear that the ECM, SOA relationship is tightening. In deed, there are technical and practical realties that enable this relationship, but there are also constraints. So, what are the technical consequences and impacts of ECM web services on the document life cycle? The answer to that question lies in the invocation and provisioning of web services. Not to mention the transport of metadata and document content via XML.

We interview Lloyd Dugan to gain IES' perspective on the implications of web services across the document lifecycle. Lloyd is Information Engineering Services' CTO. 54 Minutes

Semantically Connected Intelligence

When you’re making an important business decision or reacting to a developing emergency, you want to concentrate on crucial information. Leverage typical search tools, data warehouses or publish-subscribe systems, and you might end up with a vague analysis, a slow response, and an unsound decision. Optimizing your decision process requires information from multiple sources which come in different formats, and which is organized in conflicting ways. Needless to say, the potential for confusion is huge. To makes sense this real-time information jigsaw puzzle, you need technology that understands the context of data. We interview Daniel Reininger to gain Semandex Networks' perspective on Semantically connected intelligence.
Daniel is the CEO of Semandex Networks. 37 Minutes

Semantics Drives User Empowerment

Information workers have too many things to track across the Web and Enterprise. Furthermore, ignoring Information Fragmentation can cost you your competitive advantage. To meet this challenge, many companies are supercharging their knowledge management process by enabling a Web2.0 ecosystem within the enterprise. For example, Intelligent Software Agents can monitor, mashup and extract information from a variety of internal and external sources to deliver actionable insight. Collecting, aggregating and delivering normalized data from a broad range of structured and unstructured fast-changing sources is key to creating user empowerment. We interview Bruce Molloy to gain Connotate Technologies' perspective on information access technology. Bruce is the CEO of Connotate Technologies. 35 Minutes

Semantic Tech Drives Actionable Insight

Semantic technology intelligently links customer data from existing disparate systems to create a common understanding of your customer across the enterprise. Using this contextual understanding, semantic solutions enable real-time analysis and insights, orchestrating coordinated responses amongst existing systems to optimize customer response and relationships. Furthermore, the semantic approach intelligently integrates existing systems in real-time to optimize and implement decisions based on the best data available. We interview Colin Britton to gain Metatomix's perspective on how turn data into actionable insight.
Colin is the CTO of Metatomix. 32 Minutes

Better Decisions With Semantic Tech

Service Oriented Architectures are driving the adoption of real-time enterprises which allows executives and managers to reach across their distributed and disparate data sources for immediate, actionable information. A real-time enterprise architecture allows organizations to respond more quickly to changing market needs, but it also introduces a new set of problematic semantic differences. To meet these new challenges, a new technology is surfacing; one that will dramatically increase productivity in both Business Intelligence and in system interoperability.
We interview Chris Davis to gain insight into Semantic Technology. Chris is Semantra's CEO. 49 Minutes

The Journey to Web 3.0

Web 3.0 is a collection of concepts, and inventions that have yet to be adopted by the masses. Furthermore, the missing links of vocabulary and event processing are preventing current solutions around SOA and Business Intelligence from completely delivering on their promise of agility, customer retention and growth. SOA is the enablement platform for Web 3.0 and Semantics will play a key role in its functionality. We interview Sam Ceccola to gain BEA Systems' perspective on how Semantics is the glue binding Social Computing, Business Intelligence and SOA to create Web 3.0. Sam Ceccola is the Deputy CTO of BEA Systems.
60 Minutes

Asset and Workforce Management

Having the ability for a device or machine to talk to one other is vital. Indeed, the emerging market of machine-to-machine solutions is key to gaining the competitive advantage that drives your profitability. Furthermore, M2M (machine-to-machine) solutions and tools support the exchange of real-time information between hardware assets, mobile workers, back-office management and key stakeholders in mission-critical departments. The result is an efficient and intuitive system that better manages employees and devices, regardless of their location. We interview Mike Stramaglio and Ramiro Trevino to gain MWA Intelligence's perspective on asset and workforce management. Mike is the CEO, and Ramiro is the VP of Engineering both with MWA Intelligence. 37 Minutes

Semantics Drives Critical Intelligence

Jessica Lunsford was murdered by a known sex offender who did not inform the police that he had moved into her neighborhood, and who had been released earlier by a state court that did not have access to parts of his criminal record. This tragedy has caused new information-integration technologies to be adopted by the Florida court system. Those semantic technologies link data from existing disparate systems to create a more common understanding.

We interview Howard Greenblatt to gain Metatomix's perspective on how semantics drives mission critical actionable intelligence. Howard is the CTO of Metatomix. 35 Minutes

Higher Business Performance

Enterprise BI solutions need to be efficient, reliable, and agile. To meet that requirement, leaders must leverage an architecture that is open and standards-based, platform neutral, location transparent, and that features peer-to-peer services that are loosely coupled, interface based, and coarsely grained. SOA, on the other hand, is ideal. Furthermore, with the right information-enabling technology and leadership, decision-makers can become performance managers. Reporting is key to catalyzing your performance management effort. We interview Meg Dussault, and Leah MacMillan to gain Cognos' perspective on turning information into higher business performance. Meg is the Director of corporate positioning, and Leah is the VP of product marketing both are with Cognos. 39 Minutes

Can ECM and SOA Forge A Marriage?

Can SOA and ECM be bought together in a Technological Marriage?

Particularly, should ECM technologies be run on or as part of the SOA infrastructure?

Furthermore, what roles do the platform vendors, and niche ECM vendors play in this paradigm.

We interview Lloyd Dugan to gain insight into integrating records management with SOA.
Lloyd is Information Engineering Services' CTO. 59 Minutes

Mass Market SOA And Web 2.0 Apps

Rich Enterprise Applications arise from the convergence of two major trends in the development of Web applications. Those applications have become more complex, and any project that is targeting the goal of “retiring” an old outdated system often ends up, not only replacing the old functionality, but actually adding many new functions to the system. Furthermore, enterprise developers must serve two demanding groups of masters at the same time: consumers desiring all of the user interface aspects of Web 2.0 and businesses wanting more and more functionality.

We interview Fima Katz to gain insight into meeting the Web 2.0 challenge with a components-based approach.
Fima is the CEO of Exadel. 43 Minutes

Universal Viewer Drives DI Productivity

The growing need for businesses to create, capture, store, and manage information has led to the evolution of variety of electronic document formats. Regardless of which formats your organization works with, there is a good chance that productivity and profitability is negatively effected if your users depend on a multitude of creator applications to access, display, annotate, or print their documents. Document and asset management technology providers have addressed this workflow issue by converting an organization's documents to a portable format, or by implementing a viewing application with built-in support for multiple formats. We interview Simon Wieczner to gain Snowbound Software's perspective on viewing, converting, and manipulating documents. Simon is the CEO of Snowbound Software. 42 Minutes

Provisioning Composite Applications

In the coming months and years, composite applications will play a key role in the transition to a more dynamic business environment, and will allow organizations to deliver on the needs of service oriented architectures. However, the outdated provisioning processes developed around traditional mainframe and packaged applications is becoming an increasing liability, leaving IT Operations groups unable to cope with a more dynamic and demanding change and release environment.

We interview Annie Weinberger to gain insight into provisioning composite applications.
Annie is a Product Marketing Manager with Interwoven. 30 Minutes

Accelerating SOA Applications

As businesses strive to bring new solutions to their customers more quickly, they depend on the IT organization’s ability to deliver new services, reuse existing services and streamline the provisioning and deployment of SOA or composite applications. However, business agility may be stymied by the heterogeneous nature of the typical large enterprise's IT environment. Moreover, existing infrastructure solutions were not designed to manage composite applications or SOAs in environments with divergent technology portfolios. We interview Todd Scallan to gain insight into to managing the SOA life cycle.
Todd is the VP of Product Management for Interwoven. 36 Minutes

Improving User Interaction With RIA s

While the web deployment model has reduce the cost of software deployment, it has also created a community of underserved business users that long for a return to the usability and responsiveness of desktop and client/server applications. Fortunately, forward-looking IT professionals are now turning their attention to design patterns and technologies that can improve the client side of the equation. As a result, we are now seeing widespread deployment of rich Internet applications (RIAs), which combines the responsiveness and interactivity of desktop applications with the broad reach and ease of distribution of the web.
We interview Duane Nickull to gain insight into web development with actionable blueprints. Duane is a Technical Evangelist with Adobe Systems 58 Minutes

Better Decisions With BI Reporting

A sales meeting is in full swing, but it immediately stalls because none of the sales figures in the PowerPoint presentation match the data compiled by the sales managers. Then reports generated within HR show an alarming increase in the rate of turnover. But further investigation uncovers information indicating that retention is at an all-time high. Which set of data is right? These scenarios are real and occur every day in businesses around the world. So what can be done to get consistent, trusted data to the people who need it?
We interview Tim Lang to gain insight into how to make better decisions with embedded reporting.
Tim is is a vice president of developer programs for Business Objects. 49 Minutes

Growth With Remote Asset Management

Whether you are a company with a small or large customer service workforce or managing hundreds to millions of assets, leveraging technologies to manage your employees, assets and business operations in a more efficient manner is the best way to gain a competitive advantage. If you are faced with shrinking margins, internal and external pressures, new competition or direct sales channels, and in some cases new government regulations, the goal remains the same – better customer service and greater customer retention. We interview Mike Stramaglio to gain insight into achieving business growth through remotely managing workers and assets.
Mike is the CEO of MWA Intelligence. 41 Minutes

DRM For Information Assurance

The use of sensitive and mission critical information in electronic processes is essential for business and government agencies. Being able to securely extend those business processes outside the firewall to collaborate with partners and suppliers is key. Leveraging persistent protection and control over sensitive data will drive the management of legal and regulatory obligations, and guard intellectual property from left.
We interview Duane Nickull to gain insight into information lifecycle security.

Duane is a Senior Technical Evangelist with Adobe Systems.

48 Minutes

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