The latest buzzword in document creation is collaborative work. While there exist various approaches to support collaborative work and varying definitions of what the term means, they all revolve around tools that allow knowledge workers to work together on documents. Indeed, collaborating in the creation of a document can take different forms. With cloud-based solutions […]
Read MoreThe sheer volume of content that is generated by an organization in this day and age is nothing short of staggering. Even more daunting is the task of managing that information for compliance and record keeping. The records that an organization must keep clearly qualify as content, and in today’s volatile economy and regulatory climate, […]
Read MoreThe world of the knowledge worker is document centric. As a group, knowledge workers spend significant time creating, managing, reviewing, and editing documents. A recent Basex survey of 300 knowledge workers revealed (not surprisingly) that 95% of them create and review documents on a regular basis.[For the purposes of this discussion, we define a document […]
Read MoreMicrosoft Office may be one of the world’s most widely deployed software packages. Indeed, with a user base of 500 million, any changes or updates to the suite are significant for that fact alone. In the upcoming Office 2010 release, there are many areas that have been retooled and refined; however, for the typical knowledge […]
Read MoreThe Innovation Lab is one of my favorite places to spend time during Lotusphere. For the uninitiated, the Innovation Lab is a large room with 20+ developers stationed at individual workstations showing off concepts that they are working on at the IBM Almaden Research Center. What is demonstrated is the software equivalent of concept cars […]
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