BREAKING NEWS
Altova announced the public beta launch of MetaTeam, a new team management and project collaboration cloud service. Designed to foster collaboration, Altova says MetaTeam breaks down team organization into steps anyone can follow. Another benefit of MetaTeam is that it will create a more transparent system for teams and allows them to access and edit information much quicker.
Editorial/News & Tools
Posted 15 May 2012
Intuitive Business Intelligence, authors of business intelligence dashboard software, has announced a partnership with management consultancy company Attention to Retail. This partnership was formed in response to what both companies saw as a growing demand for advanced dashboard solutions.
Editorial/News & Tools
Posted 11 May 2012
Joomla, an open source content management system, announced that students will contribute to the Joomla CMS core and platform this summer as part of Google Summer of Code. There are eight students working on eight separate projects that could eventually be used by Joomla.
Editorial/News & Tools
Posted 09 May 2012
Today, Metalogix Software has announced the release of Metalogix Content Manager for SharePoint, which it says will make SharePoint easier to use and make content easier to find and organize. The Content Manager was developed internally by Metalogix and is poised to manage the vast amount of content on SharePoint while reducing storage.
Editorial/News & Tools
Posted 08 May 2012
FEATURED STORIES
The once-secluded world of intranets just keeps opening up and expanding beyond the company walls. As companies become global enterprises and workers become more mobile, intranet teams face new challenges to provide central business platforms that work for everyone, everywhere. Competitive organizations have begun redefining the parameters of intranets. Healthy, broad intranets are meeting modern business needs in surprising new ways and creating the most informed workforces that have ever existed.
Editorial/Features
Posted 01 May 2012
To begin to grapple with the concept of Big Data, you'll have to start thinking in zettabytes. A zettabyte is a unit of digital information that is equivalent in size to a billion terabytes. (And a terabyte, in turn, is the equivalent of a billion kilobytes.) To amass a zettabyte of data, you'd need to compile approximately half of all of the information transmitted by broadcast technology (television, radio, and even GPS) to all of humankind during an entire calendar year, according to a study by The University of Southern California. Or, according to the linguist Mark Liberman of The University of Pennsylvania, if you recorded all human speech that had ever been spoken, the audio file would require a modest 42 zettabytes of storage space. That, in short, is a lot of data … and a pretty big iPod. Conceptualizing the size of a zettabyte is a bit of an esoteric exercise—an entertaining trick for a cocktail party, maybe, but not one with any real relevance to managing your business's data sets.
Editorial/Features
Posted 01 May 2012
Technology has changed not only the way we do business, but it has also changed where we do business. A growing number of workers are able to do their jobs from virtually any location, as long as they have computers and a way to connect to their companies' networks.However, the need for collaboration on projects has not gone away, so organizations must find both cost-effective and time-efficient ways to pull together collaborative efforts. Today more companies are turning to real-time web collaborations that allow employees to share and update documents through an intranet portal or through the cloud, whether they are working in neighboring cubicles or in office buildings thousands of miles apart.
Founded in 2000, iStockphoto, LP is a web-based source for stock images and other files including not just photos, but videos, music, and sound effects. In November 2009, however, the company was looking to rapidly expand internationally, broadening its market outside of North America. With an already solid domestic PR team, iStock needed to find a global PR firm that could specialize in managing and implementing public relations in multiple countries. What iStock found in NettResults, LLC was not only its solution to international PR but a better way to share information and send files as well.NettResults provides an online solution for international PR through its intranet system called the PR Control Centre (PRCC), which serves as a content management system that allows document sharing. "It's built on a Microsoft platform and it allows us to work in real time across many different countries," says Nick Leighton, CEO of NettResults. "We need to be able to project manage a number of different things that might be going on."