Ingenta and Infotrieve, Inc. announced an expanded partnership that will enable Ingenta-hosted content to be indexed by Infotrieve’s full-text crawler. This relationship will enable Infotrieve to provide full-text article searches via its discovery research portals, increasing the depth of discovery resources for Infotrieve customers and generating additional document delivery traffic for Ingenta-hosted publishers. www.ingenta.com
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Hummingbird Ltd. announced the unveiling of Hummingbird Enterprise 2005, the next generation of its enterprise content management platform. Leveraging the new capabilities of Hummingbird Enterprise 2005, Microsoft Outlook users will be able to manage and organize e-mail, documents, physical records, reports, workflows and more, all from within Outlook. The customizable business views expose all the capabilities of Hummingbird Enterprise including content management, records management, collaboration, workflow, search, and reporting from within Microsoft Outlook. Hummingbird Enterprise 2005 also includes a brand new desktop search capability, and an enhanced hierarchical security model and enhanced security of metadata with DoD 5015.2 certification including the Chapter 4 requirements. In addition, the integrations of Business Intelligence reporting and Data Integration capabilities provide a facility for customers to track and report on how Hummingbird Enterprise metadata and content is used. A beta program for Hummingbird Enterprise 2005 is scheduled to commence in Q1 2005. The suite is expected to be generally available this summer. www.hummingbird.com
Mobius Management Systems, Inc. and Network Appliance, Inc. announced integration of Mobius ViewDirect TCM software with NetApp NearStore disk-based nearline storage systems. The new collaboration is meant to deliver a solution that simplifies the archiving, recall, and management of content from any source, on platforms including UNIX, Windows, Linux and mainframe z/OS. The integrated solution addresses customer challenges of managing growing volumes of diverse content while satisfying the need for rapid retrieval and high availability not possible with traditional tape and optical media. Together, the Mobius ViewDirect TCM suite and NetApp NearStore offer a long-term content management and storage solution. ViewDirect TCM integrates enterprise content in a single, consolidated repository or through access to multiple, disparate repositories and includes a complete suite of content-centric applications that enable regulatory compliance and automate business processes. NearStore combines the Data ONTAP operating system with inexpensive ATA disk drives for near-primary storage performance. The solution scales from 8TB to 96TB with a single NearStore system, while multiple NearStore systems provide petabytes of storage at near-tape costs to support growing content stores. www.netapp.com, www.mobius.com
A few weeks ago Deloitte published a really useful, short whitepaper titled
"Under
Control: Sustaining Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley in Year Two and Beyond."
(You can download the paper for free, but access requires registration.)
Recognizing that meeting first year SOX 404 compliance requirements was a
real fire drill for many companies, the paper asks the important question of how
to turn this into something that is sustainable. You should download and
read the full paper, but I will pull out a couple of observations that seemed
particularly important:
- Many companies approached their initial SOX compliance efforts as a
"project." To the extent that the project focus helped
meet the deadlines, it was a good thing. But it is also a potentially
crippling attitude that companies must consciously undo over the coming
year. Internal control and SOX compliance requirements never
end. They need to become part of daily operations, not a special
project. Facing the need to "change gears" squarely
will be important.
- The internal audit team often emerged as a central part of the
compliance "project" in year one. That made sense for the
first year, but may not be the right approach over the long
run. Without more staff and resources, continued work on SOX would
displace important internal audit work. Perhaps even more critically,
if if internal audit becomes responsible for implementing and managing
controls, they will not be in a position to provide an objective
evaluation of those same controls.
- Information technology was often not well integrated into first year
compliance efforts — the focus was on meeting the deadline, not on
building a workable, sustainable system. Many companies will find that
it is possible to make the process more efficient and sustainable by
making strategic technology investments.
The paper is a nice overview of the problems faced by companies now that
initial deadlines have been met. It is the kind of paper that I put in my
files for future reference.
Bill Gates weighs in on XML and interoperability.
A few weeks ago Deloitte published a really useful, short whitepaper titled “Under Control: Sustaining Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley in Year Two and Beyond.” (You can download the paper for free, but access requires registration.)
Recognizing that meeting first year SOX 404 compliance requirements was a real fire drill for many companies, the paper asks the important question of how to turn this into something that is sustainable. You should download and read the full paper, but I will pull out a couple of observations that seemed particularly important:
- Many companies approached their initial SOX compliance efforts as a “project.” To the extent that the project focus helped meet the deadlines, it was a good thing. But it is also a potentially crippling attitude that companies must consciously undo over the coming year. Internal control and SOX compliance requirements never end. They need to become part of daily operations, not a special project. Facing the need to “change gears” squarely will be important.
- The internal audit team often emerged as a central part of the compliance “project” in year one. That made sense for the first year, but may not be the right approach over the long run. Without more staff and resources, continued work on SOX would displace important internal audit work. Perhaps even more critically, if if internal audit becomes responsible for implementing and managing controls, they will not be in a position to provide an objective evaluation of those same controls.
- Information technology was often not well integrated into first year compliance efforts — the focus was on meeting the deadline, not on building a workable, sustainable system. Many companies will find that it is possible to make the process more efficient and sustainable by making strategic technology investments.
The paper is a nice overview of the problems faced by companies now that initial deadlines have been met. It is the kind of paper that I put in my files for future reference.
The OASIS international standards consortium announced that its members have approved the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) version 3.0.2 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. Advanced through an open process, UDDI is commonly regarded as a cornerstone of Web services, defining a standard method for publishing and discovering network-based software components in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Version 3.0.2 adds the ability to affiliate registries in keeping with SOA’s emphasis on supporting a variety of infrastructural variations and providing a means to define relationships among a variety of UDDI registries. Although from its inception, the specification included concepts such as delegation and distribution among server peers, earlier UDDI definitions relied upon proprietary means of interaction. By contrast, UDDI v3.0.2 provides an open, standardized approach to ensure widely interoperable communication. Other v3.0.2 features include support for digital signatures, allowing UDDI to deliver a higher degree of data integrity and authenticity. Extended discovery features can combine previous, multi-step queries into a single-step, complex query. UDDI now also provides the ability to nest sub-queries within a single query, letting clients narrow their searches much more efficiently. www.oasis-open.org
Convera Corporation announced that it has completed the second stage of its development initiative aimed at applying portions of the Company’s existing technology to searching and indexing contextually relevant information on the World Wide Web. As the Company has previously disclosed, this next-generation search technology achieved its initial development milestone in October 2004 by creating an “Alpha” stage, search platform for open-source Web content. The Company has now advanced its efforts as the technology presently contains more than 1 billion documents in the index. The Company expects to launch a service offering during the next two quarters. Convera’s web indexing technology has been developed to add structure to the Web through the use of proprietary taxonomies and ontologies, semantic analysis and deep knowledge resources capable of providing end-users with more relevant search results. The technology also supports complex queries, offers built in video and image search, and provides geo-locational data. The offering may be used in concert with RetrievalWare, Convera’s internal search solution, or with an organizations existing internal application to create an integrated portal offering “blended” results from both Intranet and open-source searches. www.convera.com
