Enterprise Productivity Management

EPM Live, the leading Enterprise SharePoint Project Management solution announced recently that it has released new SharePoint-based Enterprise Productivity Management capabilities in their award winning software solution. The new capabilities in EPM Live will allow more efficient and effective project and work management with dynamic controls that extend the current capability of Microsoft Office SharePoint. EPM Live CEO, Joe Larscheid says, "By applying the proven methodologies of project management to most work, you create a solution that goes beyond software; we create a business mindset. We wanted to offer a solution instead of ad-hoc web parts because there is method and process in the real work of business. Businesses should have a strategic solution not a tactical 'fix' to their problem. EPM Live offers two methods of deployment: online or onsite. This makes EPM Live the perfect implementation model for any growing company."

User stories from the knowledge front A new report distribution system will allow travel giant Pilot Corporation to save time producing its monthly and weekly reports. An operator of travel center rest stops, convenience stores and fast-food restaurants, Pilot has chosen technology from Mobius Management Systems to automate its enterprise report management. “We needed to simplify the report distribution process for our remote users, provide faster access to reports and improve our archiving capabilities,” explains David DePrimo, manager of corporate systems for Pilot. The new system allows users to distribute reports directly from their desktops. “This will eliminate at least one day from our month-end report process, reduce the possibility of breakdowns in the process and enhance overall enterprise productivity,” DePrimo says.

Stellent® Universal Content Management offers a comprehensive set of content managementfunctionalities in a single architecture with a single user interface. Stellent Consulting's PerformanceAnalysis Offering helps customers maximize the productivity of this solution by tuning theconfiguration of architecture components for optimal performance.Stellent's Performance Analysis is an ideal offering for existing enterprise customers who have complexinfrastructure or who have begun to experience performance slowdown with content or traffic volumegrowth. It is also helpful for existing customers who are experiencing technical issues with theircurrent system.

Knowledge management starts from a simple premise: The critical resource that determines competitive advantage in today's economy is knowledge. Consequently, the same kinds of tools and strategies that companies once devoted to optimizing the use of natural resources, capital and labor in the old industrial economy now must be applied to maximizing the productivity of their knowledge assets. Knowledge management refers to the collection of management practices and associated enabling technologies.KM then and nowWhen it began in the early 1990s, knowledge management was squarely focused on increasing organizational effectiveness by improving the diffusion of "tacit" institutional knowledge, that is, inside the heads of employees. Particularly in large companies, project teams within the enterprise had been continually "reinventing the wheel," oblivious to the past successes or failures of other groups within the same company confronted with nearly identical problems

Some of the big leaps in business productivity and efficiency in the past 20 years stemmed from the transactional systems revolution that began with customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Submitted by EMC Corporation

Lawyers were well represented (you might say) at this year's Enterprise Search Summit in New York. At times, ESS felt more like an e-discovery conference with analytics and social-computing side-tracks rather than a search conference featuring a few e-discovery sessions. Based on what I saw at the Search Summit, there seems to be a renewed awareness, at ever-higher levels in the corporate responsibility chain, that in a litigious business environment "enterprise search" is not just a knowledge-management tactic or a productivity aid, but a survival imperative. You will be sued some day. (It's not a matter of "if," but when.) During the discovery phase of the suit, you're going to provide (and also receive from the other side) bewilderingly immense amounts of data. Without good search technology, sifting through the data isn't just tedious but nightmarishly expensive.I didn't get a chance to attend any e-discovery sessions at the Search Summit

More than a nuisance, e-mail overload represents potentially large uncontrollable costs and risks for many organizations, and poses serious threats including lost information, reduced productivity, and legal liability. This white paper explains that the most effective way to deal with e-mail overload is within the context of a company's overall content management strategy. Submitted by Interwoven

Integrated eForms management brings value to the organization by allowing it to reduce operating overhead, increase productivity, improve responsiveness, and gain competitive advantage for the enterprise. The embodiment of the design, deploy, and process framework is FileNet Forms Manager, a proven, XML-based eForms management solution that represents the next generation of eForms management.

The benefits of enterprise content management solutions are well understood. Content as unstructured data in theform of documents, Web pages, images, audio, video, enterprise reports, XML components, and so on, is todayomnipresent and growing at enormous rate. The capability to manage content can greatly improve productivity andquality, lower costs, or enforce rules for business processes involving content.Submitted by EMC Documentum

Email Management: So much more when it’s from KANAKANA delivers the world’s leading email response management system, proven in hundreds of successful companies around the world. KANA’s email solution improves agent productivity, reduces costs, and lets you easily manage exponential growth in email volume. With powerful features like intelligent routing, pre-formatted replies and real-time queue monitoring, you accelerate contact resolution and keep your customers happy. No wonder KM World named it “Trend Setter Product” for 2006. What’s more, KANA’s email solution is part of an enterprise suite of multi-channel service solutions, so customers get consistent, responsive service every time, from Web self-service, to live chat and collaboration, to email and call centers. It’s a multi-channel world, and KANA is the one solution you need.KANA Software 181 Constitution Drive Menlo Park CA 94025 Phone: 800.737.8738 Contact: sales@kana