Lynda Moulton Lists Five Products to Reduce Information Overload

Lynda Moulton is a consultant, an analyst with the Gilbane group, and runs the Boston KM Forum. I have attended it over the past several years. About a year ago we presented a prototype of the Darwin Awareness Engine there.  Lynda recently provided a useful post on: Focused on Unifying Content to Reduce Information Overload.  She noticed while attending the Enterprise Search Summit and KMWorld 2010 in Washington, DC last month the diversity of ways organizations are getting answers to stakeholders more quickly. I have had a chance to review her recent Gilbane Beacon report Establishing a Successful Enterprise Search Program: Five Best Practices. Here is my blog post on it (see Semantic Technologies Explained and Examined). 

Lynda noted five software products she saw at Enterprise Search Summit and KMWorld 2010. She said that, “these products, in alphabetic order, are all notable for their unique solutions tailored to different audiences of users and business requirements. All embody an approach to unifying enterprise content for a particular business function.”  The products were: Access Innovations, Attivio, Coveo, Darwin Awareness Engine, and RAMP.  I have written about Attivio and Coveo before and have great respect for them. We were very pleased to be included. Here is what Lynda said about Darwin:

“Darwin Awareness Engine was named the KMWorld Promise Award Winner for 2010. Since their founder is local to our home-base and a frequent participant in the Boston KM Forum (KMF) meetings, we are pretty happy for their official arrival on the scene and the recognition. It was just a year ago that they presented the prototype at the KMF. Our members were excited to see the tool exposing layers of news feeds to hone in on topics of interest to see what was aggregated and connected in really "real-time." Darwin content presentation is unique in that the display reveals relationships and patterns among topics in the Web 2.0 sphere that are suddenly apparent due to their visual connections in the display architecture. The public views are only an example of what a very large enterprise might reveal about its own internal communications through social tools within the organization.”

Thanks to Lynda for these comments and her post. 

 

Comments

[Ashwin Jain]

Great work by Linda! Congratz for her wonderful effort!Very intelligent.
Awesome post too. Thanks.