Comintell Launches WhoWhatWhere 1.0 - Lets Knowledge Workers Network Their Own Intellectual Capital.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers Intranets 2000 Expo, Booth No. 707 BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2000 Comintell, a leader in Knowledge Management and enterprise portals See corporate portal. , today announced the availability of WhoWhatWhere 1.0, a new tool for managing intellectual capital in organizations. WhoWhatWhere is the latest addition to Comintell's enterprise knowledge portal suite, offering a fully searchable and self-maintained directory of people and knowledge areas. "Many organizations wish they knew what they know," said Jesper Ejdling Martell, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Comintell Inc. "With WhoWhatWhere, an organization's intellectual capital can be truly leveraged, since it enables subject experts or knowledge workers to know about each other's skills and ongoing projects. This means they can easily find each other and create knowledge networks themselves on an as-needed basis." WhoWhatWhere can be fully integrated with search engines and document management systems, for example, to allow users to simultaneously search for digital documents and human sources of knowledge on a specific subject. Users then have access to both the right information and the right expertise through a single interface. "This way of combining document search and people search is essential. To prosper in a networked economy, organizations have to connect people not only with information, but also with other relevant people. This creates an information-sharing environment with a strong team spirit, or what we call an Intelligent Community", said Gabriel Anderbjork, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Comintell Inc. WhoWhatWhere contains the following features: ADD NEW / MODIFY PROFILES - users add themselves voluntarily to the database by completing a template (1) A pre-designed document or data file formatted for common purposes such as a fax, invoice or business letter. If the document contains an automated process, such as a word processing macro or spreadsheet formula, then the programming is already written and embedded in the with personal information, location information, educational background, areas of expertise and interests. LOCATE PROFILES - information about a person is stored in a user profile, which is searchable in three different ways: -- With a form-based field search -- Browsing by topics to find communities of people with particular competencies -- With an external search engine that allows simultaneous searches for people and digital documents ACCESS CONTROL - Registers users and their access rights. Controls the log in procedures to the database. ADMINISTRATION - Web-based administration interface allows administrators to modify any profiles and users to modify their own profiles. Technical specifications WhoWhatWhere runs on Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. servers, Microsoft SQL Servers A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. or Oracle databases. It requires only standard web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
WhoWhatWhere is available for delivery immediately. More information can be found at http://www.comintell.com/software/whowhatwhere.htm About Comintell Comintell is a leading provider of solutions, portals and applications for knowledge management. Comintell works with its clients to build environments that turn knowledge workers into Intelligent Communities. An Intelligent Community is a network of trained knowledge workers who systematically work together to maximize the value of their combined knowledge. Comintell Inc. is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. that was founded in 1998 by the former management team of Ericsson's business intelligence operations The variety of intelligence and counterintelligence tasks that are carried out by various intelligence organizations and activities within the intelligence process. Intelligence operations include planning and direction, collection, processing and exploitation, analysis and production, . Comintell has offices in Boston, Stockholm and London. To learn more about Comintell, please visit the company website at http://www.comintell.com or write to info@comintell.com. Comintell will be showcasing its products in booth 707 at Intranets 2000, the world's largest intranet/extranet exhibition in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , February 28 - March 1, 2000. Comintell's C.O.O. Jesper Ejdling Martell will speak at this event on Knowledge Portals on February 28. For more information about the event, please see http://www.intranets2000.com |
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