Systematic and deliberate knowledge management (KM) of knowledge-related processes and intellectual capital (IC) assets is pursued by competent enterprises throughout the world. Its purpose is to facilitate enterprise actions to be highly effective by building, maintaining, making available, and safeguarding IC assets from operational, tactical, and strategic perspectives. New understandings of workers' cognitive processes and advances in computer sciences make KM increasingly powerful as it spans both people-centric and technological approaches. This Executive Report emphasizes what is important from new KM perspectives and reviews established approaches to provide a complete picture of KM's role in the competent enterprise.

I think that many end-user organizations are going to have serious reservations about deploying their data warehouses permanently to the cloud, certainly at least initially. This is quite understandable, given that most companies tend to view their data -- especially customer data -- as a strategic asset.

Consultant Mitchell Ummel answers your questions about what semantically-aware applications might mean for your enterprise. A follow-on to his wildly popular Cutter IT Journal issue of the same title, this webinar will help you better understand the implications of applying semantic web technologies to business problem domains where traditional enterprise systems have fallen short, such as BI, data mining, and CRM.