With Knowledge Pump in place, users can have relevant information pushed to them every day within a personalized Web page, officials said. Knowledge Pump is due to ship by the second half of next year. Hyperbolic Tree 2.0 is a Web browser that displays documents, data and their organizational relationships in three-dimensional structures. New to version 2.0, which began shipping this week, is support for incremental data loading, Active X components and VisualBasic. Xerox will also support the development of corporate knowledge management infrastructures with Xerox Professional Services consultants.
Services are extremely important to knowledge management.
Mass. Also central to Xerox's knowledge management strategy is the cohesion between its traditional hardware line with its applications and services, said John Kavazanjian, vice president of Xerox Software Solutions. The tool will then create an index of the document based on optical character recognition and Xerox's linguistic technology. Users then can search across a corporate intranet to find the document and, in turn, print, fax or e-mail the information, officials said. When a company makes everything from analog copiers to sophisticated software, it's easy for some things not to make it into a commercial product. The heart of Xerox's knowledge management application development is at its Palo Alto Research Center, in Calif., and its Grenoble, France, laboratory, officials said.