eCollaboration, eLearning, ePublishing, and Knowledge Management converge

The Brave New World of CMS - eCollaboration, eLearning, ePublishing, and Knowledge Management converge

How can work-in-process environments augment  eLearning and ePublishing to enable the performance of individuals?  Is there value in an integrated architecture or a common interface?  How do taxonomies and metadata contribute to the integration and presentation of content?  What are the tools or combination of applications that will allow eCollaboration, eLearning, Knowledge management and ePublishing to co-exist?  What are the process implications for authoring, tagging and retrieval of content?  We will examine these issues and explore the productivity implications of different architectural approaches. In addition, we will examine logical structures that allow data to be stored once and used in many different contexts.

Outline:
Presentation of the Business case for convergence of these applications
Compare user requirements for of eCollaboration, eLearning, Knowledge Management and ePublsihing
Describe the productivity challenges faced by knowledge workers
How do these applications contribute to productivity
Describe the convergence opportunities from a users perspective
Describe architectural vision and  options
Examine prototype solutions

Ralph Poole is a founding partner of the Coherence Group, a consulting firm focused on content and knowledge management solutions for Life Sciences.  Ralph creates and implements, Collaboration, Learning, Enterprise Content Management solutions that maximize human performance. He has over 25 years of experience in content and knowledge management, application development, and metadata, ontology, and taxonomy creation.