According to a recent article out of the company, “Market intelligence leader Cipher Systems is launching ‘Knowledge.Hub’, a knowledge management and a strategic intelligence platform based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Knowledge.Hub leverages some of SharePoint’s most innovative collaboration and content sharing capabilities, and is powered by a unique federated search feature, which provides a single point of search across internal documents, social media and web news. Knowledge.Hub is designed to help business professionals share important content and generate value-added strategic intelligence across their organization.” Read more

The Cogito blog has been reporting some of the highlights at the Semantic Technology Conference this week. Recently the writers at Cogito shone the spotlight on several presentations from the financial track. The blogger writes, “The speech that was the most interesting to me was that of Wells Fargo’s David Newman. Newman argues that traditional information management systems are no longer sufficient to effectively manage the continuously growing flow of data. The reasons are varied, and include the fact that the increasing amount of information, without an intelligent filtering system, can lead to higher, unsustainable infrastructure costs.” Read more