Information Highways

Security at high speed: Securing personal information in an insecure world

April 6, 2005 – 3:51 am
Who can better appreciate the need to protect the integrity and security of sensitive personal data than Statistics Canada and the 2006 Census development team? Yet what better way to revolutionize the way census data is collected then to exploit the speed and wide spread accessibility of the Internet? Wanting to go beyond the traditional SSL-based Web security in developing Canada�s first online census questionnaire Statistics Canada has developed an innovative, secure web application that provides strong authentication and round-trip data encryption between the user's browser and the back-end application. Join Statistics Canada for an overview of the new internet response option for the 2006 census and a discussion of the ground breaking steps they have taken to guarantee the security of personal information submitted online.

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Industry Hosted Workshops

April 5, 2005 – 4:23 am
This year the e-Content Institute invited leading solution providers, consultants and industry associations to develop half day workshops in association with the 2005 Information Highways Conference. Designed to compliment the main conference program (Wednesday April 6 and Thursday April 7) the workshops provide a forum for the industry to introduce new solutions and present best practices and product applications. All workshops include complimentary coffee break and lunch as well as a chance to preview the full Information Highways Exhibit Hall and Showcase.

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Healthcare electronic records management

March 18, 2005 – 4:33 am
Healthcare electronic records management, knowledge worker shortages, enterprise productivity, to be detailed at e-Content Institute Conference Ottawa, March 14, 2005 � Three of today�s most urgent social and organizational issues are now on the agenda at the annual conference of Canada�s �digital knowledge� community.  xwave�s Chief Operating Officer Paul Kent will describe the adoption of a major new electronic healthcare records management system, Paul Swinwood, Executive Director of the Software Human Resources Council (SHRC) will present the latest numbers on Canada�s crises in skilled workers, and Michael O�Neil, Country Manager IDC will share the results of a new study focusing on the productivity, governance and risk management implications of managing enterprise content assets. �For the Records:  Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as a healthcare change management tool�, is the topic of an address by Paul Kent, Chief Operating Officer at xwave, an Alliant company.  �Healthcare in 2005 is a network service,� said ...

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Best practices for selecting e-content solutions: Issues, Trends and Practices

May 18, 2004 – 4:30 am
The report identifies the analytical tools used by the e-content industry and its customers to evaluate the feasibility of implementing e-content solutions such as knowledge management, content management, document management, research ...

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The current state of pricing in the e-content industry in Canada: Issues, Trends and Practices

November 18, 2003 – 4:26 am
Are typical e-content pricing models helping or hindering sales in Canada?  This report identifies and gauges the impact of vendor pricing practices on purchase decisions, end-user adoption, and contract renewal.  ...

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Drive Adoption, Build Value

May 18, 2003 – 4:31 am
Today's customers of e-content services are looking for value. One important measure of value on the customer side is meaningful adoption and use among targeted audiences. This briefing analyzes information gathered from Canadian customers to focus on how e-content providers can build adoption factors into the product development process by asking three key questions: Who's using the product? Why are they using it? How are they using it? Uncovering the answers to these questions can provide approaches to driving user adoption through the development process - and help deliver customer value.Juanita Richardson is a Principal with Richardson Jalakas & Associates, a consulting firm formed in 1998. Her areas of expertise include development of market and content strategies for clients who want to deliver information that has an impact. Prior to starting her consulting practice, Juanita held positions on both the supplier and user sides of the information industry. She was ...

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Win Big Deals

January 18, 2003 – 4:32 am
You want and need to win more enterprise business. You start achieving this when you fully understand the customer value opportunity, assemble an end-to-end solution, present innovative economic and pricing options, and prepare a clear, precise proposal that is directed at enterprise decision makers. Based on an analysis of enterprise decision making, projects and information gathered from business and IT executives, this briefing offers an approach to winning big deals that goes beyond selling a product to working with customers to find solutions to their big gnarly problems. Joe Molnar has more than 25 years of experience as a business and IT executive at CIBC, Nortel Networks and Xerox, and now as a consultant, working on a large number of enterprise scale projects for 10 large cap companies and government. His specialties are executive engagement and business and technology strategy. Mr. Molnar is Chair of the Dean's Advisory Board of the ...

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Marketing: A Management Thought Starter

October 18, 2002 – 4:32 am
Between gyrating markets, tough fiscal constraints and very knowledgeable purchasers, vendors of content-based products and services are having to modify traditional marketing techniques to focus on adoption of e-Content solutions among user populations, and impact on business outcomes for customer organizations. This Brief provides an overview of the marketing challenges faced by the e-Content industry and suggests new approaches through case examples from successful initiatives. A checklist for effective marketing planning in an e-Content context will provide members with valuable ideas for positioning products and services so that they address customers' value propositions. For over 30 years, facilitator and author Tony Long has guided senior executives along the complex path of marketing decision-making. He has provided marketing counsel and services to large and small organizations in the technology, consumer packaged goods, B2B, retail, services, and government sectors. Since 1994 Mr. Long has concentrated almost exclusively on working with clients to better ...

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