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Our blogs are moving

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Haven't seen a new post in a while? We are in the process of migrating our blogs to http://www.knowledgetree.com/blog. More information is available on the old team blog.

New KnowledgeTreeLive Functionality: Drag and Drop, Office Tools, Online Editing and Hot Folders

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

We've upgraded KnowledgeTreeLive and released a whole bunch of cool new features for our software as a service document management application: Drag and Drop tools for Windows, Microsoft Office 2007 integration, integration with Zoho Office for online editing of documents and a cool Hot Folders application. More on all of ...

ProcessMaker, Easy to Use Open Source Workflow & Business Process Management

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Brian Reale and his team at Colosa launched their very cool ProcessMaker product this week. ProcessMaker is a commercial open source Workflow / Business Process Management (BPM) software tool designed for medium-sized organizations and is designed to allow a business or process expert with no programming experience to model and ...

The Tyranny of Social Networking

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

So many apps, so little time... Is it possible to keep them all happy? twitter me blog doppler LinkedIn facebook

KnowledgeTree on the Mac

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

We don't yet officially support running the KnowledgeTree server on Macs due to complications around getting all of KnowledgeTree's dependancies working on OS X. In particular, OpenOffice.org's dependancy on X11 (and not native Aqua) makes putting together an easy to install, commercially supported stack quite complicated. (A native Aqua port of OpenOffice.org is ...

Amazon Simple Storage Service Outage - Some Learnings

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) experienced an outage earlier today, which affected KnowledgeTreeLive and its users. The outage was quite widely reported.  KnowledgeTreeLive is in beta and so this was a great way to learn about our contingency planning, both from a technology perspective but also process and communication. The pundits appear to be pointing to major holes ...

Data in the Cloud

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Amazon have announced the next piece of the puzzle for enterprise application cloud computing: Amazon SimpleDB, the database in the cloud. SimpleDB is a quasi-relational database accessed via web services. You can grow your datamodel and data on the fly without worrying about indexing, storage capacity etc. All the underlying ...

KnowledgeTreeLive Architecture Webinar and Storage, Language Pack Updates

Friday, November 16th, 2007

I recently participated in a webinar conducted by rPath as part of their Webinar Series. The webinar focussed on how we had built out KnowledgeTreeLive, our on-demand document management software, using Amazon's EC2 and virtual appliances. rPath have a recording of the webinar available on their website. On the subject of ...

rPath Software as a Service Webinar

Monday, November 12th, 2007

I'll be participating in a webinar tomorrow, organized by rPath, on the topic of virtual appliances and software as a service. Phil Wainewright, strategist for emerging software industry trends and author of the ZDNet Software as Services blog, will also present his perspective on virtual appliances as a route ...

KnowledgeTree Running In IIS

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Having found an old Windows XP laptop on our systems manager's desk I decided to try installing KnowledgeTree 3.5.1 within IIS 5.1 and lo and behold, it was quite simple. By 11pm last night I had got KnowledgeTree 3.5.1 Open Source running under Apache, IIS FastCGI and IIS ISAPI, with ...