In the news
JRuby upgrade features Java accommodations
Paul Krill, InfoWorld, May 2010
Ben Summers, technical director at OneIS, was quoted in an article about the new version of JRuby.
Chris Collison: No more consultants
Jennifer Smith, CILIP Update Blog, March 2010
Appearing as CILIP Update’s first guest blogger, Jennifer reports on an event she co-organised featuring Knowledge Management guru, Chris Collison. It’s easy to be cynical about consultants. “They borrow your watch to tell you the time," as the old joke goes. So when a consultant publishes a book called No More Consultants it makes you wonder if the end is in sight for them. Chris Collison spoke at a recent LIKE meeting to explain the thinking behind his daringly-titled book.
Getting the right balance: information security and information access
Jennifer Smith, Legal Information Management, March 2010
Practical tips on the access and security issues to consider when handling sensitive information.
Full article » (available to Legal Information Management subscribers only)
Delivering information services to small businesses
Jennifer Smith, Business Information Review, December 2009
Providing information solutions to small businesses is challenging. Each small business has specific information needs which differ from other small businesses. Yet the budgetary limitations of the small business makes it difficult to afford a bespoke information solution tailored to their needs. The OneIS model overcomes these problems by providing a highly-tailored information management solution that meets the specific information requirements of each small business.
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My favourite tipples
Jennifer Smith, Freepint, November 2009
Over the years I’ve moved from reading a collection of favourite sites, to using sources which feed me the news in which I’m likely to be interested. These news-aggregation ‘services’ are mostly produced by people who are interested in the same things I am, rather than a commercial aggregation service. They point me to stories from a far wider range of sources than I would ever have found by myself.
Your information in the cloud: a 10-point checklist for choosing a hosted provider
Jennifer Smith, FUMSI, June 2009
No hardware, no software, no hassle! Send your information into the cloud for an easier working life!
Perhaps, but as responsible Information Managers, you’ll want to ask careful questions to the companies offering to host your information. This article highlights ten areas you should ask about when evaluating a hosting provider.
Information management in small businesses: a new frontier for the information profession
Jennifer Smith, Library and Information Update, May 2009, p. 42
...Then we have Jennifer Smith of OneIS, a partner in a new niche business providing information management capability and expertise to small and medium-sized enterprises. Small businesses account for more than 50% of private sector turnover, and employ 59% of the UK workforce. Most of them are too small to employ an information professional. So introducing them (entrepreneurially!) to information management as a service has to be positive, whatever the state of the economy.
Full article » (CILIP Members only)
How would a librarian design an Intranet system?
eLucidate, April 2009
Report of a presentation given by Jennifer Smith about OneIS to the UkeIG Intranet Forum.
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My Week
Jennifer Smith, CILIP Gazette, 19 March 2009
Capturing the trials and tribulations of the week running up to launching OneIS.
Information at the heart of the small business
Online Information, December 2008
Online is the largest gathering of the information profession in the UK. Our presentation was on Information Management and small businesses, and the new opportunities for information professionals to bring their skills to this sector.
Information at your fingertips: really
David Tebbutt, Smallbizpod, December 2008
Having looked at a variety of information management systems over many years, I must say that I do like the ‘feel’ of this one. It’s a professional system aimed at small business users. It saves you the expense, complexity and environmental harm of having to run your own servers and it provides easy information access to staff and business partners wherever they are.
Solaris: a developer’s perspective
Ben Summers, London Open Solaris User Group, December 2008
A couple of years ago, I moved to Solaris because I was using OpenBSD, and it wasn’t good with multiple processors. Since many cores is obviously the way things are going, it made sense to choose an OS which could use them effectively. While I was aware of the exciting features of Solaris, it wasn’t the primary motivation. But since then, I’ve been surprised at the positive impact they’ve had in saving time, and getting the most out of our servers.
Definitely one to watch
The Health Informaticist, September 2008
OneIS presented a very shiny and new hosted information management system. Their target audience is smaller organisations (5 to 50 employees) such as consultants or researchers. Their system looks user-friendly and flexible, allowing very finely-defined levels of access to different people. Also, one search brings up documents, people, images or presentations. Definitely one to watch.
IT for Information Professionals
Ben Summers, Commercial, Legal and Scientific Information Group, September 2008
A presentation to a group of commercial information professionals on IT networks, common IT problems in enterprises and future technology trends.
Web 2.0 start-up creates energy-efficient and high performing infrastructure
Sun Microsystems, August 2008
OneIS has a great business proposition. Small consultancy companies classically have problems handling their information effectively. It’s a Catch-22 scenario. They lack the quantities of information to warrant a large management system, yet the programs found in most suites of office applications don’t offer the required depth of functionality.
Working with IT
City Information Group, May 2008
A talk to the City Information Group about our experiences of working as a combined team of Information Professionals and IT Professionals.
There should be a natural affinity between Information Management and Information Technology, but in practice the working relationship between the professions is often fraught with misunderstanding and frustration. I had more than my fair share of problems with IT departments before founding OneIS. It’s been a rewarding experience to have developed such a productive working relationship with IT Professionals while building OneIS. We have such complementary skills, and when the relationship works well, we can produce amazing results.