Knowledge Management Using Quantum

Coupled tightly with other applications and research processes, Quantum empowers individuals, workgroups, and the institution with content, information, document management, collaboration and search capabilities in one, holistic bottom-up knowledge management solution.

Entopia's Quantum™ bottom-up knowledge management software suite, selected as one of three finalists in the Portals and Knowledge Management category of eWEEK's Excellence Awards 2003, is designed to enhance productivity across a wide range of information-intensive institutions. The Quantum solution features a 3-tiered product architecture that enables individuals to collect information from any digital source, allows workgroups to collaborate in project or team-based shared spaces, and empowers the institution to capitalize on accumulated knowledge by locating documents, experts, and information sources. Unlike other knowledge management software solutions, Entopia Quantum creates intellectual capital - both explicit and tacit - as a natural by-product of personal and workgroup activity.  Entopia Quantum does this by building Quantum with the individual's work style in mind – ease of use, one-right-click collect function, email integration, attention to user privacy, simple yet comprehensive search and more.  This results in much higher end-user participation than other systems. Quantum is unique in its ability to identify disconnected and hidden information across the enterprise. Another differentiator is Entopia Quantum's approach to expertise identification, which is based on dynamic profiling of user activity (using its proprietary and advance semantic engine) to uncover tacit knowledge.

Use Quantum over the Internet from anywhere using Internet Explorer (IE) browser
Installation instructions for Quantum Local client in your computer
Explains Quantum local interface window containing Pane & Toolbar
Shows how to create Q-file from MS Word Template. Pdf  version is also available
Research Management Process for faculty. Get Pdf version. View Silde show & e-Proceeding for "e-Proceeding Article of Scholar Engager" & "Creating Futures through Technology" conferences.
Research Management Processes for the Student.
Download Faculty Portfolio Database template, KMS-27 (MS word document)
5 Year IE-Faculty Portfolio Model (MS word document)
Planning & Assessment Model
e-City Research, Teaching, and Service Directory
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Scholar Engager -- Faculty Research Management Process through Quantum

Scholar Engager is a versatile tool for faculty to conduct research individually and collaboratively using Knowledge Management software Quantum.  Quantum software platform is designed to connect the information, people and resources in a university or between universities through a multifaceted metadata layer that is transparent to the users. Researchers interact among themselves and exchange ideas, enhances knowledge in a collaborative fashioned. Quantum enables the on-demand delivery of relevant information that considers both the semantic value of content and information and the social activity around it and its organizational context.  Quantum architecture can be coupled tightly with institutional repositories, applications and processes. It builds knowledge assets out of existing content while information continues to reside in its original repositories such as file shares, e-mail servers, document management repositories, the intranet, the extranet and the Internet.  Quantum software enables institutions   to  gain  a   competitive   advantage  by  more effectively managing the research processes.  Traditional Knowledge Management systems require cultural changes and incentive programs in order to capture individual knowledge.  Quantum is overcoming these hurdles by providing an intuitive tool for institutional users to gather and apply information.Through "Scholar Engager-Faculty Research Management Process" Jackson State University (JSU) compresses the research process and preserves intellectual capital based on collaborative and private information.

It provides a very intuitive tool for faculty users to gather information from the Web and other digital sources and manage that more efficiently. Through the one-by-one contribution of individual intelligence, JSU builds libraries of tacit and explicit knowledge to facilitate faster and more effective decision-making. This process enhances individual and institutional productivity by helping to assemble experts, retrieve information and re-purpose work and knowledge that might otherwise become lost or duplicated.    

Entopia Quantum features a 3-tiered product architecture

  • Quantum Collect features local Windows and Web-based clients that helps users with the ongoing process of gathering, organizing and enriching information from almost any digital source.
  • Quantum Collaborate delivers a server infrastructure that enables users within the same organization to easily share information and collaborate with each other and their workgroups.
  • Quantum Capitalize offers advanced products and services that help enterprise users leverage the intellectual capital in actions that directly impact the bottom line. Quantum Capitalize includes the Knowledge Locator, winner of the Software and Information Industry Association's Codie Award for "Best Search Engine" 2003, is an advanced tool for locating experts, documents and other sources of information.

In short, Quantum's "3C's" strategy is a comprehensive model, united with advanced client-server and web-based technologies that, with minimal interruption to workflow, smoothly extracts organizational knowledge and creates a semantic knowledge map containing the collective tacit and explicit expertise of a group. It's a strategy that includes secure, dynamic collaboration, and detailed, complex search capabilities that enable the right people to find the right information - fast.

Requirements to install Quantum Local:
Win 98 /NT/2000/ME/XP
Intel Pentium-II 300 MHz or higher
16 Bit color, 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended),     

20 MB free disc space
Browser: Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher             

Email Client: Microsoft Outlook
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