Bush cuts IRS budget

The Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Business Systems Modernisation programme wouldn't get much more money under President Bush’s fiscal 2009 budget for the Treasury Department, says FCW.com.

The IRS would receive $11.4 billion, an increase of 4.3% over this year’s budget, to expand enforcement activities and continue improvements in taxpayer services. However, spending for the business systems programme would be cut 16.6% to $222.6 million, while taxpayer services would remain steady at $2.15 billion.

Among others, Treasury would spend $82.3 million for management initiatives, including $42.8 million for consolidated enterprise identity management under the Homeland Security Protection Directive 12, and $22.6 million for enterprise content management services.

The Reader's Digest Association (RDA) has purchased licences of Nstein's Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Text Mining Engine (TME), reports Earth Times.

Publishing for more than 80 years, RDA has amassed tremendous volumes of content, such as images, articles and recipes, scattered across several different databases.

Using Nstein's DAM and TME, RDA's diverse businesses worldwide will be able to centralise and efficiently manage content by normalising it in XML and automatically tagging it with rich metadata to make the content easily searchable.

Open Text has introduced a new solution for law firms that provides Open Text's matter life cycle management and law practice support solutions for law firms on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, says Fox Business.

Leveraging Open Text's new solution, attorneys and staff can work in the familiar SharePoint Server 2007 environment, while managing their matters according to strict business processes.

The company announced plans for the solution in August, 2007, to help law firms address the complex challenges of managing sensitive client matters, while improving firm productivity and collaboration.