Understanding Organizational Memory System for Managing Knowledge

Information System (IS), has been extended to Knowledge Management System (KMS) focusing on knowledge as main contents instead of information. While KMS evolving rapidly, with the awareness of treating knowledge as an organizational memory, evolved Organizational Memory System (OMS). The three tools (IS, KMS and OMS) are to manage data, information and knowledge in organization, have stimulated confusion to the beginners of Information Technology (IT) practitioners. The aim of the paper is to provide a document that able to stimulate rich understanding of OMS from KMS and IS concept. This was done by identified eight descriptions of OMS and comparing twenty characteristics of IS, KMS, OMS extracted from previous studies. Finally we use the results to identify necessary consideration for developing OMS. The identification was presented in the form of OMS development model. Future study can be done to verify the model.