Inktomi Corp. and BroadVision, Inc. announced a strategic alliance to improve access to highly customized information across enterprise networks. Under terms of the alliance, the companies have integrated Inktomi Enterprise Search Software and BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise, providing enhanced retrieval of content, including personalized and actionable information, through one search query. BroadVision plans to offer a standard solution for enterprises to integrate Inktomi’s search technology with BroadVision’s personalization technology. www.broadvision.com, .
Category: Semantic technologies (Page 62 of 72)
Our coverage of semantic technologies goes back to the early 90s when search engines focused on searching structured data in databases were looking to provide support for searching unstructured or semi-structured data. This early Gilbane Report, Document Query Languages – Why is it so Hard to Ask a Simple Question?, analyses the challenge back then.
Semantic technology is a broad topic that includes all natural language processing, as well as the semantic web, linked data processing, and knowledge graphs.
Quiver, Inc. announced the first product in the Quiver Knowledge Suite, QKS Classifier, a system for efficiently and accurately organizing content into an intuitive directory of corporate knowledge. Unlike purely automated categorization solutions, Quiver’s hybrid taxonomy platform tightly integrates advanced classification algorithms with an intuitive workflow and directory management toolset to capture human input and expertise. Quiver’s taxonomy and categorization platform offers customers a solution that automates the process of finding, screening and categorizing content while providing control over – and visibility into – those categorization results. With QKS Classifier, departmental information managers and IT managers alike have the control and visibility to manage valuable enterprise content, leveraging human judgment as well as technological efficiency. Quiver will be distributing QKS Classifier through a direct sales force as well as through a reseller and partner program. In June, Quiver announced a technology and marketing agreement with Inktomi to integrate QKS Classifier with the Inktomi Search products, and to jointly market the combined solutions to accelerate the deployment of search and categorization software within the enterprise. Quiver QKS Classifier is currently available, with prices starting at $125,000 for the complete client/server platform. Pricing varies depending on the size of the taxonomy and the number of information manager seat licenses required. www.quiver.com
ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc.) announced the formation of the ATG Dynamo Gear Network. The network of partner-developed solutions is designed to enhance the functionality of the new ATG Enterprise Portal Suite through an extensive set of portal building blocks, called gears, which will provide customers with a robust and expanding feature set to build portals for customers, partners, and employees. ATG partners will provide integrated gears to deliver functionality in several application categories. In addition to ATG’s framework platform and foundation gears for enterprise application integration, the Gear Network enables third-party developers to deliver component software features. The Network allows partners with technology that works within an open Java environment to plug their own solution into ATG’s portal offering. The ATG Gear Network consists of more than 20 vendors across technology and solution domains, including: Business Intelligence, NetGenesis; Content Management, Documentum, Escenic, Interwoven, and Mediasurface; Content Aggregation – Information Architects; Content Syndication – Screaming Media, YellowBrix, Newsedge, and iMediation; Web Services, Patkai; Collaboration – Message Machines; Search – AltaVista and Verity; Enterprise Systems – TIBCO, YOUcentric; Security, Netegrity; Systems Integrators – Appian, Fort Point Partners, ISL Consulting, McFadyen Consulting, and Novo; and Wireless/Mobile, Volantis. Most of the partner gears are currently under development and will be available later in Q3 2001. ATG is actively recruiting partners for the Gear Network through the ATG Gear Alliance Program. www.atg.com
Atomz Enterprise Search offers new capabilities that deliver control over search results including a fully integrated content mining engine and metadata management center to deliver highly efficient and precise search results. Atomz Content Mining Engine feature delivers targeted, granular search results to users seeking specific information in very large collections of data. For example, an online book retailer using Enterprise Search can deliver fine-tuned results for cross-referenced searches by “author,” “publisher,” or “ISBN number.” Atomz Content Mining Engine also provides customers a comprehensive way to classify, categorize, and relate their data into specific taxonomies to allow site visitors the most flexible and granular level of querying available. With Atomz’ exclusive Target Meta Tag, customers can ‘tag’ (using the Meta data Management interface) pages with specific target keywords whereby the associated page would always be the top search result. Within the Atomz Member Center, customers can also utilize Atomz Enterprise Search’s extensive relevancy controls. www.atomz.com
Semio Corporation announced that it will integrate Semio Tagger, its core categorization and indexing engine, with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server. Information categorized and indexed by Semio can be viewed through Microsoft’s digital dashboard or through the Semio Taxonomy Viewer — which automatically names and groups concepts that share similar qualities into hierarchical categories for more navigable, browseable presentation. SharePoint Portal Server allows companies to easily find, share and publish information. Each stand-alone server offers enterprise-level search functionality (developed by Microsoft Research), integrated document management tools and flexible, easily customizable enterprise portal capabilities. SharePoint Portal Server provides a focal point for finding relevant information stored across multiple data sources, including SharePoint Team Services websites, Exchange data stores, file shares, Notes databases and Internet sites. Tagger supports a wide range of content sources, including most commercial file formats, PDF, HTML/XML sources, Lotus Notes databases, Documentum document vaults, and unstructured text in relational databases. It supports English, French, Spanish and Italian language sources, with more languages available shortly. Pre-packaged industry templates for fast-start categorization are available for the chemical, medical, legal, military, and computing industries. Semio Tagger availability for the SharePoint Portal Server platform is targeted for Q4, 2001. www.semio.com
FileNET Corp. announced its Panagon Enterprise Content Management (ECM) initiative. FileNET will deliver expanded capabilities for managing all forms of content and business processes inside and outside of the enterprise. Panagon is a tightly integrated enterprise process and content management infrastructure and extensible application development platform that automates and optimizes an organization’s business processes. Expanded capabilities planned for FileNET’s Panagon ECM edition include: Mobile device support; Content interchange utilizing additional XML capabilities for extracting and exporting metadata (content properties), and handling large, complex document interchange; Template-driven content authoring; HTML authoring provided through WebDAV; Web content lifecycle management; Process management and reporting tools; Web site staging and publishing; Search feature enhancements; LDAP user and group synchronization will be extended to provide direct user authentication and will include additional LDAP-compliant directory servers; JAVA toolkits; Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server (SPPS) integration; And expanded Sun Solaris support. www.FileNET.com
eGrail, Inc. announced eGrail Enterprise Content Server 4.0. eGrail is offering a 90-day customer satisfaction guarantee, designed to ensure a solid, long-term relationship between eGrail and its customers. eGrail Enterprise Content Server 4.0 enables multiple business users to easily update and change a global corporate Web site in minutes. eGrail Enterprise Content Server 4.0 includes a major enhancement — Web- based, customizable workflow — that simplifies the processes for creating, assigning, monitoring and completing content-creation tasks. The workflow module minimizes the risk of site error and ensures appropriate review before updates or modifications are published, both critical when maintaining the integrity of a Web site. Additional features include a J2EE Software Developers Kit that enables complete interoperability with application servers and external applications for eCommerce, portals, calendaring, personalization and advanced search functionality; an object wizard for creating and defining objects; and an import/export utility that enables the transport of site elements using an XML file format. www.egrail.com
Artesia Technologies and Accumedia announced that Accumedia has adopted Artesia’s TEAMS solution as an integral part of its Accumedia Convergence Platform (ACP) for the management and publishing of both enterprise and Web content. With the addition of TEAMS, the Accumedia Convergence Platform delivers a complete integration of site design, Web content management, digital asset management, content relevance and content delivery to offer customers an end-to-end solution for the management and distribution of rich media. The Accumedia Convergence Platform will now offer advanced editing, search and retrieval functionality across all media types through the use of TEAMS features such as link management, XML-based transformer, Clip Identifier and Play Decision List applications. The combined TEAMS/ACP’s ability to ingest and edit the underlying XML-based metadata, as well as the asset itself, ensures that significant rights and permissions information governing content ownership can be embedded directly into an asset and easily integrated with a variety of approaches to digital rights management. This also allows organizations to easily extend access to these assets across business divisions and leverage their reuse throughout the enterprise. www.artesia.com, www.accumedia.com
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