Multicosm Ltd announced its Maximizer line of products for Web portals, extranets and enterprise intranets. Using Multicosm’s text analysis technology, Portal Maximizer customers can crawl any Web site and determine which pages are related to the various content that a customer chooses for its portal. It then automatically creates links to those pages that can be easily accessed from one central location. Customers with existing portals can both expand the reach of their portal, and significantly lower the cost of managing their sites with Portal Maximizer. Intranet Maximizer builds on the technology used in Portal Maximizer, and enhances it with integrated summarization, search, monitoring, and expertise identification features. Portal Maximizer can crawl vast amounts of Web content and identify the important concepts, product and people’s names on those sites. These names and concepts are then used as the basis of linking related pages together, whether on the same site or to external sites. Those links are stored and maintained separately from the HTML documents, making the tedious task of link management significantly easier and less time consuming. By inserting links “on-the-fly” as Web pages are served to the browser, the number of links that must be inserted by hand into each page on the site are dramatically reduced. Pages can be added to the site more quickly, as they are automatically analyzed and cross-referenced with the other pages. In addition, companies running Web portals have complete editorial control over not only what links appear on which pages, but over the links themselves because they are fully editable. Portal Maximizer and Intranet Maximizer are available immediately. www.multicosm.com
Category: Semantic technologies (Page 68 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.
IBM unveiled the IBM Content Manager, an offering that helps companies manage the exploding amount of digital information now facing organizations in the e-business world. Content Manager offers a complete, integrated portfolio for database management, content management and business intelligence. IBM Content Manager helps companies make the most of their information, no matter the form. IBM Content Manager leverages IBM’s experience in rich media and document management technologies. It enables corporations to electronically manage, protect and share critical business information, in any format, including XML and HTML. Images, audio and video, computer generated output and business documents can now be securely shared electronically – a crucial step in the e-business transformation. Additionally, it can search across a variety of content and data repositories such as production imaging, computer-generated output, document management and multimedia repositories, delivering a unified search result. The IBM Content Manager, when combined with the recently announced IBM Enterprise Information Portal, provides a single point of access and integration for IBM and non-IBM data and content stores helping customers truly leverage the vast amounts of information across their business. IBM Content Manager is currently available shipping with support for IBM AIX and Microsoft Windows NT platforms. Pricing starts at $15,000 per workstation server and $2,000 per concurrent user. www.ibm.com/software/data/cm
Excalibur Technologies announced a technology licensing agreement with DataChannel, Inc. The agreement gives DataChannel rights to integrate Excalibur RetrievalWare, an intelligent, Web-based, search application into DataChannel Server 4.0 (DCS 4.0). By incorporating Excalibur RetrievalWare’s search functionality, DataChannel’s XML-based portal server delivers enhanced capabilities for retrieving and categorizing all enterprise data resources for employees, customers, partners and stakeholders through a customized, personal, and secure e-business interface that delivers dynamic applications. www.datachannel.com, www.excalib.com
Xyvision Enterprise Solutions Inc. announced the availability of its new content management application, Content@ (pronounced Contenta). Content@ provides content management for collaborative workgroups using Microsoft Word by storing and managing Word document components in a dynamic database repository. Content@ offers integrated workflow, meta-data support, full-text search, and it facilitates the re-use of document components for web, print, and other media. Content@ offers companies a way to significantly reduce the time required to create and distribute business critical documents such as policies and procedures, proposals, financial reports, marketing materials, and many other documents created in Microsoft Word. Content@ includes a new XML workflow wizard which enables users and organizations to define standard data creation and distribution processes and create XML workflows to automate these processes. Content@ is built on top of XyEnterprise’s Parlance Content Manager and its workflow tools. In a Content@ environment, a user can update content in the repository which can invoke web site updates, create new publications, send e-mail notices to end users, distribute documents in a PDF or printed format, and even send communications to portable devices. With Content@, users can store complete Word files or components of Word files in DOC, RTF, XML, or HTML format. This content can also include text, spreadsheets, graphics, presentations, sound, and video. Content@ is currently available for early adopters with general availability in March 2000. Basic systems, including 10 user seats, server, and COM API start around $50,000. Content@ server runs on Windows NT, Sun Solaris, and IBM AIX with clients on Windows 98 and NT. Content@ uses Oracle and other databases and supports Word 97 and Word 2000. www.xyenterprise.com
Intraspect Software, Inc., announced the immediate availability of the Intraspect Knowledge Spider for Lotus Notes, an enterprise collaboration tool that provides seamless access to information held in Lotus Notes databases. The Intraspect Knowledge Spider gives companies the ability to search across multiple Lotus Notes databases, find documents, and use the information held within those documents in a collaborative fashion. Lotus Notes users have always been able to search Notes databases, but now non-Notes users can link informa
BroadVision, Inc. and Verity, Inc. announced they have broadened their OEM alliance in the e-commerce arena. Under the amended terms of the agreement, BroadVision is licensed to resell the Verity K2 Search Server, a high-performance, high-availability search system, to BroadVision customers seeking knowledge retrieval capabilities including scalability and advanced search. Verity’s core search features have been incorporated in BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise since 1997, and the amended agreement allows BroadVision to sell Verity’s latest, most scalable and most advanced system. www.broadvision.com, www.verity.com
DataChannel Inc. and Wavo Corp. announced that Wavo’s NewsPak will be immediately incorporated into the next release of DataChannel’s portal solution. NewsPak is a solution for delivering pre-licensed, real-time news content to Web servers worldwide. It aggregates content streams from a catalog of over 600 media sources, including CNBC, Ziff-Davis, Financial Times, USA Today, Comtex, Knight Ridder and UPI. Providing these streams in a richly meta-tagged XML format, NewsPak will give DataChannel customers unparalleled ability to search, manage and personalize news information. www.wavo.com, www.datachannel.com
Xyvision Enterprise Solutions Inc. previewed its new content management application, Content@ (pronounced Contenta) this week. Content@ provides content management for users of Microsoft Word by storing and managing Word document components in a dynamic database repository. Content@ offers integrated workflow, meta-data support, full-text search and facilitates the re-use of document components for web, print, and other media. Content@ enables groups of users to simultaneously collaborate on multiple parts of the same Word document, store components of the document in a variety of formats, and recombine these components into customized deliverables in web or print format. With Content@, users can store complete Word files or components of Word files in DOC, RTF, XML or HTML format. This content can include text, spreadsheets, graphics, presentations, sound, and video. Content@ preserves the normal editorial environment within Word and adds a Content@ menu that provides access to the content repository. Content@ is available now for early adopters, with release scheduled for February 2000. Basic systems, including 10 user seats, Content@ server, and COM API start around $50,000. Content@ server runs on Windows NT and Sun Solaris with clients on Windows 98 and NT. Content@ uses Oracle and other databases and supports Word 97 and Word 2000. www.xyenterprise.com
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