Trend-Setting Products of 2006

Lockheed Martin—AeroText A fast, agile information extraction system for developing knowledge-based content analysis applications—well suited for automatic database generation, routing, browsing, summarizing and searching.

Mark Logic--MarkLogic Server Robust XML content server with tunable search, XML classifier, point-in-time queries and XML lexicons.

MDY (recently acquired by Computer Associates)--MDY FileSurf Enterprise-grade records management solution for managing the entire life cycle of physical and electronic records, including e-mails and attachments.

Mercado--Mercado bSMART Provides an online B2B sourcing environment for employee purchasers and business partners through intuitive online catalog navigation and targeted product search.

MetaCarta--Geographic Text Search Identifies implied and explicit references to geographic locations within documents, assigns latitude/longitude coordinates to the references, indexes the document and then enables a search for indexed documents through GUIs.

Metastorm--BPM Suite A complete business process management suite that addresses the full process life cycle that can be customized to meet both human- and system-centric requirements, allowing full utilization of existing applications.

Microsoft—SharePoint Highly flexible and broadly adopted information, process and content management software that has spawned many products from other vendors developed specifically for integration with it.

Mindjet--MindManager Mac Concept mapping software for Intel-chip Macs to facilitate idea development and understanding relationships and ramifications of complex issues, supported through graphics, related documents and Internet links.

MindTouch--Managed Office Server An onsite Wiki appliance specifically designed to meet the information management needs of small to medium-sized businesses.

Mobius--ViewDirect TCM suite Content repository offering that serves as the foundation for a software suite that meets a broad range of content-intensive requirements, including Web content management, imaging, workflow, Internet presentment and payment, records management and enterprise report distribution.

Nervana--Nervana Discovery Solution Search offering based on computer-readable ontologies and ranking and indexing through construction of semantic maps of source documents according to how well they match user-specified knowledge contexts.

New Idea Engineering—SearchTrack Pure Java proxy server application that works in conjunction with existing search engines to provide analytics and directed results.

NewsGator--NewsGator RSS Suite Internal and external RSS feeds delivered securely to employees through Outlook, the Web and mobile devices.

Nexidia--Nexidia Enterprise Speech Intelligence 6.0 Audio mining and speech analytics software that allows users to search on proper names, places industry-specific terms and jargon without extensive training and unwieldy dictionaries often associated with speech-to-text solutions.

Noetix--Enterprise Technology Suite A business intelligence solution that automatically generates an extensive library of customizable reports from Oracle and Siebel applications.

Northern Light--Enterprise Search Engine Cost-effective offering with a 17-factor approach to relevance ranking that considers statistical text measures, hyperlink analysis and subject classification.

Nstein--Ntelligent Enterprise Search Search-driven business/competitive intelligence, measuring opinions as indicators of future behavior.

OneSource- Account Intelligence for Salesforce.com Deep, rich business information offering company-linked information covering more than 1.7 million public and private companies and 6 million executives worldwide, directly integrated into Salesforce.com.

Open Text--Livelink ECM - Knowledge Management Robust KM solution and approach allowing organizations to search, classify, navigate and collect corporate knowledge in a single, secure, Web-based repository.

Oracle--Oracle Content Database (OCD) Scalable, secure management of unstructured content in an Oracle database, encouraging continuing product development from other vendors specifically designed for OCD integration.

OutStart--OutStart Evolution LCMS A sophisticated platform designed to facilitate rapid enterprise learning content development and management.

PaperThin--CommonSpot 4.6 Complete, full-featured, browser-based Web content management solution supporting authoring in Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla and FireFox.

ProClarity--ProClarity Analytics 6 Enhanced and expanded integration and functionality for the SQL Server business intelligence platform.

QL2--WebQL 3.0 Extracts data from the deep Web and other unstructured sources inside or outside the firewall, then reformats and delivers it to the user in actionable formats such as spreadsheets, databases and XML.

Quantum Art--QP7.Enterprise Enterprise content management solution that includes process-based publishing and RSS/XML syndication and transformation technologies.