KMWorld & Intranets 2007 Showcase

A2Z Keywording has created keywording databases for stock photography and publishing companies for over a decade. Whether tagging photos of products or projects; detailing complex conceptual shots; or converting editorial captions into searchable keyword matrixes, A2Z Keywording can transform all your images into language.

Search Technologies, the expert in the search space, is the leading international provider and integrator of enterprise-search and software services. We operate in major cities in the US; UK and Costa Rica. The company's value is our experience, expertise and total focus in delivering enterprise search solutions. Employing a proven search assessment methodology, Search Technologies recommends, installs, integrates and maintains enterprise-search platforms around the world.

Access Innovations has provided innovative information solutions since 1978. Offering abstracting, indexing, and thesaurus creation services, we serve the business, government, academic, library, and research communities. Since 1998, we have been providing these communities with the same tools that we use in-house.
Data Harmony software is production line hardened; we use it daily in the creation of thesauri and indexing of information sources for our customers. You can use this software yourself to make and maintain taxonomies and indexing systems that lead users to success in their quest for information.

IntelliEnterprise is a sophisticated Intranet Suite for the entire enterprise. Manage, organize and search structured and unstructured information using the Document and Content Management module; increase productivity by automating and streamlining business processes with the Workflow module; and improve team Collaboration with the latest Enterprise 2.0 tools. The Enterprise Portal provides the personalized environment to combine all these modules and integrate existing web applications. Extend this universal infrastructure with applications from the Application Park — a repository providing all the ready-to-run applications required to build a sophisticated, enterprise-class Intranet, like employee directory, organizational charts, dashboards, help desk, forums, wikis, blogs, recruiting requisitions, job candidate tracker, contract manager, and project management.

Since 1986, ASG has been helping companies around the world overcome everyday business challenges. Understanding how your IT investments relate to your business performance is critical to your success. ASG can help.

Attivio combines enterprise search and business intelligence capabilities for Unified Information Access. Our Active Intelligence Engine integrates structured and unstructured data from internal and external sources and automatically updates, manages and enriches business systems. The engine is easy to install, linearly scalable, and perfect for custom solutions and application embedding.

Autonomy is a global leader in infrastructure software and is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology allows computers to harness the full richness of human information, forming a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data including unstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including information access technology, pan-enterprise search, information governance, and end-to-end eDiscovery.

BA-Insight extends the search capabilities of SharePoint and Microsoft Search Server. Enhancements provide users with dramatic improvements in speed, usability, and relevance. Users are presented with the most relevant pages in documents without the need to download them. Relevance is automatically tuned and optimized to a company’s unique characteristics. Users add metadata to content as a natural part of the workflow.

Baynote delivers on-demand recommendation technology for websites. Businesses use Baynote to automatically display the best content and products to website visitors. Baynote increases the number of products purchased, impressions on the site and the number of leads generated. Baynote Recommendations tap into the collective wisdom of the silent majority without collecting any explicit feedback. Over 60 ecommerce, media, and enterprise customers use Baynote Recommendations to elevate their business.

Copyright Clearance Center creates innovative licensing solutions for the seamless sharing of knowledge. CCC's licensing services, combined with its Web-based applications and tools, allow tens of millions of people in corporations, universities, law firms and government agencies to use and share published information with ease.

Web 3.0 (The Semantic Web) Search Technology is here now! Cognition Technologies provides the first commercial semantic Search technology based upon linguistic science. CognitionSearch™ "understands" the meanings of virtually every English word and common phrase — dramatically increasing recall and precision. CognitionSearch has been integrated within LexisNexis™ Concordance and powers commercial Websites.

Collexis Holdings, Inc. (CLXS) is a world leader in semantic search and knowledge discovery software. Collexis search technology builds conceptual profiles of text, called Fingerprints, from documents, websites, e-mails and other digitized content and matches them with a comprehensive list of pre-defined “fingerprinted” concepts to make research results more relevant and efficient. . This matching of concepts eliminates the ambiguity and lack of priority often associated with word searches. Collexis can build unique applications to search, index and aggregate information as well as prioritize, trend and predict data based on multiple sources, without the limitations of language or dialect.

Contextware's technology provides commercial and government enterprises with a platform to capture and communicate the step by step detail and tacit knowledge of how to perform any business process, procedure or task. Each step is connected to the relevant content, tools, people and information required by the end user to perform each task. Contextware's solutions have received several industry awards including the 2006 KM Reality Award, awarded at last year's KMWorld & Intranets Conference. For more information, please visit www.contextware.com

Coveo has radically simplified the delivery and deployment of platform-class Information Access solutions for office and full mobile access to critical information located anywhere across the enterprise. The Coveo G2B Information Access Suite provides workers with an unrivalled ability to obtain a 360-degree view of the information they need to drive business – all within a split second – all from your PC or BlackBerry /Windows Mobile device. Built on leading-edge search-platform technology and winner of numerous industry awards, including the2008 SIIA CODiE Award for Best Enterprise Search Engine, Coveo’s search-powered business applications deliver industry-leading competence and consumer-style ease of use, a radically easier implementation that takes less than 24-hours, and “black-belt” level customer support.

Deep Web Technologies' Research Accelerator™, an innovative federated search solution, delivers real-time, comprehensive results from a wide range of information sources including "deep web" content providers and conventional Web sites. Employing a familiar, intuitive search interface, the Research Accelerator presents high-value search results from a common, single point of access.

No other vendor touches the breadth of Dieselpoint's capabilities, with support for multi-terabyte indexes, faceted navigation across millions of items, and real-time incremental updates. Built on top of an elegant, well-designed index and API, Dieselpoint is the platform of choice for corporate search needs.

Dow Jones Client Solutions can help you deliver results that connect your CRM, portal, intranet and Web applications with relevant, integrated information in easy-to-navigate formats. Leverage our strength in role-based tools, Web services technology, user experience design and customization expertise to solve your major business challenges. For more information visit www.dowjones.com/clientsolutions.

Earley & Associates is a recognized industry leader in search, taxonomy, and content management solutions. We bring a multi-disciplinary team and holistic approach to make your search project a success. Services include: search audit and strategy, technology selection, taxonomy, metadata a and information architecture, usability testing, governance implementation, and more.

Built on the Endeca Information Access Platform, Endeca for Knowledge Management delivers an unmatched discovery experience, while offering the tools to rapidly deploy and optimize rich, information-intensive applications. Search, navigation and content presentation features expose all relevant content while providing the tools to quickly hone in on what's most desirable.

Founded in 2000 by search-engine pioneers, Exalead is a global provider of search software for business and the Web. Based on the first and only unified search technology platform for desktop, intranet or Web search, Exalead’s products provide users with a single access point to information, regardless of format or location.

fourthcodex Semantic Enterprise Technologies (SET) are executable, flexible, and agile representations of domain knowledge for dynamic enterprise environments. Our portfolio of embeddable semantic technology components includes semantic information extraction and document classification, concept-based search, knowledge-based decision-support, ontology-driven application development, and scalable meta-data storage. fourthcodex’s mission is to innovate how people and software acquire, interpret, and transform information into knowledge.

Google Enterprise is dedicated to organizing enterprise information and making it accessible and useful to authorized individuals. Google Enterprise search products combine the intuitive interface of Google.com with the features and support that your organization requires, offering users fast, relevant and secure access to information.

Handshake Software, Inc. is the leading provider of integration and innovation products for Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint Server. The company’s solutions help businesses leverage existing information and increase the return on investment from line of business applications for all types of business requirements through Microsoft’s suite of products.

Human Factors International (HFI) helps customers create Web sites, applications, and intranets that are intuitive and easy-to-use. Our work is based on the Schaffer-Weinshenk Method, an ISO certifiable process in the science of human factors engineering. HFI provides certification for practitioners of usability. Since 1981, HFI has solved thousands of real-world usability challenges for hundreds of major clients. HFI’s technical staff, most with Ph.D.s in ergonomics, is known for being scientific, pragmatic, responsive, and creative. We have worked on more than 3,000 interface projects and taught over 2,000 courses on interface design. We are known for completing projects reliably — our on-time, on-budget rate is 98%.

InQuira, Inc. improves the quality of customer interactions through websites and contact centers with integrated applications for intelligent search, knowledge management, analytics and user experience. Blue-chip customers of InQuira include: Apple Computer; AVIS Group Europe; BP; Fidelity Investments; Royal Bank of Scotland; and Yahoo!.

Visual Search provides a revolutionary product to search images, videos and people's faces visually. The products use advanced image and video recognition algorithms to search large visual contents (like images or videos) for color, shape, faces, texture, patterns, scenes, objects or a combination of above. A notable part of the enterprise and personal content are stored in images, videos, presentation/power-point slides, sketches, and diagrams. While most search solutions focus on text search, Visual-Search focuses exclusively on the visual content and enables users to search graphically easily and intelligently. Visual-Search can be integrated with text and other search products.

The Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF) is the global leader in intranet benchmarking, intranet best practice research and member visits and meetings. IBF has more than 60 Annual Members worldwide such as Shell, HSBC, Cadbury Schweppes, Orange, Sara Lee, Unilever, BT, BBC, Reuters and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Founded in 2002, IBF is open to Global 500, Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 organizations - and public sector equivalents.

Intranet DASHBOARD (iD) delivers an all-in-one approach for deploying and managing your intranet. iD brings together people, processes and information using ONE system. iD 2.0 comes complete with a suite of over 40 clever tools, facilitating enhanced communication and collaboration, business processes and content publishing. Free trial: http://www.intranetdashboard.com/trial

ISYS Search Software is a global supplier of enterprise search solutions. The company's software suite offers a range of products that enable search, navigation and discovery across desktops, networks, websites and intranets. ISYS has been deployed by thousands of organizations operating in a variety of industries, including government and legal.

Engenium Search is an award winning and market leading Conceptual Information Access Platform. Combining the power of our conceptual search engine with our automatic clustering engine, Engenium Search empowers knowledge workers with the ability to make better, faster and more informed decisions, increasing efficiencies in a knowledge economy.

Krugle enables software development organizations to profit from the insight and intellectual property contained in source code and related information by creating a unified, searchable, organization-wide view of all code and supporting information. Organizations can manage development across the enterprise and realize significant benefits without changing their existing development practices.

Mark Logic Corporation provides the industry's leading XML content server. Mark Logic works with providers of information products to accelerate new product creation, build custom publishing systems, deliver products through multiple channels, integrate content from different sources, repurpose content into multiple products, and mine content to find previously undiscovered information.

Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search empower your most important business asset—your people—to find information and locate expertise in the enterprise. Turn information into results with enterprise search solutions from Microsoft.

FAST, a Microsoft® subsidiary, creates the real-time search solutions that are behind the scenes at the world’s best-known companies with the most demanding information challenges. FAST’s flexible and scalable integrated technology platform connects users, regardless of medium, to the relevant information they need.

New Idea Engineering, Inc. helps companies identify strategic and tactical goals to select, implement, and manage enterprise search within the corporation. Through engagements that assess current and future requirements, user search behavior, and technology integration, NIE provides clients with the roadmap to making search great using Autonomy, FAST, Google, IBM, Lucene and other leading platforms.

Openwater agrees with Forrester that the traditional model of "one search for everything has failed in the enterprise."(1) We also agree with Microsoft that FAST and Autonomy solutions are "an expense that few ... can justify."(2) Openwater provides immediate value, delivering SaaS search solutions within the context of specific business objectives. (1) The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Search, Q2 2008 (2) Enterprise search: The next essential productivity tool (http://www.microsoft.com/midsizebusiness/businessvalue/enterprisesearch.mspx)

Gathering, mining, and retrieving collective intelligence have been hallmarks of PARC's multidisciplinary research since the mid-90s. Today PARC applies Web 2.0 techniques to enterprise knowledge management, partnering with clients to develop easy-to-use knowledge-sharing systems. PARC (a Xerox Company) is celebrated for such innovations as Ethernet, GUI, and ubiquitous computing.

QL2 is the leading provider of Market Intelligence On Demand solutions that deliver critical business information for better, more profitable decisions.  QL2 delivers information from the web and other sources for a complete view of the market place. Visit us at www.QL2.com to learn more.

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SafeHarbor is expert at moving customer support to the web by creating a culture of self-service using technology and business practices. The results are lower support costs and higher user satisfaction. SafeHarbor partners with companies such as Washington Mutual, American Airlines and T-Mobile solving complex support challenges through web self-service.

SAVO is the leading provider of Sales Enablement solutions. SAVO specializes in maximizing the sales organization's ability to communicate value and differentiation in clear, consistent and compelling ways. Through a combination of proven sales and marketing best practices embedded in an award-winning on-demand application, SAVO addresses all aspects of the Sales Enablement challenge — spanning people, process, content, and technology.

SchemaLogic is the leading provider of business semantics management solutions, providing a framework that enables companies to model the structures and relationships of business semantics that define corporate knowledge and content. Facilitating dynamic change to business semantic models via Web-based governance and collaboration, SchemaLogic enables collaboration across organizational, corporate and industry boundaries.

Siderean helps people quickly view and explore the full scope of enterprise and Web-based information available for better-informed decision making. Going beyond search, Siderean illuminates previously unseen relationships that can help you discover new avenues of exploration and let you know what you don’t know while navigating from a bird’s-eye to a bug’s-eye view. Specifically allowing users to master discovery, our flagship product Seamark allows you to disassemble information into interesting pieces (i.e. people, organizations, events, places, etc.); identify relationships between pieces; annotate/tag/navigate the pieces; reassemble/remix pieces into playlists; syndicate/distribute play-lists; track user usage/attention.

SLI Systems provides site search, site navigation and user-generated SEO services.  Unlike traditional search software, SLI Systems’ patented technology continuously “learns” from the behavior of visitors over time to deliver more relevant results.  FTD, Tupperware, TravelChannel.com, ULTA and others benefit from SLI Systems’ technology.

Socialcast is a proven, successful leader in developing customized, private-label Corporate social networks. Our technology unites traditional corporate intranet features with social networking functionality to create knowledge sharing, collaboration, and employee retention. Please visit us at www.socialcast.com.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization that delivers real results, ensuring a level of certainty for global business. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model.

Teragram, A Division of SAS, is the market leader in multilingual natural language processing technologies that use the meaning of text to distill relevant information from vast amounts of data. Teragram Solutions include Taxonomy and Ontology Management, Automatic Categorization, Entities Extraction, Query Spelling, Direct Answers and News Alerts.

Since 1994, TextWise has been designing, building and implementing complex content-driven semantic technology solutions. The Textwise semantic ecosystem utilizes Semantic Signatures® to enable Web publishers and application developers to automatically embed consistent, semantically meaningful tags within their content for use in classification, organization, navigation and search.

TheBrain Technologies helps people organize, visualize and share content faster. TheBrain's expanded information views enable you to see key information relationships, search multiple data sources and add new topics and files instantly. "Corporate Brains" are used worldwide for: intranets, database visualization, competitive intelligence, sales and marketing support, information self-service, and customer service knowledgebases. Individual users can download TheBrain's award-winning desktop software, PersonalBrain, to organize files, web pages and ideas the way they think.

InfoWorld ranks Traction TeamPage as the Best Enterprise Wiki. Beyond blogs and wikis, TeamPage brings secure, scalable collaboration to the Enterprise. TeamPage delivers Enterprise 2.0 in a box, with an easily installed, permission filtered platform for authoring, discussions, linking, tagging, cross-tagging, search and newsletters, RSS, and e-mail notification.

Visual Sciences, Inc. (formerly known as WebSideStory, Inc.) (NASDAQ: VSCN) is a leading provider of real-time analytics applications. The company's analytics applications, based on its on-demand service and software platform, enable fast and detailed analysis of large volumes of streaming and stored data. More than 1,500 enterprises worldwide including AT&T, Best Buy, Fedex and Travelocity, rely on the answers delivered by these applications to provide them with actionable intelligence to optimize their business operations. The company provides real-time analytics applications for Web sites, contact centers, retail points-of-sale, messaging systems and the intelligence community.

Vorsite is a leader in enterprise content management technologies with the knowledge and vision to start with the solution and optimize the return on IT investments. Our inside knowledge of ECM, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and search technology allows us to be forward-thinking in delivering flexible, scalable solutions that serve business objectives.

X1 Technologies provides enterprise search solutions that allow users to securely find, preview, and act on structured and unstructured data throughout the enterprise. Using a single interface, X1 solutions provide a unified view of content; whether stored within messaging systems, enterprise repositories, custom applications, the intranet, or on user desktops.