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This section provides access to all our white papers, case studies, articles, videos, demos, and trial software. If you are prompted for your contact details you will only have to enter them once to access any information.

Featured Report: Lost in the Machine - Getting a Grip on Enterprise Information

Featured Report: Getting the Point - SharePoint Report: A MindMetre Research Report sponsored by Smartlogic

Featured Report: Mind the Enterprise Search Gap: A MindMetre Research Report sponsored by Smartlogic

Reports, White Papers and Articles

  • Can you really afford to continue with dumb content?This paper describes the capability your organization should be considering to make your content intelligent and indicates the benefits you will achieve by doing so.
  • This article reviews the findings from two SharePoint surveys, one from Gartner, one from Mindmetre and looks at the lost value of not addressing taxonomy and classification gaps in SharePoint functionality.

Videos and Demos

FAQs

Any increase in complexity means an increased management overhead. We try to make the tools easy to use to keep the process of building and maintaining the model possible. In our domain the ontology is often more of a set of “federated taxonomies” – a series of distinct classes or facets of information with links between them. The semaphore model operates at a human interaction/discovery level – so keeping the relationships to an manageable set is important for the users to gain familiarity with the model. We do not build OWL type structures where unique relationships can be created between any target and source. This model is excellent for machine inference engines where traversing complex interactions is the goal – a different purpose then the semantic enhancement for content management and findability that we provide.

Glossary Terms

  • Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is the strategies, methods and tools used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes.
  • Content classification is the process of analyzing a document and adding metadata 'tags' that describe that document which are sourced from a taxonomy or other form of controlled vocabulary. This can be to:. Add subject metadata to third party content/records management systems to help organization of the content against file plans. Perform entity extraction (companies, people, etc.) to drive a faceted search application. Allow business process and workflow systems to route a document based on its content. For example, news can be routed to particular individual based on the subject matter in the article. The Semaphore 'classification server' delivers innovative and powerful mechanisms to analyze and classify text by adding 'tags' to text documents, web pages or reports that indicate the subject, key dates, people and companies mentioned in the content turns masses of unstructured data into usable information.. The quality of the tags and the speed of processing are essential. Semaphore provides this automatic enterprise-quality content classification solution that underpins a semantically enhanced system.

Product and Solution Sheets

Case Studies

  • NHS Choices (http://www.nhs.uk) aims to provide patients with the healthcare information they need, when they need it. The ability to locate accurate and relevant information – whether it is an explanation of a type of treatment, the particulars on a specific medication, the treatment record of a particular hospital, the latest on waiting lists for different operations, the latest condition management advice, or even relevant dietary tips – helps many concerned users satisfy their query online, helping to save health centre, doctor, specialist and other experts’ time, or at least prepare people for a consultation, or ensure that they contact the most appropriate healthcare professional first time round.
  • The Ford Foundation case study gives detailed information about the challenges faced by Ford Foundation including “Content sprawl‟ causing poor findability and governance of information; Collaboration, content management and enterprise search being severely impaired and Inability to access existing content so that information assets could be recovered and repurposed for ongoing projects prior to the implementation of Semaphore.
  • McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT), the online news provider, has adopted Smartlogic’s enterprise semantic platform, Semaphore, which will enable users to access broader and more comprehensive news content based on specific topics, geography, companies and industry sectors.

Previous Webinars

  • Listen to Jan Aasman from Franz and Matthieu Jonglez from Smartlogic demonstrate, using real client examples, how organizations use two types of semantic application, namely Content Intelligence and Graph Databases to organize enterprise knowledge. There are many ways to use these technologies but one that is gaining momentum is to semantically classify unstructured documents using ontologies in order to draw new data connections and meaning from very large information sets.
  • Listen to Evelyn L. Kent and Caston Jarvis, MCT, Stefan Andreasen, Kapow Software, and Richard Pinder, Smartlogic discuss: The sophisticated software that is available today from Kapow Software and Smartlogic to gather, evaluate and analyze Big Data. A case study of how MCT has successfully used Kapow Software to collect unstructured data from web sources and Content Intelligence from Smartlogic consisting of navigational taxonomies, ontologies and automated classification to extract meaning and insights from Big Data.
  • Hear Toby Conrad provide a deep dive product and demo session on Semaphore for SharePoint.