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Overview and FAQs about Smartlogic's acquisition of SchemaLogic

Overview

  • Smartlogic has announced the acquisition of Seattle-based SchemaLogic , further expanding Smartlogic’s US presence and market focus, and extending its leadership in the Content Intelligence market.
  • This transaction confirms Smartlogic as the leading provider of Enterprise Content Intelligence Software. Content Intelligence complements an organization’s investments in Business Intelligence, Content Management and Enterprise Search solutions, providing effective, rapid and accurate access to unstructured content – documents, presentations, , web pages, pdfs and so on – with a speed, accuracy and intelligence not achievable with today’s information volumes using existing systems. Smartlogic’s Content Intelligence software endows these systems with semantic capabilities so that organizations can better find, organize, process, monetize, control and govern unstructured content.
  • Hundreds of organizations across the globe have invested in the capabilities of Smartlogic’s Semaphore, enhancing effectiveness and return on investment from enterprise search platforms such as Google Search Appliance, content management systems such as MS SharePoint, Business Intelligence environments such as SAP BusinessObjects, and business workflow such as Open Text .
  • Semaphore delivers radically improved search results and powerful yet intuitive navigation of content that enables major commercial and productivity gains. Semaphore also delivers rich metadata that helps information platforms provide much greater control and governance over content as well as increased re-use and re-purposing of digital assets. This accelerates the return on investment on existing content management and search investments.
  • Acquiring SchemaLogic is a logical move for Smartlogic that adds more blue chip clients to its existing list of Fortune 1000 and global enterprise customers; it cements the company’s expertise in Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences and enhances Smartlogic’s already strong presence in Media, Financial Services, Healthcare and Research organizations.
  • The addition of SchemaServer to the Semaphore platform adds incremental functionality and extends solutions choice for both Smartlogic and SchemaLogic customers and prospects.
  • Both Smartlogic and SchemaLogic are Microsoft Gold ISV partners, and the combination will add to Semaphore’s already strong SharePoint capability of automatic classification ontology and contextual navigation support for SharePoint.

FAQs

  • Q. Why did Smartlogic acquire SchemaLogic?
  • A. All the many SchemaLogic clients have invested time and energy in building taxonomies and ontologies, and Smartlogic’s Semaphore system puts these taxonomies to work by providing automatic classification and context aware navigation. Thus we can extend the vision of Semaphore to a larger group of clients who already understand the benefits of ontologies.
  • Q. What will happen to SchemaLogic products?
  • A. Smartlogic have taken over the SchemaLogic technical support and delivery teams and as of today both MetaPoint and SchemaServer are fully supported Smartlogic products.
    We are consulting with our new clients to determine the correct product path for them. All clients will be able to take advantage of our product vision going forward, regardless of what combination of products they have today.
  • Q. Aren’t the SchemaLogic products competitive with Semaphore?
  • A. The SchemaLogic products could be considered competitive with Semaphore Ontology Manager, which is only one of 5 Semaphore modules – the other 4 which perform classification, visualization, content analytics and contextual navigation have a lot of value to add to the existing SchemaServer users.
  • Q. What do Schemalogic customers gain from the acquisition?
  • A. Ongoing support and maintenance from a larger support team, with experience of a wider range of business implementations and experience.
    Access to the Content Intelligence vision that is Semaphore - from the perspective of being a client and not just as a prospect.
  • Q. Is the plan to continue the SchemaLogic products?
  • A. Yes, certainly for the short term (12 months) while we consult with our new clients and plan the optimum migration path for them.
  • Q. What do I do if I have more questions regarding this acquisition?
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  • Q. Do I do if I am a SchemaServer or MetaPoint client and I want support?
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