The Semaphore

Volume 2 - November 2011

Welcome to The Semaphore, a Quarterly Newsletter, from Smartlogic.

We have a lot of exciting news to share with you this quarter, the most important of which is our acquisition of SchemaLogic that we completed in August. This acquisition has expanded our market presence as well as extended our leadership in Content Intelligence.

To top that, Smartlogic was awarded the prestigious Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award last month, in recognition of our leadership position in Content Intelligence.

Finally, we also sponsored a new research report called "Getting the Point" - that shows that Microsoft SharePoint is emerging as the industry standard for enterprise information management, but to make it effective, it needs to be combined with specialized applications that improve end user experience and fill the gaps in functionality.

In Focus:

Smartlogic Acquires SchemaLogic

At the end of August, Smartlogic completed the acquisition of SchemaLogic, further expanding our market presence and extending our leadership in the Content Intelligence market. This was a logical move for Smartlogic – adding more bluechip enterprises to our already existing list of Fortune 1000 and global customers. We welcome SchemaLogic customers and prospects into our fold and are pleased to provide you access to Semaphore, the Content Intelligence Platform, that endows and enhances various systems (content management, search, business processes, etc.) with capabilities, such as taxonomy management, automatic classification and contextual navigation, so that organizations can better find, organize, process, monetize, control and govern unstructured content. Read here to find out more about the Smartlogic acquisition of SchemaLogic.

Smartlogic Wins Prestigious Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award

Smartlogic has been presented with the prestigious Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award as a result of recent research conducted by the Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Team. The following criteria were used to benchmark Smartlogic against key competitors: uniqueness of technology, impact on new products/ applications, impact on functionality, impact on customer value and relevance of innovation to industry. The findings of this Best Practices Research scored Smartlogic at 9.1 and our closest competitor at 7.75. For all these details and more, read this white paper.

Products & Solutions

Getting the Point – A New Research Study

A new research study by MindMetre Research and sponsored by Smartlogic shows that Microsoft SharePoint is emerging as the industry standard for enterprise information management. The study also notes that the most effective SharePoint based solutions are the ones that combine the platform’s powerful capabilities with specialist applications to improve the end user experience and fill gaps in functionality. Read this report to find out more.

Upcoming Events

Join us for our Fall and Winter Webinar Series focusing on the various Content Intelligence Solutions offered by Smartlogic. The first one is Content Intelligence for Knowledge Acquisition & Recovery.

Content Intelligence for Knowledge Acquisition & Recovery, Dec 14, 2011

This webinar will feature an in depth discussion around how Smartlogic customer, RTI, has successfully utilized Semaphore Content Intelligence Platform to gain rapid and accurate access to 50 years of research in order to improve the quality, cost-management, and ultimate success of its new business pitches, to avoid the repetition of work already done, and to identify relevant experts for current bids and projects.

Highlighted Customers:

	Herold, the leading publisher of Austria’s “Yellow Pages” business directory implemented Smartlogic’s Semaphore Content Intelligent Platform to ensure that all their directory listings were automatically classified and meta-tagged to enable superior search on their website so as to maintain their position as the market leader in Austria.
	The McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT) wanted to maximize content by broadening access to more users and delivering more focused information to existing subscribers. MCT uses Semaphore Content Intelligence Platform to enrich content with metadata including entities and tags so now each story goes out to consumers with a precise topic and noted for the consumer.
	NASA has 50 years of information in space exploration, health and aeronautics stored in numerous repositories and searched over by numerous search engines. The agency at the Johnson Space Center uses Semaphore as their Enterprise Content Intelligence Platform to classify information to surface to users and to decide which space programs can be retired and which programs can be recycled based on more precise and accurate results. Flight telemetry, fuel mixes, procedures, etc. last used 30 years ago for the Apollo missions have suddenly become relevant again for the 21st century manned space flights.

Highlighted Partners:

	MarkLogic empowers organizations to make high stakes decisions on Big Data in real time. Customers trust MarkLogic for mission critical applications that drive revenue and growth through Big Data Analytics enabled byMarkLogic products, services, and partners.
	Lucid Imagination is the commercial company for Apache Lucene/Solr enterprise search technology. LucidWorks Enterprise makes the power of Solr/Lucene open source search more accessible to the broad range of application developers and slashes the learning curve for search solution development.
	Flare Solutions Limited provides information management consulting, software solutions and related services to the international oil and gas exploration and production industry. Flare has built and deployed a portfolio of software applications including the award winning E&P Catalog™ for publishing and finding information, EPCat-Tracker™ for tracking information, TOPAS for personnel competency tracking and RAPOR for production and operations management.

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