What does Semaphore add to FAST ESP?

• Semaphore FAST Edition delivers an enhanced experience to users of the FAST Enterprise Search Platform. This is in addition to all the facilities offered by FAST ESP.
• Semaphore FAST Edition complements FAST ESP by providing ontology driven classification and navigation to the FAST search experience.
• Semaphore FAST Edition is Semantic Middleware designed for and tightly integrated with FAST ESP.

Capability

• Enables portals based on FAST ESP to offer specific contextual navigation mechanisms that enhance the search-navigation experience.
• Provides rule-based classification that feeds additional metadata to the FAST index, boosting FAST ESP performance, precision and ability.
• Delivers metadata management facilities that enable content integration across disparate information sources.
• Offers a tightly integrated ontology management system for the editing, control and deployment of all types of controlled vocabulary used in the information discovery process.
• Adds semantic processing to FAST ESP to further automate routine tasks involving unstructured information, such as compliance, information routing and triggering specific workflows

Implementation

• Quick and easy to deploy
• Technology widely deployed at small and large organisations
• Tightly integrated with FAST ESPs crawling, portal and security services
• Simple and competitive pricing model based on the size of your FAST implementation

Semantic models(which include taxonomies and ontologies) compliment enterprise search systems to help people find information and expertise more easily, accelerate learning, locate and use information resources and create and share content.

Semantic models organise knowledge and information. They define a domain using a hierarchy, making it clear for a user what they know, what they don’t know and what they need to know. Whether researching a company, finding the right product or identifying who to talk with semantic models are a powerful tool by which people quickly find answers or stimulate problem solving.