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Verity unveil Collaborative Classifier
Enterprise search provider Verity has released what it believes is first-of-a-kind software that allows for collaboration between distributed subject-matter experts, corporate librarians and knowledge engineers in real time.
The Collaborative Classifier 1.0 allows information to be organised around specific business roles and requirements. The company claims that the software is the first role-based taxonomy and classification-management system available on the market.
“This collaboration is essential to organising information in ways that foster better business processes, improve customer interactions and enhance operational efficiency,” says Anthony Bettencourt, Verity’s president and CEO.
Verity attributes one of the Collaborative Classifier’s unique capabilities to its workflow-based collaboration. This function allows taxonomy and classification management to be distributed to assigned subject-matter experts who know the content, as well as to knowledge engineers who specialise in taxonomy development. Roles and responsibilities can be distributed to as detailed a level as required by an individual organisation. Once a taxonomy is modified, the changes are automatically routed to the appropriate expert for review and forwarded for automatic publishing upon approval.
“Using the Verity Collaborative Classifier, we can distribute responsibilities for classification to subject experts and knowledge professionals located in our international offices,” says Simon Niven, programme manager at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, an international law firm that has implemented the software. “This way they can work together to build browsable taxonomies in both real time and in the most useful and productive way.”
The workflow also has a locking mechanism designed to ensure error-free collaboration, allowing multiple users to work simultaneously on a shared taxonomy.
Verity maintains that the software automatically assigns documents to categories once taxonomies have been set up. The Collaborative Classifier scores each document, supporting the automatic classification with business rules for each category. A document is then accepted into the category, routed to a publisher for approval, or rejected based on determined thresholds.
Organisations can manage taxonomies and classification through their web browsers and collaborate with other users in real time. Verity claims that companies will not require significant training or expertise to use the software.
www.verity.com
Adobe tries to crack market
Adobe has made a first attempt at gaining a toehold in the document-management market with the release of its LiveCycle software.
The product is a server-based collection of applications designed to create, control and manage scanned and XML documents.
www.adobe.com
Documentum releases eRoom.net
Content-management provider Documentum has released the latest version of its collaborative workspace, eRoom.net.
The hosted, subscription-based tool is tailored for specific projects, processes or business initiatives such as new product development, contract negotiations, client engagement and supply chain management.
www.documentum.com
Fast launches marketing intelligence portal
Fast Search and Transfer (Fast) has released a product that gathers market intelligence from multiple sources throughout an enterprise and the web.
A key component of the FAST Marketrac system is a search function the company says will return results that can quickly shape a business marketing strategy.
Searching a particular term will provide results showing what media outlets have written stories about that term and provide a measure of the sentiment of how that term is ranked on a scale ranging from -500 to 500.
www.fastsearch.com
Chronicle addresses compliance woes
Businesses facing compliance deadlines may have an answer to their problems after Chronicle Solutions recently launched netReplay, a product they say allows businesses to search, store and retrieve communications occurring in both the past and present.
According to International Data Corporation and the META Group, 35 billion worldwide e-mail messages will be exchanged daily by 2005. Legal requirements from Inland Revenue, the Data Protection Act and FSA rules in the UK and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US require businesses to archive and extract network content to avoid legal penalties.
Melville Carrie, vice president of research and development for Chronicle, said netReplay provides a forensically accurate audit trail whenever information might be required. It retrieves data based on when content was sent, and details of the sender and recipient. It also features an alert for illicit material transported through the network.
www.chroniclesolutions.com/uk
Stellent revamps real estate solution
Stellent, a provider of content-management solutions, has unveiled new features for SmartCabinet, a web-based application that provides paper-intensive real estate companies with a platform to more effectively share and access business-critical documents.
This includes leases, franchise contracts, insurance policies, and architectural drawings.
The application offers users advanced contribution, customisation, control, comprehension and collaboration.
www.stellent.com
