DataFacet Updated
DataFacet 2010 for SharePoint has been updated to version 2.1.1312. Please visit appliedrelevance.com/downloads and login to download the current package.
What changed?
Bugs:
- It was found that the Annotator stopped annotating without an alert if an exception occurred. This has been resolved to now display a notification to the user and continue annotating the remaining documents. (FIB 2.1.1320)
- Standalone DataFacet installer would not install on a clean build. This error has been resolved. (FIB 2.1.1323)
DataFacet for SharePoint Updated
DataFacet 2010 for SharePoint has been updated.
Please visit www.appliedrelevance.com or click the following link to download:
Download DataFacet 2010 version 2.1.1278
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Case Study – IMF
Back in 2007, Applied Relevance hung out a shingle as a consulting firm specializing in enterprise search professional services. We figured 10 years implementing enterprise search and taxonomy projects for some of the most prestigious companies in the world gave us the street cred to solve some pretty big problems. And so it did. We landed projects for organizations like Businessweek, Conde Nast, MPS Group, and Jane’s Defence Publishing in our first year of existence.
But AR was most fortunate in those days to be invited to provide professional services for the International Monetary Fund. This is a prestigious institution, and we were honored to have the opportunity to work with some of the smartest people, quite literally, from all over the world.
Not every organization has the foresight to understand the importance of enterprise search and particularly the role of taxonomies in organizing and finding documents. IMF gets it. They understand that timely and accurate access to critical enterprise documents is fundamental to the success of the organization – now more than ever.
Over time, it became clear that IMF needed a new search engine – preferably one that can support taxonomies. The problem is, not very many search engines support taxonomies. And those that do don’t really take them seriously. On the other side of the coin, not many taxonomy and ontology management system treat enterprise search that seriously. What they really needed was a way to combine powerful taxonomy management and automatic tagging with a fast, scalable search engine.
FAST Search and Transfer – more than a recursive acronym
Right around the time that Microsoft acquired the Norwegian company FAST Search and Transfer, the IMF began evaluating candidates for a new enterprise search and taxonomy system to power their “Knowledge Exchange” project. FAST was the natural choice. It is mature and powerful, and was soon to be incorporated deeply into SharePoint 2010. IMF happened to be moving toward SharePoint as well, and had lots of in-house Microsoft expertise. An in-depth evaluation led to the conclusion that FAST was the way to go.
Why Applied Relevance?
As I mentioned before, IMF are very keen on enterprise taxonomies. They understood how they can be leveraged to help users find and navigate to the information they need. While there are some good enterprise search and taxonomy systems out there, none of them really had the mix of features that they wanted or needed. Plus, AR had already developed a version of the taxonomy manager and auto-tagger for SharePoint 2007 to IMF specifications to support their legacy system. And it worked.
So, we ported AR·Semantics to SharePoint 2010 and FAST for SharePoint, and in the process did a lot of rewriting and streamlining of the code to make it truly enterprise ready. The result is AR·Semantics for SharePoint, the IMF Knowledge Exchange, and this very nice case study from Microsoft.
Microsoft Case Study- Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 For Sharepoint – International Monetary Fund
Needless to say, we’re very grateful to IMF, and especially the Knowledge Engineering team for their vision, patience and support as AR grows and deploys our solutions to an ever growing list of organizations that understand the power of taxonomy and search.
The Science, Practice and Art of Classification - Enterprise Search Summit 2011
Applied Relevance to Exhibit at Online Information 2011 in London
Applied Relevance will be presenting and exhibiting at the XML Pavilion of the London Online conference at the 29-November – 2-December at National Hall, Olympia, London.
The theme our exhibit is “Agile Taxonomies for Agile Publishing”. We are partnering with Really Strategies, iFactory and MarkLogic in sponsoring the event.
MarkLogic server excels at handling unstructured data. AR·Semantics builds on that to provide taxonomy management, auto-tagging of content and hierarchical faceted navigation. AR·Semantics has three modules for three kinds of users.
AR·Taxonomy Manager is for knowledge experts and content curators. It is an easy-to-use interface for creating, managing and testing rule-based taxonomies.
AR·Annotator is for content owners and authors. It automatically adds metadata (tags) to documents as they are added to MarkLogic Server.
AR·Navigator is for end users. It is a set of faceted search controls that let end users zero-in on the content they need.
We’ll have some exciting new announcements at the show, as well as a compelling presentation at the speakers’ pavilion.
Tuesday, 29 November, 14:30 – 15:00 intheatre 4 (EPublishing Solutions)-
‘Agile taxonomies for e-publication’ – George Everitt, Chief Architect and CEO, Applied Relevance.
We hope to see you there!
Taxonomy Manager
AR·Taxonomy is an easy-to-use taxonomy editor and manager. It is designed to be simple for librarians, taxonomists, semantic experts and knowledge engineers to take control of the enterprise vocabulary.
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DataFacet for SharePoint Release 2.1
DataFacet for SharePoint 2010 release 2.1 is now available. This release includes the following new and improved features:
- Vastly improved installer. Installations now take just a few minutes on most SharePoint farms.
- More stable licensing. No more “phone home” license keys.
- New options for re-annotating existing documents.
- Complete integration with FAST for SharePoint 2010
- Dedicated FAST annotator to leverage the SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata feature with any data source supported by FAST for SharePoint.
- Taxonomy Manager and Editor no longer requires access to Central Administration.
- New logging feature with dedicated client application.
- New configuration features for Document Libraries.
This is our easiest to use and most advanced release yet. Give it a whirl. Contact us at http://www.datafacet.com/ for a test drive.
George Everitt, Applied Relevance’s CEO to speak at Enterprise Search Summit
George Everitt, Applied Relevance’s founder and president, will be speaking at the Enterprise Search Summit, a 2-day, in-depth conference that covers the development, implementation and enhancement of cutting-edge internal search capabilities, to be held on the 10th & 11th of May, at the Hilton New York.
Mr Everrit will be speaking alongside other presentors from the International Monetary Fund, on the organization’s experience in applying taxonomies to unstructured information. The presentation will highlight taxonomies and automatic classification at the IMF, and how they are used to support the stabilizing forces provided by this global organization.
Included will be real-world tips an techniques for building effective taxonomies against a core repository of documents. Platforms discussed will be SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search for SharePoint, AR·Semantics, SeeUnity and OpenText DM5.
George Everitt is the founder and president of Applied Relevance, with over 15 years experience in the fields of enterprise search and knowledge management. Mr Everitt has implemented high profile taxonomy and enterprise search applications at numerous prestigious organizations world wide, including The IMF, the United Nations, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Chase and Morgan Stanley, among many others.
Applied Relevance Launches Semantic Software for MarkLogic Server
AR·Semantics is an easy-to-use taxonomy management and categorization service for MarkLogic Server
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — May 6, 2011 — Applied Relevance today introduced AR·Semantics for MarkLogic Server, the next generation of its software suite for managing taxonomies, classifying documents, faceted search and directed navigation. AR·Semantics features a functional user interface for building and managing hierarchical data models for unstructured information. AR·Semantics for MarkLogic Server takes advantage of the big data handling capabilities of MarkLogic Server to enable near-real-time categorization of enterprise content.
“We’re very excited about this integration with MarkLogic,” said George Everitt, CEO, Applied Relevance. “MarkLogic Server is solid, scalable, and shockingly powerful. Our testing has shown that it can handle truly massive unstructured data with much less bother than similarly scaled relational databases. AR·Semantics for MarkLogic Server enables companies to organize their unstructured information, ultimately allowing them to generate value from it.”
The human brain thinks of the world as taxonomies, or hierarchies of information. Taxonomies allow organizations to classify and categorize information in a natural way. When taxonomies are applied to unstructured information, new and intuitive ways to drill into that information are unlocked, allowing enterprises to get to what they need faster. Applied Relevance semantic software unleashes the power of taxonomies on masses of unstructured and semi-structured information.
“Leveraging unstructured information and big data is a place where MarkLogic excels,” said Bill Veiga, vice president of business development, MarkLogic. “As a database for unstructured information, using MarkLogic Server for the AR·Semantics platform was a natural fit. Implementing a platform that can enable near real-time categorization of enterprise content can offer organizations a competitive advantage and can have a significant impact on the bottom line.”
AR·Semantics for MarkLogic Server is available today and more information can be found athttp://www.appliedrelevance.com/marklogic/. To learn more about MarkLogic, please visit the company’s website.
About MarkLogic
MarkLogic is revolutionizing the way organizations leverage information. The company’s flagship product is a purpose-built database for unstructured information. Customers in industries including media, government and financial services use MarkLogic to develop and deploy information applications at a fraction of the time and cost as compared to conventional technologies such as relational databases and search engines.
MarkLogic is headquartered in Silicon Valley with field offices in Austin, Boston, Frankfurt, London, New York, and Washington DC. The company is privately held with investors Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital. For more information or to download a trial version, go to www.marklogic.com.
About Applied Relevance
Applied Relevance produces software and services to help enterprise users find the information they need. Our solutions augment traditional search engines by providing context for the search results. The AR toolset and our partners provide cost effective technology for the full spectrum of enterprise content management and search applications. With our tools, a search term and a few clicks, users can zero-in past ambiguities and come up with the right answer in the right context.
About AR·Semantics
AR·Semantics provides automatic tagging, taxonomy management and faceted navigation features to enterprise content management and enterprise search applications.