AR·Semantics

Check out AR’s enterprise products.

 SharePoint
Oracle
Coveo
 MarkLogic
Solr
Exalead
RebelSearch

There are many enterprise search and content management systems available that could use taxonomy and auto-tagging support.  That’s why we designed our solution to be cross platform.   We start with three different versions of the core engine:   Java, C#/.Net and XQuery.  Then we tailor each one to match the capabilities of the underlying system, filling in the gaps until there is a complete solution.

Different platforms have different capabilities.  Our goal is to use the capabilities that are available and add the ones that aren’t.

For example, our SharePoint 2010 implementation (in partnership with WAND, Inc.,  called  DataFacet) is built as a SharePoint Service Application that installs natively into SharePoint itself.  No external servers are required, and DataFacet uses the native SharePoint managed metadata term store as our own term store.   You get all of the features of the new SharePoint 2010 enterprise keywords functionality PLUS the automatic tagging and advanced taxonomy management provided by DataFacet.

Another example is our integration with Apache Solr.   Solr is an enterprise search engine.   And a damn fine one at that.  For Solr, the platform is Java.   You can host our Java server directly in the same J2EE container that hosts Solr, or create a separate instance.   This combination is great for the e-commerce solutions that tend to gravitate toward Solr.

One of our customers, a fabric manufacturer, uses AR·Semantics to map from all of the possible color names and Pantone™ values to a single preferred term.  That way, when you are using the wonderful faceted navigation features of Solr, you can drill down to “green” things rather than having to know “Sea Foam” or PMS 301 are synonyms.   It is a simple and elegant, some would say off-label, use for AR software.