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March 2012 - Concept Searching Provides Enhanced Search Capability to the Award Winning SharePoint Global Intranet at Logica. Logica's award winning intranet is showcased in the Nielsen Norman Group Report "Intranet Design Annual 2012: Year’s 10 Best Intranets" Concept Searching provided the taxonomy, metadata management, and auto-classification for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 based global Intranet. "Concept Searching: indexes the intranet, My Sites, and the Logica Library and provides the auto-classification service. The Logica intranet team used research, guiding principles, and planning to move the company to one global site, enabling the workforce to communicate in new and powerful ways. Creative content drew users to the new site, and blogging lets them communicate in informal ways".
The report is available here: http://www.nngroup.com/reports/intranet/design/.

March 2012 - Concept Searching is pleased to announce the deployment of conceptClassifier for SharePoint and the building blocks in the Smart Content Framework™ at Perkins+Will, an integrated design firm. The solution has enabled Perkins+Will to realize the potential of search improvements in SharePoint 2010, by integrating natively with the Term Store and fully supporting managed metadata properties. To read the details in the Case Study, "Perkins+Will : Improved Information Transparency and Effective Information Governance Enterprise Wide", please click here and the Press Release.

March 2012 - Concept Searching and Project Performance Corporation (PPC) will be hosting the second Webinar in the 2012 Expert Webinars Series on Tuesday, March 27th at 11:30am – 12:30pm EST. The guest speaker is industry expert Raimund M. Wasner of Kollabria. The topic is “Developing Enterprise Facets for SharePoint’s Managed Metadata Term Store”. Raimund M. Wasner, Managing Director at Kollabria, is a highly regarded analyst and expert on ECM technologies and SharePoint. He has researched, studied and written about personal computing, document management, document imaging, workflow, records management, groupware, and web content management technologies for more than 25 years. Space is limited. Read the Press Release.

March 2012 - Concept Searching has once again been selected by KMWorld as one of the "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management". Concept Searching has been recognized on the list for the fourth consecutive year. The list, in its twelfth year, is compiled by KM practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors and their customers and colleagues. Hugh McKellar, Editor in Chief of KMWorld stated, "Concept Searching has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to their customers by helping to harvest an organization's collective intelligence in order to best serve its entire constituency chain". Read the Press Release.

February 2012 - Concept Searching and COMPU-DATA International, LLC, provider of repository management product DigitalAsset Finder™ (DAF), have deployed Concept Searching’s conceptSearch, conceptClassifier, and conceptTaxonomyManager for the US Army - Records Management and Declassification Agency (RMDA). The integrated solution consolidates over 20 data sources and databases for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Support and uses Concept Searching's Smart Content Framework™. Read the Press Release and Case Study.

February 2012 - Concept Searching Gold Sponsor at the SharePoint Technology Conference in San Francisco. Understand why leading organizations including NASA, USAF, US Army and Perkins+Will are deploying Information Governance with the Smart Content Framework™ and the Award Winning conceptClassifier for SharePoint. Concept Searching is a Gold Sponsor of the SharePoint Technology Conference (SPTechCon) being held in San Francisco, February 26th-29th. Using live demonstrations of its award winning product, conceptClassifier for SharePoint, Concept Searching will provide attendees with an in depth view of its integration with SharePoint 2010, as well as insight into how it is being used within the Smart Content Framework™, to natively leverage the strengths of SharePoint and solve diverse organizational challenges. Concept Searching welcomes all attendees to visit Booth 507 for the live demonstrations, and for the chance to win a Kindle Fire at the SPTechCon Winner’s Circle. Read the Press Release

February 2012 - Concept Searching and Project Performance Corporation Launch an All New Expert Webinar Series for 2012. Back by Popular Demand - Managing Information in SharePoint, Deep Dives into SharePoint Architecture and Knowledge Management. Concept Searching announces the 2012 Expert Webinar Series hosted jointly with Project Performance Corporation. The 2011 Series of Expert Webinars proved so successful that the second series will provide all new topics focusing on how to develop an understanding of using SharePoint to be an effective information management resource. Read the Press Release

February 2012 - Using Technology to Build and Support a Solid Information Governance Model Concept Searching has announced the formalization of the building blocks that constitute the Smart Content Framework™ for information governance. Concept Searching's Smart Content Framework™ is a toolset that provides an enterprise framework to mitigate risk, automate processes, manage information, protect privacy, and address compliance issues. The Smart Content Framework™ is a multi-disciplinary solution, delivered through the Concept Searching technologies, that encompasses the entire portfolio of information assets, resulting in increased organizational performance and agility. The framework has proven to be a flexible solution to address recurring problems in organizations of any size or in any industry. Read the Press Release

January 2012 - Concept Searching are Exhibiting and Speaking at the International SharePoint Conference London 2012, at the QEII Conference Centre, 23-25 April 2012. Visit us on Stand 16. You are warmly invited to our interactive demonstration session on Tuesday 24th April at 12.30 entitled: "Taxonomy Workflow: Transforming Metadata Into Actionable Intelligence" Presented by Paul Billingham, GM at Concept Searching.

Please call to make an appointment to meet us: +44 (0) 1438 213545 or email requesting more information: cate@conceptsearching.com

January 2012 - Concept Searching maintains rapid growth for seventh consecutive year in the Taxonomy and Text Analytics market. Concept Searching, a global leader in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software, is pleased to announce that it has achieved 32 percent revenue growth for 2011. Since 2006, Concept Searching has sustained an average 50 percent revenue growth year over year. Read the Press Release

November 2011 - Concept Searching's search platform has been deployed underpinning the "Knowledge Now" collaborative environment, implemented to support the NASA Safety Center replacing an alternative technology platform. The platform designed and deployed by Concept Searching expert partner Triune Software supports their Program Management, Engineering, Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) communities. The NSC plans to roll it out agency wide in support of 23,000 users across 800 work groups providing interactive collaboration around activities including: distribution of best practices in the form of safety plans, quality plans, risk plans, etc.; lessons learned; system failure case studies; process flows audits and training. Such a deployment further emphasizes the scalability and maturity of the Concept Searching technology platform and its suitability for the most demanding mission critical applications. Read the Press Release

November 2011 - Concept Searching's Concept Classifier for SharePoint has been selected by OppenheimerFunds, Inc to underpin it’s enterprise roll out of SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search. OppenheimerFunds, Inc one of the nation's largest and most respected asset management companies selected Concept Searching's conceptClassifier for SharePoint and Taxonomy Workflow over a number of competing products and will initially deploy the technologies in support of its legal department. A major factor in the decision was conceptClassifier's native integration with the SharePoint 2010 Term Store, its proven market deployments and the unique ability to use automatically generated metadata to drive policies in SharePoint 2010, key for any enterprise working within a highly regulated industry.

November 2011 - Concept Searching are Exhibiting and Speaking at Online Information 2011 National Hall, Olympia, London.
Visit us on Stand 654 – Amlib UK and Concept Searching will be collaboratively demonstrating our market leading offerings in Enterprise Search and Library Management.
Call to make an appointment to meet us on the stand: +44 (0) 1438 213545
Tuesday 29th November from 15:50-16:20 - David Johnston – Director at Applied Network Solutions and Amlib UK Limited will be hosting a Library Management & Information Masterclass.
Thursday 1st December from 15:10 -15:40 - Paul Billingham – GM at Concept Searching will be presenting: “Taxonomy workflow: transforming metadata into actionable intelligence”.
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Online Information is the largest event dedicated to the information industry, providing an annual meeting place for the global information and information management profession.

November 2011 - Concept Searching presents Expertise in Automatic Metadata Driven Application of Policies. Automatic Application of Polices critical to dealing effectively with compliance and information governance initiatives - address the business problem and not the behavior. An increasing amount of unstructured and structured data presents an ongoing challenge to organizations, and the ability to apply an automatic, consistent enterprise-wide policy is a prerequisite for success. By effectively and accurately applying policy across applications and content repositories, Concept Searching’s technology enables organizations to significantly improve their compliance and information governance initiatives. Read the Press Release

October 2011 - Concept Searching, together with customer the US Air Force Medical Service (USAFMS), to deliver keynote address at KMWorld 2011 on the hot topic Knowledge Driven Collaboration. Knowledge sharing and collaboration are essential to success, no matter what your area of business is. Lt Col David Sanchez, USAF, Deputy PM, USAF Pilot Physician Program, will follow up his keynote at KMWorld 2010 with an updated briefing, where he will share his extensive experiences on integrating secure collaboration into program management activities in the United States Air Force (USAF), at this year’s KMWorld event on November 2nd. Read the Press Release

October 2011 - InfoStrata Solutions has entered into a strategic OEM partnership with Concept Searching. Both parties have collaborated to develop some unique content migration, compliance and lifecycle management solutions for SharePoint 2010.

InfoStrata Solutions delivers business solutions based on Microsoft's SharePoint™ technology. Through a strategic mix of development experience, consulting track-record and best-of-breed enhancement technologies, InfoStrata Solutions is well placed to show how SharePoint can provide the safest and most cost-effective route for your line-of-business requirements. All of InfoStrata’s SharePoint consultants are Microsoft Certified technical specialists and professional developers (MCTS,MCPD SharePoint 2010), which assures their customers of a best practice approach to developing solutions and meeting their expectations.

Paul Billingham – General Manager Europe: "By entering this agreement InfoStrata and Concept Searching have brought together the strengths of InfoStrata’s outstanding consulting experience and Concept Searching’s award winning classification technology to provide mission critical SharePoint solutions".

October 2011 - Concept Searching Participating in the Kollabria Fall 2011 Seminar Series: How to use SharePoint for Enterprise Document Management.

The seminar series, held exclusively at Microsoft locations around the US, will walk through the planning assumptions, technology requirements, and solutions planning guidelines to enable attendees to plan world class document management solutions using SharePoint. "We are delighted to be participating in this valuable enterprise document management series," said Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching. "While SharePoint can deliver significant value out of the box, there are areas where enterprises need to deploy third party integrated solutions. This series showcases a number of those 'best of breed' solutions and we are proud to be one of them". Read the Press Release. For further information click here.

October 2011 - Concept Searching has been recognized as a KMWorld "Trend Setting Product" for 2011 for the third year in a row. The leader in developing automatic conceptual metadata generation, automated classification, and taxonomy management software announced today that their flagship product, conceptClassifier for SharePoint, has been selected as a KMWorld Trend Setting Product for 2011. Read the Press Release.

September 2011 - Concept Searching has formed an exclusive relationship with Apress a leading publisher of technical books. All attendees that visit Concept Searching at booth 555 at Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 or at booth 11 at the KM World Conference 2011 will receive a 25% discount coupon redeemable for any book from the online store at www.apress.com.

August 2011 - Concept Searching recruits Marketing Manager to focus on both US and International Markets and further drive the Microsoft Partnership.

Nicola Barnes joins Concept Searching from 11+ years working within Microsoft where she managed a number of Global field and ISV initiatives. A solid Marketing professional with some 20 years experience Nicola will focus on leveraging the Microsoft relationship and driving value for the Concept Searching product set in both the US and emerging international markets.

August 2011 - Deloitte has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint to underpin their global knowledge portal. Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries have 45,000 professionals that deliver audit, financial advisory, tax and consulting services. The IP of the firm is in the use and re-use of information and the ability to collaborate across industry and geographic boundaries. The importance of tagging content with appropriate metadata and classifying that content aligned with the business goals is paramount especially when looking to enhance findability. Deloitte have an extensive SharePoint 2010 implementation and a major factor in the decision was the fact that conceptClassifier is the only third-party product available that natively integrates with the SharePoint 2010 Term Store, Managed Metadata Properties and the FAST search engine.

August 2011 - Concept Searching recruits Marketing Manager to focus on UK and European business development.

Cate Evans joins Concept Searching from EMC/Documentum where she was Senior Marketing Manager for the UK and Ireland. She bring a wealth of experience gained over 18 years in the software industry. Cate has held senior management positions at four previous companies at the time they were successfully acquired by larger players.

August 2011 - Microsoft MVP joins Concept Searching to head up Professional Services in Canada. 

Wes McDonald, a Microsoft MVP and SharePoint consultant has joined the Canadian team to head up Professional Services. Wes has a long and successful background managing projects and programs for both Government and commercial clients in Ottawa and across Canada.

August 2011 - Concept Searching launches Direct operations in Canada. On Wednesday July 20th Concept Searching formally launched its Canadian operation at the Microsoft Federal offices in Ottawa. Canada Launch at the Microsoft Federal Offices. The team lead by Vice President, David Wu plans to focus initial energies on the Canadian Government and DOD leveraging the extensive qualifications Concept Searching has in this market elsewhere. Said Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching "We have been getting increasing requests for our technology from Canada, with David and the team in place we now have the ability to service those requests. Concept Searching is now uniquely placed to bring our intelligent tagging and classification solutions the Canadian Government and assist agencies comply with the new directives around records to be implemented by 2014."

July 2011 - First Reserve selects Concept Classifier for SharePoint to improve findability and enable effective records management. First Reserve, a leading investment firm specializing in the energy industry has selected Concept Classifier to power its SharePoint intranet enhancing findability and offering users a guided navigation experience to content aligned to business goals. In addition First Reserve will implement Concept Searching’s unique Taxonomy Workflow capability that automatically tags content with semantic metadata and drives actions and workflow based on that metadata and document content, enhancing the declaration and preservation of documents of record.

July 2011 - Burns & McDonnell choses Concept Classifier to power their Intranet search. Burns & McDonnell operates globally with over 3,000 engineers, architects, construction experts, planners, estimators, economists, technicians and scientists representing virtually all design disciplines. The company realizes that the efficient use and re-use of information is critical to their internal collaboration and the supporting of their customers and projects. Burns chose Concept Searching’s technology stack to augment their search process with intelligent tagging, automatic classification and taxonomy management integrated with Microsoft’s SharePoint.

June 2011 - Point B has selected conceptClassifer for SharePoint and concept Searching’s enterprise class taxonomy manager to power its intranet. Point B, a management consulting firm headquartered in Seattle, specializes in strategic execution. The use and re-use of knowledge assets is critical to the business. In order to successfully collaborate across the company Point B recognized the importance and intrinsic value of automating the tagging and classification of content. Following an evaluation of appropriate technologies conceptClassifier was chosen for both its superior results over competitive products as well as its tight integration with the SharePoint 2010 Term Store. Point B joins a growing list of professional services firms that have deployed Concept Searching technologies.

June 2011 - Concept Searching is delighted to have two new hires join its North American management team. 

Alison Reid joins to head up program and project management. Alison, an ex McKinsey & Company consultant brings a wealth of experience and will work with both our end user clients and partners to ensure Concept Searching products and Services are delivered consistently thru the channel. 

David Wu joins the team as Vice President, Canada. David is based in Ottawa and has a background working with both commercial and public sector clients, is an active member of the Canadian AIIM chapter and regularly is a guest speaker across Canada. David will look to spearhead Concept Searching into the Canadian market developing an expert channel.

June 2011 - ConceptClassifier is the only taxonomy and auto-classification solution to offer SharePoint 2010 users both a Proprietary and fully integrated approach drives user adoption of the Term Store. said Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching "clients deploying SharePoint 2010 must leverage Managed Metatdta Properties if they are to derive the benefits from the Search refinement panel, social tagging, folksonomies and other new functionality within the platform. We are seeing enlightened enterprise customers that understand the importance of Managed Metadata Properties unwilling to put vendors on shortlists if they do not integrate natively". Concept Searching has clients spanning the Energy, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Federal, DOD, Intelligence, Manufacturing and Professional Services industries already deploying concepClassifier integrated with the SharePoint 2010 Term Store and Managed Metadata Properties. Read the Press Release.

June 2011 - Concept Searching delivers the only SharePoint 2010 Third-Party application able to drive content types, workflow and Information Rights Management with semantic terms, automatically generated from client's own content. The application, funded in part by Microsoft Federal fully integrates with both the Term Store and Managed Metadata Properties thereby automatically making available the semantic metadata to other applications. Read the Press Release.

"Increasing data transparency, controlling data access and usage, and managing documents of record has always been a high cost manually intensive process. By automating the semantic, records retention code, and data privacy and security metadata tagging process our customers have been able to reduce both risk and cost at the beginning of their SharePoint deployments".
Ken Lemons,
Dell Services Federal Government,
Air Force and Defense Agencies

May 2011 - Concept Searching Announces an Expert Webinar Series in partnership with Project Performance Corporation to deliver thought leadership and real world best practice that delivers an enhanced ROI on your SharePoint 2010 investment. The series will explore such topics as designing taxonomies and metadata schemas, making full use of Managed Metadata Services, deploying governance policy, the importance of content types and managing user expectations. Read the Press Release.

April 2011 - Concept Searching profiled in new independent publication focused on SharePoint 2010 Search. Concept Searching’s conceptClassifier for SharePoint was chosen as the leading product and only one profiled under the section “Taxonomy, Ontology and Metadata Management" in a new independent publication Pro SharePoint 2010 Search, published by APRESS. The book provides expert advice on planning, deploying and customizing Search in SharePoint 2010. said Martin Garland, President Concept Searching. “Being profiled in a publication such as this further defines conceptClassifier for SharePoint as the market leading solution to deliver taxonomy management and auto-classification integrated with the SharePoint 2010 Term Store” Read the full Press Release here.

"When researching how to fully leverage content structure and search in SharePoint 2010, taxonomy and auto-classification within the Term Store was a clearly critical component. Concept Searching’s ConceptClassifier for SharePoint, unlike other proprietary solutions, has truly embraced enterprise metadata management and the Term Store thereby fully leverages this new functionality delivered natively in SharePoint 2010"

Josh Noble
Co-Author
Pro SharePoint 2010 Search
Published by APRESS, April 2011

April 2011 - Developed in partnership with the Microsoft Public Sector Federal this new 7 minute webcast demonstrates our unique capability to leverage conceptClassifier for SharePoint and the SharePoint 2010 ECAL Suite (specifically Managed Metadata Services, Information Management Policies, and Active Directory-Rights Management Services) to deliver real-time data transparency, information access, and automated information management and information rights management policy.

April 2011 - Concept Searching achieves silver status for both the Portals and Collaboration and Content Management competencies in the new Microsoft partner Program. The new Microsoft Partner program, tighter than the previous requires compliance on a number of levels including current satisfaction surveys and customer references. The new certifications add to the Silver search certification and Gold ISV competency, already achieved and further demonstrates Concept Searching’s continued commitment to the Microsoft and SharePoint market opportunity. Read the press release.

April 2011 - The University of Southampton has selected Concept Searching's technology suite to perform metadata tagging and auto-classification for an excavation project with artifacts, documents and images. In addition there are numerous internal research papers that will benefit from improved findability through automatic classification. We look forward to providing further information as this project grows and delivers further business benefits to the University of Southampton.

April 2011 - conceptClassifier for SharePoint selected to underpin SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search for intelligence and law enforcement. A major Government entity has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint and the new content type updater to underpin its deployment of SharePoint and FAST across both intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The ability of the conceptClassifier suite to drive value beyond mere findability was a key reason for the selection.

April 2011 - Major Enterprises are buying into Concept Searching’s new Content Type Updater technology to use SharePoint 2010 for governance and compliance, driving real business value. Concept Searching’s recent addition to the product line drives workflow and rights management directly from semantic metadata derived automatically from content. Recent new customers including Southern Union Gas, National Transportation Safety Board, The US Air Force, Emerson Climate Technologies and a major intelligence client. These clients are: automatically identifying sensitive information, applying rights management and locking it down; or, applying records retention and disposition codes, driving effective records management. 

Said Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching "The addition of Concept Searching’s unique Content Type Updater to the product line has opened up significant new opportunities. CIO's are finding it difficult to commit investments dollars to improve findability but solving risk and compliance issues is proving an easier cost justification".

March 2011 - The California Independent System Operator selects conceptClassifier for SharePoint to power its corporate website and Intranet. The California Independent System Operator is a non-profit public benefit corporation charged with operating the majority of California’s high-voltage wholesale power grid. The company is In the process of rolling out Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 platform with the FAST search engine and has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint to manage term store taxonomies, generate semantic metadata; surface that metadata for use by search and line of business applications; and perform auto-classification for both the corporate web site and Intranet.

Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching commented "Having The California Independent System Operator join our ever growing list of clients including the Midwest Independent System Operator, further proves conceptClassifier for SharePoint to be the leading tool for metadata generation, taxonomy management and auto-classification in SharePoint."

March 2011 - Kansas University Medical Center has selected Concept Searching's technology suite to perform metadata tagging, auto-classification and search across the University of Kansas Medical Center and its component schools that include undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the School for Allied Health Services, the School of Medicine, and the School of Nursing.

"We welcome Kansas Medical Center to our growing list of healthcare clients,” commented Martin Garland President, Concept Searching, "with Kansas University Medical Center Concept Searching continues to show our platform is an important component for both Federal, DOD and Education Healthcare establishments."

March 2011 - The Consumer Products Safety Commission goes live with a new web site, powered by Concept Searching’s search and classification suite. Concept Searching's federal partner InfoReliance is a key integration partner of CPSC and completed the work.

Commented Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching "The new site demonstrates clearly the power of Concept Searching’s semantic search and classification platform and why it’s so important to clients operating in the regulatory, compliance and citizen information space."

March 2011 - Fragomen, the world’s largest single practice law firm, has deployed Sysero KMS from UC Logic, a Concept Searching partner. Sysero KMS was developed using Concept Searching technologies and provides a powerful knowledge management solution to companies, such as legal firms, that place high value on content. Fragomen has completed a 3 month project to build a system to manage their knowledge assets, which includes the world’s most comprehensive and dynamic set of documents covering the intricacies of global immigration. Click here to read the UC Logic press release.

February 2011 - Concept Searching, developers of concept based search, semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software has been named for the third year in a row to the 2011 KMWorld’s 100 'Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management'. The list, in its eleventh year, is compiled by KM practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors and their customers and colleagues. In the selection of the companies to the list Hugh McKellar, Editor in Chief of KMWorld stated, “Concept Searching’s inclusion on the list is based on the breadth and impact of its innovations to meet specific customer needs while adding true value to its entire chain of constituencies.” Read the press release.

February 2011 - Concept Searching, a global leader in metadata, classification, and taxonomy solutions is pleased to announce that it has achieved 42 percent revenue growth for 2010. Since 2006, Concept Searching has experienced a minimum 40 percent revenue growth year over year. In 2010, the company also released new enhancements and new products that have helped in the rapid growth rate. Read the press release.

February 2011 - Concept Searching welcomes Knowledge Focus has a partner. Knowledge Focus, located in South Africa, has been delivering enterprise search solutions to large private enterprises and government for over 10 years. Knowledge Focus is in a unique position as being one of only a few companies which fully understand the challenges involved with the implementation of large search solutions and have the skills required to perform the work. The implementation of search and other related solutions can become very costly unless the goals, success factors, challenges and desired outcomes are identified and planned for well in advance. According to Piet Dempsey, Managing Director, "We are our extending our offering to customers by partnering with ConceptSearching. This will give us the opportunity to include automatic document classification and taxonomy management to our stable of solutions. In certain critical search applications, these capabilities will prove to be invaluable."

January 2011 - Concept Searching is pleased to announce the achievement of the Microsoft Gold ISV Competency under the new rigorous Microsoft Partner Program guidelines. This accreditation requires the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies and partners who achieve this level are recognized by Microsoft as their elite business partners. The Gold ISV Competency is in addition to the Silver Search Competency already achieved by Concept Searching. Read the press release.

January 2011 - The Southern Union Company, one of the leading diversified natural gas companies in the United States with one of the nation’s largest natural gas pipeline systems has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint and Concept Searching’s contentTypeUpdater technology to power their intranet. conceptClassifier for SharePoint will be deployed to automatically apply conceptual metadata to content housed in file shares and SharePoint as well as provide taxonomy management capability surfacing rich conceptual metadata to the company’s FAST Enterprise search platform significantly improving findability.

January 2011 - Join Concept Searching at the Special Vendor Night which will be held on February 24th at 6:30pm at Southampton University. This popular event is sponsored by the SharePoint User Group – UK. Paul Billingham, Sales Director Europe will be presenting the management of free text documents in SharePoint and other document repositories accessible from SharePoint, involving Taxonomy Management, Records Management and improving basic search results. For more information and to register click here.

January 2011 - Concept Searching is a Silver Sponsor of the SharePoint Saturday, San Diego event to be held February 26th at the San Diego Convention Center. Concept Searching will be hosting a session entitled “The Swiss Army Knife for SharePoint 2010 Tagging, Term Store, and Taxonomies”. The session will focus on leveraging the SharePoint 2010 Term Store to improve search, records management, data privacy protection, and migration to SharePoint 2010. This event is sponsored by the San Diego SharePoint User Group. More information can be obtained here,

January 2011 - Emerson Climate Technologies (ECT) has selected Concept Searching’s conceptSearch and conceptClassifier for SharePoint for deployment enterprise wide. ECT Management were instrumental in defining the Emerson Corporate ILM Standard which includes the Concept Searching’s suite of products along with Microsoft and OnBase. The deployment will include the full concept searching technology suite to deliver an enterprise wide common search platform, content tagging aligned to corporate taxonomies, and auto-classification of all content resulting in significantly improved search results at retrieval time. Additionally ECT is deploying conceptClassifier for SharePoint’s unique capability to tag content with Records Retention codes, apply automatic content type updating, declare documents of record and workflow them to the OnBase Records Management system to enable effective Records Management. 

Commenting on the recent win, Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching stated, "Being selected as a core component of Emerson’s ILM strategy and the subsequent enterprise deployment by Emerson Climate Technologies reinforces the fact that the Concept Searching platform is a robust enterprise platform and the only proven solution for corporations wanting to drive business value beyond improving search".

January 2011 - KapStone Kraft Paper Mill, located in Charleston SC and part of the KapStone Paper and Packaging Corporation has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint to significantly improve issues surrounding findability and search. KapStone Kraft’s end users were unable to return precise information at retrieval time, due to the lack of meaningful metadata being applied to documents, the lack of auto-classification of content, and the limitations of simple key word searching techniques. 

KapStone reviewed a number of SharePoint solutions and chose conceptClassifer for SharePoint for a number of reasons including; proven deployments in both MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010, clients using FAST search and SharePoint search, a strong client base in the U.S., a comprehensive integration partner structure; and finally Concept Searching’s reputation as an industry technology leader and a profitable vendor in business since 2003. 

According to Martin Garland, President of ConceptSearching, "Wins such as this head to head against competitive offerings continue to support the fact that conceptClassifier for SharePoint is the most robust 3rd party solution for metadata tagging, auto-classification and taxonomy management in SharePoint. We are excited to have KapStone join our rapidly expanding client base."