Concept Searching News

KMWorld 100

2010-02-23 19:30:00

Concept Searching, developers of concept based search, semantic metadata generation, automated classification, and taxonomy management software has been named in KMWorld’s 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management. The list, in its tenth year, is compiled by KM practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors and their customers and colleagues. "In today’s knowledge economy, Concept Searching does more than simply throw sophisticated technology at its customers, it provides real solutions through inspired planning and execution throughout the entire constituency chain," says Hugh McKellar KMWorld editor in chief. Click here to read the press release.

GSA Schedule

2010-02-19 17:30:00

Concept Searching's search, classification, metadata generation, and taxonomy products are now available for purchase on a GSA Schedule. Over the past five years, Concept Searching has acquired numerous DoD and civilian agencies as clients to solve issues around search, records management, identification of potential data exposures, and collaboration.

U.S. Air Force Medical Service Webcasts

2010-02-19 17:30:00

The U.S. Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) has made publically available two new webcasts on their use of Concept Searching's conceptClassifier for SharePoint to solve their challenges in records management, data privacy and compliance in a SharePoint environment. To watch the case study on records management click here. To watch the webcast that demonstrates how AFMS units are leveraging Concept Searching to identify and migrate sensitive information (Personally Identifiable Information, Protected Health Information, etc.) on file share servers click here.

FASTForward Enterprise Strategy Search Summits

2010-02-19 17:30:00

Concept Searching, a Microsoft FAST partner will be exhibiting in the Partner Pavilion at the FASTForward Enterprise Strategy Search Summits in Chicago, IL; New York, NY; and San Francisco in March. Concept Searching will be providing demos on conceptClassifier for SharePoint integration with FAST and why automatic semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management can improve findability in search.

Microsoft Professional Services

2010-02-19 17:30:00

Concept Searching will be speaking at two Microsoft Professional Services sponsored events in April in New York City. These sessions will explore the business advantages of the highly integrated Microsoft 2010 suite of products including FAST for SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 exploring Knowledge Management use cases for authoritative content creation, publishing, navigation, findability and expertise searching. Concept Searching will be speaking on the integration of conceptClassifier for SharePoint in SharePoint 2010 to further drive business processes through semantic metadata generation, auto-classification and taxonomy management.

Union Square software

2010-01-13 12:30:00

Union Square Software has selected conceptSearching to further enhance document searching within their Workspace product. Based in Nottingham, UK, Union Square Software is the author of Workspace that has been developed to provide organisations from across the construction supply chain with real competitive advantage through the pragmatic introduction of portal technology which enables effective Knowledge Management.

File Classification Infrastructure

2010-01-13 12:30:00

Concept Searching is pleased to announce support for Microsoft Windows Server R2 new File Classification Infrastructure. Using Concept Searching’s unique Compound Term Processing technology the integration provides a standard mechanism for the automated generation and storage of document metadata.

Consumer Products Safety Commission

2010-01-07 17:30:00

In conjunction with our partner InfoReliance, Concept Searching is pleased to announce the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) has selected Concept Searching technologies to deliver search and classification capabilities to both the CPSC’s public facing portal and their corporate intranet. The ease of installation, deployment, SOA architecture and the use of compound term processing delivering both search and classification precision were key factors in the decision.

K2

2010-01-07 17:30:00

K2 and Concept Searching have formed a joint marketing initiative based on the integration of K2’s blackpearl and conceptClassifier for SharePoint. With the conceptClassifier for SharePoint integration with blackpearl, the combined solution can eliminate lengthy pull down lists, reduces unnecessary workflow steps by automatically classifying a document’s content against an internal departmental structure, simplifies workflow routing, and based on the metadata within content can automatically route the document to the appropriate resource.

Data Privacy & Security Compliance

2010-01-07 17:30:00

The U.S. Air Force Medical Service (US AFMS) has produced a webcast available to the public that explains how they are using conceptClassifier for SharePoint to address Data Privacy & Security Compliance JCAHO and HIPAA.

Parsons Brinckerhoff

2009-11-11 18:30:00

Parsons Brinckerhoff, recently acquired by Balfour Beatty plc, is one of the largest Architectural Engineering firms in the world. PB has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint to provide semantic metadata generation, auto-classification and taxonomy management. The deployment will include implementation of SharePoint and FAST to initially some twelve thousand employees to support their internal Knowledge Portal. They will be using conceptClassifier for SharePoint to build out robust taxonomies, normalize vocabulary, manage those taxonomies, auto-classify and tag content with semantic metadata and make that metadata available within SharePoint for the FAST search engine.

Project Performance Corporation

2009-11-10 14:30:00

Concept Searching is pleased to announce partnership with Project Performance Corporation. PPC will serve as a taxonomy design expert and implementation specialist for Concept Searching’s semantic metadata generation, automatic classification, and taxonomy tools to clients. PPC serves as the North American Operations arm of AEA, an internationally recognized consultancy. They are part of a 1,000-person multi-disciplinary team of information technology professionals, project management experts, scientific and technical experts, and legal and regulatory specialists dedicated to providing fully integrated and business-oriented solutions.

SharePoint 2010

2009-10-27 10:30:00

Concept Searching has announced the integration of conceptClassifier for the upcoming release of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This includes integration with the new taxonomy features and Enterprise Metadata Management. conceptClassifier for SharePoint provides automatic semantic metadata generation, automated classification, and taxonomy management running natively and managed from within the SharePoint Server 2010 environment.

DAI

2009-10-16 13:30:00

Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) has been delivering development in the world’s most demanding environments for over 40 years. With over 2,000 global professionals, they combine innovative thinking, deep technical knowledge and professional project management. DAI will be implementing conceptClassifier for SharePoint to improve findability of information and eliminate manual tagging processes. DAI faced a challenge as metadata had to be manually applied in both a Oracle database and in SharePoint. If metadata was not added, or added from a subjective frame of reference, the item could not be found. The conceptClassifier for SharePoint solution will automatically apply metadata for both repositories and enable Microsoft search to filter on the semantic metadata to improve findability via related concepts and faceted navigation.

UW Medical

2009-10-12 16:00:00

University of Washington Medical Center, one of the top rated cancer centers in the United States by U.S. News and World Report, has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint as a solution for their externally facing web site. Their current site provides free text search which results in too much irrelevant information with little ability to filter out the unwanted results for patients, care givers, and visitors to the site. They chose conceptClassifier for SharePoint to auto-classify their website and deliver the ability to provide guided navigation to end users to find specific information resulting in relevant and precise search results. The Taxonomy Manager in conceptClassifier for SharePoint will also allow the University of Washington Medical Center to normalize complex medical terms to make it easier for site visitors to find the information they are seeking without typing in complex medical terms.

Transport for London

2009-09-30 09:30:00

Transport for London has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint to add automatic classification and metadata generation to their document and record stores. Using Fileplans (Taxonomies) the ability to locate knowledge assets will be significantly improved across their SharePoint environment.

Wice Group

2009-09-23 10:10:00

Concept Searching and WICE Group have formed a strategic partnership. WICE Group, a Microsoft Gold Partner provides consulting and technical services to domestic and international clients and focuses on Skills Development, Internal Communication, CRM, Collaboration and Knowledge Management. WICE Group is headquartered in Milan with offices in Turin and Lyon.

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2009-09-21 12:15:00

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KM World Trend Setting

2009-09-09 11:30:00

Concept Searching has been selected as a KMWorld Trend Setting Product for 2009. The annual award compiled by KMWorld recognizes products that are best in class. This year more than 800 products were assessed by the judging panel, which consists of editorial colleagues, analysts, system integrators, vendors themselves, line-of-business managers and users.

SharePoint Conference 2009

2009-09-09 11:30:00

Concept Searching will be an exhibitor at the 2009 Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Located in Booth 400, Concept Searching will be providing information and demos of conceptClassifier for SharePoint. As part of the Microsoft beta program, demos of the technology running in SharePoint 2010 will also be available.

American Chemistry

2009-09-09 11:30:00

The American Chemistry Council has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint to enable better and more relevant access to information on their portal. The American Chemistry Council represents companies that make products that make modern life possible. Founded in 1872 they support research and initiatives that serve communities and customers.

Saltmine

2009-08-13 14:00:00

Concept Searching and Saltmine, a privately-held, global IT services company based in Bellevue, Washington have formed a strategic alliance. Since 2001, Saltmine has provided software and product development solutions for medium to large scale enterprise and government agencies around the world. With development centers in both India and the U.S., Saltmine leverages the benefits of a global economy.

LDiscovery

2009-07-31 12:10:00

LDiscovery, a Concept Searching client, is a leading service provider of digital forensics, electronic discovery, data recovery and preservation, network and regulatory compliance audits, and corporate investigations. LDiscovery has recently acquired two major law firms in the U.S. as clients who will be utilizing the Concept Searching technologies as part of the solution suite offered by LDiscovery.

Protocol Handlers

2009-07-31 12:10:00

Concept Searching has announced Protocol Handlers for conceptClassifier for SharePoint. Protocol Handlers utilize standard Microsoft Search set-up processes to perform auto-classification and metadata tagging of content residing outside of SharePoint. This enables Microsoft search to utilize the metadata and present the categorized content together with SharePoint content to the end user.

conceptClassifier for SharePoint - New features

2009-06-19 16:30:00

Concept Searching has announced the availability of several new features to conceptClassifier for SharePoint. The new features include FAST ESP integration, on-the-fly classification of content residing both internally and externally of SharePoint, a text preview capability within the search results, automated taxonomy load feature, and automatic Content Type update feature.

OutIndex

2009-06-19 16:30:00

OutIndex a leading provider of Electronic Discovery software has signed an OEM agreement with Concept Searching. OutIndex, headquartered in London is a global electronic data discovery company and provides innovative software and services that enable the management of EDD quickly, efficiently, and accurately.

Microsoft Managed ISV Partner

2009-05-15

Concept Searching, a Microsoft and FAST partner, is pleased to announce that they have again been selected for the Microsoft Managed ISV Partner Program, which is reserved for less than 1% of Microsoft partners worldwide. As a Microsoft Managed ISV Partner, Concept Searching has demonstrated the highest level of competence and expertise in Microsoft technologies and has proven to be a key global ISV in metadata generation, classification and taxonomy tools.

SharePoint Governance

2009-05-14

Concept Searching will be a sponsor in a joint initiative to launch a global site dedicated to Microsoft SharePoint best practices and governance. The joint venture initiated by Corridor Consulting and Doculabs will serve as a trusted and informative source for real-world SharePoint governance information for the Global 2000.

RMDA

2009-05-14

The U.S. Army Records Management and Declassification Agency (RMDA) will be implementing Concept Searching’s classification and taxonomy technologies to automatically classify over 25 terabytes of data initially, with plans to expand the classification to include 200 terabytes of data to support both their unclassified and classified systems.

Allianz

2009-05-12

Allianz Global Investors has selected Concept Searching to enhance their access to information on their intranet. Working closely with Sapient, a Concept Searching partner, Allianz will be implementing the technologies for automatic classification, semantic metadata generation, and taxonomy management within a Microsoft SharePoint environment.

Sapient

2009-05-12

Concept Searching is pleased to announce that Sapient , a global services firm, has signed an agreement as a Concept Searching integrator. Sapient Consulting provides business and IT strategy, process and systems design, package implementation and custom development, as well as outsourcing services such as testing, maintenance and support. Headquartered in Boston, Sapient operates across North America, Europe and India.

AT&T

2009-05-11

AT&T Government Solutions has launched their global proposal generation system utilizing Concept Searching technologies. The technologies are being used to improve the quality of proposals and expedite the process. Concept Searching has provided the ability identify relevant content potentially scattered across multiple geographic areas and repositories and improve the proposal process by providing content authors with only relevant information for editing.

DirectoryM

2009-05-11

DirectoryM, a global provider of business directories that connects service providers with local users will be integrating Concept Searching technologies to enhance the ability for users to identify relevant local information more quickly and accurately. The directories are available in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Spain, France, Mexico, U.K. and in the U.S. DirectoryM is headquartered in Boston, and has offices in China and India.

Booz&Co

2009-04-09

Booz & Company, a leading global consulting firm has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint to power their knowledge portal. Booz & Company selected Concept Searching's conceptClassifier for SharePoint and Taxonomy Manager based on the product's tight integration to Microsoft SharePoint. Concept Searching was able to meet a key business user requirement that would enable the metadata generation and auto classification process to integrate into SharePoint content types and column views.

Microsoft Mission Critical Symposium

2009-04-09

The U.S. Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) made a presentation describing how Concept Searching technologies were deployed in the AFMS at the Microsoft Mission Critical Symposium. Concept Searching's partner InfoReliance provided additional information about conceptClassifier for SharePoint to the attendees. The complete presentation is now available at the Microsoft Mission Critical Symposium 2009 web site.

SharePoint Content Types

2009-03-16

Concept Searching has announced availability of conceptClassifier for SharePoint Version 4. New features include a new installer that enables installation in less than 20 minutes, support for Microsoft SharePoint Content Types and greater support for multiple taxonomies. Click here to read the press release.

RBA Consulting

2009-03-11

RBA Consulting, with locations in the Twin Cities and Dallas markets, has formed a partnership with Concept Searching. RBA offers a broad portfolio of technology and business solutions and specializes in Project Management, Application Development Portals and Collaboration, and Infrastructure and Security. RBA has numerous Microsoft certifications and competencies and is a Microsoft Gold managed partner. To read the press release click here.