Concept Searching News

KMWorld 2011 Keynote Address

2011-10-25 15:00:00

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.

InfoStrata Solutions

2011-10-25 15:00:00

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.

Kollabria Fall 2011 Seminar Series

2011-10-25 15:00:00

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.

KM World Trend Setting Product 2011

2011-09-19 14:00:00

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.

Apress Book Deal

2011-09-19 14:00:00

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.

Deloitte

2011-08-20 16:00:00

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.

First Reserve

2011-07-22 17:00:00

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.

Burns & McDonnell

2011-07-22 17:00:00

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.

Point B

2011-06-27 17:00:00

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.

Alison and David

2011-06-27 17:00:00

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 and 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.

SP Tech Boston - Term Store

2011-05-31 18:00:00

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.

SP Tech Boston - RM IRM

2011-05-31 18:00:00

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.

Expert Webinar Series

2011-05-02 16:00:00

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.

Pro SharePoint 2010 Search

2011-04-29 18:00:00

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.

"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

New Webcast

2011-04-25 17:00:00

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.

Two further Certifications

2011-04-25 17:00:00

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.

Southampton University

2011-04-15 12:00:00

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.

Intelligence and Law Enforcement

2011-04-01 16:00:00

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.

Content Type Updater

2011-04-01 16:00:00

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.

Kansas University Medical Center

2011-03-21 17:00:00

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.

SaferProducts.gov

2011-03-21 17:00:00

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.

Fragomen goes Live

2011-03-02 16:30:00

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.

KMWorld - 100 Companies that Matter

2011-02-28 14:00:00

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.”

Concept Searching achieves record growth

2011-02-14 12:00:00

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.

Knowledge Focus

2011-02-14 12:00:00

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'.

Concept Searching achieves Microsoft Gold Certification

2011-01-20 14:00:00

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.

Southern Union

2011-01-20 14:00:00

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.

Special Vendor Night at Southampton University

2011-01-20 14:00:00

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.

SharePoint Saturday, San Diego

2011-01-20 14:00:00

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.

Emerson Climate Technologies

2011-01-12 16:00:00

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.

Kapstone Paper and Packaging Corp

2011-01-12 16:00:00

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.

Perkins+Will

2010-12-02 15:00:00

Used by several of the world’s largest professional services firms, Perkins + Will a global architectural engineering firm, has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint as a best of breed product to build out and manage their corporate taxonomy and classify content to the firm’s intranet portal. In addition, conceptClassifier for SharePoint will automatically tag content and provide the conceptual metadata to the firm’s search engine to significantly improve both findability and collaboration.

Building Large Customized Taxonomies

2010-11-03 12:00:00

Following a detailed assessment and comparison to alternative vendors, Concept Searching has been selected by one of the top five global information providers. Concept Searching’s taxonomyManager and associated modules was chosen by the client as best of breed for building large customized taxonomies. Using the semantic metadata generation (automated clue suggestion) process within the taxonomyManager, Concept Searching significantly reduces the effort in building large customized taxonomies for a wide range of industries, processes and languages.

KMWorld Promise Award

2010-11-01 14:30:00

Concept Searching has been selected as a Finalist in the KMWorld Promise Award. This award is given to the organization that is delivering this promise to its customers by providing innovative technology solutions for implementing and integrating knowledge management practices into their business processes. The award-winning organization demonstrates how it goes beyond simply delivering technology to working with clients to ensure that both the technology and knowledge processes are imbedded into the work processes. In other words, it helps organizations realize positive business results.

National Transportation Safety Board

2010-10-21 15:00:00

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has chosen conceptClassifier for SharePoint to automatically tag and classify content within its SharePoint 2010 portal. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent U.S. federal agency charged with determining the probable cause of transportation accidents and promoting transportation safety. The NTSB will use conceptClassifier for SharePoint to tag content at source to improve information transparency as well as automatically identify sensitive information and documents of record. SharePoint Content Types will be automatically applied driving workflows and rights management resulting in effective records management and reducing the risk associated with sensitive information breaches.

Department of Health & Human Services

2010-10-15 16:00:00

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (DHSS) has selected Concept Searching’s Taxonomy Manager and conceptClassifier to build out taxonomies, tag, and classify content underpinning a portal for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER). The purpose of this portal is to improve health outcomes by developing and disseminating evidence-based information to patients, clinicians, and other decision-makers. The solution will be able to respond to their expressed needs about which interventions are most effective for which patients under specific circumstances.

Fragomen

2010-10-13 15:30:00

Fragomen, recognized as the world's leading immigration law firm has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint together with Concept Searching partner UC logic’s Sysero applications to tag and classify content and provide a knowledge management platform integrated within their Global Knowledge Library.

KMWorld Promise Award

2010-10-13 15:30:00

US Army Records Management and Declassification Agency

2010-10-13 15:30:00

The US Army Records Management and Declassification Agency (RMDA) has extended their use of Concept Searching’s Open Conceptual Tagging Framework. Working with Concept Searching’s partner, COMPU-DATA International, the RMDA has extended the use of COMPU-DATA International’s Digital Asset Finder (DAF) solution to incorporate the tagging and classification of content from selected web sites and file shares enabling more comprehensive and qualitative information to be delivered.

USAF 779th Medical Wing

2010-09-30 12:00:00

Concept Searching has been recently deployed at The USAF 779th Medical Wing to scan identify and mitigate potential data privacy and security breaches. The 779th Medical Wing, based at Andrews Air Force base and headquartered at Malcolm Grow Medical Center The 779th medical wing is the largest within the Air Force District of Washington, its mission to organize, train, equip and provide medical forces for Air and Space Expeditionary Force (AEF) deployment and is the East Coast hub for aeromedical evacuation aircraft returning sick or injured patients from Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

U.S. Air Force - Authority to Operate

2010-09-30 12:00:00

Concept Searching has been awarded by the U.S. Air Force an Authority to Operate (ATO) certifying the technology platform for attachment to the USAF network and enterprise deployment. While the USAF has been a customer since 2004 this is an important milestone and supports the increasing number of deployments of the technology solving such issues as aligning USAF content with individual missions, findability in support of over 70,000 medical staff and the identification of data security and sensitive information breaches.

U.S. Army - Certificate of Networthiness

2010-09-30 12:00:00

The U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command has awarded Concept Searching the Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) which certifies the Concept Searching technologies for network and enterprise deployment. The Concept Searching suite has been deployed at a number of locations both on the classified and un-classified networks and is being used to tag and classify content improving the accuracy in search and delivering more effective records management.

Air Force Information Technology Conference

2010-08-20 14:00:00

Concept Searching will be participating at the Air Force Information Technology Conference (AFITC) 2010 with our partner InfoReliance. This year’s conference will be held at The Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa located in Montgomery, Alabama. The theme for the 2010 conference is “Dominance at the Speed of Need”.

Webinars

2010-07-20 11:30:00

Due to market demand Concept Searching will be launching recurring series of webinars in the fall focusing on SharePoint 2010, Records Management, Data Privacy, and Search. Held monthly in conjunction with our key partners these sessions will explore best practices, solving business challenges, and technologies that can improve business outcomes.

Fortune 150 litigation services

2010-07-20 11:30:00

A Fortune 150 company’s business division specializing in business process, document management, and litigation support services has renewed licensing for Concept Searching technologies for an additional three year term. The client has been relying on Concept Searching since the product launch in 2003 to continue to deliver cutting-edge and innovative concept extraction technology, still unique in the marketplace.

Compu-Data

2010-07-20 11:30:00

COMPU-DATA International, a Concept Searching partner who has integrated Concept Searching technologies into their Digital Asset Finder (DAF), has deployed the technologies at the University of California’s Office of the President. A long term customer, DAF is a commercial, off-the-shelf suite that delivers information management functions to support all digital assets. Out-of-the-box DAF provides administration, search and retrieval, collaboration functionality, reporting and audit trails of digital assets and is easily integrated into business processes.

Market Research

2010-06-28 13:30:00

Market Research.com, the world's largest and continuously updated collection of market research, has selected Concept Searching’s Taxonomy manager and automatic classification technologies to significantly enhance its management of the site taxonomies and better auto-classify content to those taxonomies adding semantic metadata to the content for consumption by their FAST Search engine together at index time thereby driving greater precision and ultimately a better user experience at retrieval time.

Distributed Taxonomy Manager

2010-06-28 13:30:00

Distributed Taxonomy Management feature is now available in the latest release of conceptClassifier. This feature is a requirement for organizations who have many taxonomy operators, extremely large collections of documents, and where taxonomy management is a critical business process. This feature can be implemented on any number of servers and several taxonomy managers can be assigned to a server to ensure the level of throughput needed. Real time locking mechanisms are used to make nodes of the taxonomy inaccessible to other taxonomy managers while the node is being edited. The Distributed Taxonomy Management feature is totally transparent to the end user and all locking and unlocking of the nodes by the taxonomy managers are coordinated by the central server.

SharePoint 2010 EMM

2010-06-28 13:30:00

Concept Searching’s conceptClassifier for SharePoint is now available for SharePoint 2010. With the new Term Store functionality in SharePoint 2010 organizations can develop a metadata model using out-of-the-box SharePoint capabilities. Running natively and fully integrated with the Term Store, conceptClassifier for SharePoint can consistently apply conceptual metadata to content and auto-classify to the Term Store metadata model solving the challenge of applying the metadata to thousands of documents and eliminating the need to depend on the end user community to correctly tag content. conceptClassifier for SharePoint’s taxonomy manager component functions bi-directionally with the Term Store where changes can be made in the Term Store or in the taxonomy manager.

US Army Operational Test Command

2010-06-14 12:30:00

The US Army Operational Test Command (USAOTC) has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint to be implemented within its SharePoint 2007 internal portal. The USAOTC plans, conducts, and reports operational tests, assessments, and experiments in order to provide essential information for the acquisition and fielding of war fighting systems is implementing the technology to organize and structure its content and perform auto-classification to the structure in the process applying metadata that can be filtered upon by the Microsoft Search engine improving search and retrieval.

Microsoft Channel 9 Interview

2010-06-14 12:30:00

Microsoft Channel 9 Tech Ed interview with John Challis, Concept Searching CTO on integration with SharePoint 2010 Term Store is now available. Watch John Wiese, Microsoft ISV Architect Evangelist and John Challis, Concept Searching CTO discuss the integration of Concept Searching’s conceptClassifier for SharePoint 2010, the migration process from SharePoint 2007 and how conceptClassifier for SharePoint integrates natively with the new SharePoint 2010 Metadata Management Service and the Term Store and delivers automatic classification as content is created or ingested, regardless of where it resides.

Ambassador Solutions Partnership

2010-05-30 14:30:00

Concept Searching is pleased to announce a partnership with Ambassador Solutions, headquartered in Carmel, Indiana. Ambassador Solutions is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. They deliver award-winning solutions using Microsoft technologies focused on Collaboration, Business Intelligence, Custom Application Development, and User Experience.

USAF Human Performance Clearinghouse

2010-05-03 13:00:00

The U.S. Air Force Human Performance Clearinghouse has deployed conceptClassifier for SharePoint to tag content and perform auto-classification to identify and lock down potential data security breaches as a part of its work in evaluating how humans interact with systems.

AT&T Update

2010-05-03 13:00:00

AT&T Government Solutions further expands its deployment of their Concept Searching technology platform with upgrades to the Proposal Center, a proposal development solution integrating multiple sources and enabling AT&T be more responsive to federal RFP’s and tenders.

ASAF Surgeon General

2010-05-03 13:00:00

A customized task management program has been rolled out in support of the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General. The task management program developed on SharePoint, uses Concept Searching’s conceptClassifier for SharePoint as an integral part of the deployed solution.

First Wind

2010-04-18 15:00:00

First Wind, an independent wind energy company, with the capacity to generate up to 504 megawatts of power has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint to automatically generate semantic metadata and enable intelligent dynamic folder navigation thereby improving compliance with Federal energy regulations and significantly improving SharePoint search and retrieval.

US Air Force 88th Medical Group

2010-04-10 14:15:00

The US Air Force 88th Medical Group, based at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton Ohio, has deployed Concept Searching’s technology stack to scan, identify and secure information thereby enabling JCAHO and HIPAA Data Privacy and Security compliance.

MidWest ISO

2010-04-10 14:15:00

Midwest Independent Transmission Organization (Midwest ISO) has selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint to power its customer extranet and web site. Midwest ISO is an integral part of the safe and unbiased management of the regional power grid. The selection of conceptClassifier for SharePoint was determined based on the ability to provide its membership with a qualitative portal of organized and structured content. Midwest ISO is using Ambassador Solutions to implement the solution that will deliver a superior search and classification experience to both its members and general public alike.

SharePoint 2010 Solutions Gallery

2010-04-10 14:15:00

conceptClassifier for SharePoint joins the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Solutions Gallery as the only conceptual metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy solution running natively in SharePoint 2010. Already running natively in SharePoint 2007, Microsoft Office, SharePoint Search and FAST, Concept Searching continues to focus on providing additional functionality to the Microsoft product set.

London Fire Brigade

2010-04-10 14:15:00

The London Fire Brigade has selected Concept Searching technologies to improve their ability to automatically classify and retrieve content held in SharePoint and other document repositories. The solution will deliver improved findability and will be a key component in their EDRM development across the organisation.

online content provider has selected Concept Searching

2010-03-31 17:00:00

A premier online content provider has selected Concept Searching technologies to provide classification services for content uploads. This enabled an automated solution to apply the correct metadata to documents in a consistent fashion and eliminated manual tagging. Concept Searching’s Taxonomy Manager will provide the infrastructure to manage the metadata and will be used to provide guided navigation to site visitors.

KMWorld Conference

2010-03-31 16:30:00

Concept Searching will be speaking at the KMWorld Conference November 16th – 18th at the Marriot Renaissance in Washington DC. The four co-located conferences include KMWorld, Enterprise Search Summit, Taxonomy Boot Camp, and SharePoint Symposium.

Microsoft Mission Critical Symposium

2010-03-31 16:00:00

Concept Searching will be participating at the Microsoft Mission Critical Symposium in Redmond WA March 17th-18th with our strategic partner InfoReliance. The theme of this year’s symposium is Air Force Technology Optimization.

AIIM Expo

2010-03-31 15:30:00

Concept Searching will be exhibiting in the Microsoft Pavilion at the AIIM Expo being held in Philadelphia April 20th-22nd. The AIIM Expo + Conference is the most intense, in-depth and comprehensive event in the industry.

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.