Concept Searching News

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.

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.