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University of California Improving Search

By on August 12, 2012 in News

Concept Searching has deployed conceptClassifier for SharePoint for the University of California, Office of the President, to improve the ability to find relevant information on its intranet.

The University of California, Office of the President is the system wide headquarters of the University of California, managing its fiscal and business operations and supporting the academic and research missions across its campuses, labs and medical centers.

It is a key economic catalyst for the state, generating $46.3 billion in annual economic activity for California and contributing $32.8 billion toward California’s gross state product through direct spending and multiplier effects, according to an independent economic impact report.

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Concept Searching Products Are SharePoint 2013 Ready

By on August 10, 2012 in News

Concept Searching a global leader in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software, and developer of the Smart Content Framework™, is pleased to announce that its core products, conceptSearch and conceptClassifier for SharePoint, are up and running for SharePoint 2013.

Concept Searching is a member of the exclusive Microsoft Technology Adoption Program (TAP). Membership is by invitation only, and it has enabled Concept Searching to make its products ready for the release of SharePoint 2013. TAP is an early beta program for select partners and customers that Microsoft has determined are important for the successful release of the next version of SharePoint. Concept Searching is part of an elite group of Microsoft customers and partners worldwide invited to participate.

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Waikato Institute of Technology Adding Intelligence to Unstructured Content

By on August 3, 2012 in News

Waikato Institute of  Technology (Wintec) has selected Concept Searching’s Smart Content Framework™ including conceptClassifier for SharePoint and conceptTaxonomyWorkflow to support its SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search enterprise deployment.

Wintec, known as a technology leader in the tertiary education sector within New Zealand is in the process of migrating content to its new SharePoint 2010 platform. Understanding the value of semantic metadata Wintec undertook a review of available technologies and selected conceptClassifier for SharePoint based on a number of criteria including the maturity of the company and product, the tight integration with SharePoint and FAST, the ability to apply and automate policies based on metadata and the ability to add intelligence to the migration process, again driven by automatic semantic metadata generation.

Said Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching, “The Waikato Institute of Technology was an especially important win for Concept Searching. We won head-to-head with a major competitor, who is based in Waikato and was available to WINTEC on-site. The fact that Concept Searching was able to deliver a remote service offering to illustrate the strengths of the technology; win the award and implement remotely is a testament to the hard work we have put into the platform and further justifies our position as the leading semantic metadata generation, auto-classification and taxonomy management solution in the SharePoint eco system.”

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Welcome Government Communications Security Bureau

By on August 3, 2012 in News

Concept Searching is pleased to announce that the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) has rolled out conceptClassifier for SharePoint and conceptTaxonomyWorkflow integrated with SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search to support the Intelligence service within New Zealand.

The increased spotlight on intelligence agencies in the past few years has highlighted the constant need for Governments to be supplied with accurate and timely information which enables them to make the best decisions possible. The GCSB contributes to the security of New Zealand through the provision of timely foreign intelligence to Government and assisting Government departments and agencies to protect their electronic information resources and communications systems.

Said Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching, “We are particularly excited about being a part of this program. Concept Searching’s technology platform has been deployed within the US Department of Defence since 2005, and this successful deployment adds to an increasing number of deployments in the Defence and Intelligence sector in the US, UK and now New Zealand.” He continued, “the initial award followed a comprehensive review of available technologies, including one based in New Zealand, has again proven Concept Searching’s clear leadership in the delivery of metadata generation, auto-classification and taxonomy management solutions within the SharePoint eco system.”

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SharePoint Information Governance that Works

By on July 30, 2012 in News

A new article, written by Martin Garland, President Concept Searching has been published by KMWorld.  The article delves into challenges facing organizations who would like to develop an information governance plan for SharePoint.  Focusing specifically on managing unstructured content the article focuses on the infrastructure components that need to be in place to manage information assets and achieve business objectives.  To read the article please click here.

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Solving the Challenge of Big Data at the Department of Defense

By on July 20, 2012 in News

Concept Searching is now solving the challenge of extracting meaning from large repositories of unstructured content, filling the ‘Big Data’ gap with technology that addresses the problem of unstructured content. The extraction of meaning from content, scalability, and performance are the key components to address the issue. Currently working with many clients, including within the US Department of Defense, Concept Searching is successfully solving this problem.

Concept Searching is currently solving the ‘Big Data’ problem for a US Department of Defense client, with petabytes of unstructured content. Using the Smart Content Framework™ it is approaching the management of unstructured content from a highly strategic as well as tactical implementation. By implementing the Concept Searching solution it will be solving records management, compliance, data privacy, and improving search outcomes with one set of technologies. From this framework it can then harness the power of its unstructured content assets to derive knowledge capital. Other clients, in particular a global financial investment analyst firm and another an international engineering, architecture and consulting firm, are utilizing the technologies to extract value from approaching 100 terabytes or more of unstructured content.

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Triune Group Delivers Intelligent Search

By on July 9, 2012 in News

Concept Searching and Triune Group Increase Search Quality with Intelligent Search Solution. Concept Searching is pleased to be working with Triune Group, developer of KnowledgeNow, to deliver an integrated intelligent search and classification capability.

A Concept Searching integration partner, Triune Group helps organizations to successfully implement knowledge sharing technologies and processes. The company has developed a successful Knowledge Management methodology framework, leveraged to help some of the largest organizations in the world increase collaboration and knowledge sharing, tying collaboration to current business objectives.

Triune Group has integrated its extensive Knowledge Management expertise and technology solutions with Concept Searching’s intelligent search and classification capability. Find full details in the Triune Group Case Study.

“Due to Concept Searching’s straightforward design, integration into our environment was very easy and we were able to provide much more than a basic search results list; we were able to categorize the search results by content type – documents, forums, communities, people, action items and wikis,” commented Douglas Book, President and CEO, Triune Group.

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IDC Deploys conceptClassifier for Global Customer Portal

By on July 6, 2012 in News

International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology markets has selected and deployed Concept Searching’s Smart Content Framework™ to deliver taxonomy management, auto-classification and the automatic generation of semantic metadata to its global customer facing portal.

Said Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching, “having such a prestigious analyst firm evaluate and deploy our technology for its own customer portal is further evidence of Concept Searching’s leadership in the semantic metadata generation, auto-classification and taxonomy management space. We welcome IDC to a growing list of prestigious professional services firms we are proud to call out clients”.

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University of Kansas Medical Center is Using conceptSearch

By on June 26, 2012 in News

Concept Searching is pleased to announce that that the University of Kansas Medical Center, serving Kansas in education, research, patient care and community engagement, has selected conceptSearch and conceptClassifier to improve findability, records management and classification of content, in order to achieve more effective management of unstructured knowledge for its clients.

The University of Kansas Medical Center evaluated technology for content discovery within its curriculum, and chose Concept Searching’s Smart Content Framework™ to perform metadata tagging, auto-classification and search across the University of Kansas Medical Center and its component schools, which include undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the School for Allied Health Services, the School of Medicine, and the School of Nursing.

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conceptClassifier for SharePoint – The Optimal Solution for Leveraging SharePoint to Manage Unstructured Content Whitepaper

By on June 22, 2012 in News, SharePoint

Concept Searching has published a new white paper on Microsoft SharePoint. The purpose of this white paper is to provide a broad overview of conceptClassifier for SharePoint and the key functionality available in the product that is still unique in the industry, and to explain why it is the optimal choice for managing unstructured content in SharePoint 2010. This paper explores the uses of conceptClassifier for SharePoint and how it is being used by Concept Searching clients as an information governance solution in SharePoint, which addresses search, records management, compliance, data privacy, intelligent migration, and Enterprise 2.0.

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