Verity, the provider of search and retrieval and knowledge management (KM) technology, has launched version 4.5 of its flagship K2 Enterprise (K2E) platform. It is immediately available from local Verity reseller Comparex Africa Customer-Oriented Applications (COA).
"Verity K2E is infrastructure software that can help companies move their knowledge management efforts from experiments to activities that contribute to their success in measurable ways," says Rodney Hood, managing executive at Comparex Africa COA.
Forrester Research reports that there are three tiers to knowledge management infrastructure. They are search, taxonomy and personalisation, and they enable corporate users to find, understand, and deliver and share information and knowledge.
"Verity K2E tightly integrates these three tiers and helps fulfil the promise of knowledge management," says Hood.
Verity has focused its latest upgrade efforts in two key areas:
* Enhanced content and taxonomy management; and
* Relational taxonomy classification and navigation.
Verity`s 4.5 version features a LexisNexis Content Organiser module that offers pre-built taxonomies that automatically classify enterprise information. LexisNexis is an independent vendor that specialises in building, testing and fine-tuning business and legal information taxonomies. The LexisNexis Content Organiser, available only to Verity customers, also allows Verity customers to combine enterprise-specific rules to organise their information the way they do business. The pre-built taxonomies complement K2E`s classification technology - Logistic Regression Classification (LRC) - for flexible and accurate classification and taxonomy refinement.
The second major feature of K2E 4.5 is its support for dimensional taxonomies that allow users to slice and dice search parameters, by enabling simultaneous search of two or more taxonomies. The taxonomies work with K2E`s search tools that include:
* Federated search, to bring back results from many sources to a single query;
* Parametric search, which finds a single document or groups of documents with specific attributes; and
* Category drilldown, which lets users browse through categories and subcategories.
"The challenge for knowledge management is to provide a way to help people cope with the vast amount of diverse information inside and outside their companies," Hood points out. "The process of finding that relevant information starts with organising taxonomies or categories of information with great accuracy."
Verity K2E provides flexible and accurate classification that combines machine learning with domain expertise. This combination yields up to 99% classification accuracy.
The value of knowledge assets can quickly diminish if the information is accessed by unauthorised users. Verity K2E offers document-level security of repository information by allowing organisations to use existing access procedures without compromise. People not authorised to see a certain document would never learn that it exists in the company`s knowledge bank, even through stray queries. In addition, single sign-on security solutions are supported by K2E for simplicity and control.
Verity`s K2 technology platform is used by 80% of the Fortune 50 and more than 1 500 companies worldwide, including Adobe Systems, AT&T, Cisco, CNET, Compaq, Dow Jones, EDGAR Online, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, FairMarket, Financial Times, Globe and Mail, Home Depot, Lotus, NewsEdge Corporation, SAP, Siemens, Sybase, Time New Media and Timex.
The K2 platform lets K2E users discover, organise and connect with their company`s greatest information assets - an array of documents and the experts behind them, who know and understand those businesses. It also offers a sophisticated administrative infrastructure to help cope with enterprise complexity.
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