3. Concept Searching
Company founded in 2002
Product launched in 2003
Focus on management of structured and
unstructured information
Locations: UK, US, & South Africa
Client base: Fortune 500/1000 organizations
Microsoft Enterprise Search ISV , FAST Partner
2009 ‘100 Companies that Matter in KM’ (KM World
Magazine)
Concept Searching • Martin Garland • (703) 531-8567 • marting@conceptsearching.com
4. Enterprise Content Management
Enterprise Content Management
Any large enterprise in both public and private sector
Any enterprise that is heavily dependent on knowledge
assets (Legal, Services)
Any enterprise where they must access content from
diverse repositories
Differentiators
Far less costly as opposed to alternative solutions
Faster deployment
KNOWLEDGE WORKERS
Strong ROI
CHALLENGES
Unique Technology
~ 15% of their time is spent duplicating
Benefits
information.
Improves business agility
~ 25% of their time is spent searching.
Reduces the time spent searching for information
~ 40% can not easily find the information
they require to do their job. Eliminates the duplication of information
Reduces costs associated with finding and managing
The cost to a 500 employee company is
$2.4 million per year in inefficiencies content
and lost productivity.
Gartner Group
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5. Data Privacy & Security (PHI, PII)
Data Exposures
Any enterprise regulated by external agencies
or where compliance is mandatory
Identifies Personally Identifiable Information
(PII) or Protected Health Information (PHI)
Differentiators
Augments ERM & Security solutions
DATA BREACHES & EXPOSURES
CHALLENGES Finds ‘unknown’ exposures residing on diverse
repositories
~ Average cost of a data breach is $6.3
Rapidly deployed
million and ranges from $225K to $35
million. Only solution available
Fully customizable to address any descriptor
~ Average cost per exposed record is
(i.e. credit card numbers, etc.)
$197 and ranges from $90-$305 per
record.
Benefits
~ 70% of breaches were due to a mistake
or malicious intent by an organization’s Protects the organization from legal and
own staff.
financial repercussions
~ Healthcare provider - $7 million, TJX
Companies - $256 million, ValueClick -
$2.9 million.
Concept Searching • Martin Garland • (703) 531-8567 • marting@conceptsearching.com
6. Compliance & Records Management
Compliance & Records Management
Any enterprise regulated by external agencies
or where compliance is mandatory
Differentiators
Eliminates governance issues through
automatic classification of content in Microsoft
Office
Ability to automatically classify content from
diverse repositories
Integration with Microsoft Records Center
COMPLIANCE & RECORDS
MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES
Benefits
~ End user adoption is cited as the single
Reduces organizational risk by enabling the
most critical barrier to success.
retrieval of relevant information and
~ Enforcing governance at the desktop
identification of highly correlated content
requires time and money.
Ensures the long term usefulness of the
~ Non-compliance results when
records and reduces costs through generation of
documents are never subjected to
enterprise policies. compound term metadata
Protects the organization by eliminating end
~ Poor metadata makes it less useful to
user adoption issues
the organization and end user.
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7. conceptClassifier for SharePoint
Semantic metadata generation, auto-classification
and taxonomy management
fully integrated with
SharePoint, Office and Microsoft Enterprise Search
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8. Taxonomy & Compound Term Processing
Compound Term Processing
Semantic metadata automatically generated
from the organization’s own content and used as clues to build out the taxonomy
Hierarchical view of content
Content will be automatically classified to one or more nodes based on concepts within
the content
Reduces time to develop and build a taxonomy by as much as 80%
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9. Automatic Classification & Metadata Tagging
Content is automatically tagged with semantic metadata and uploaded to SharePoint
Content is automatically classified to one or more nodes in one or more taxonomies
Documents are automatically classified to multiple categories
Editable from within SharePoint & the Concept Searching Taxonomy Manager
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10. Full Support for Content Types
Eliminates time consuming manual metadata
definition
Enforces governance, policies, and drives workflows
in line with business processes
Enables different taxonomies to be assigned to
different content types
Authorized users have complete control over
automatically generated metadata
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11. Edit Templates Feature for Content Types
Ability for end users to manually define metadata
values according to some portion of the taxonomies
defined
Easy to include Site Columns whose values are based
on taxonomy structures, but will be used for manual
classification
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12. Navigation
Microsoft Enterprise Search can utilize highly relevant compound term metadata
Faceted navigation (integrated with Microsoft CodePlex)
Browsable taxonomy navigation via Concept Searching Web Part
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13. Office Integration
Fully integrated with Microsoft Office & Exchange
Content automatically tagged with semantic metadata stored in custom properties
Content automatically classified to corporate or departmental taxonomies
Delivers governance at the desktop, ECM
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14. Summary
Only statistical classification metadata generation tool in the
world that uses concept extraction and compound term
processing
• Proven to deliver the highest precision without the loss of
recall
Only meta-tagging and classification solution fully integrated
with:
• MOSS
•Microsoft Office
•Exchange
•Microsoft Enterprise Search
Extends the SharePoint platform (i.e. Windows Rights
Management, fully supports Content Types)
Fully respects SharePoint security
Full administration using standard SharePoint functionality
SOA compliant
Only fully integrated data privacy and security solution within
SharePoint
Rapidly deployed – no programming, can be installed in 30
minutes
Concept Searching • Martin Garland • (703) 531-8567 • marting@conceptsearching.com
15. Automated Classification, Taxonomy Development and
Management for SharePoint 2007
Microsoft Enterprise Search Incoming content is automatically
AutoClassifier
Microsoft Enterprise Search Is Used To classified into SharePoint properties
Search within Folders/Sites And and the taxonomy is displayed using
Taxonomies
Yields Highest Available Precision Due standard SharePoint navigation
to The Ability To Filter On The controls
Administration
Metadata Held In SharePoint
Properties
SharePoint Properties
Integration Outcomes
•One Index on Production Server
MOSS Server
•Integrated Auto-Classification
•Administered in MOSS MOSS upload & Admin Feature
•Compete Strategy Against Autonomy, etc… Classification Server
Properties Uploaded
To MOSS Data
Metadata Extraction & Taxonomies Built by
Source 1
Compound Term Processing SME, not IT Staff
SharePoint
Data
Indexer
2001
Source 2
Taxonomy Manager
Business
SharePoint
Data
Automated Classifier Data
2003
Source 3
Catalog
SharePoint Migration BDC Brings Back Data & Makes Web
Classification Server
Service Calls to Automated Classifier
Migrated Content Is Classified Against Taxonomies And
Held In A15
Folder For Verification Prior To Upload
To The Production Environment Staging Server Production Servers
16. Success Stories
Government, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Military
$6.9 billion HMO, runs 75 hospitals and clinics providing care to over 2.6 million beneficiaries
Knowledge Portal
Over 27,000 unique terms, metadata, and compound terms generated
66K+ users
Identification of unknown privacy data exposures
Energy, Oil & Gas
Integration with SharePoint Records Management
Identification of unknown privacy data exposures
Metadata tagging of legacy content
Government, Healthcare
Used to power their 24/7 Customer Support Center
Enterprise classification standard
Identification of unknown privacy data exposures
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17. Clients & Success Stories
Professional Services, SaaS, Legal, eDiscovery
Offices in 130 countries and over 14K consultants
Litigation services practice
Semantic tagging of content within matters offering more precise retrieval
Food & Beverage, Manufacturing
Enterprise classification in MOSS
Had over 50K marketing documents estimated to take 1 year to manually classify
Accomplished in 2 weeks
Legal
International law firm with over 1,500 users and 4 million live matters
Brokered search and classification across internal/external repositories
‘Know How’ and ‘Know Who’ portal applications
Won International KM award for solution
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18. Contacts
Martin Garland – President
+1 703 531-8567
marting@conceptSearching.com
Carla Mulley – VP Marketing
+1 412 567-4948
carlam@conceptSearching.com
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19. Useful Links
Concept Searching Web Site
http://www.conceptSearching.com
conceptClassifier for SharePoint Product Information
http://www.conceptsearching.com/Web/UserFiles/File/conceptClassifier%20for%20Sh
arePoint%20Product%20Overview.pdf
Compliance
http://www.conceptsearching.com/Web/home/conceptsharepoint/markets/Complian
ce.aspx
Legal and eDiscovery
http://www.conceptsearching.com/Web/home/conceptsharepoint/markets/legal-and-
e-discovery.aspx
Records Management
http://www.conceptsearching.com/Web/home/conceptsharepoint/markets/records-
management.aspx
Webcasts
http://www.conceptsearching.com/Web/home/technology/webcasts.aspx
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