News about DataFacet and Enterprise Search
WAND Taxonomies and WAND DataFacet Automatic Tagging on Microsoft Pinpoint
2/21/2012
Solution pages for WAND Taxonomies and for the DataFacet Automatic Tagging Engine are now up on Microsoft Pinpoint:
DataFacet Automatic Tagging Engine on Microsoft PinPoint: http://bit.ly/Ap0erz
WAND Taxonomies on Microsoft PinPoint: http://bit.ly/xUajQ6
Pre-built taxonomies and automatic tagging are powerful add-ons for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint online. Read why you should
WAND Project Management Taxonomy now available
2/1/2012
Many companies are running project management documents in their ECM or document management system, including SharePoint 2010. Just like any other documents, these need to be tagged with relevant metadata so that project managers can have effective search, stay organized, and stay productive. WAND has created a taxonomy just for this purpose.
Project Management Taxonomy
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6 reasons why you need a taxonomy for your SharePoint 2010 initiative
1/30/2012
Managed Metadata is the most important feature you can know about if you have a SharePoint 2010 document management project. You should not do a SharePoint 2010 ECM project without taxonomy and managed metadata. Here are six reasons why:
1) Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it: Enterprise content management projects often fail due to poor search.
Taxonomy based
WAND Oil and Gas Taxonomy
1/26/2012
We are proud to announce the release of our brand new Oil and Gas Taxonomy. The WAND Oil and Gas Taxonomy contains 1513 terms with 270 synonyms and includes both upsteam and downstream topics for the oil and gas industry including exploration, drilling, petroleum recovery, refining, gas processing, geology, equipment and supplies, environmental, safety, and more.
WAND Oil and Gas
WAND Skills Taxonomy
1/20/2012
WAND has been doing a lot of work in SharePoint 2010 since it launched providing taxonomies for the managed metadata service to help companies tag library items more effectively. However, we noticed that managed metadata can also be used to help tag My Sites profiles so we created a skills taxonomy just for that purpose.
WAND Skills Taxonomy
The WAND Skills taxonomy has over 1400 different
Real Estate Taxonomy now available from WAND
1/3/2012
Happy new year! I'm very excited about 2012 and think it is going to be a great year for taxonomies. 2011 saw a ton of growth in interest and awareness of taxonomies, much of this driven by adoption of SharePoint 2010 and the term store feature, but certainly other applications as well. I'll post more about this separately, but for now, I want to focus on the first new taxonomy launch of the
Legal Taxonomy now available from WAND
12/1/2011
Our taxonomy team has just completed the most recent addition to the WAND Taxonomy Library with the release of the WAND Legal Taxonomy.
The Legal Taxonomy includes 745 terms, with 136 synonyms, designed to help a company or a law firm organize legal documents and concepts including matters, area of law, legal document types, and more.
WAND Legal Taxonomy
Adding relevant legal metadata to
Image and Data Manager in Australia mentions WAND Taxonomies and DataFacet
11/17/2011
Thanks to Image and Data Manager (idm.net.au) in Australisa for the nice article about WAND Taxonomies for SharePoint 2010 and DataFacet Automatic tagging engine for SharePoint 2010
As mentioned in the article, and for our friends in Australia, DataFacet will be featured at the Share 2011 conference in Sydney on November 28-29th at the PowerMark stand.
http://idm.net.au/article/008750-
WAND Mining Taxonomy Released
10/24/2011
I am happy to announce that we've added another major taxonomy to our library. Today, we are officially releasing our new Mining Taxonomy, with 900+ terms and 200+ synonyms covering most major mining business processes including exploration, extraction, extractive metallurgy, geology, and more.
We've spoken to a lot of mining companies who have downloaded the WAND General Business
WAND Manufacturing Taxonomy Now Available
9/23/2011
WAND's product and service taxonomies cover all the types of products that a company may make. We have coverage of products for every industry and any company.
WAND Manufacturing Taxonomy
Now, we have developed a manufacturing taxonomy to cover topics about how products are made. This taxonomy is ideal for any company with a document management project, perhaps in SharePoint 2010 or
Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010
8/31/2011
I came across this training video about how to use Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 from the Microsoft Developer Network site. This is a 20 minute video and worth watching from anybody who is doing content management inside of SharePoint 2010.
A few key highlights:
- Ability to define and share content types enterprise wide from a single site collection. Local content types can still be
Need a taxonomy for an IT department?
6/13/2011
WAND has just completed the first build of an information technology taxonomy, with over 1,700 categories to help an IT department organize its content.
WAND's new IT Administration Taxonomy (is that the right name for it? I'm not yet sure) includes commercial software packages, programming languages, IT certifications, IT administration processes, and more. The taxonomy is ready for import
WAND Partners with SAS to power Classification Taxonomy Rules Kits
5/20/2011
The WAND Taxonomy are now featured in a new offering from SAS. SAS's Industry Taxonomy Rules starter kits help power more efficient classification inside of SAS Enterprise Content Categorization.
We are very pleased to be working with SAS.
Managed Metadata, Taxonomy, and Collaboration Features in SharePoint 2010
4/15/2011
Previously in this blog, I've discussed the basic managed metadata capabilities in SharePoint 2010, that is, the ability to import taxonomies into the SharePoint 2010 Term Store and then tag documents with metadata from these taxonomies in a managed metadata column by browsing through the taxonomy hierarchy or using the type-ahead search feature. Or, using DataFacet from WAND, these managed
How to use taxonomies and taxonomy metadata in Sharepoint 2010 - Content Organizer
3/2/2011
The Sharepoint 2010 term store has done a terrrific job of raising awareness of the value of taxonomy for organizing enterprise information. Once people are aware of taxonomy, how can they use it? I've discussed the basic applications on this blog already. Taxonomy and the managed metadata feature makes a huge step forward for tagging documents in Sharepoint and for providing sophisticated
List of Taxonomies for Sharepoint 2010
2/1/2011
I've had several postings about taxonomy for Sharepoint 2010 but I wanted to make sure I've provided a link to the list of foundation taxonomies available from WAND.
Taxonomies for Sharepoint 2010
These taxonomies are designed to get you started in implementing your own taxonomy. Once you've selected a foundation taxonomy, it can be customized to include the specific terminology for your
Interesting SharePoint Security Company, CipherPoint Software
1/19/2011
An interesting young company that we've run across in the SharePoint security space is CipherPoint Software. CipherPoint's products secure sensitive content in SharePoint sites, and by doing so, they solve compliance issues related to content regulated by various compliance regulations, including GLBA, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and others. There's a natural connection here to what we do at WAND with
Sentiment Analysis Taxonomy
11/22/2010
Sentiment analysis, or Customer Sentiment Analysis, has become an important component for monitoring attitudes or feelings about your business, products, or reputation on the Internet. With social media vehicles such as Twitter, Facebook, product review sites, comment sections, and more, your company or product could be mentioned all over the web. It's important to understand how people feel
Five ways to use taxonomy
11/18/2010
I've worked in the taxonomy space for quite a while now, but I still always speak to people who are just learning about taxonomies for the first time. Often times they have a specific project that they are working on that they know a taxonomy is needed. Sometimes, they have a challenge they are not sure how to solve, but think taxonomy may help. Other times, it's some poor person who may have
DataFacet for Oracle video now on YouTube
11/16/2010
The video about DataFacet for Oracle that i mentioned in my last post is now up on YouTube, in case it is more convenient to watch it (and share it) there.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH4DdqWxdSw
WAND DataFacet - Taxonomies and Auto-Classification for Oracle UCM and SES 11g
11/12/2010
The WAND DataFacet solution, encompassing pre-built foundation taxonomies, taxonomy management tools, and automatic document tagging capabilities, is available for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) and Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM) 11g.We've created a video showing the how this solution works and have posted it athttp://www.datafacet.com/presentations.aspxThe presentation code is
DataFact and Taxonomies for Oracle UCM and SES
11/3/2010
I've spent a few posts in this blog mentioning WAND's DataFacet solution for Sharepoint 2010, but I wanted to be sure to emphasize that it is also available for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search and Oracle Universal Content Manager.The story for Oracle UCM and SES is very much the same as the story for Sharepoint. Basically, users of these tools are struggling with search and tagging. Documents
Why local search sites need taxonomy
10/26/2010
Local search sites are all working on the same challenge - how to present the most relevant list of local businesses for any given search query - meaning keyword and location. The challenge is three fold:1) Business data that is commonly available only comes with a single yellow pages style category - something like liquor stores, "Furniture Retailer", or Restaurants - Italian. This limits the
Sharepoint 2010, Windows Phone 7, and Taxonomy
10/15/2010
As Microsoft prepares to launch it's latest initiative in the mobile space, Windows Phone 7, there is some interesting chatter and discussion about the tight integration between Sharepoint and the Windows Phone 7 OS. Microsoft will probably have the greatest chance at penetration in the business mobile market so a strong integration with its enterprise collaboration tool makes a ton of sense.Here
Taxonomy: Buy or Build?
10/13/2010
Any information architect, ECM manager, or CIO who is investigating taxonomy for the first time will inevitably reach a decision point: do I buy a taxonomy or do I build a taxonomy?Each company has a lot of proprietary terminology that is unique to its business. This terminology needs to be included in a taxonomy, and you won't be able to find one off the shelf that is ready to go. However, that
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