30 Digits
Encyclopedia
30 Digits is a privately held information access and retrieval company with headquarters in Munich, Germany located in the "Münchner Technologie Zentrum". The company was founded in 2008 and offers software that is a mix of privately developed code and leading Open Source
technology primarily from the Apache Software Foundation
.
There are two main focuses of the company. The first is around enterprise information access
solutions from areas ranging from call-center applications to enterprise search
to database offloading. The second is on solutions created out of unstructured content on the web being structured for analysis, often referred to as web harvesting
. This can be for monitoring security threats or observing customer reactions to products. It can even be used to gather complex address and other details about entities like properties. Sometimes the focuses blend together in areas like Market or Business Intelligence where both internal and external information needs extraction, analysis, and retrieval capabilities.
In addition to the software solutions, 30 Digits Professional Services offers services to assist customer in designing and deploying the correct solutions for the challenge at hand. Trainings, support, and consulting are available both on 30 Digits software and the Open Source software they work with like Lucene
and Solr
.
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
technology primarily from the Apache Software Foundation
Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U.S., in June 1999.The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers...
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There are two main focuses of the company. The first is around enterprise information access
Enterprise information access
Enterprise information access refers to information systems that allow for enterprise search; content classification; content clustering; information extraction; enterprise bookmarking; taxonomy creation and management; information presentation to support analysis and understanding; and desktop or...
solutions from areas ranging from call-center applications to enterprise search
Enterprise search
Enterprise search is the practice of making content from multiple enterprise-type sources, such as databases and intranets, searchable to a defined audience.-Enterprise search summary:...
to database offloading. The second is on solutions created out of unstructured content on the web being structured for analysis, often referred to as web harvesting
Web harvesting
Web harvesting is commonly used to describe Web scraping from a multitude of sites. It also refers to an implementation of a Web crawler that uses human expertise or machine guidance to direct the crawler to URLs which compose a specialized collection or set of knowledge...
. This can be for monitoring security threats or observing customer reactions to products. It can even be used to gather complex address and other details about entities like properties. Sometimes the focuses blend together in areas like Market or Business Intelligence where both internal and external information needs extraction, analysis, and retrieval capabilities.
In addition to the software solutions, 30 Digits Professional Services offers services to assist customer in designing and deploying the correct solutions for the challenge at hand. Trainings, support, and consulting are available both on 30 Digits software and the Open Source software they work with like Lucene
Lucene
Apache Lucene is a free/open source information retrieval software library, originally created in Java by Doug Cutting. It is supported by the Apache Software Foundation and is released under the Apache Software License....
and Solr
Solr
Solr is an open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document handling...
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