Smartlogic Semaphore Limited
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Smartlogic Semaphore Limited is a software company. Smartlogic specialises in information retrieval
software concentrating on adding Semantic capabilities to enterprise search
and content management systems. The company's trading name is Smartlogic. The Smartlogic semantic middleware
platform is called Semaphore.
Smartlogic Semaphore Ltd was founded in 2007 following a management buy-in of APR Smartlogik, an information management specialist. Smartlogic has offices in London and Cambridge in the UK. The company was founded on the idea of using controlled vocabularies such as taxonomies and ontologies to drive automatic classification of information as well as search navigation. This approach delivers user Findability
, enhances an information asset with metadata
according to a standard, improves the accuracy of search and enables content integration.
The company's product - Semaphore is agnostic to the search engines or content management systems that the client has deployed and seeks to augment and enhance these existing investments. Semaphore is used by organisations that need to harness the information asset. Example users include NASA
, National Health Service
, ABN Amro
, Bank of America
and Office of Public Sector Information
.
The product is fully integrated with Microsoft Sharepoint
, Google Search Appliance
, Apache Solr, FAST ESP and many other information management platforms. Reference-able customers of Semaphore are large corporations, government agencies and NGO's who have in common a high regard for the value of their information assets and who need to harness the information that these assets contain.
KM World Trend-Setting Product of 2011
KM World Trend-Setting Product of 2010
iNNOVATE 2010 - 2nd Place Winner
Information retrieval
Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...
software concentrating on adding Semantic capabilities 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:...
and content management systems. The company's trading name is Smartlogic. The Smartlogic semantic middleware
Middleware
Middleware is computer software that connects software components or people and their applications. The software consists of a set of services that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact...
platform is called Semaphore.
Smartlogic Semaphore Ltd was founded in 2007 following a management buy-in of APR Smartlogik, an information management specialist. Smartlogic has offices in London and Cambridge in the UK. The company was founded on the idea of using controlled vocabularies such as taxonomies and ontologies to drive automatic classification of information as well as search navigation. This approach delivers user Findability
Findability
Findability is a term for the ease with which information contained on a website can be found, both from outside the website and by users already on the website. Although findability has relevance outside the World Wide Web, it is usually used in the context of the web...
, enhances an information asset with metadata
Metadata
The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...
according to a standard, improves the accuracy of search and enables content integration.
The company's product - Semaphore is agnostic to the search engines or content management systems that the client has deployed and seeks to augment and enhance these existing investments. Semaphore is used by organisations that need to harness the information asset. Example users include NASA
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
, National Health Service
National Health Service
The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...
, ABN Amro
ABN AMRO
ABN AMRO Bank N.V. is a Dutch state-owned bank with headquarters in Amsterdam. It was re-established, in its current form, in 2009 following the acquisition and break up of ABN AMRO Group by a banking consortium consisting of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Santander and Fortis...
, Bank of America
Bank of America
Bank of America Corporation, an American multinational banking and financial services corporation, is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets, and the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization. The bank is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina...
and Office of Public Sector Information
Office of Public Sector Information
The Office of Public Sector Information is the body responsible for the operation of Her Majesty's Stationery Office and of other public information services of the United Kingdom...
.
The product is fully integrated with Microsoft Sharepoint
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint is a web application platform developed by Microsoft. First launched in 2001, SharePoint is typically associated with web content management and document management systems, but it is actually a much broader platform of web technologies, capable of being configured into a wide...
, Google Search Appliance
Google Search Appliance
The Google Search Appliance is a rack-mounted device providing document indexing functionality that can be integrated into an intranet, document management system or web site using a Google search-like interface for end-user retrieval of results. The operating system is based on CentOS...
, Apache Solr, FAST ESP and many other information management platforms. Reference-able customers of Semaphore are large corporations, government agencies and NGO's who have in common a high regard for the value of their information assets and who need to harness the information that these assets contain.
Awards
Best Integrated Product - 2007 - GoogleKM World Trend-Setting Product of 2011
KM World Trend-Setting Product of 2010
iNNOVATE 2010 - 2nd Place Winner
See also
- Information retrievalInformation retrievalInformation retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...
- Enterprise SearchEnterprise searchEnterprise 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:...
- Information ManagementInformation managementInformation management is the collection and management of information from one or more sources and the distribution of that information to one or more audiences. This sometimes involves those who have a stake in, or a right to that information...
- MiddlewareMiddlewareMiddleware is computer software that connects software components or people and their applications. The software consists of a set of services that allows multiple processes running on one or more machines to interact...