Active Navigation Solutions

Overview The Active Navigation server is a ground breaking solution that provides: Automatic extraction of key themes (meta-data) using Active Navigation Link Editor without the need for pre-defined dictionaries or prior knowledge of the content resulting in a much reduced set-up cost. Rapid categorization reflecting the content sources as opposed to a pre-defined structure/vocabulary, enabling organization specific structures to be rapidly built. Complete guided information discovery solution enabling users to access relevant information quickly and intuitively – even where the user does not know the exact answer that they are looking for. Rapid deployment of a Phase I style solution (30-90 days) enabling ROI to be built quickly and enabling ongoing development of a wider solution. SOAP based XML API's ensuring ease of integration with 3rd party systems. WSDL compliant.

Key Benefits

• Users find relevant information quickly - finding the "needles in the haystack".
• Enables rapid categorization of content, reducing an organization's costs.
• Reduced set-up costs: no reliance on pre-defined vocabularies or training sets.
• Rapid deployment.

Solutions

Valuable Information Revealed

Active Navigation intelligently manages unstructured information, enabling organizations to spend their time extracting the maximum potential from their content instead of wasting precious time trying to find it.

Secure, stable and seamlessly integrated, Active Navigation provides a rapidly deployable technology that automatically extracts themes from unstructured data and enables rapid categorization, without the need for a dictionary or training sets.

Active Navigation emerged from a decade of research at the University of Southampton into the research of data navigation, hypertext models and the thematic analysis of text using linguistic and statistical techniques. The result is the most advanced technology available commercially for the rapid and accurate analysis of large quantities of data

Content Audit

Active Navigation offers Content Audit to help organisations gain an overview of what information assets they have, highlighting concepts common amongst documents, helping suggest categorisation strategies and identifying potentially duplicate documents. Read more...

Content Migration

When faced with the task of uploading large quantities of archived content (e.g. file stores, shared drives, etc.) into a content management system, organisations often see the huge manual effort involved in assigning meta-data and classification information to documents as prohibitive. This frequently means that intelligently accessing legacy data is near impossible. Read more...

Content Tagging

Many organizations are moving towards managed and structured Content Management Systems (CMS), often to assist with the creation of a managed Intranet. With large numbers of users contributing information into the system, uploading content requires full content validation, tagging, expiration, etc., but with many different options to choose from and the time taken to tag and summarize each piece of content, a common problem is many users simply tagging content as unclassified. Users are unable to find relevant information using search and are flooded with irrelevant results. Read more...

Guided Information Discovery

Active Navigation delivers solutions that allow employees to effectively locate the information they need by aggregating information contained in many disparate corporate repositories and providing easy access via the user’s web browser. Active Navigation goes beyond traditional “search”, presenting information in multiple contexts to multiple audiences via intelligent navigation. Read more...

Taxonomy Management

Active Navigation creates metadata automatically to provide a corporate-wide perspective of large repositories, to offer insight for building a relevant taxonomy from scratch. The iterative process quickly results in a comprehensive taxonomy with excellent levels of relevant coverage. Read more...

Knowhow Consulting Can Help

To discover how the team at Knowhow Consulting can help you to resolve your content management and information discovery problems, contact info@knowhowconsulting.co.uk.