Smartlogic’s Content Intelligence Platform ‘Semaphore’ Named by KMWorld as a Trend-Setting Product of 2011

<p><location value="LU/gb.eng.london" idsrc="xmltag.org">London, England</location> (PRWEB) <chron>September 27, 2011</chron></p><p>Smartlogic, a software company that specialises in Content Intelligence has been awarded KMWorld’s prestigious Trendsetter Award for the second consecutive year.</p><p>Smartlogic, the makers and developers of the Content Intelligence Platform 'Semaphore', was chosen over some heavyweight competition in the field of knowledge management, with its Semaphore software selected from over 800 entries to retain its sought–after position on the KMWorld 'Trend-Setting Product' List 2011.</p><p>According to the KMWorld judges, led by <person>Hugh McKellar</person>, editor-in-chief of KMWorld and final decision-maker, Semaphore was singled out for its unique component capabilities to analyse, classify and reveal content by offering ontology management, content classification, text mining and semantic analysis.</p><p>With a notably rigorous selection criteria, achieving a place on the Trend-Setting Product list is by no means easy. Each and every product chosen by the panel this year was expected to emphasise a shared understanding of knowledge management that McKellar describes as "an attitude [and] an approach to delivering the right information to the right people throughout the entire constituency chain, users and customers alike'.</p><p>"For this year's list", he continues, "the judging panel of colleagues, analysts, system integrators and users evaluated more than 800 products. Although the products on the list cover a host of technology areas, they share one thing in common: Each has helped create, define, enhance or sustain a market."</p><p>Smartlogic's CEO <person>Jeremy Bentley</person> is delighted with the news: "We're extremely pleased to have been selected to receive such an accolade from KMWorld for the second year in a row. It confirms us as thought-leaders in the field of content intelligence and knowledge management and that is always inspiring. That Semaphore meets the tough set of criteria set by the panel and can stand up to the stiff competition is validation in itself, but, more importantly, receiving the Trend-Setting Product award demonstrates that the commitment made by our customers in Semaphore is resonated by a wider audience of our peers. This is a tremendous honour."</p><p>KMWorld is a leading information provider serving the knowledge management systems market with an online and in-print readership made up from over 55,000 individuals in a wide variety of businesses and disciplines. They have been publishing the KMWorld Trend-Setting Products list annually since 2003 and are well-known for setting the knowledge management industry standard when it comes to identifying technology breakthroughs and is now widely agreed to be the place to look for the shape of things to come.</p><p>Smartlogic's Semaphore is used all over the world by hundreds of leading business enterprises. Semaphore complements an organization’s investments in Enterprise Search, Business Intelligence and Content Management with Content Intelligence. Semaphore provides effective, rapid and accurate control of, and access to, unstructured content with a speed, accuracy and intelligence not achievable today through existing systems that are strained from soaring information volumes. Semaphore endows these systems with capabilities, such as taxonomy & ontology management, automatic classification and contextual navigation, so that organizations can better find, organize, process, monetize, control and govern unstructured content.</p><p>Smartlogic Content Intelligence solutions enables better access to corporate knowledge, improved risk management and compliance, superior customer relationship management, enhanced information findability for key audiences, and an improved ability to monetize information.</p><p>Read more about KMWorld's Trend-Setting Product list here <a href="http://bit.ly/p5vz7S">http://bit.ly/p5vz7S</a> or visit the Smartlogic website <a href="http://www.smartlogic.com">http://www.smartlogic.com</a></p><p>About Smartlogic – <a href="http://www.smartlogic.com">http://www.smartlogic.com</a></p><p>Smartlogic is a software company that specialises in Content Intelligence.</p><p>Smartlogic's Semaphore is a Content Intelligence Platform which complements an organisation’s investments in Enterprise Search, Business Intelligence and Content Management.</p><p>Semaphore provides effective, rapid and accurate control of, and access to, unstructured content with a speed, accuracy and intelligence not achievable today from existing systems that are strained by soaring information volumes.</p><p>Semaphore endows these systems with capabilities, such as taxonomy & ontology management, automatic classification and contextual navigation, so that organisations can better find, organise, process, monetise, control and govern unstructured content.</p><p>Many hundreds of companies like <org>NASA</org>, <org value="NYSE:BAC" idsrc="xmltag.org">Bank of America</org>, <org value="NASDAQ-NMS:ADSK" idsrc="xmltag.org">AutoDesk</org>, <org value="NYSE:OXY" idsrc="xmltag.org">Occidental Petroleum</org>, <org>Ford Foundation</org>, <org value="NYSE:PBI" idsrc="xmltag.org">Pitney Bowes</org>, The National Health Service, UBS, <person>ABN AMRO</person>, <org>The Office of Public Sector Information</org>, <a href="http://Yell.com">Yell.com</a> and others use Smartlogic today.</p><p>    ·    Media companies use Semaphore to improve the quality of their     information feeds, boosting distribution, readership & subscriptions <br />     ·    Government authorities use Semaphore to tag information according to their standards, for compliance, intelligence processing & citizen self-service <br />     ·    Healthcare companies use Semaphore to boost the level of self-service and improve the quality of critical health information they provide to patients <br />     ·    Investment banks use Semaphore to consolidate their information costs, better promote their primary research and automate information compliance. <br />     ·    Online directories use Semaphore to increase their advertising revenues <br />     ·    Corporate intranets & websites use Semaphore to boost their use and maximise their return on information assets. <br />     ·    Information managers use Semaphore to manage their taxonomies and ontologies, classification schemes and records retention policies.</p><p>Contact details:</p><p><person>Jeremy Bentley</person><br /> Smartlogic, <location>14 Greville Street</location>, <location value="LU/gb.eng.london" idsrc="xmltag.org">London</location> EC1N 8SB, <location value="LC/gb" idsrc="xmltag.org">UK</location><br /> +44 (0)203 176 4500 <br /><a href="http://www.smartlogic.com">http://www.smartlogic.com</a><br /> US    +1 1 408 213 9500 <br /><location value="LC/gb" idsrc="xmltag.org">UK</location> +44 (0)203 176 4500 <br /> GER +49 (0)176 354 63127</p><p>###</p><p>Read the full story at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/9/prweb8827532.htm">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/9/prweb8827532.htm</a></p>