Tuesday, April 15, 2008

KM&ECM Conference 2008

Saltlux Inc. has participated to the seminars and exhibition in the “KCM&ECM Conference 2008 for Realization of Enterprise 2.0” held on March 20 at the grand ballroom of Hotel Co-Ex Intercontinental.
At the conference Saltlux presented at the paper reading session on the topic of “Semantic Discovery: Search 2.0 for the knowledge utilization in the information excessive era.” And suggested the way to enable companies may improve the competitiveness and productivity through information mining technology that can enhance user’s accessibility by mutual harmonization of information and documents.
Saltlux has attracted the participators interests by showing various customized advanced technologies to user needs such as visualized clustering, individualized information recommendation, automatic summarization, user participation, etc. Saltlux was the only company among participants who show the ontology based information search system and showed its strength as the leader in the semantic web technology field of business.
A group of 16 global companies participated to this conference to discuss and introduce the next generation search 2.0 and web 2.0 in relation to the current internet market trends. Through the discussion and the introduction the enterprises and the government organization would understand their effects resulted from the introduction of these technologies.
Tony Lee, the president and CEO of Saltlux, and the Vice President of the Korean Society for KM&EDM, said, “The conference has successfully completed drawing attraction of customers even though the number of participants are not large enough because of the name change from KM&EDMS to KM&ECM. And Saltlux will pay great attention to continuously do R&D activities helping customer enterprises to materialize the knowledge infrastructures for innovative knowledge management, productivity improvement and accordingly the cost savings.”

Sunday, April 13, 2008

LarkC Project Kick-off Meeting for EU FP7

The Large Knowledge Collider (LARKC) Project Kick-off Meeting will be started April 15th and continued upto 17th in Innsbruck, Austria.
Tony Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux Inc. will be participating to the meeting as the company is the only partner from Asian countries selected for the project.
The LARKC is the Europen biggest project with 4 million Euro budget for the period of 7 years and is a consortium project with the participation of Saltlux together with WHO, Siemens, CYCORP, UIBK, Univ. Sheffield and 7 other world renown academic and industrial organizations. Drs Dieter Fensel, Frank Van Harmelen and Hamish Cunningham are some of the participants from those organizations.
It is forecasted that this project will provide innovative technology basis to the next generation intelligent mobile services and biomedical research through development of practical reasoning system at the real time level against 10 billion or more triples.
In the project Saltlux will be responsible for building use case utilizing super large triple storage and reasoning engine of [IN2]SOR, the Saltlux’s proprietary technology. In the kick-off meeting all of the 13 consortium organizations will get together and discuss on the direction of project development, roles of each organizations and common missions for the project.
In the project Saltlux will show its own technology that will apply the reasoning engine in the super large scale environment which is the core task in the semantic technology

Korean Society of Data Mining Spring Conference, 2008

Saltlux Inc., one of the leading company in Search 2.0 and Semantic web technology has participated to the 2008 Business Intelligence Conference and the Spring Conference of Korean Society of Business Intelligent Data Mining as a sponsor and has presented research papers.
It became that the third wave world is not new any more in the era because of the advanced IT industry, diversification of information, and the speedily change of the knowledge base production. Before the recognition of the existing knowledge the new information is accumulated tremendously, and the users would not be possible to find the really needed information.
Contents such as PC, GW and EDMS are cumulated everywhere in the corporate existing in the forms of texts, animations, offices and documents. However, it is not easy to find the way of utilization of these forms. To find out the information for the right decision they have to spend time and cost without success and the work efficiency used to be very low.
As to provide a solution to these issues Saltlux will make a presentation on the topic of “Semantic Mining and Analysis.” In the presentation Saltlux has tried to elevate the knowledge content usability through suggestion of ‘Content Analysis and Mining Platform.’ The content analysis and mining platform means the framework that enables business intelligence (BI) through management analysis and discovery of information by retrieval and semantic tagging of document characteristics targeted to structured and unstructured data existing in the corporate. This will help to discover the hidden information through understanding the relationship between the information and the meaning.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Business Search Viewed by Google

When you hear about the fight opposing Microsoft and Google you would think above all about the search engines. MSN Live Search seeking to grasp market shares from Google and Yahoo! However there is another sector where Google and Microsoft conflict: the business intranet search.

This article speak of a component of knowledge management. This field, dear to me, is very different from the public search engines. It does not aim at inquiring inter-connected text pages but instead documents in many different formats. Moreover, it is not about raw information but often contextualized data. Lastly, ordering files by popularity according to the links pointing at them is meaningless in the magma of company‘s files. On the contrary, relevance of an answer will perhaps be a date, a related subject in an abstract or related in progress projects. Thus, it is clear, even if both sector are about search, the two are quite distinct approach.
This market have been estimated at 13 billion of dollar by Steve Balmer (Microsoft CEO). This better explaining why Kevin Turner (Microsoft Chief Operating Officer) announced in a partners conference “Enterprise search is our business, it’s our house and Google is not going to take that business”. The battle plan is now disclosed and the means are huge knowing that Microsoft spent last year more than 6 billions dollars in R&D which approximate the total sales turnover of Google in the same year.
Let us focus a moment on Google offer , it is about a search engine based on a server which the company can at some level customize. Therefore there is no data outsourcing. It is based on an algorithm said to be very different from the one used to order the Web. With starting price of $30.000, Google solution is far from the free services we are used to. The importance of this activity is highlighted by the presence of a direct link on the very Google’s home page always so neat and hard to reach for new brand.
One of the obstacle in developing these solutions is the frail notoriety that Google has as services supplier to businesses in spite of its public fame. One of Google’s strength seems to be its capacity to establish partnerships with companies which has already a strong expertise in data processing and data mining like with BearingPoint , during last February. The second benefit would be to multiple its sources of income which are currently at 99% obtained form advertising. This being strongly criticized by financial analysts. But as for now, the Google solution (Google Search Appliance), launched 4 years ago, only adds up some 6000 customers counting some big European players which were clumsily provided by Google himself (Orange, Ericsson, Accenture...).
Thus strong competition will prevail, and with the current coming out of Windows Vista, Microsoft recalls us that he is an actor impossible to circumvent for many, many businesses and it can therefore take an ideal position to meet first the enterprise’s needs in term of data management. In addition IBM and Yahoo! have lately announced the launching of a free software dedicated to enterprise search. Everyone want its piece of the cake.
If you use such systems in your company, can you tell us about your feelings on the matter, on a technical level as well as on the economic one.

By Alexandre VERNO

Source: http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=5471