Revving up information discovery

To better enable knowledge sharing, Saab ABis sporting a powerful information discovery portal. Better access to knowledge is expected to improve productivity and competitive advantage for the high-tech company, which focuses on defense, aviation and space operations, in addition to its well-known cars.

Saab AB recognized the need to consolidate unstructured information and provide access to employees worldwide, so it began to consider various software options. The company chose Entopia K-Bus technology from Entopiato power its information discovery infrastructure and facilitate automatic indexing, searching, visualization and collaboration through both the portal and other business applications.

"We needed a solution that could support all of our information discovery and collaboration needs and one that would leverage, rather than render obsolete, our existing investments in structured and unstructured information around the enterprise," says Eric Wedin, head of industry information analysis at Saab AB. "We selected K-Bus because it delivers the search and powerful information discovery capabilities we need. Its 'true relevancy' raises the bar on enterprise search to deliver the content our knowledge workers, salespeople and other employees need to make better informed decisions."

Through the new information discovery infrastructure, Saab will consolidate multiple content resources including Entopia's content management tool, file shares, various intranets, Internet sites, e-mail systems and content providers.