Boarding the bus
Entopia has released the beta version of K-Bus, a software platform designed to connect the information, people and resources of an organization through what the company calls multifaceted metadata layer that is transparent to users. Entopia believes K-Bus enables the delivery of relevant information on demand that considers both the semantic value of content and information and the social activity around it and its organizational context.
The company further says that K-Bus, which is built on J2EE architecture, can be coupled tightly with enterprise repositories, applications and business processes. It explains that K-Bus solution builds knowledge assets out of existing content while information continues to reside in its original repositories such as file shares, e-mail servers, Quantum (Entopia’s content management and collaboration suite), document management repositories, the intranet, the extranet and the Internet.
Entopia reports K-Bus automatically generates intelligent metadata by semantically indexing content and data; tracking the context, popularity and social activity surrounding this data in real time; and adding organizational and personal context.
The first release of Entopia K-Bus features the following applications:
Entopia Knowledge Locator, which is described as a unified, one-stop search and retrieval tool for all enterprise content that displays ranked and relevant content, people and information sources in one results pane.
Entopia K-Map (knowledge map), which provides the ability to summarize a collection of documents into a visual representation.
K-Bus includes connectors for the following data repositories:
- file shares;
- e-mail IMAP servers;
- the Web
- local hard drives;
- intranets, corporate portals and extranets; and
- Entopia Quantum servers
Add-on connectors are also available for: