Entopia launches company
New KM firm Entopia has unveiled Quantum 1.3, enterprise software designed to provide the benefits of personal productivity tools with KM capabilities.
Quantum 1.3 is built on the following three feature modules:
Quantum Collect helps users gather, organize and enrich information from almost any digital source utilizing either a desktop or Web browser-based client. Users can capture and extract information from any document with formatting and graphics intact. They can highlight and grab as much or as little from a document or Web page as desired. For a Web page, the client can capture all layers of information, both static and dynamic, including active links and scripts. As users save information in a Quantum or “Q”-File, Quantum Collect uses what Entopia calls a “neural network semantic engine” to create automatic titles and summaries and classification of the information. Users can also add their own highlighting, editing or notes.
Quantum Collaborate enables users to share information and collaborate with each other and their workgroups. They can choose to store information either locally or on the server and in either private or public folders, and they can specify access controls and privacy levels. Quantum Collaborate also allows users to conduct threaded discussions, as well as share text and voice notes, highlighting and linking.
Quantum Capitalize lets enterprise users leverage the intellectual capital they have collected. It utilizes Knowledge Locator, Entopia’s proprietary semantic search engine, to help enterprise users search for documents, experts within the organization and sources. A feature called “Locate Related” lets users highlight text in any document to find semantically related content, experts, and sources of information.
The company is working to permit the integration of Quantum 1.3 with third-party applications, such as customer relationship management software, sales force automation tools, content management systems and enterprise portals.
Pricing for Quantum 1.3 is based on a client-server model and begins at $160 for the client and $17,000 for the server software.
This article was written by Paula J. Hane, who is a contributing editor of Information Today Magazine; she can be reached by e-mail at phane@infotoday.com.