Verity returns to Topic Tree roots with Knowledge Organizer

A new add-on to Verity's Information Server will help save time and lower content management costs by better organizing textual information.

Verity's Knowledge Organizer helps organize information by categorizing it based on contextual information, meta tags or business rules, using common user classification concepts like products, services, customers, competitors, projects and policies. Content can be created and tailored to multiple directories for easy packaging to end users or extranet partners.

Verity claims that by improving access to and use of information, Knowledge Organizer saves time and lowers content management costs.

Now shipping, Verity Knowledge Organizer runs on Windows 95, 98, NT, and Sun Solaris. Pricing starts at $20,000 for a development server.

"The robustness and flexibility of the classification schemas, the customization capabilities for taxonomy generation and crawling, and the attention to providing unobtrusive and tailorable user interfaces make KO an attractive new offering in the high profile corporate portal market," according to the Delphi Group.

Delphi added that the classification of large volumes of text, a strength of Verity's Topic Tree technology, was forgotten during the company's under-the-covers product strategy of the mid 90's.

Championed by ex-CEO Philippe Courtout, the "Verity Everywhere" strategy ended abruptly in mid-1998 when Verity sued Lotus alleging improper usage of its technology in the Notes groupware platform