Get a glimpse of how today’s decision makers make use of real-time market intelligence from the Web to make intra day and strategic decisions. Our speaker uses real world examples to illustrate the latest trends in market intelligence.

A new platform — the XML content server — has arrived, enabling a new wave of business applications called content applications. Today’s leading-edge content providers and publishers are transforming their search offerings into applications tailored to specific audiences, delivering information products based on knowledge of the users’ roles, their activities, and the overall processes in which they work. This session features examples of content applications used by publishers such as Elsevier, O’Reilly, and Oxford University Press.

This session discusses what social search is, why organizations would want to use it, and how it can be used to improve on-site search, support and knowledge management. Lots of great examples and tips.

Learn what taxonomy tools are out there, how they function, how they integrate with search and content management systems and the ways that a tool can help improve the quality of the taxonomy while demonstrating a solid return on investment.

Enabling accurate identification and scoring of financial transactions and news with immediate risks and future implications is an important step in planning and decision-making. By capturing their domain expertise in ontology-based models, this case study illustrates codifying into software the knowledge that will implement their critical, decision-making processes. Semantic models allow components to perform highly-targeted classification and correlation, while eliminating the noise found in structured and unstructured data sources.

Organizational information-content exists in numerous silos accessible through a myriad of individual, incompatible indices-engines. State-of-the art federated search software provides actual enterprise (-wide) single point of search-access to most, if not all, of the information repositories of value to an enterprise, including those beyond the firewall. Hear more about federated search, the companies using it and the products available.

This session highlights how FAST customers have found new sources of business value in innovative applications of search technology

This talk showcases customer success stories in the areas of enterprise search integration, email management, and compliance. See how companies are getting better leverage from existing enterprise applications and repositories and providing a consolidate search experience.    

This session is a practical guide for creating and sustaining networks at work and around the world. It is filled with tips, techniques and tales of successful implementations.

This session discusses semantic Search technology based upon linguistic science and natural language processing (NLP), and how, through the creation of a massive taxonomy and ontology of the common English language, a semantic Search engine can “understand” the meanings of virtually every common English word and phrase. This understanding results in a dramatic increase in recall and precision. Illustrations of how this technology is currently being used to improve and enhance activities in business intelligence, knowledge management, Website Search and deep research will be presented.

Sales Enablement has fast evolved into a collaborative process which allows you to connect your sales team with marketers, subject matter experts and corporate executives to produce and push the best content to front-line salespeople for any specific situation. Hear about the latest in Sales Enablement trends, technologies and business practices that are driving significant improvements in corporate performance including a framework for defining and prioritizing, tactics and key Web 2.0 technologies.

Intranet services and corporate portals are notoriously hard to value at a financial and business level. For too long, intranets and portal managers have relied on rather jaded “money or time saved” calculations, which seldom convince senior leaders – particularly the financial leadership. To address this issue, the Intranet Benchmarking Forum’s latest work is to develop a model to benchmark the financial value of intranet services in major organizations. This talk provides an update on IBF “work in progress” to shape our new Intranet Financial Value Tool, based on recent IBF research and development within Unilever, Shell and BT.