The dimensions of the content challenge are daunting.  Paper and electronic documents reside in huge numbers in many forms and stovepiped locations.  Different formats, different media, different languages and electronic encodings, and different semantics and different meanings complicate making sense from the chaos.  Yet like so many nuggets, these valuable assets are everywhere and ready for productive use. Enterprise leaders no longer have excuses to ignore what is now within grasp.

Powered by more than a decade of continuous innovation and cutting-edge research, BrightPlanet's technologies, products and services are becoming a go-to part of the information automation solutions embraced by leading government agencies and corporations worldwide.  

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Collaborate

Collaboration is central to BrightPlanet's Deep Query Manager product and Workflow Engine, efficiently and at enterprise scales.  Collaboration aids don't work when they are mere afterthoughts; they must be built integrally into all aspects of workflow.

What Can Be Shared

BrightPlanet's collaboration capabilties embrace all aspects its object-oriented design:

• Reports
• Harvest profiles
• Results sets
• Projects
• Published nodes
• Annotations

Collaboration Mechanisms

Collaboration products are highly configurable and themselves sharable objects:

• Emails and alerts
• Metadata assignments and use
• Single to bulk exports and imports
• Individual to group to enterprise assignments
• Integration with other DQM product modules
• Content "pushing" to the DQM Publisher
• Annotations
• Technology-level Considerations

To maintain maximum efficiency, a system design optimized for collaboration resides at the core of BrightPlanet's technology:

• A "find once, store once" approach that lowers storage demands and maintains integrity of the enterprise repository
• Interfaces, standards and APIs explicitly designed for interoperation with third-party applications
• Powerful and flexible content transfer mechanisms allowing either support or foundational roles for the technology.

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Connect

BrightPlanet's Deep Query Manager product shows you how all of these parts come together to connect the dots:

Our Deep Query Manager combines the major engines within BrightPlanet's technology suite and wraps them in a cross-browser workflow system and scalable implementation. Multiple product options are also available:

• Publisher – enterprise-wide collaboration and directories
• Internationalization – linguistics and retrieval for up to 140†languages
• File Format – harvest, process and index up to 380 different file formats
• Content Transfer – highly configurable XML and other bulk exports.

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Harvest

BrightPlanet was the original innnovator and maintains significant advantages in experience, technology and automation in harvesting all content. The Harvest Engine is highly efficient and scalable to the largest installations.

Sources 

• Pre-configured to more than 70,000 searchable databases
• Automatically add new databases singly or in bulk
• Intelligent and configurable site crawler – Internet or internal files
• Proprietary content sources
• "Pushed" content and RSS and news feeds.

Non-English Languages

• Support for 140 different languages
• Legacy and Unicode encoding support
• Encoding detection for about 40 languages
• 20 advanced language packs (Arabic, Chinese, Russian, etc.).

Formats

All common document and text formats, including XML and other standards, are supported. A total of more than 380 formats are thus included with this module.

Scheduler

Complete scheduler with monitoring and tracking options is provided.The Harvest Engine is highly efficient and scalable to the largest installations.

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Interoperate

No vendor can any longer provide "best" solutions for the biggest problems at scale.   The world is interconnected and BrightPlanets' full-scale metadata indexing enables interoperability.

• General standards support complete XML compliance; RDF and OWL where appropriate
• Semantic Web and BPEL where appropriate
• Compliance with various JSRs (e.g., 168, 170) where appropriate
• Completely documented APIs for major work engines.

 Loosely-coupled Integration

• Recommended where performance not critical and vendors participate at "arm's length"
• Differentiators: 1) full adherence to standards; 2) complete documentation
• Effective integration uses a "federation of federation" standards; single standards alone†pose unacceptable friction
• Architecture pivotal to acceptable costs (e.g., avoid J2EE on most servers and design around per CPU licensing costs).

 Tightly-coupled Integration

• Low-level APIs and canonical data transfer forms used for efficient network scalability, performance
• Based on core understanding of performance optimizations, trade-offs.

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Manage

Content only has meaning if you can productively use and manage it. BrightPlanet leverages its best-of-breed Text Engine to do more work against massive document repositories, aided by proven workflow and integration with external software.

• Core functionality full-text indexing, robust text and data mining, and complete results federation
• Scalable metadata ingest, indexing, weighting, subset selecting
• Term, domain, and metadata filtering
• Differencing engine for What's New, efficient tracking and monitoring
• Nameable, reusable and sharable objects design
• Report generation and archiving capabilities.

Extensible Text Engine

• Smallest footprint, best performance, most scalability
• Native XML, RDF and semantic support
• Integration and incorporation of current and new metadata
• Total extensibility without change to the existing datastore or re-processing
• Single-step work system; "pipeline" limitations removed.

Powerful Workflow Engine

• Natural organization and work process structure and interface
• Maximum reusability, recall, and linkage with existing tools.

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Publish

The DQM Publisher allows a managed process of harvesting, vetting and organizing document information into both a subject tree (or taxonomy) structure for browsing as well as a free-form keyword/metadata search across a potentially large body of information. The DQM Publisher Module provides the critical capability for a relatively small number of information professionals in an enterprise to publish the results of their efforts to a much larger population of individuals who don't want to search for information, but rather need to use that information. Key features of the Publisher include:

• Dynamic, near-real-time placement of content into a taxonomic (subject-tree) structure
• Ability to modify the taxonomy at any time, with changes reflected immediately to the end-user
• Ability to add to the document pool at any time, with changes reflected immediately in the presentation
• No need for extensive, time-consuming metatagging of documents

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